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This Babushka Has Talons (nplusonemag.com)
36 points by lermontov on Jan 9, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Nell Zink is a brilliant, totally idiosyncratic writer. Her novel The Wallcreeper has a car crash and miscarriage in the first sentence. This piece is ostensibly about Robert Walser and Dostoevsky, but it's really an unfiltered monologue where she badmouths other Walser translators/critics, and mentions how the piece was rejected by another publication!


Quite possibly the single most poignant simile involving a dachshund in known literature.




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