max watman

Author of Harvest, Chasing the White Dog, and Race Day. Occasional hack. Former regular at the Daily Beast. Former turf correspondent for the NY Sun.

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📆 Dec 5 online: Can Moonshine Save the U.S. Constitution? https://t.co/oDycpMUnxA with our Jarrett Dieterle, @andrewmgrossman @TheBuckeyeInst, @kevinrkosar @AEI, @maxwatman'

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@paranoiacs Amped! Looking forward to this show even more now.

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@AmericanGwyn I remember very well the feeling of reading THE GIRL WITH CURIOUS HAIR in 1992 and hearing my own (generational) voice in the text in a way that had not happened before. And it wasn't in an aspirational style or out of reach. DFW was reporting.

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@shelfbyshelf I second Tartt, Towles, Chabon. Add Tom Wolfe in general, but especially “I am Charlotte Simmons.” Lethem’s “Brooklyn Crime Novel” did a bunch, too.

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@xintra You are a mentor.

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@donwinslow @netflix That book is so solid.

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@winenshine I saw something described as “Swiftian” recently, and was trying to figure out how it was so for a good many minutes before it occured to me that the writer meant Taylor, not Jonathan.

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@sarahnrogers I sure do. Would appreciate one if you have one to spare.

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@dchiasso “Respondent Michel Foucault!” Phew.

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@LitAgentKelly It’s a regular slice, but it’s a plain pie. From Va, but 20 years in NY.

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@xintra Gotta say, though, I don’t dig the funereal angle.

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@xintra One of the funniest to ever do it, with rhythm for days, and real startling holy-shit insights. Steady admiration since I was clutching a galley of Massive Swelling and pitching reviews of it.

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@KristopherJans We did spend an entire day together once, though!

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@JeffSharlet Death standing just outside the door while the miser counts his money.

But in that case the humor is ours, the viewer’s, the reader’s. The resilient first person laugh in the face of torment is different, no? More like Bulgakov, or Donleavy. A win for the victim.

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@JeffSharlet What I’ve read teaching undergrad nonfiction has changed me.

I consistently reflect upon how these kids also have some smug prof who has no idea.

I’m amazed by the transparency and humor I see every semester. Gallows humor, sure, but what else?

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@Check_ur_source @JeffSharlet No.

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@mdbell79 Maybe it’s not a year—I know that when I teach Eve Babitz she feels contemporary. That just makes it harder, though.

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@mdbell79 Starting when? By which I mean both: 1) what’s your date for when contemporary begins, and
2) when do we start the eight year reading group?

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@NifMuhammad @pursuityourself Those shoes are aces.

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@AfghanVegan @deGrootFound To you as well!

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Honored, thrilled, and in good company. Thank you, @deGrootFound, for awarding me a Courage to Write grant.

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