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whatever circuits of vanity underlie the original impulse

I’d been planning to stop doing criticism, but it was essentially a triage decision: drop the writing that seems to be achieving the least, you know.

Ballard needed the cliches of the genre to push against, but he also needed a medium cheap enough to allow him to take risks in doing so.

Reflections on the dog days of a) summer, b) that thing we still insist on thinking of as “civilisation”, and c) the human life-arc.

Next time someone asks you “what is genre, anyway?”, send them to Lucy Sante.

Castin’ pods like a fisherman baiting his hooks with raw vanilla, yo