![]() ![]() If, in the grips of the pandemic, your ability to interpret an exponential graph has increased, well, exponentially, while your patience for narrative has plummeted, try Samantha Irby. Instead of a rule then, a recommendation, for this moment. For every rule I begin to establish, a hundred exceptions mushroom in my mind. Could a book critic ever be so pragmatic? Eschew all books in the second person, avoid all books praised as “well crafted,” any novels blurbed by. ![]() I’ve envied Bourdain for the bluntness of that edict, its usefulness to the reader. It’s been 20 years since Anthony Bourdain published his best-selling memoir “Kitchen Confidential,” with its solemn warning: Never order fish on Mondays. ![]()
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