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At last, something like release. It’s the last story in the collection (and thus the end of this book club), and our goodbye to our narrator. True to…
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We’ll be very brief today because the story is itself, the shortest in a collection with several quite-short stories. (As I mentioned last week, I…
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I’ve talked about stories in Jesus’ Son and whether they work as standalones or whether they need the structure of the book to work. “Dirty Wedding” was…
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Several times in this book club, I’ve discussed the difference between stories in Jesus’ Son that feel like they can live on their own as short stories…
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It’s interesting (to me if no one else) that “Emergency” is the first story in this collection that has inspired me to discuss my own drug use. We’re…
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Our friend Fuckhead is definitely #Problematic, now taking part in a little casual domestic violence. The first-paragraph description of him and his…
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Jack Hotel is alive again and seemingly smoking hashish. Which means either we’re experiencing non-linear storytelling - granted that a short story…
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