NOTES ON A POSTCARD FROM THE OTHER AMERICA: “Is this how the people in the American literary and academic establishment see the rest of us? Or, to be more precise: Even if they don’t share Kate Zambreno’s extreme opinion, are they the kind of people who think that this construal of America as a Boschian hellscape filled with ogres who gorge themselves at The Golden Corral and then gape sweetly at pregnant strangers — do they think this is normal? That it has anything to do with the country as it is? I think the answer is yes. Which explains the Fukishima-level meltdown they’ve had in the face of the Trump tsunami.”

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