Next essay please: Blake Smith’s “Taxonomy of Stupid.”
Once various stupidities are set out in a flowchart, folks may stop being so stupid, or at least be forced to invent new kinds of stupidities, which is perhaps the best we can do.
I've been dreaming for a while about writing on Avital Ronell who has a great book on stupidity! Btw I'm reading now the book you recommended "The Suspension of Seriousness" which is a lot of fun and intriguingly similar to Sontag on camp...
That Out excerpt is so much fun. So relatable until it collapses into utter incoherence right at the crucial moments. Boy do I want to read whole book of his about writing/not-writing and its connection to having an present-but-absent boyfriend. Thanks for this!
Yes! Besides Hatchet Jobs and his OUT column, I've only read a section of his first novel (which wasn't interesting enough to make me read more)--but I wonder if he's got something else this unhinged in his catalogue.
Next essay please: Blake Smith’s “Taxonomy of Stupid.”
Once various stupidities are set out in a flowchart, folks may stop being so stupid, or at least be forced to invent new kinds of stupidities, which is perhaps the best we can do.
I've been dreaming for a while about writing on Avital Ronell who has a great book on stupidity! Btw I'm reading now the book you recommended "The Suspension of Seriousness" which is a lot of fun and intriguingly similar to Sontag on camp...
That Out excerpt is so much fun. So relatable until it collapses into utter incoherence right at the crucial moments. Boy do I want to read whole book of his about writing/not-writing and its connection to having an present-but-absent boyfriend. Thanks for this!
Yes! Besides Hatchet Jobs and his OUT column, I've only read a section of his first novel (which wasn't interesting enough to make me read more)--but I wonder if he's got something else this unhinged in his catalogue.
Wow. Much to consider.