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After █████████: on "Flesh," and not.

After █████████: on "Flesh," and not.

There's something terrible about the way normality asserts itself. About the way that summer insists on happening.  "Flesh" by David Szalay did not grip me for most of it. I did not love it. Part of it may be a resistance to identifying with Istvan, the
Jake Feb 6, 2026
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Fourteen years ago, I ran into a guy from high school in Canal Park in Duluth. I wrote about it the following March, when I was back in New York and working a night job for the city that was a total drag.
Jake Jul 1, 2018
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