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Autumnal non-substack roundup of my work
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Hugh Foley

August 2024

Real Demons
On Rachel Cusk and reality
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Hugh Foley

July 2024

The Boing in Ongoingness
On Oli Hazzard's Sleepers Awake, the progress of poetry and the march of time
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Hugh Foley

June 2024

Surplus Culture
on literary festivals, living wrong life, and the aesthetics of biting the hand that feeds you.
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Hugh Foley

March 2024

December 2023

“The desire to become one’s destroyer”
On Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s The Most Secret Memory of Men, and the not-so great tradition of literary failure.
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Hugh Foley

October 2023

Necessary Friendship
on Joseph Minden's Backlogues
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Hugh Foley

June 2023

Chat GPT in the 19th Century
Or, How George Gissing predicted the AI revolution
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Hugh Foley

April 2023

"Motherfucking Spanish Language"
On Alejandro Zambra’s Chilean Poet, Chilean poets, and the Bolaño business
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Hugh Foley

March 2023

Afterwards
A plug disguised as a commentary
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Hugh Foley
What is the Meaning of Realism?
On Timothy Bewes' Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age; the nature of reality; and Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower
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Hugh Foley

February 2023

Two Cheers for Woo Woo
On Will Alexander, sort of, and the irrational element in poetry.
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Hugh Foley
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