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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · 19h
An old column about my gambling addiction from which I've finally recovered after years of intensive therapy. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
MY BOOK PRIZE BETTING ADDICTION
In anticipation of tomorrow's Nobel Prize in Literature
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Thomaz Amancio @thomazamancio.bsky.social · 7d
Lorentzen on the new Pynchon is pretty good:

www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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somanybooks24.bsky.social @somanybooks24.bsky.social · 7d
“Along with Don DeLillo, he survives as one of the granddaddies of the paranoid systems novel, and we are unlikely to read many or any more new novels from the pair.”
In @bookforum.bsky.social‬‬, Christian Lorentzen reviews Thomas Pynchon’s new novel “Shadow Ticket” www.bookforum.com/print/3202/i...
If the Gumshoe Fits
The Thomas Pynchon experience – Christian Lorentzen
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · 9d
Wrote on the Anderson picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/stoned-bus...
STONED BUSTER KEATON, DOMESTICATED PYNCHON, AND THE PERMANENT HOLLYWOOD (NON-)REVOLUTION
On Paul Thomas Anderson’s ‘One Battle after Another’
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Sep 4
Went to the Oasis show, wrote a sentence about it. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/liam-none-...
‘LIAM, NONE OF THESE AMERICAN CUNTS KNOW WHO YOU ARE!’
Reflections on seeing Oasis Live ’25 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey
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Robert Sullivan @robtsullivan.bsky.social · Jul 16
On the end of Oranginas and the perpetuation of auras! Spoiler alert: yes can be smarter than no!
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
A Juicy Chronicle of the Fat Decades at Condé Nast
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jul 15
we will miss glossy magazines when they’re all gone
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
A Juicy Chronicle of the Fat Decades at Condé Nast
www.nytimes.com
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Special offer within. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/the-glossy...
THE GLOSSY AGE
On a history of Conde Nast
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jul 15
Wrote a book review. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/b...
A Juicy Chronicle of the Fat Decades at Condé Nast
www.nytimes.com
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 30
Wrote about the GOAT debate. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/who-is-the...
WHO IS THE GOAT OF AMERICAN FICTION?
With apologies to the two other members of my NBA/literature group chat, to the players selected last week in the NBA draft, to Stephen A. Smith, and to my dearly departed high school English teachers
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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 28
Once more for the weekend crowd.
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Andrew Marzoni @andrewmarzoni.bsky.social · Jun 24
For @thenation.com, I wrote about J. Hoberman’s New York. www.thenation.com/article/cult...
J. Hoberman’s Lost New York
In Everything Is Now, the veteran film critic looks back at the downtown art scene of the 1960s.
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 26
Thank you for informing us that we have finally achieved a classic-noir-level murder rate. I expect the genre now to enter a new golden age.
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The Paris Review @parisreview.bsky.social · Jun 25
“I have some new poems, a rash, and a lover. I’ll send them (the poems that is) to you in a couple of days.”

Letters from Jack Spicer. buff.ly/3XRcS00
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 25
I reviewed 'Megalopolis'. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
ELEGY FOR A NUCLEAR PROGRAM WITHOUT A BOMB
& a baptism of fire in New York City
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 25
Every book review should also have this---the author coming in and saying 'This reviewer knows nothing of my work' after every pan or paean.
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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · Jun 25
In a note to staff this morning shared with me, Washington Post editor Matt Murray announces that the paper will begin testing out a new feature called "from the source," which will invite sources named in articles to comment on those articles after they've been published
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Zoe Guttenplan @zoeguttenplan.bsky.social · Jun 24
I wrote about the Microsoft Word default font you didn't know you were using
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 24
Wrote on some letters from David Foster Wallace to Sven Birkerts that are up for sale. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/i-am-not-a...
‘I AM NOT A PARTICULARLY SMART OR IMAGINATIVE MAN, BUT . . . ’
Letters from David Foster Wallace go up for sale
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 17
Surf's up. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
BRIAN WILSON & THE QUESTION OF GENIUS
At the conjuncture of rockism & poptimism
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DAAAAAAA Yankees Lose! @gordondouglas.bsky.social · Jun 14
Christian Lorentzen with a drive by shooting on the stakes of New York City's mayoral race.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Jun 14
‘Fear-mongering is particularly disgusting when crime has been declining for three decades and much of Manhattan is now indistinguishable from Disneyland.’

Christian Lorentzen on Andrew Cuomo’s bid to be New York Mayor, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Christian Lorentzen · Mayor of New York
Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way...
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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · Jun 14
"Fear-mongering about crime and filthy crackheads is particularly disgusting when crime has been declining for three decades and much of Manhattan is now indistinguishable from Disneyland." @xlo.bsky.social
Christian Lorentzen · Mayor of New York
Crossroads, watershed, turning or tipping point, whatever cliché falls just this side of revolution: that’s the way...
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 12
Reading tomorrow in London. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
LONDON READING
See you in Walthamstow tomorrow night
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · Jun 12
Wrote on Robson. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/freelance-...
FREELANCE EMOTIONAL DETECTIVES & PRISONERS OF HISTORY
On Leo Robson’s ‘The Boys’, other boys, and some girls (or men and women)
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · May 28
I reviewed the new Wes Anderson picture. christianlorentzen.substack.com/p/arrested-r...
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CHRISTIAN LORENTZEN @xlo.bsky.social · May 27
When Terry Southern adapted John Barth. open.substack.com/pub/christia...
PLAYING CHICKEN
When Terry Southern adapted John Barth
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