Storyological 3.01 - LICK IT JUSTIN BIEBER

In which we discuss REPORT ON THE THING by Clarice Lispector and CAT PERSON by Kristen Roupenian, along with, among other things, princesses, karaoke demons, and the thingness of things.

In which we discuss,

1. Report on the Thing by Clarice Lispector, Vice, June 2015.

2. Cat Person by Kristen Roupenian, New Yorker, December 2017.

along with, among other things…

Clarice Lispector

“The True Glamour of Clarice Lispector” by Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker
“Not the Word, but the Thing Itself”, a profile in The Nation by Ava Kofman

Kristen Roupenian

Kristen Roupenian on the Self-Deceptions of Dating, an interview in The New Yorker.
@Kroupernian on Twitter

Time and Music and Other such

A Sveglia clock
A tribute to that one character Lorne, from Angel
Carmen Maria Machado, in our Pocket Interview No. 4
The Silence in Doctor Who
This quote from Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre: “Things are divorced from their names. They are there, grotesque, headstrong, gigantic, and it seems ridiculous
The song, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (youtube), and a review from Spin of the album’s 20th anniversary.
The Flower Sermon, in which is communicated the nature of suchness, and to which Chris is probably referring when he’s attempting to remember what Buddha said about flowers.

Black Mirrors

“Ten Years Later, the ‘Sopranos’ Finale is Still Revolutionary” from The Ringer
The Speculative Dread of ‘Black Mirror’ by Giles Harvey in The New Yorker
Mallory Ortberg’s review, in the form of a tweet, of Black Mirror
That one episode of Storyological in which we discussed “The Jewish Hunter” by Lorrie Moore
A review of season two of The Crown, in which that one super sexy episode.
The Most Human Human

Also. Also.

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