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Kyle Chayka

Staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Filterworld and The Longing for Less; writes the newsletter Kyle Chayka Industries.

3 books on the record · 4 Nov 2023 – 4 Nov 2023 · @chaykak

The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

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Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Bryan Washington's novel Family Meal: Bryan is the great millennial fiction writer of food, among many other talents. His descriptions of cooking and meals are fantastically rich, as much for the food itself as for the social and emotional exchange involved.

on kylechayka.substack.com · 4 Nov 2023

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Stay True by Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu's memoir Stay True: This book is now out in paperback, and you probably don't need me recommending it (it won a Pulitzer), but it is fantastic.

on kylechayka.substack.com · 4 Nov 2023

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The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

Sigrid Nunez's novel The Vulnerables: Nunez's most famous novel, The Friend, was what you get when you take autofiction from a well-established NYC writer and add a big, friendly dog.

on kylechayka.substack.com · 4 Nov 2023

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.