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On Liking what One Likes: My Samuel Richardson Prize Choice

The Wayback Machine by Daniel Falatko

Adam Fleming Petty
Mar 29, 2026
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Joshua Clover, the poet and critic, once wrote an essay for the Village Voice about the then-new iPod Shuffle. I’m pretty sure it was the Village Voice; Google doesn’t return any hits for that search. Perhaps that’s the result of my faulty memory, or of Google’s once-vaunted search engine getting shot to hell, now that that ChatGPT is eating its lunch.1 …

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