As long as this is a blog temporarily devoted to David Foster Wallace, this piece by Keith Gessen (which Maud Newton linked to in her essay below) is also very good. I’ll resume pushing Leaving the Atocha Station on you shortly.
August 22, 2011
The Null Set
May 16, 2011
"In the fall of 1963, in Leningrad, in what was then the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the young poet Dmitry Bobyshev stole the young poet Joseph Brodsky’s girlfriend. This was not cool."
— Keith Gessen on Joseph Brodsky in the New Yorker.
December 13, 2010
"Reading Frazier and Franzen back to back underscored, first, that they have quite similar names, and, second, the deeply Midwestern quality of Freedom."
— Keith Gessen picks his favorite books of the year for the Millions.
September 24, 2010
An apologetic Keith Gessen apologizes for backwards apostrophes in the new n+1 film supplement, on sale now at McNally Jackson. Mention apologetic Keith and get 10% off all weekend.
August 5, 2010
Speaking of videos of Russia… longtime readers of this blog will recall my Russian traffic updates from the past year, which began with the car-based assassination attempt on the president of Ingushetia and then went on to a video of the presidential motorcade whizzing through the streets of Moscow, as well as the sort of real-time updates readers of this blog used to rely on until Tumblr declined to sign me to an endorsement contract and I went on strike. Anyway, I finally condensed all my traffic observations into a hard-hitting article for the New Yorker, which appeared last week. It’s not online, unfortunately, but they made a pretty cool video based on it, which is above.
July 25, 2010
"That night, a popular anti-Kremlin blogger, making his way along the river in the center of town, encountered an ambulance driver standing outside his vehicle throwing snowballs lazily off the embankment; he’d been in traffic so long, he explained, that his patient was now dead."
— The maybe-sad Keith Gessen on Moscow’s traffic in the new New Yorker.
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Hey Dustin, how about getting booksellers to reenact this Cocteau?
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