From “Till One or the Other Gits Back,” which is collected in The Caterpillar Dogs and Other Early Stories, out this month from New Directions. She stood now at the…

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From the abstract of “Small Penises and Fast Cars,” a study conducted by researchers at University College London. In this experiment, we manipulated what men believed about their own penis…

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From similes used by the critic Dwight Garner in book reviews for the New York Times since 2017. Like frogs run over by a lawn mower Like a goose dementedly…

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From assertions made by current members of Congress. Claimed to not drink alcohol, before being arrested for drunk driving Claimed to be a consultant for Dow Jones & Company because…

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From a bill proposed in the Massachusetts legislature in January. The Commissioner of the Department of Correction shall establish a bone marrow and organ donation program and a bone marrow…

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From descriptions of Sam Bankman-Fried included in an article written by Adam Fisher and published by Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm that invested $150 million in Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency platform…

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From a new edition of Divine Days, which was published last month in the inaugural volume from Seminary Co-op Offsets, an imprint of Northwestern University Press. That evening, several gifts…

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From Our Red Book, a collection of essays and interviews about menstruation, edited by Rachel Kauder Nalebuff. The book was published in November by Simon & Schuster. rachel kauder nalebuff:…

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From Fashion: A Manifesto, which will be published next month by Notting Hill Editions. Enough has been said about the many ways in which fashion harms the environment, not to…

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From a November discussion on the Eyes Left podcast, between Mike Prysner, an Iraq War veteran, and Mansoor Adayfi, a former detainee at Guantánamo Bay. mansoor adayfi: As you know,…

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From excerpts of a lecture collected in The Poetics of Wrongness, which was published last month by Wave Books. In late January 2013, I told my mother I was going…

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From descriptions of popular Twitter conversations in 2022, as summarized by the company. The topics were archived by whatshappening.online. People think actor Mickey Rourke bears a resemblance to Val Kilmer…

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From an email sent by a manager of an Olive Garden in Overland Park, Kansas. Attention ALL Team Members: Our call-offs are occurring at a staggering rate. From now on,…

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From a disciplinary report produced by the Denver Fire Department in October. Engine 19 of the Denver Fire Department responded to support Denver Police Department officers on a welfare check.…

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From Grotesque Weather and Good People, which was published in June by Black Ocean. Translated from the Korean. Thinking of people makes us avoid them. I think we should even…

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From “Scientomancy, or Divination by Science,” which was published in the Fall 2022/Winter 2023 issue of Salmagundi Magazine. Translated from the Polish. I would like to focus on a special…

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From “On Waitressing,” which was published in September by The Stinging Fly. Before I was eighteen, I found talking very difficult. I was a really shy kid. I lacked ease,…

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From messages sent to Helpdesk.media, a website that answers anonymous questions from Russians. Hi! I am a contract military person. My contract is about to end. I filed my dismissal…

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From The Birthday Party, which was published last month by Transit Books. Translated from the French. Tonight, like almost every night, he hears steps on the stairs as he nods…

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From The Wounded Age and Eastern Tales, which was published in January by New York Review Books. Translated from the Turkish. On this mountain where God left you all alone,…

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From a 1992 letter written by John le Carré (David John Moore Cornwell) to Philip Roth, sent after le Carré read a draft of Roth’s Operation Shylock. The letter is…

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From the fifth edition of Garner’s Modern English Usage, which was published in November by Oxford University Press. profanity. For the definitive works, see John McWhorter, Nine Nasty Words (2021);…

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From “The Men behind the Girl behind the Man behind the Gun,” which appeared in the May 2022 edition of the Journal of the History of Sexuality. In his 1919…

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From reasons people have given for calling in bomb threats across the United States since 2016. Because a pizzeria in Philadelphia wouldn’t feed the Astros during the World Series Because…

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From The Last Pomegranate Tree, which was published this month by Archipelago Books. Translated from the Kurdish. One evening, Muhammad the Glass-Hearted sets off for a meeting with an antique…

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From The Half Known Life, which will be published this month by Riverhead Books. Four hours in Iran, and already I was having to rethink almost everything. The local guide…

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From “Sitting-Down Literature,” which was written in 1970 and is included in The Written World and the Unwritten World, out this month from Mariner Books. Translated from the Italian. Sitting…

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