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Pick up new Thomson excerpt at tonight’s Granta party

The current issue of Granta includes contributions from Kenzaburo Oe, Mary Gaitskill, Javier Marías, Will Self, Mahmoud Darwish, Lionel Shriver, William T. Vollmann, and more, and I’m looking forward to reading them, but when the package arrived yesterday I (of course) turned immediately to the (excellent) excerpt from Rupert Thomson’s forthcoming memoir. The piece, “Call Me By My Proper Name,” . . .

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Byronic

Katha Pollitt says Byron’s great insight was that “women were much like men: They wanted sex and went after it eagerly.” (Via.)

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