The Dreaded Word
Jesse RelkinBook reviews and thoughts on art and — the dreaded word — content
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The Case for Dimes Square
Another piece of mine ran earlier this week—this time in The Republic of Letters, who asked me to make the case for the Dimes Square literary scene as part of their Debates series.
Last year, I picked up (and also put down) a number of Dim...
The Banality of Fascism: From Hollywood to Nazi Germany
I’ve had the pleasure of writing a couple pieces for other publications recently. One of them—a review of Daniel Kehlmann’s The Director—was published earlier this week at The Metropolitan Review. I’ve included an excerpt below. You can rea...
Basic Bitch Update + New Excerpt
In celebration of the fact that I cut my word count down to 140K and will now be circulating my manuscript to indie presses, I’m sharing another excerpt from my novel, Basic Bitch. (Here’s the first excerpt, ICYMI.) This one comes a bit lat...
Confessions of the Prettiest Boy in the NYC Underground
As I busily wrap up the hopefully final big round of cuts to my novel, let’s go downtown again as I revisit a review of Twentieth-Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies, which I first posted on Instagram a while back. By rare grace of the...
Can a Dimes Square Edgelord Write Real Literature?
You might not notice it right away, but the girl on the cover of Peter Vack’s Sillyboy has five fingers, no thumb. It’s a fitting symbol for the current moment in literature, when you really can’t judge a book by its cover—or its publisher....
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