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2 months ago | 
newrepublic.com | Laura Kipnis
In the philosopher’s world, provocation and controversy are inseparable from the examined life.
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Dec 18, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Laura Kipnis
In a 1939 essay, the critic Philip Rahv argued that there have been two main types in American literature: the solemn and semi-clerical, which he associates with Henry James, and the exuberant, open-air lowlife embodied in Walt Whitman.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Laura Kipnis
A dark confession: I’m a feminist who was unmoved by the prospect of the first female president. It’s a politician’s politics I care about, not symbolics and white suits. If there was once an idea that when women attained political power they’d rule differently — more wisely, compassionately, peaceably — we’ve accumulated no shortage of examples to the contrary.
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Aug 21, 2024 | 
wired.jp | Laura Kipnis
リバインド（Rebind）という人工知能（AI）ベンチャーからお追従に満ちたメールが届いた。そのメールのなかで同社は、リバインドが愛読家たちの本の読み方を根本的に変えたとのちにわたしが認めることになるだろうと豪語し、その活動にわたしも参加しないかと呼びかけていた。最初にそれを読んだときは詐欺メールだと思った。というのも、差出人がクランシー・マーティンという作家兼哲学教授だったからだ。個人的な面識はなかったが、以前どこかで、彼が若かったころにジュエリー関係でちっぽけな詐欺師として活動し、恋愛生活においても慢性的な嘘つきだったという話を読んだことがあった。それに、メールにはわたしに報酬を支払うとも書いてあった。「クランシーも懲りないやつだ！」。わたしはそう考えた。...
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
technewstube.com | Laura Kipnis
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
wired.com | Laura Kipnis
When a flattering email arrived inviting me to participate in an AI venture called Rebind that I’d later come to think will radically transform the entire way booklovers read books, I felt pretty sure it was a scam. For one thing, the sender was Clancy Martin, a writer and philosophy professor I didn’t know personally but vaguely recalled had written about his misspent youth as a small-time jewelry-biz con artist, also being a serial liar in his love life.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
newrepublic.com | Laura Kipnis
Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint you were, you’re not going to come off well in the retelling—if a public reckoning with an ex’s crimes weren’t somewhere on the agenda, would the divorce memoir exist as a genre in the first place?
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Laura Kipnis
Allow me to impart some important life advice: Do not divorce, or allow yourself to be divorced by, a memoirist. Regardless of what a marital saint you were, you’re not going to come off well in the retelling—if a public reckoning with an ex’s crimes weren’t somewhere on the agenda, would the divorce memoir exist as a genre in the first place?
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Laura Kipnis
In 2010, when a book I'd written called How to Become a Scandal was going to press, my editor contacted Christopher to ask for a blurb. He sent back three choices, the first of which read, ‘Laura Kipnis promised me a blowjob if I endorsed her latest triumph, which I hereby warmly and devotedly do.’ I'm sure it says nothing good about me that I found this funny, especially since using it would have so perfectly – and devilishly – enacted the premise of the book.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
newsbreak.com | Laura Kipnis
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