An author fails to escape solipsism. But we learn something anyway.
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Modern writers are obsessed with themselves. Or so says Sean Thor Conroe, the author of The Walk Book, published earlier this summer by Little Engines Press. In a June Substack post, he wrote that the memoir “comes very much from this place. Of disgust with the ninniness, the clever righteousness, the insularity of the Institution and the Literary World.” A few sentences later, he described the kind of writing he’s trying to escape as “solipsistic.”
