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“There’s something compulsive and dreamlike about the novel’s language, which is often deliberately redundant.”
“McClay on Chad Harbach’s The Brightness , Meghan O’Gieblyn’s on Claire-Louise Bennett’s Kiss Kiss, Bye-Bye , James Wood on Meghan O’Gieblyn’s Will and Attention , and Jac Jemc on K Ming Chang’s Needlemouth .”
“… “In a 2016 interview with The Paris Review Bennett, whose novels capture the experience of consciousness more acutely than practically any other contemporary fiction, expressed skepticism about identifying too closely with her own mental activity.”
“Writing can be a way out of this circularity: to put something down on paper is to transform the endless mental churn into a narrative that is linear and progressive.”
“Hanawalt’s jokey vignettes and colorful animal drawings belie a very serious narrative precision.”
“… “It’s easy to dismiss Bennett’s novels as language games that are formally clever but too conceptual to be enjoyed in any immediate, visceral sense.”
“… “The fictional models Harbach cites, both within the text (such as Wharton’s story ‘The Pelican’) and in interviews (such as Anna Karenina ), are attentive to social judgments and situations.”
“In some ways, it resembles a conventional addiction memoir: an alcoholic in her twenties, O’Gieblyn got sober, flourished for more than a decade as an essayist and critic, and then started drinking again during the pandemic.”
“The novel arrives at several stunning moments that force characters to reckon with the traditions they’ve been raised in and the promises they’ve made, to Needlemouth and to themselves.”
“Assigning responsibility for evil to human will also helps to absolve God.”
“Salvation comes instead through God’s grace, the unearned gift that saves us from ourselves.”
“But after any extended immersion in her books, one feels bored with the plodding linearity of other novels, with their dutiful backstory and studied beats of narrative ‘reflection,’ and is eager to return to that raw consciousness of Bennett’s narrators, who circle their subjects restlessly in the hope of stumbling on the unexpected.”
“But whereas Lisa’s endless introspection—the I Can’t Stop Thinking part of the book’s title—often brings her to tears, Juni has avoided self-knowledge altogether.”
“Chang challenges us not to avert our gaze from the filth of living, her language making our experience of the book a somatic journey in itself.”
“The existence of the book says yes; the characters within it say maybe.”
“Harbach is a gifted observer of undergraduates, their pathos and their comedy, but his Westish is a gentle and perhaps too-good-natured institution, where even the jocks are nerds.”
“You need only a prose style, an interest in people, and a sense of society.”
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“But Will and Attention is more complex and surprising than its form suggests.”
“… “If these problems aren’t new, it’s a relief to read them in such vivid, contemporary and occasionally gory detail, and not as a preamble to some overbroad philosophical treatise.”
“They understand that human relationships and human interiority both exist within a world, and this world constrains not only what people do but what they can even regard as possible.”