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sheila heti definitely knows what plot is
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happy pub day to
@maris.bsky.social
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Maris Kreizman Finds Hope in Radicalization - Electric Literature
The author of "I Want to Burn This Place Down" on how it's community—not government—that will save us
https://electricliterature.com/maris-kreizman-finds-hope-in-radicalization/?ref=themarisreview.com
3 months ago
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the harshest words in any review
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hazlitt.net/feature/freq...
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Frequency Illusion | Hazlitt
Love was not a drink, and my pursuit of it did not fit perfectly into the rubric of addiction, but it had taken me.
https://hazlitt.net/feature/frequency-illusion
3 months ago
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there is no one more uninteresting than james frey
4 months ago
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Why the world still hasn't caught up to Edward Said.
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@literaryhub.bsky.social
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Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication
When Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it became an instant landmark of scholarship about the European imagination of “the East.” The construction of an alternate world of pas…
https://lithub.com/hari-kunzru-reflects-on-edward-saids-culture-and-imperialism-thirty-years-after-publication/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01JVTC0P13N0Y6ANBQZSVSZWQH&_kx=Fy6JyBI-Ou41ia3o-grMNp-oNVnuz8f_knHZK7xqrW0.U5D8ER
4 months ago
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I love the real world
add a skeleton here at some point
4 months ago
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a beautiful meditation on the screensaver
www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05...
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Recurring Screens by Nora Claire Miller
May 20, 2025 – On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05/20/recurring-screens/
4 months ago
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excited for
@maris.bsky.social
's book launch!
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Offsite: Maris Kreizman: I Want to Burn This Place Down w/ Emma Straub
“A voice both familiar and full of verve.” —Patricia Lockwood, author of No One is Talking About This
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-maris-kreizman-i-want-to-burn-this-place-down-w-emma-straub-tickets-1357770150069?aff=oddtdtcreator&ref=themarisreview.com
5 months ago
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the NEA literary arts staff's letter in full:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff | The Editors
Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique...
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-message-from-the-neas-literary-arts-staff/
5 months ago
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a cuck who will never know love
5 months ago
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"I order a vanilla almond latte at a coffee cart in Brooklyn and look up at the red foliage of autumn trees. My tax dollars pay for the bombs that rain down on the other side of the world."
@ariamisha.bsky.social
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Aria Aber’s Defiant Love Letter to Berlin - Public Books
“The experiences of coming of age and coming into art—of finding your own voice and a vision for your craft—are spiritual and psychological journeys, and, for lack of a better word, universal.”
https://www.publicbooks.org/aria-abers-defiant-love-letter-to-berlin/?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_id=01JT3F8RQXYHVYKXBR1P9TP4T8&_kx=Fy6JyBI-Ou41ia3o-grMNp-oNVnuz8f_knHZK7xqrW0.U5D8ER
5 months ago
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I can’t wait
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Proud to call myself a qz alum
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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reposted by
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Olivia Hill
6 months ago
The US economy's pronouns are was/were.
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Schumer: awful Schumer's review: transcendent
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Schumer’s Warning | David Klion
What Chuck Schumer has to say about antisemitism is predictable and redundant.
https://thebaffler.com/latest/schumers-warning-klion
6 months ago
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next read:
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's anti-optimization manifesto
www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/25/o...
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Optimizing Doesn't Equal Thriving: Q&A with Alex Higley – ZYZZYVA
It can be disorienting to read a novel as good as True Failure (Coffee House Press; 280 pages) is when its bold title archly gestures toward the opposite
https://www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/25/optimizing-doesnt-equal-thriving-qa-with-alex-higley/
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the rise and fall of the klan a century ago is a beautiful lesson for us now
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What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-02-23-dale/?_bhlid=91e00ff8efc75f234064be8fffada119e3d5ae92
7 months ago
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Corey Brickley Illustration
7 months ago
Stuck on a project? Imagine you are an insane willem dafoe character lost in the reverie of endless toil. Make impulsive and reckless decisions! Hum/sing/mumble incoherently to yourself! Find delight in the minute chaos of repetitive actions! Choose to kill a man for speaking in an ambiguous tone
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the short story that became Normal People
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At the Clinic - The White Review
At the Clinic by Sally Rooney, published in The White Review No. 18. The fictional debut of Marianne and Connell, before they appeared in Normal People.
https://www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-the-clinic/
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the alt lit syllabus
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Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.
https://thepointmag.com/criticism/alt-lit/
8 months ago
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Hari Kunzru
9 months ago
A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...
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gordon lish's ideal state for imaginative writing
8 months ago
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LOL
8 months ago
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"[one] wishes more of our generation would simply just shut up and start literal cults, instead of unimaginatively shoehorning every impulse into a high-growth-potential brand."
@deliacai.bsky.social
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Holding human connection hostage
Unless you upgrade for a premium Friendship subscription!!
https://www.deezlinks.com/p/holding-human-connection-hostage
8 months ago
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cinema!
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...
9 months ago
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Honor ur traditions
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9 months ago
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62 books read this year, here are some of the standouts
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damn this fitness chain going through it
10 months ago
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250 issues of the paris fucking review!
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10 months ago
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the best essay i've read on seeing everything anew
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Defamiliarization and the Unprompted (Not Innocent) Eye
The aim is to revive the concept of defamiliarization by showing that it has nothing to do with the Innocent Eye and to propose a new interpretation of it in terms of distributed attention. This re…
https://nonsite.org/defamiliarization-and-the-unprompted-not-innocent-eye/
10 months ago
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