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Gemma Sieff

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“Do You Think This Conversation Is Going Well?” and Other Pickup Lines

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By Gemma Sieff
| The Paris Review Verified
By Gemma Sieff September 25, 2026 Guests at the Readme launch party. Photographs by Matt Weinberger. Dreams can come true, and in dreams begin responsibilities. On a Thursday in September, I embarked on an evening of the sort of arduous New York City fun I used to fantasize about as a suburban seventeen-year-old in the year 2000; if I were so lucky as to one day make it here as opposed to anywhere, I’d be breaststroking in a riptide of scene and culture.
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Ben Lerner’s Transcription and the Fictional Readymade

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By Gemma Sieff
| Artforum Verified
The writer's fourth novel is a work of art for a new age of mechanical reproduction Cover of Ben Lerner'sTranscription (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026). SOMETIME AFTER the summer of 2023 and before the summer of 2024, a forty-four- or forty-five-year-old poet, novelist, and MacArthur genius named Ben Lerner traveled to Providence to interlocute an eighty-eight-year-old poet and translator named Rosmarie Waldrop.
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Talking About Love in the Afternoon, Morning, Evening and Night

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By Gemma Sieff
| The New York Times Verified
fiction Reading Claude Anet’s provocative 1920 novel “Ariane: A Russian Girl,” the reader may yearn for a little less conversation. While Billy Wilder’s 1957 film adaptation portrays Ariane (played by Audrey Hepburn) as a doe-eyed ingénue, Claude Anet’s original character is considerably more enigmatic. Credit...Allied Artists/Getty Images Aug. 1, 2023, 5:00 a.m. ET ARIANE: A Russian Girl, by Claude Anet. Translated by Mitchell Abidor.
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