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Rachel Cusk & Siemon Scamell-Katz on Writing, Painting and the Vanishing Sublime

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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Second Place by Rachel Cusk

Rachel cusk's second place left me shocked, not because it's an obscene or violent book. It is difficult not to feel that one's understanding of the world before reading second place hasn't been irrevocably shattered. They are questions about art, morality, freedom and fate; how our world engineers these fundamental concepts differently for men and women. And theyr questions that cut to the quick of our lives, such as, which does more damage, living within the constraints of our fictions, or breaking out of them,. only to be exposed to the indifferent savagery of of existence.

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