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Success Is Only Ever a Distraction from Failure
An old essay, newly annotated
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Garth Greenwell
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Escape to the Movies
Humanist Vampire, Thelma, Ghostlight, Janet Planet
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Garth Greenwell
2

June 2024

On Leaving New York
(Sort of)
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Garth Greenwell
20
Writing Sex: Miranda July's All Fours
On the weirdness of desire
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Garth Greenwell
8

May 2024

Incarnational Aesthetics
Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo celeste
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Garth Greenwell
8
La Chimera
Alice Rohrwacher & film as poetry
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Garth Greenwell
8

April 2024

A Breaking Wheel
Frank Bidart & poetry as sculpture; Giuseppe Caputo; cover, revealed
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Garth Greenwell
8
On Letting a Novel Go
Punctuating, paragraphing, Reddit's concern, & putting a book in the world
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Garth Greenwell
22

March 2024

On a Paragraph by James Baldwin
Writing aesthetic experience in Another Country
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Garth Greenwell
12
What Makes a Sonnet Sound?
Sonnet controversies; a miraculous poem by Diane Seuss; kisses from Catullus
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Garth Greenwell
3

February 2024

Writing Sex: What Comes After Rapture?
Some thoughts from Baldwin, Lawrence, and me; a perfect poem by Jane Kenyon; a new class
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Garth Greenwell
8
An Unquiet House
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
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