i’ve been listening to the stand w my partner on and off since last thanksgiving. this is my first listen or read of anything by him. there is something genuinely admirable to me about his commitment to never shutting up. his writing makes me think of the phrase every person is a universe… i find it incredible that he resists the cultural impulse to collapse people and their lives. do i need 1000 pages to get the point of the story… not at all. but the 1000 page book is a necessity