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LARB Quarterly, no. 42: Gossip, dedicated to talk of all types. Our editors start a group chat on group chats, inviting Daniel Lavery, Summer Kim Lee, Whitney Mallett, Natasha Stagg, Sarah Thankam Mathews, Tal Rosenberg, Sophie Kemp, Hillary Brenhouse, Sophia Stewart, and Jamie Hood. Zoe Mendelson puts a dollar sign and a public spin on the phrase “daddy issues” in an online-only exclusive. Rhian Sasseen swipes right on behalf of a fictional porn addict. Francesca Peacock roots through the archives for a deeper understanding of scandal and speech. Ruth Madievsky closes the gate on her college rumor mill, and Emmeline Clein recounts an “American Icarus story” spelled out in diet pills and rhinestones. David St. John and the late Andi Werblin Reid consider speech acts in their various complexities. Aaron Schuster explores the intersection of Flaubert, language, and ChatGPT. Sanaë Lemoine assembles the fickle pieces of one particularly elusive man’s identity. Jamieson Webster invokes Sigmund Freud and Ambassador William C. Bullit in an attempt to pyschoanalyze political leaders. Elena Megalos scrolls Instagram for images of a relationship that might have been.
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