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The infantilizing of a nation’s literary narratives is intimately connected with the infantilizing of a nation’s political narratives.

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An excerpt from my novel, You Want to Call This Life a Parable, which concerns real rumors of my grandmother's complicity in the murder of my grandfather, & explores whether anything so quixotic as the truth can be excavated from what the world tries to forget. minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...

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Courtesy of Mr. Steve Gergley and the young but indispensable scaffold lit, a painstakingly faithful relation of the life of American poet Edgar Lee Masters in under 400 words—please honor his sacred memory with a visit www.scaffoldlit.com/microwriting...

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The infantilizing of a nation’s literary narratives is intimately connected with the infantilizing of a nation’s political narratives.

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Yeah, I'm a scenester. This is my scene.

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Rebranding as a LinkedIn-pilled, "actually Van Gogh was degenerate," crypto-capitalist culture warrior whose startup, dPort, is all about extending the battery life of your devices and forcibly removing 2.3mm Mexican immigrants from this country.

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The people who care about you rarely care about your writing. Release your friends & family from this obligation. They want to hang; they don’t want to read.

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In this issue, I review Ariel Yelen’s I Was Working, a collection bewildered by the jargon of, blinded by the fluorescent lights of & deracinated by the culture of contemporary urban offices. raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...

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I don’t wait on Godot: Godot waits on me. That’s what it means to be the boss.

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Sgiaiviaesgm really fell off after Teh Drrungen da Binterbig.

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Ads now either whisper verbatim a line from the dream I had last night or else scream at me to buy a product I'm physically allergic to.

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We meet at a bar on Ave A twice a month.

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Doesn’t it seem like Trump should have nominated Chuck Norris to something by now?

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The underclass won’t be robots, à la Blade Runner: it will be people who only consume content generated by robots.

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Making love to my wife actually doesn’t help anyone build consumer tech companies. A society which emphasizes me making love to my wife tonight just ends up encouraging me to make love to my wife tonight, where that time could have been spent building Facebook for dogs who are racist.

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Young people, are you concerned about how to allocate your leisure time in light of the imminent banning of popular social media app, TikTok? I may seem nothing more to you than an old fuddy duddy, but allow me a moment to propone an attractive option. Robert Musil's The Man Withou

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AI-assisted predictive text is terrible, but also, I think it's trying to tell me something. It corrects “yesterday” to “yes trauma.” It corrects “we need more chairs” to “we need more chaos.”

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Spotify Wrapped nahh I’m about that Spotify Raw lololol no but seriously my mom doesn’t let me listen to music so

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To take your own writing seriously when no one else does can be the most difficult part of the practice.

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Watchword of the new novel is do it like a dream.

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I think the desire to write a well-executed novel in a familiar style is motivated by completely different impulses than what moves a person to attempt to write something strange and new. They aren’t even remotely similar activities.

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Working on a trend piece about being super bummed all the time

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How novelists treat rural settings by region - The Midwest: a good place for a Christian to get some woodworking done New England: fine country for an assistant professor to finally have that affair The South: literal, fucking hell

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First draft bargaining: I want to make something beautiful & true, but I'll settle for, just, finished.

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Every day somebody tweets “I wrote about Pessoa, post-memory and the cultural legacy of Yugoslavian brutalism for Nodding Fart,” and I’m like, maaaan, your piece sounds great, but I am unfamiliar with that publication.

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Every day somebody tweets “I wrote about Pessoa, post-memory and the cultural legacy of Yugoslavian brutalism for Nodding Fart,” and I’m like, maaaan, your piece sounds great, but I am unfamiliar with that publication.

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The human heart

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Editor: Why this work? Why now? Me: Because I wrote it. Yesterday.

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The interviewer absolutely blindsiding the poet: Some have described your work as serious. Even difficult.

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Thought I would enjoy talking about something I love for a living but failed to consider that I would be talking about it to people who don’t love it.

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Gf is tearing up at the Pilsbury commercial bc the grandson is thankful for the grandma & I’m tearing up at the Folgers commercial bc the world won’t let the brother and sister be together.

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Too many plaque psoriasis medication commercials. Replaced my TV with a wall-mounted illuminated manuscript.

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Which key do you live in?

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I'm one of those kids whose mom smacked the left-handedness out of him, and I've been thinking about making it my whole personality.

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Spend all morning in the new manuscript in progress, then show up to work where nothing is magical or infinite.

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Keurig is 2% more efficient for the end user, tastes like dandruff & generates an absurd amount of waste. It is emblematic of the contemporary corporate MO.

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Friedrich Nietzsche and Albert Einstein advising FDR over tea at the Malta Conference (February 2, 1945)

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Dear humans, Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤 www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

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Finally made it to Storm King.

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Over eggs at the b&b where we’re staying in Hudson Valley, my bisexual gf & I just spoke with a lesbian couple about grant funding for health services for HIV-positive undocumented migrants. This is exactly the setting & conversation Trump supporters imagine when they fume about Liberals.