It's a profile that goes to some strange places — I hope you'll read it: www.vanityfair.com/story/the-wi...
The ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ Author Is $1 Billion In Debt
VF visits Robert Kiyosaki in Arizona to unravel the self-mythology of a longtime bestseller and friend of Trump
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Please tell me what's wrong and overrated about my writing, Kevin, so I can improve.
Kevin Anthony Brown @kevinabrown.com@kevinanthonybrown.bsky.social · 3mo agoMarketing, Publicity & Audience Development 9 June 2026 Challenge - name 10 over-rated essay-reviewers from the parochial Anglosphere: Emre Merve Feng Rhoda Lorentzen Christian Mallon Thomas Pinckney Darryl Rothfeld Becca Sehgal Parul Wilson Jennifer Wood James This relates to the Guardian 100
"She answered in fluent but artificial English that she detested surrealistic novels of the poetic sort. She demanded hard realistic stuff reflecting our age. She liked books about Violence and Oriental Wisdom. Did it get better farther on?"
“A routine would be too much like work, and I don’t really like to work, even though I work a great deal. All the things I do that might be considered work are really a form of play.” —Jamaica Kincaid buff.ly/BQ4wuZY
QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST EPISODE 8: THE TRAGEDY OF 'HAMNET' www.patreon.com/posts/ep-8-t...
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‘The two memoirs together with “Pan” – which is autobiographical, though there are some deviations from his life – form a trilogy about the derangements of youth.’ @xlo.bsky.social on the relationship between Michael Clune’s debut novel and his memoirs of addiction. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christian Lorentzen · It’s for dorks: Michael Clune’s ‘Pan’
When Michael Clune’s character in Pan alights on Proust in the course of his daily writing practice, he learns a mode...
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‘Lanier’s songs moved many of his contemporaries. Herrick called him “rare Laniere” while John Donne said he “gave a life and harmony to all that he set”.’ Alice Spawls on the rediscovery of a portrait of one of the most intriguing figures of the 17th century. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alice Spawls · On Nicholas Lanier
The Nicholas Lanier portrait that I came across so unexpectedly at Frieze Masters doesn’t have the prestige of the Van...
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A couple of new pieces I wrote on a book and a word. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/panic-in-t...
PANIC IN THE GIFTSHOP
On Michael Clune's 'Pan' and against the verb 'to gift'
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A noun that becomes a verb is like a cat that's gone to the dogs. Against 'to gift'. granta.com/today-is-my-...
Today Is My Birthday
‘When I noticed an English writer using the transitive ‘gift’ in a prestigious paper, I took the usage up with one of its editors, a Scotswoman whose fastidiousness is notorious.’
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William Gaddis heads will recognize that Trump is engaged here in a frolic of his own
Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11mo agoL’état, c’est moi apnews.com/article/trum...
Recorded a podcast with some friends about the PTA picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/quality-li...
QUALITY LIT GAME PODCAST
Episode 1: 'One Battle after Another'
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An old column about my gambling addiction from which I've finally recovered after years of intensive therapy. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
MY BOOK PRIZE BETTING ADDICTION
In anticipation of tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Literature
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Lorentzen on the new Pynchon is pretty good: www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.” In @bookforum.bsky.social, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN@xlo.bsky.social · last yr.Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
Wrote about the GOAT debate. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/who-is-the...
WHO IS THE GOAT OF AMERICAN FICTION?
With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to my dearly departed high school English teachers
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“I have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. I’ll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.” Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
Every book review should also have this---the author coming in and saying 'This reviewer knows nothing of my work' after every pan or paean.
max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · last yr.In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published
I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
The Drift@thedriftmag.com · last yr.Mentions from @therealbradbabs.bsky.social, @return2sanders.bsky.social, @malignfiesta.bsky.social, @harmlessfires.bsky.social, @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social, @differance.bsky.social, @erinlangner.bsky.social, @cryinmeehan.bsky.social, @devintoshea.bsky.social, and @aprzhu.bsky.social.
Wrote on some letters from David Foster Wallace to Sven Birkerts that are up for sale. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
‘I AM NOT A PARTICULARLY SMART OR IMAGINATIVE MAN, BUT . . . ’
Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale
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