David Means

Most recent book: Two Nurses, Smoking (FSG)
Fiction writer @fsgbooks

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Ottessa Moshfegh. Thank you!

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

On the latest episode of our Fiction Podcast, Ottessa Moshfegh reads and discusses a short story by David Means. Listen here. https://t.co/pu5nbuho2Q

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@AndrewPorter01 I love Frank!

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@NK_Adjei @TODAYshow Nice!

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@jamiattenberg What's Goodreads?

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@rossmbenjamin Thanks Ross!

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@ceruleanlib @rws7484 @KevinMKruse Totally agree--as a fiction writer, as an artist, I found "Life's Work" to be brilliant, uplifting, and profound.

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@mervatim I felt, reading it, the fiction writer struggling with the essay writer--the descriptions, the meaning of image, in relation to the body--gender, thought. External/internal. Same mystery Calvino tries to nail down in WN.

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@JoyceCarolOates Beautiful. The soul is a "she." I

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@mervatim Sorry--new to twitter; no idea how to think in tweets.

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@mervatim God, now I'm searching all over my office for my copy, which I read at the beginning of the lockdown. But I know what I'd say: do we want a better book? Or do we want the strange duplicity of--via negativa of some of the images--the window, looking out. (Think of Melville).

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@alexanderchee We shared a sky--mine was over Nyack, but it was beautiful that same way.

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@davidclarkphel1 @mervatim True.

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I'm honored to be a finalist for this prize--to be alongside these brilliant writers.

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Introducing our five finalists for the #JoyceCarolOatesPrize: @rabihalameddine, @clarebeams, @jameshannaham, David Means, and Manuel Muñoz. You can read more about the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and this year’s finalists on our website, https://t.co/LN44DIr9de

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@gradychambers87 @NK_Adjei Thanks Grady! You know what work is, my friend.

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@_catherinelacey One of the great professors--holding forth on Hart Crane, or holding a monocle (he used one back in the 80s) to scrutinize a page of my poetry. . .

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I have more to say on this--a lot more--but I don't know if I'm going to say it.

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In Opinion

“AI will never feel the sense of mortality that forms around an unfinished draft, the illogic and contradictions of the human condition,” says the fiction writer David Means. https://t.co/VOnNyGVLne

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Brilliant book by a wonderful person wins a fantastic prize.

[National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics]

Congratulations to @huahsu, winner of this year's NBCC autobiography award for "Stay True," published by @doubledaybooks. #nbccawards #memoir #autobiography

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ONE parent, presumably white, has the power to ban a much-acclaimed movie for hundreds? thousands? how has American democracy become so corroded in the 21st century? hoping that Florida is not our future.

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A.I. Can’t Write My Cat Story Because It Hasn’t Felt What I Feel https://t.co/QoLsEtR6Fj

I wrote this piece on AI for The Times.