You’re on that old kick again, rereading Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage to refresh and resplendorize the senses, but why not go back to the source? It’s never wrong to read Dyer’s Thomas Bernhard (and, after all, your Bernhard). It’s never bad to sit at Good Karma Café, in Philadelphia, at a little metal table out front, with Bernhard’s novella Walking, reading ›I ask myself, says Oehler, how can so much helplessness and so much misfortune and so much misery be possible?‹

Caren Beilin: »On Thomas Bernhard and Girls Online«, in: The Paris Review, 15. April 2022.