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This article is good.

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This essay is good. In keeping with my policy of not writing about my job in public, I can’t explain why it resonates.

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This essay is good. In keeping with my policy of not writing about my family in public, I can’t explain why it resonates.

Raffi being all hot again:

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This essay is good. Saw her read it at an event and she said “Sorry, I was having a reverie” in the middle and had to stop for a bit. That was good.

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This book is good. The title is actually The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes but for thematic reasons I chose to switch it up. It does not make one feel good, which is what makes it so good. Never read or thought of Ted Hughes as hot before this book. Still haven’t, maybe do, maybe don’t. Ted Hughes looks a lot like peak Bill Pullman, and if you’ve ever seen Mr. Wrong or the end of While You Were Sleeping, you’ll realize he also has the emotional depth for the role:

Actual google results for “ted hughes being hot”

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The Scialabba essays listed below this book are more or less about this book, which is good.

This pic of MSNBC’s Chris Hayes ™ is literally what came up when I imagegoogled “christopher lasch” which is not totally off, but just left of enough

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These essays are good.

Didn’t realize until I finished The Silent Woman: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath that Lorentzen quoted my favorite passage from the book in a blog post for Vulture about Plath and Hughes from an interview with the critic Al Alvarez: “Sylvia wasn’t my style — she wasn’t my physical type.”

There is a picture of me somewhere from Easter 1996 with this same Franzen haircut and glasses and physical type:

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The best single sentence of 2015 – paraphrased – was “We were very touch and go then no touch and yes go.”

Haven’t read it.

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Dying of embarrassment after being unable to reach for the appropriate word

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