Christian Lorentzen

Nov 15, 2024 | airmail.news | Christian Lorentzen

Stranger Than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel by Edwin Frank Toward the end of her 2008 essay “Two Paths for the Novel,” on the schism in contemporary literature between realism and conceptual fiction, Zadie Smith lists a few authors to be found in the middle.

Nov 15, 2024 | nytimes.com | Christian Lorentzen

“Lazarus Man” follows several characters in Harlem in the wake of a building collapse.

Oct 29, 2024 | op.no | Christian Lorentzen |Larvik Arbeiderparti

Debattinnlegg Som innbygger og lokalpolitiker i Larvik er jeg dypt bekymret for den foreslåtte planen om å selge majoriteten av de kommunale barnehagene i Larvik. Det er knyttet stor usikkerhet til den økonomiske gevinsten ved et salg av barnehagene. Er det realistisk å oppnå den forventede salgsprisen? Hvordan vil eventuelle endringer i tilskuddssatser påvirke kommunens langsiktige økonomi?

Oct 25, 2024 | nytimes.com | Christian Lorentzen

Crimes, deviations from the norm, the transgressive actions of human animals caught in the vises of history, loneliness, desperation, lust, psychosis, exhaustion or terror - these were the subjects (some of them) of Gary Indiana's fiction, a tremendous outpouring left unfinished after his death on Thursday at 74. He was born Gary Hoisington in rural New Hampshire in 1950, out of place and at the wrong time, but we all have to be born somewhere.

Sep 10, 2024 | christianlorentzen.substack.com | Christian Lorentzen

FLATBUSH—If there was one thing that united the delegates, politicians, lobbyists, consultants, journalists, and other hacks at the Democratic Convention last month in Chicago, it was that we (sorry) were all once the sort of schoolchildren who were keen to know all the states of the Union and perhaps be able to rattle off a series of facts about them.