Lolly Willowes is easiest to find, and it ROCKS. I also read her correspondence with William Maxwell, who I also love. I haven’t been able to find a lot of her other stuff, but she evidently wrote a series of stories about evil fairies in the New Yorker back in the day, which they collected in a single volume - which…

Don’t even mention the IMWs.

Maybe it’s akin to meditation - while Taylor is talking about I cannot imagine what, her interlocutors could be using her invariant facial expression as an object of focus in order to inwardly observe the subtle movements of the human consciousness.

It’s a lost cause. It will be all over here for a while, Kara will write Zaddy Court, people will rave about it, and the rest of the world will be blissfully unaware of what we were all doing to squander the very last remains of the Enlightenment.

People are bored and judgmental, probably, and it’s always good to have a focus, like man-buns, Chris Pratt, or the ever-changing roster of Women That Are Bad here on Jezebel.

I’m also crazy about her. Did you ever read Hangsaman?

So I really like your name, but now I am concerned about your glitterfarts.

On the one hand.

I don’t know that she is someone to look up to.

I’m not sure, but she sure did like small businessmen and smoking.

That legit gave me the shivers.

Oh! Please considering reading the book, and also her other novels, but especially We have always lived in the castle!

I feel like Ayn Rand would have something to say about this.

John Updike is ASS.

GUYS! The best haunted house book ever is The Haunting of Hill House by the redoubtable Shirley Jackson!

But not small business owners.

Sucks about the injury!!

I hear you! I am pretty chubby, and I don’t even eat much, but I guess genes, age and a desk job have contributed to give me this body shape.

I guess, but I would love it if American authors struggled against writing as if they were pooped out of a creative writing workshop factory. And if a moratorium of a few years were declared on the personal-experience-essay.

Deserves many many more stars. You might be a genius unacknowledged by the masses, but I see what you did and appreciate it.