About me
Bookshop

Get new posts by email.

About me

The Goop cruise

I thoroughly enjoyed Lauren Oyler’s marvellous long essay in the latest edition of Harper’s, I Really Didn’t Want to Go. It recounts her experience on a Goop cruise, and makes frequent reference to David Foster Wallace’s 1996 Harper’s essay about another cruise with the same line.

The latter essay was familiar in parts, so I think I must have read it at some point—though I can’t imagine it was in Harper’s, and I’m certain it can’t have been in 1996. I’ve never been on a cruise, but they do somehow seem to offer a rich seam of entertaining journalistic essays.

This post was filed under: Post-a-day 2023, , , , .

Recently published posts

Flying Angel / 14 December 2024

Sun on a stick / 13 December 2024

Plane on a stick / 12 December 2024

The artifical intellgience wall / 11 December 2024

Cleadon water tower / 10 December 2024

An opening that closed / 09 December 2024




Random posts from the archive

Apostrophe / 02 November 2024

‘Types of Happiness’ / 17 November 2024

‘Junk food’ to be banned in schools / 28 September 2005

What I’ve been reading this month / 28 August 2020

Photo-a-day 302: Squirrel / 28 October 2012

Photo-a-day 87: Heathrow Terminal 5 / 27 March 2012





The content of this site is copyright protected by a Creative Commons License, with some rights reserved. All trademarks, images and logos remain the property of their respective owners. The accuracy of information on this site is in no way guaranteed. Opinions expressed are solely those of the author. No responsibility can be accepted for any loss or damage caused by reliance on the information provided by this site. Information about cookies and the handling of emails submitted for the 'new posts by email' service can be found in the privacy policy. This site uses affiliate links: if you buy something via a link on this site, I might get a small percentage in commission. Here's hoping.