Lambert Strether

🎶 Here I am...Stuck in the comments section with you 🎶

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@Humanlty1o1 And Americans are just the same, if not worse.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@govt_corrupt Totally man. The best way to deal w/ these ‘Canadians’ is to make sure everyone knows that all 40 million of them are exactly like the most dumbed down, propagandistic caricature being pushed by those currently in power. This will pave the path to free thought & non compliance

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@Perez_Writes @the_met_review I guess it’s meant to make us feel like “we are inside a torrid mille-feuille of perception…” or so one critic tells me.

Though I think it’s more accurate to say that trying to get through that sentence makes me feel like I have a case of CTE.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@InternetH0F Lock Tuah

[Aaron Gwyn @AmericanGwyn]

My conversation with the great @katrosenfield about her first time reading Cormac McCarthy's masterpiece, Blood Meridian, is now available on YouTube. My audio is a bit garbled for the first 90 seconds, but smooths out at the 2:00 minute mark.
https://t.co/QVNxMIQO5l

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@_motherslug https://t.co/sQGUhkhC0n

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@_motherslug https://t.co/z4GCYN9Pwq

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@kittypurrzog WWTF

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@_motherslug N I C E B O O K S I N P R O F I L E

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@dantherriault My brain automatically read the title caption as: Pair “Embracing”

[Alex Perez @Perez_Writes]

Plenty of writers. What's needed are talented gatekeeper editors with great taste who curate an elite list of 7 to 8 books a year. Editors who aren't obsessed with politics. Editors who've been honing their aesthetic for years. Not random kids who took a publishing course.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@dantherriault These days I’m really only surprised when one actually makes it through to a list or shortlist.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@AmericanGwyn For a novel that’s so unpretentious and also so great, the hate it gets always strikes me as weirdly…gratuitous?

It feels more rooted in some knee jerk impulse to thwack down a tall poppy than anything specific to do with the book itself.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@S___Elliott The Roald Dull Collection

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@CBCNews Unfortunately completely unsurprising at this point. 2 weeks late to the conversation & exactly the take we all expect. Safe to say the vast majority of Canadians are against any segregation of public spaces but the CBC won’t even mention the majoritarian position. Why is that?

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@CBCNews That a public institution like the CBC would report on such a complex “debate” without a single opposing viewpoint is disgraceful. Lots of good faith opposition to this but apparently a quick mention of Fox News is enough to ignore all the potential ethical & policy issues here

[Michael Geist @mgeist]

Senator David Adams Richard tears apart Bill C-11, warning against censorship and government dictating what counts as Canadian culture. Powerful speech from one of Canada’s most acclaimed authors, having won Governor General’s Award for fiction and non-fiction and Giller Prize.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@dantherriault Stately, plump, white cis male Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a razor and a mirror lay crossed.

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@YMHstudios @JessicaKirson

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@AmericanGwyn A part of me wants to read Carver’s oeuvre and make a tally of exactly how many drinks are drunk across all of the stories.

[Lambert Strether @puff667]

@AmericanGwyn Read this list, walked directly over to my shelf, grabbed a Carver collection I hadn’t gotten to yet and read ‘Cathedral’ for the first time. Great. Have to read it again.