@ryan_ridge

Writer @sarabandebooks, @UofMPress, etc. | Kentucky Colonel | Honorary Steamboat Captain | Bassman: Snarlin’ Yarns | Ops: moi.

 SLC, UT ⛰️ via KY 🏇
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Joined September 2009
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Drops today! Link in bio.
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the founding fAIthers
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Online AI detector says Declaration of Independence is 93.2% written by AI.
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David Leo Rice@raviddice6h
has anyone connected You Can See Everything to Jeff Koons? Both are all about making tons of money off of satirizing the gross commercialization of their own art forms and seeming super-cool while doing so -- good work if you can get it
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The state of literature? Wyoming, maybe Delaware.
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Suttree is Mccarthy's best.
Aaron Gwyn
@AmericanGwynOct 26
Best Use of Stream of Consciousness in Fiction Over the Past Fifty Years: 1. SUTTREE, McCarthy 2. TREE OF SMOKE, Denis Johnson 3. SEVERANCE, Robert Olen Butler 4. WOLF HALL, Mantel 5. BELOVED, Toni Morrison 6. HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE, James Kelman 7. MILKMAN, Anna Burns
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Swing and a miss…
Joyce Carol Oates
@JoyceCarolOatesOct 23
yes, it's interesting: the more you read of experimental literature, the less emotionally engaged you are; reading the Naturalists, with their (somewhat) plodding monochromatic prose, you can see that this is "real life" in its aching banality as, for all its stylistic bravado, novels like "Lolita" & "Pale Fire" are performative & dazzling.
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Style is everything.
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I’ve written before about Wendell Berry’s publishing deals, which haven’t aligned with his values for quite a while. Catapult’s decision to dissolve rather than deal with unionized employees may create a window for something worthier. We'll see. johnbyronkuhner.substack.com…
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Replying to @gariellelutz
@gariellelutz is the greatest. No contest. Oddly, Elroy might be runner up.
El Norte Recuerda@VanessidOct 19
Who are the great living prose stylists? Let’s say we’ve already named Sally Rooney and Jesmyn Ward. Recent prize winners/nominees like Anne Carson, Marlon James, Daniel Kraus, David Szalay—okay, accounted for. I mean the fuckin stylists. Weird-ass sentence technicians. Who?
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*Ellroy
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J S KHAN@Jigsaw_SongbirdOct 9
Since we can assume all that's published & accessible in public records will be fed into & misappropriated by AI, why not promote a new esoteric literature shared only among an elect sect, w/ access protected by extreme safeguards, preserved in non-digital writing or only memory?
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Fixed it: "The Fountainhead is so dense..."
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
@daniel_dsj2110Oct 5
"The Fountainhead “is so dense and complex,” marvels Brad Pitt, “it would have to be a six-hour movie.” (The 1949 film version already has a running time of two hours.) Christina Ricci claims that The Fountainhead is her favorite book because it taught her that “you're not a bad person if you don't love everyone.” Rob Lowe boasts that Atlas Shrugged is “a stupendous achievement, and I just adore it.” And any boyfriend of Eva Mendes, the actress says, “has to be an Ayn Rand fan.”" thenation.com/article/archiv…

Garbage and Gravitas

Ayn Rand was a melodramatist of the moral life: The battle is between the producer and the moochers, and it must end in life or death.

thenation.com
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Tom Morello
@tmorello7 Mar 2010
Is Nickleback overrated? What a question. Haha. They actually dropped some pretty heavy riffs at the Olympics! Neil Young took gold though.
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Before he took the stage, he lifted weights for half an hour so he could belt this one at what he called “peak blood level.”
Bernie Thoma@BernardThoma_Oct 1
happy 37 year anniversary to this insanity
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hgongaware@hgongawareOct 2
Replying to @ryan_ridge
If the United States were a horse, we'd have to put it down.
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Artifact from a Post Literate Society
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Also: Matt Bell’s ‘Refuse to be Done,’ Flannery O’Connor’s, ‘Mystery and Manners,’ Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘Steering the Craft,’ and Ben Percy’s ‘Thrill Me.’ All solid.
Rory McCarthy@roryisconfusedSep 27
There’s Charles Baxter’s ‘Burning Down the House’ and James Wood’s ‘How Fiction Works’, and maybe some parts of Lydia Davis’s ‘Essays 1’, but after that creative writing books really don’t have much value at all
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don't really care about the nobel, but i've been spiritually rooting for @gariellelutz every year since she showed up in the official odds.
Andrei@TheUntranslatedSep 27
Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 Predictions Reply with just one prediction. When the prize is awarded, we'll see who was right.
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The only thing REM ever did out of pocket was write Shiny Happy People. Everything else: unimpeachable. Legendary band forever.
Rosie's Yemen Mocha@DarnelSugarfooSep 23
REM is a band who was one of the biggest acts on earth at one point, but now has zero cultural footprint.
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Oh, he’s still angry. Dude is absolutely livid about those hack writers and their—pardon my French—cliches.
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SwR@SouthwestReviewSep 20
"She is sui generis, one of our greatest living novelists." 📌ICYMI, an interview w/ Nancy Lemann from our summer issue southwestreview.com/volume-1…

Parade of Eccentrics | An Interview with Nancy Lemann

By Jimmy Cajoleas

southwestreview.com
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KerryHowley@KerryHowleySep 16
RIP Annie.
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