editor & writer | context architect
Joined November 2008
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how did we go from dreaming of fully-automated luxury gay space communism to manual-labor poverty queer dilapidated-earth communism?
Loved this. “Relentless exposure is not sexy anymore, but depth is.”
"The opposite of brain rot might be intellectual curiosity."
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“The solitude of the study holds in suspension the spirit and the system: on one hand it encapsulates the sum of one’s aspirations and dreams and delusions; on the other, it embodies the aggregate of material conditions that makes the life of the mind possible.” – Hui, The Study
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personally my faves of the year include Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, Enard’s Zone, Heti’s Alphabetical Diaries, and Straube’s Kiss of the Basilisk — each doing something unique (unhinged) in its category
Shockingly, when you read more than one book a year, you have plenty of room in your reading list to enjoy both trashy romance novels AND quality pieces of literature. It’s called having range!
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using “you’re absolutely right” in casual speech
you: slopbrained, cogsec-compromised, unserious
me: clever, considered, enlightened
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Ryan retweeted
Seeing a lot of deeply condescending “content” recently that’s like “Flannery O’Connor is Dostoyevsky for girls!”
But what if Dostoyevsky is also Dostoyevsky for girls and O’Connor is also O’Connor for boys? What if we all grew up a little bit?
the people yearn for PostSecret
Why strangers are swapping secrets at this underground L.A. supper club latimes.com/lifestyle/story/…
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hobbies include buying 10x more books than my current shelves can hold and building a future where they can be together
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I love going to @ChevaliersBooks and absolutely cleaning up: De Kerangal’s Canoes, Agualusa’s The Living and the Rest, Baltasar’s Permafrost, Debré’s Offenses, Elsby’s Violent Faculties, Cabezón Cámara’s We Are Green and Trembling
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we took the metro, we shared a taxi, we walked and made a series of small stops for fries water bathroom on the way, or we simply walked, in the administrative assistant-appropriate clubwear of our era
gen z is on tik tok asking millennials how we got home from a night out if we didn’t have uber lmao i don’t even remember omg
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new arrivals from @GalleyBeggars yes I did order the UK editions for the more visually appealing and dare I say quieter spines
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Ryan retweeted
most responses to the criticisms voiced in this article seem to be hostile because they think they're women voicing an innate resentment of young boys but that's a misreading imo, what they're really saying is that Hatchet doesn't encourage any intellectual growth by design
Julie of the Wolves, Island of the Blue Dolphins, even The Keeper of the Isis Light also contain didactic recountings of bushcraft just saying
The first novel I ever loved was the survival classic Hatchet, but recently I’ve learned that a *lot* of women despise this book, and see it is as something they were forced to read in school to entice the idiot illiterate boys in their English class. I dove into that tension!
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