Derek Neal’s Newsletter
Derek NealLiterature, film, culture, fiction
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977 Words on Ben Lerner's "Leaving the Atocha Station"
Last month I wrote an essay on “the 800-word book review,” which is the standard length, give or take a couple hundred words, for a book review in a newspaper like The New York Times or The Guardian. I was critical of this sort of bo...
The Secondary Narrator
I find myself increasingly unable to read anything resembling AI text, that is, anything seemingly preformed, readymade, or mass produced, like an IKEA chair; but even as I write this, I think to myself—why an IKEA chair? Why does this obje...
The 800-Word Book Review
1. In the preface to Male Fantasies, a 1977 psychoanalytic study of “the fascistic type” in Nazi Germany, author Klaus Theweleit interrupts himself mid-sentence with an ellipsis and writes:
“...at this point, the sentence seems to want to...
Another Horned Man: On Michael Clune's "Pan"
Pan
By Michael Clune
Penguin, 336 pp., July 2025
Allopathy and homeopathy are two contrasting theories of medicine. Allo, meaning other, and homo, meaning same, indicate how suffering (pathos) is cured in thes...
EMERGENCY 'STACK: CANADA v USA FOR GOLD
Connor McDavid for Canada
The puck drops Sunday at 8:10 am in Ontario, 2:10 pm in Milan for the Olympic men’s ice hockey gold medal match.
It’s Friday afternoon and my colleague, a woman in her 60’s, sees me watching hockey on my laptop d...
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