Starting a sentence with “So…” needs a reason, as does over-explaining one’s little neologism (kinda borrowed from Seinfeld too). “So he had come upon this marginal perspective sidlingly, as it were, from a sideways direction, participating in its disenfranchisements, in its mute and broken identity, with the difference that he had succeeded in giving it a voice.” What the holy hell is this, people? Hard to even know where to start with this train wreck. I hope you’re all starting what will be a great week! Please feel free to leave your thoughts below. His wife believed that with this development he had inadvertently expressed something disturbing about the female condition, and wondered if it might have repercussions in terms of his success, but the critical response to the upside-down paintings was enthusiastic, and D was showered with a fresh round of the awards and honors that people seemed disposed to offer him, almost no matter what he did. At first sight the paintings looked as though they had been hung the wrong way round by mistake, but then the signature emblazoned in the bottom right-hand corner clearly heralded the advent of a new reality. It might not have been exactly what the organizers expected, from the sounds of it! But that’s why we love what Cusk is doing.Īt a certain point in his career, the artist D, perhaps because he could find no other way to make sense of his time and place in history, began to paint upside down. It was a lecture Cusk delivered in Italy in December.

This story, “The Stuntman,” has an interesting origin. That’s not quite right: it has been a literary sensation. This week we get a new story by Rachel Cusk, whose Outline Trilogy ( Outline (2014), Transit (2017), and Kudos (2018)) has been very well received.

Kudos by Rachel Cusk