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jeremybassetti.com
Writer/photographer/professor of humanities. Currently working on a book proposal about mountains and ideas. Human. Links: jeremybassetti.com/link-in-bio
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Today is my son’s first birthday and — holy shit — what a wonderful year it has been!

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Together with Amerikahaus München and Elisabeth Schwarzhaupt Stiftung, the RCC is inviting you to join the #booktalk on "We Are Volcanoes" with author Charlotte Kerner. Please register here: www.amerikahaus.de/ausstellunge... #rccevents #weltfrauentag #rachelcarson #lynnmargulis #donnaharaway

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Gulf of America. Everest. McKinley. Harney…

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A brief review of philosopher Byung-Chul Han's "The Disappearance of Rituals" -- jeremybassetti.com/fieldnotes/2...

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For those of us who code our own websites using Hugo, here is an implementation for the comments on a thread on Bluesky to appear in the thread’s linked post on your site. It’s like the comment section of your site is powered by Bluesky. Neat.

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Buckle up...

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When a mountain is a goddess. Ruth Gamble provides perhaps the definitive statement on the spiritual geography and ontological pluriverse of #Everest #Chomolungma #OtherEverests CHAPTER 1 - The immovable goddess: The long life of Miyo Lang Sangma. www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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My interview with Pico Iyer about his new book "Aflame" is out now. Listen in your favorite podcast app or by following the link below: www.artifactinternational.com/pico-iyer-on...

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My next book, LIFELINES, will be published this spring, so I thought I'd put together a short post about it. It's a story, in part, about a place where three countries meet around two ancient lakes. And where pelicans, people, borders and bears share the watershed. julian-hoffman.com/2025/01/10/l...

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A review of Dawn Hollis's new book "Mountains Before Mountaineering." jeremybassetti.com/axis-mundi/2...

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In 2025, I’m thinking of breaking free from the endless online news cycle with a good old-fashioned magazine subscription. The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and The Economist are on my shortlist. What do you think? Any others I should consider?

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Happy New Year, everyone! What are your creative New Year’s resolutions?

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Even a grocery store in the middle of nowhere France feels like a culinary paradise compared to Orlando’s aisles of disappointment.

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I try to protect my inbox, but keeping junk at bay is tough even for me. Stepping away from email for a few weeks makes you realize how much junk piles up—and sets the stage for a satisfying batch unsubscribe session.

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YouTube’s opt-in policy regarding training AI on user content should be the standard.

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Damn. I was feeling good after doing a hand edit of my book proposal’s introduction. But now, as I edit a sample chapter, I’m feeling like it is all shit. GO AWAY THIS FEELING!

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Who had Romania being the defender of democracy on their 2024 bingo card?

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Almost done with the semester. Got two batches of papers to grade before submitting final grades to the school. Some administrative stuff to do too. Tomorrow will be hell, but at least my out-of-office email will kick in for almost a month of holiday bliss.

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I wrote about the metaphor of dieting when it comes to media consumption in the latest Genius Loci newsletter, which you can read here: https://jeremybassetti.com/genius-loci/2024/12/

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I woke up on January 1, 2023 with a hangover. That morning I decided I wouldn’t drink for a year. I still haven’t had a drink. This coming January will be two years of the experiment. I’m not sure if I will continue the experiment another year…

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I’m going to slide a massive turkey into the oven real soon…

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I just finished the first round of edits on my proposal’s introduction. Always write the introduction last, they say. But this draft serves as a sort of manifesto, a spiritual guidebook for the work ahead. BTW, I am keeping a log of my book’s progress here: https://jeremybassetti.com/creators-log/

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Looking forward to diving into “Mountains Before Mountaineering” by Dawn Hollis.

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For those of you new to Bluesky and who have personal websites, you might want to consider changing your handle to verify your own domains. I’m not sure this really does anything except authenticate the owner of your social media account as the owner of the website. Your domain becomes your handle.

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Solid morning making edits on one of my book proposal’s sample chapters; solid afternoon grading. Now for… domestic chores.

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