Everyone Cried
Lydia Davis has a new piece in the New Yorker called Everyone Cried. Like a lot of Lydia’s work, the story picks at the little things that drive people mad. Through looking at these irritations in detail and amplifying the human reaction it is first suggested that these feelings are trivial, but once the scope of the story expands to include the pains of every person Lydia shows us the way that our society creates these small madnesses that will eventually break us.
Anne Carson has a kind of play after Samuel Beckett in Granta. Krapp Hour — a kind of reimagining of Krapp’s Last Tape featuring the likes of Jack Kerouac and his mother. Here there’s a different look at memory from the source, using historical figures instead.
Thanks for reading Etch To Their Own. This is another post-pub one. It was written by @CJEggett, a man who once read something and remembered some of it. Like other weeks, there’s no way to quantify distance than how far away you are from someone — which is basic physics that people learn at GCSE.
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