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"Who wins, the smart guy or the crazy guy? The crazy guy, and he’s getting crazier every day."

America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

Alice Bolin, Featured Essay, Guardian, 8 June 2025

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"It is very difficult to avoid sentimental narratives in personal essays, given that we romanticize nothing so much as ourselves.”
- @alicebolin “Accomplices” (from Dead Girls)

When shows say: "We always have to eliminate the people closest to the victim.” And they don’t exactly say: men are always murdering their wives. It’s [like] a math problem, instead of a widespread emergency-level trend.” @alicebolin Q&A for @Longreads

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#ClipOfTheDay: In this Magers & Quinn Booksellers event, Alice Bolin reads an essay from her latest collection, Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse (Mariner Books), and discusses technology, cults, and feminism with author Sally Franson. at.pw.org/AliceBolin