I have a German friend who works on memorialization. The last generation of Nazis and Holocaust survivors are now dying. So literally, we are threatened now for the first time ever, with memorializing that, with no first-person account of it left on earth. There's a lot of worry amongst scholars in Germany about what comes next: "All the memorialization has been done, we've done with everything we can."
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the fi… - How To Dress Well
"Face Again" is actually the most George Saunders-y song. Basically the verses, I'm describing a world where love is being killed, and then in the fi…
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Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starvin… - How To Dress Well
Fiction can produce truth, and truth can be false. What does it mean to say that it's true that, what, two out of six people in this city are starvin…
That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where sh… - How To Dress Well
That's another thing in Alice Munro: it's always, like, some middle-aged woman who is going to cheat on her husband, and there's that moment where sh…
Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing. - How To Dress Well
Every new generation of smartphone just has a different-shaped button. It's embarrassing.
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capita… - How To Dress Well
I think what's interesting about Alice Munro, too, is the extreme mundanity of things. And how even a life reduced to complete mundanity, like capita…
Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given t… - How To Dress Well
Playing live is so weird because I go out there and I try so hard to give something, which will be recognized. And in turn, something will be given t…
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet guy. He's a big fan of my… - How To Dress Well
George Saunders is outside of Chicago too. I've met him a few times, actually. I really like him a lot. He's a really sweet guy. He's a big fan of my…
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the t… - How To Dress Well
Our present era, to my mind, is characterized by a profound forgetting of the past. "The future, the future, the future." The 21st century, all the t…
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see th… - How To Dress Well
I believe, and this is something I also learned from Alice Munro, that there's a moment where the personal becomes totally universal. When you see th…
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