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Back in May, the former Gawker maestro Choire Sicha declared war on young male novelists in the New York Observer, asking, "Why can't men write anymore?" Chiding Hemingway's descendants for being "scruffy, feelings-talking boys," Sicha theorized: The American desire for fucking has become, locally, the Brooklyn-based or -bound desire for a book deal and a brownstone.
He says he's "ruined everything" for himself and you sort of believe him, because, well, of course he fucking has.
Maybe it's just a matter of time before this hypothetical person leaps up, busts heads, and restores order to this goddamn mess, because somebody fucking has to. .
Even the hysteria over whether or not Canadian ice dance champions Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are fucking has mostly skipped over my head.
However, 1993 is a decade ago; Sarah Kane's Blasted was first performed in 1994, and even Ravenhill's Shopping and Fucking has passed its seventh birthday.
In the past, a single use of "Shopping and Fucking" has been permitted in Radio 3 and Radio 4 discussions of Ravenhill's work, and the same accommodation may be made for Adly Guirgis and Ronder.
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I fucking haven't and until I do, it's Torah!
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