Reposted by Samir Chadha
“I’m not being facetious when I say the epistolary novel should probably be the dominant form of our historical moment. It isn’t, not by a long shot, but it should be.” —Audrey Wollen
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yalereview.org/article/audr...
Audrey Wollen: On Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye
In her review of Claire-Louise Bennett’s Big Kiss, Bye-Bye , Audrey Wollen meditates on desire and absence in life and letters.
yalereview.org
September 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
“I’m not being facetious when I say the epistolary novel should probably be the dominant form of our historical moment. It isn’t, not by a long shot, but it should be.” —Audrey Wollen
yalereview.org/article/audr...
yalereview.org/article/audr...
Reposted by Samir Chadha
Thanks to @samir.help and @southwestreview.bsky.social for this deep dive on my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
I Hear That You and Your Band | Chris DeVille’s Such Great Heights
By Samir Chadha
southwestreview.com
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Thanks to @samir.help and @southwestreview.bsky.social for this deep dive on my book SUCH GREAT HEIGHTS
Reposted by Samir Chadha
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
The Life and Death of the Suburban Novel | Adelle Waldman
Remember the suburban novel? Books about attractive white families in nice houses who turn out to be miserable? Examples include Richard Yates’s
www.nybooks.com
August 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the death of the suburban novel but really about what I think makes a lot of today's fiction unsatisfying: "it’s awkward to write novels about middle-class problems in a society that is no longer even nominally middle-class.” www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Wolf Alice: The Clearing
Read Samir Chadha’s review of the album.
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August 29, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Reposted by Samir Chadha
Making things up is « an opportunity to change ourselves », Samir Chadha writes in his review of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth's (1959) 5 novels. Maybe changing ourselves begins by adding Hjorth’s novels to our summer reading list. Now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/to-grieve-to...
July 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Making things up is « an opportunity to change ourselves », Samir Chadha writes in his review of the Norwegian writer Vigdis Hjorth's (1959) 5 novels. Maybe changing ourselves begins by adding Hjorth’s novels to our summer reading list. Now un-paywalled: europeanreviewofbooks.com/to-grieve-to...
Delighted to have an essay in this issue, around Vigdis Hjorth, deaths, and crushes!
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May 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Delighted to have an essay in this issue, around Vigdis Hjorth, deaths, and crushes!