Charles Goldberg

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@EleonoraFall Je suis d’accord, mais parfois j’ai honte de donner un avis trop tranché sur les institutions publiques. Je suis certain qu’elles n’ont pas les moyens. À mon école on avait imprimé un livret pour tous élèves de 5e et 4e avec les racines des mots.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@EleonoraFall Le niveau baisse parce que ce type the rigueur est aujourd’hui surtout un fait de classe. Les populations d’élèves sont très homogènes, trop même. Les réformes se sont multipliées, sans les moyens. À tous les coup, ça ammoindrit la moyenne.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@EleonoraFall Yes, you don’t really prepare for the bac because almost everyone at school is certain to have it. It seems arbitrary at first, until you get to college and you are a bit more advanced than your mates.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@EleonoraFall Yes, the prépas needed some kind of legitimate reforms, and the diversification followed the population makeup. But this regime is still the norm in most elite French secondary institutions (high school), I went through it and I’m not even 24 yet.

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@maiamindel Mo Yan is a better writer than the caricature that is made of him. Actually brilliant in some of his books. He just happens to also be a small-shoed party ideologue.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@JoomiKim1 @Kulambq And you’re a dumb bitch.

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@daniel_lefferts @mcmansionhell Brought to you with the flattest, devoid of any torque prose even given to men’s eyes.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@bartlebytaco @spiccarella I’m begging to see our worst.

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@BarneysRubble0 Why would Toni be compared to some minor writer on the internet? Wallace who? Pipe down, please.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@Aatif_Rashid The best kept secret in publishing for many decades was that Roth probably needed a Lish to bloom his prose into bare decency. Meaning-making through excesses supposed skills and syntactic control.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@VVFriedman The more you read about this, the more you can picture the next big crisis in a segment of print journalism, fashion, arts, museum, even media will come downward from a 76 year old cheftaine simply retiring. And the remedy can’t be found in training a younger replacement.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@foxypiano Morrison and Glissant met and admired each other. Frankétienne is a great mention as well. His books are largely too weird for regular reading but one Amours, Orgues and Délices that left me struck dumb for many days.

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@Effi_FU @pourfairelevide But intellectual confrontation is a confrontation, productive yes but has to contain an adversarial element to be fruitful. It’s not combative, or injurious but it must be destabilizing.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@pourfairelevide There are many times in Beloved, Paradise one doesn’t know what’s happening and one has to reorient. There are moments in Love and Jazz one needs to search for and locate the narrator, that being a deliberate choice in the latter. So this is patently false.

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@rob_rubsam Even when the story is severely lacking, the formal achievement often remains intact. Her novel Love is one of best written books of the 21st century at the prose level. And is largely underrated because our critical apparatus disregards form.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@BrianMcLight Treating the Met Gala with the weight of a moral question or political argument, when it’s a fundraiser for a museum dedicated to arts, at a time when arts is dismissed, going unfunded or plainly erased.

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@lionel_trolling It’s not very good, it lacks in emotional core and stylistic reference. But good luck.

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@shainreads Small treatise of a woman’s malevolent force pretending to be literature. There’s enough misogyny in this single book to rival Ancient Greece.

[Charles Goldberg @CharlieGoldber]

@DepartureJay And should win, Marie Ndiaye is a wonderful writer.