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fromThe New Yorker
1 week ago

Alexandra Schwartz on Joan Acocella's "The Frog and the Crocodile"

Acocella's essay deals with the improbable five-year affair between the Left Bank philosopher Simone de Beauvoir and the tough-guy Chicago writer Nelson Algren-its title comes from their pet names for each other-and was occasioned by the posthumous publication of Beauvoir's love letters. Acocella begins with a block quote from one of the letters, a rarely attempted flex that may be the critic's equivalent of opening a song with the bridge.
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fromApaonline
3 weeks ago

STAMPS, SEX AND SECOND SEX

Simone de Beauvoir's letters to Nelson Algren reveal an emotionally layered, linguistically adventurous private self that shaped the premises of The Second Sex.
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