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She changes her name from Kitty to Karen
She trades in her MG for a white Chrysler DeBaron
danifinnwrites.bsky.social Dani Finn 🐙 🏳️‍⚧️ 📚 @danifinnwrites.bsky.social · Dec 25
I personally would not critique another author’s works in this specific way.

(Brandon Taylor on Sally Rooney’s Intermezzo)

www.bookforum.com/print/3102/a...
Sometimes people with graduate degrees in creative writing are accused of writing technically proficient but boring prose, or stories that function well but attain nothing lifelike. People without graduate degrees in creative writing are often held up as some sort of shaggy band of true inheritors of the literary tradition. Brilliant experimentalists. Risk-takers and politically engaged. There are writers—Sally Rooney perhaps chief among them—about whom it is said with a gleeful delirium, “They don’t have an MFA!” In response, I’ve started to think, after having read a handful of novels by people like this, “Yeah, you can tell.” This struck me as especially true in Rooney’s case as I reread all of her novels alongside Intermezzo. Conversations with Friends, Normal People, and Beautiful World, Where Are You all demonstrate a writer of virtuosic gifts but minor technical proficiency. For example, the main narration of Intermezzo is primarily in the present tense. There are two main ways of demonstrating action in present tense: simple present (he walks) and present progressive (he is walking). These are not interchangeable, and when you substitute “he is walking” for “he walks,” you create a sense of distance and sluggishness. “He walks” is directly on the line of action. “He is walking” implies that the main focus is elsewhere, still to come. It’s a kind of anticipatory, on-the-balls-of-your-feet, falling-forward sensation. It’s always bothered me that Rooney deploys present progressive when she should deploy simple present. This is especially the case in Intermezzo. Just popping the book open randomly, you find “she is looking down at the soles of her feet, crossed on the mattress” and “Ivan is standing on his own in the corner, while the men from the chess club move chairs and tables around.”
December 25, 2024 at 5:41 PM
yesonaffhousing.bsky.social
Listen to leading advocate for homeless New Yorkers, Shams DeBaron: We need to vote YES on Affordable Housing Ballot Proposals 2-5 to build enough affordable housing to tackle the homelessness crisis!
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
versbereid.bsky.social
1022. 17-09-2025
VANDAAG JARIG
Bas van Toor 90 jaar

Hij wil zo graag de 90 halen
Sprak zijn vrouw een paar weken geleden
Dat is gelukt maar het is triest te zien
Dat hij in zijn rolstoel moet worden rondgereden

#bas#vantoor#clown #adriaan #acrobaat #bassieenadriaan #debaron #vluggejapie #ridder
September 17, 2025 at 5:08 AM
janvanmeerten.bsky.social
Repertoria zijn goudmijnen voor genealogisch onderzoek. Wie is zoon/dochter van wie en waar woonden ze. Achtenhalf morgen land te Maurik (Gemeente Buren) en het geslacht Van Eck en Van Meerten: oorsprong.info/achtenhalf-m.... #vanmeerten #debaron #hkko
Achtenhalf morgen land te Maurik en het geslacht Van Eck en Van Meerten - Fundamentum
Via de Hollands Genealogische Databank is het ‘Repertorium op de leen van de hofstede Culemborg‘ in te zien. Dit repertorium is samengesteld door dr. J.C. Kort. Omdat zo’n repertorium veel familieverb...
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August 8, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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DeBaron Fietsen, nog steeds mijn favoriete Fietsenmaker !
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January 22, 2025 at 9:07 AM
barneyhusky.bsky.social
Rust zacht, Baron van Neemweggen. Ik heb van U genoten bij Bassie en Adriaan. Ik ga U drommels missen.

R.I.P. Paul van Gorcum
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November 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM