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Originally Posted by jadis
During my two years in NYC that was the writer all the cool girls (and their gays) liked. She's great!
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She was constantly scoping the terrain; mental, physical and certainly the sociological. It gave her broad appeal. The Netflix doc is lopsided and ill conceived, imo. Of course she was weird. The personal lives of these mostly solitary types are rarely intriguing so the nature of your inquiry is important. Unless you’ve got a highly social figure like Sontag or Baldwin whose relationships with a wide array of people can contribute to whatever framework you’re constructing there’s the constant danger of a myopic view - and a deadly dull experience. People keep attempting them and unless their aim is something above and beyond recounting the life of the writer, boy are they tough to sit through!
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