Introduction
College has been over for exactly two weeks now, and we’ve all scattered to our various destinations, back home or to new cities, struggling to put down roots and take up barely-paid internships as we...
View ArticleAwake is the New Sleep
“For a long time I would go to bed early,” begins Marcel, Proust’s narrator, and thus embarks on his 4,200-page epic, a narrative that is about to become a permanent fixture of my daily life. It is...
View ArticleTwo powerful suspicions
The first was that (at a time when, every day, I regarded myself as standing upon the threshold of a life which was still intact and would not enter upon its course until the following morning) my...
View ArticleHow to Have a Bad Weekend
I just had one of those weekends. One of those weekends that started on a high, swan-dived into wretchedness, and ended on confusing. You may have heard, if you live in New York or check Instagram,...
View ArticleBook Three, and Time to Mess Up the Pattern
First things first: I have finally finished Within a Budding Grove, and, leaving a lovestruck Marcel pining after Albertine in a cold Balbec hotel room, moved on to The Guermantes Way. We are still...
View ArticleThose Are Riches, Girls
There’s hardly any getting around it, and those of you who have been following us from the very beginning will have already realized: it has been a year since this blog began, and we have failed to...
View ArticleLearning to Fail (Love Your Art, Poor as it May Be)
Sometimes I feel that if any real literature major sits me down for a cup of coffee, he or she will quickly discover that I am somewhat of a fraud. I have not read Moby Dick or Great Expectations...
View ArticleBackwards with Time
I am sitting aboard Amtrak train 132 en route to New York. I have snagged two seats to myself, and spread all five pieces of my luggage over the row in order to discourage businessmen from sitting next...
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