Tag: molly mcghee

  • Molly McGhee continues to say very smart things

    Molly McGhee continues to say very smart things

    This piece on Scott Neumyer’s Substack is terrific. He talks anxiety with Molly McGhee, author of Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind: How reductionist is it for us to say ‘my anxiety is bad today’ when what we mean is: the world is burning, the forests are eroding, our schoolchildren are being slaughtered by grown men,…

  • Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

    Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind by Molly McGhee

    McGhee first hit my radar with this piece in the Guardian on class and debt. The PR machine for this book zeroed in on me and for a few weeks it seemed like McGhee was everywhere on the internet. I was worried that this would be another debut by an MFA that didn’t live up to the…

  • Yes, I am yet another MFA Bro who loves David Foster Wallace.

    Molly McGhee in LitHub talking about ‘dick lit’, including Wallace, Vonnegut, and Zadie Smith (trust me, it works): In these two years guns were held in my face, hands were wrapped around my throat, and two separate men broke the windows of my house in an attempt get in: one of them to see my…