Election day afternoon listening . . .
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November 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Election day afternoon listening . . .
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‘The two memoirs together with “Pan” – which is autobiographical, though there are some deviations from his life – form a trilogy about the derangements of youth.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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@xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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Christian Lorentzen · It’s for dorks: Michael Clune’s ‘Pan’
When Michael Clune’s character in Pan alights on Proust in the course of his daily writing practice, he learns a mode...
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November 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
‘The two memoirs together with “Pan” – which is autobiographical, though there are some deviations from his life – form a trilogy about the derangements of youth.’
@xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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@xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction.
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October 31, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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‘Lanier’s songs moved many of his contemporaries. Herrick called him “rare Laniere” while John Donne said he “gave a life and harmony to all that he set”.’
Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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Alice Spawls · On Nicholas Lanier
The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesn’t have the prestige of the Van...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:10 AM
‘Lanier’s songs moved many of his contemporaries. Herrick called him “rare Laniere” while John Donne said he “gave a life and harmony to all that he set”.’
Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century.
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
PANIC IN THE GIFTSHOP
On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'
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October 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
October 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A noun that becomes a verb is like a cat that's gone to the dogs.
Against 'to gift'.
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Against 'to gift'.
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Today Is My Birthday
‘When I noticed an English writer using the transitive ‘gift’ in a prestigious paper, I took the usage up with one of its editors, a Scotswoman whose fastidiousness is notorious.’
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October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
A noun that becomes a verb is like a cat that's gone to the dogs.
Against 'to gift'.
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Against 'to gift'.
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William Gaddis heads will recognize that Trump is engaged here in a frolic of his own
October 23, 2025 at 2:07 AM
William Gaddis heads will recognize that Trump is engaged here in a frolic of his own
Recorded a podcast with some friends about the PTA picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/quality-li...
QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST
Episode 1: 'One Battle after Another'
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October 14, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Recorded a podcast with some friends about the PTA picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/quality-li...
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MY BOOK PRIZE BETTING ADDICTION
In anticipation of tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Literature
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October 8, 2025 at 7:36 PM
An old column about my gambling addiction from which I've finally recovered after years of intensive therapy. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
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If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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October 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.”
In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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October 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.”
In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
Wrote on the Anderson picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/stoned-bus...
STONED BUSTER KEATON, DOMESTICATED PYNCHON, AND THE PERMANENT HOLLYWOOD (NON-)REVOLUTION
On Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle after Another’
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September 29, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Wrote on the Anderson picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/stoned-bus...
Went to the Oasis show, wrote a sentence about it. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/liam-none-...
‘LIAM, NONE OF THESE AMERICAN CUNTS KNOW WHO YOU ARE!’
Reflections on seeing Oasis Live ’25 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
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September 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
July 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
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we will miss glossy magazines when they’re all gone
July 15, 2025 at 11:42 PM
we will miss glossy magazines when they’re all gone
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THE GLOSSY AGE
On a history of Conde Nast
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July 15, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
A Juicy Chronicle of the Fat Decades at Condé Nast
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July 15, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Wrote about the GOAT debate. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/who-is-the...
WHO IS THE GOAT OF AMERICAN FICTION?
With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to my dearly departed high school English teachers
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June 30, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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Once more for the weekend crowd.
June 28, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Once more for the weekend crowd.
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“I have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. I’ll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.”
Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
June 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“I have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. I’ll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.”
Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
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ELEGY FOR A NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITHOUT A BOMB
& a baptism of fire in New York City
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June 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Every book review should also have this---the author coming in and saying 'This reviewer knows nothing of my work' after every pan or paean.
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published
June 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Every book review should also have this---the author coming in and saying 'This reviewer knows nothing of my work' after every pan or paean.
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I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
June 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
Wrote on some letters from David Foster Wallace to Sven Birkerts that are up for sale. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
‘I AM NOT A PARTICULARLY SMART OR IMAGINATIVE MAN, BUT . . . ’
Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale
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June 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Wrote on some letters from David Foster Wallace to Sven Birkerts that are up for sale. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...