A.V. Marraccini
@saintsoftness.bsky.social
essayist + critic + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES (https://sublunaryeditions.com/products/we-the-parasites) ⎔ Critic in Residence at IDM-NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES coming in 2028 from Seven Stories Press
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The pencil cup situation:
January 22, 2026 at 2:05 PM
The pencil cup situation:
Current laptop sticker situation. This is a 2021 M1 Mac and I fear for its life this year, so I’m going to need may sticker recommendations in advance because I cannot abide a naked laptop…
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Current laptop sticker situation. This is a 2021 M1 Mac and I fear for its life this year, so I’m going to need may sticker recommendations in advance because I cannot abide a naked laptop…
Started the new section about Tokyo today, felt like a rush and a relief at the same time:
January 19, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Started the new section about Tokyo today, felt like a rush and a relief at the same time:
Looking for Mr Tumnus in Prospect Park this morning…
January 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Looking for Mr Tumnus in Prospect Park this morning…
So brand new and crispy they make me wince a little. Trying to break them in before class Tuesday but sooo tempted just to dance in the comfy dead ones.
January 18, 2026 at 5:20 AM
So brand new and crispy they make me wince a little. Trying to break them in before class Tuesday but sooo tempted just to dance in the comfy dead ones.
Current reading:
January 17, 2026 at 3:53 AM
Current reading:
This week’s TLS cover is a cloud study!
January 17, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This week’s TLS cover is a cloud study!
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A new Substack Piece-- Coffeecore: Tokyo Drifting-- In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes. substack.com/@avmarraccin...
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In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A new Substack Piece-- Coffeecore: Tokyo Drifting-- In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes. substack.com/@avmarraccin...
Daruma for finishing the second book, transported from Senso-ji’s marketplace in Asakusa, now at home in Brooklyn:
January 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Daruma for finishing the second book, transported from Senso-ji’s marketplace in Asakusa, now at home in Brooklyn:
A new Substack Piece-- Coffeecore: Tokyo Drifting-- In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes. substack.com/@avmarraccin...
A.V. Marraccini (@avmarraccini)
In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:34 AM
A new Substack Piece-- Coffeecore: Tokyo Drifting-- In which I return to Coffeecore, an imagined Tokyo of the pandemic years, and drift into the now, marking time, in a world of sensibility and lattes. substack.com/@avmarraccin...
Airplane thought: I am done calling what I do braided essay. It’s a woven essay. It’s a whole damn tapestry like at Gobelins with a gridded cartoon in the background from a little Leuchtturm notebook that lacks Rubens’ putti but has hundreds of shuttle threads. Tapestry essay.
January 15, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Airplane thought: I am done calling what I do braided essay. It’s a woven essay. It’s a whole damn tapestry like at Gobelins with a gridded cartoon in the background from a little Leuchtturm notebook that lacks Rubens’ putti but has hundreds of shuttle threads. Tapestry essay.
Ten writing prompts instead of these if I were In Charge: substack.com/@avmarraccin...
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Ten writing prompts if I was In Charge:
1- Write the dictionary entry for a specific term in the language of the crows, including an etymology and use cases
2- Make a Metabolist architecture but in...
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January 15, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Ten writing prompts instead of these if I were In Charge: substack.com/@avmarraccin...
One last beautiful third wave ice latte in Coffeecore Tokyo before my flight later today:
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
One last beautiful third wave ice latte in Coffeecore Tokyo before my flight later today:
More on the only Fragonard in Tokyo here: substack.com/@avmarraccin...
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It’s just me and the only Fragonard in Tokyo, deep in the steel-concrete heart of a 1955 Le Corbusier elongated cuboid. This is for my next book, These New Fragilities, so no more abour this on Substa...
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January 14, 2026 at 4:23 AM
More on the only Fragonard in Tokyo here: substack.com/@avmarraccin...
Guess that postwar Japanese building and its architect (you KNOW him)!
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Guess that postwar Japanese building and its architect (you KNOW him)!
Highlights in details from the National Museum of Western Art on my last full day in Tokyo!
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 AM
Highlights in details from the National Museum of Western Art on my last full day in Tokyo!
It took me an hour of getting lost in Ueno station to find these gluten free churros but WORTH IT. Mochi churros! The first churros I’ve had since I was 12!!!
January 14, 2026 at 2:55 AM
It took me an hour of getting lost in Ueno station to find these gluten free churros but WORTH IT. Mochi churros! The first churros I’ve had since I was 12!!!
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A Birthday Letter from Tokyo— On Isozaki, Tange, Kurokawa, lateness, this past year, cloud studies, glasses, Auden, book progress, fixed and unfixed stars, and other musings. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-birthday...
January 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
A Birthday Letter from Tokyo— On Isozaki, Tange, Kurokawa, lateness, this past year, cloud studies, glasses, Auden, book progress, fixed and unfixed stars, and other musings. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-birthday...
Another Harajuku detail assortment:
January 13, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Another Harajuku detail assortment:
Gluten Free Soufflé Pancakes are so rare and so delicious I had to go back 🤍🥞
January 13, 2026 at 3:34 AM
Gluten Free Soufflé Pancakes are so rare and so delicious I had to go back 🤍🥞
Aoyama to Harajuku walk details:
January 13, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Aoyama to Harajuku walk details:
Kengo Kuma pineapple cake shop morning! We love hinoki shomei joints without nails!!!!
January 13, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Kengo Kuma pineapple cake shop morning! We love hinoki shomei joints without nails!!!!
Incidental Agnes Denes happening on a back street in Aoyama:
January 13, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Incidental Agnes Denes happening on a back street in Aoyama:
A Birthday Letter from Tokyo— On Isozaki, Tange, Kurokawa, lateness, this past year, cloud studies, glasses, Auden, book progress, fixed and unfixed stars, and other musings. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-birthday...
January 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
A Birthday Letter from Tokyo— On Isozaki, Tange, Kurokawa, lateness, this past year, cloud studies, glasses, Auden, book progress, fixed and unfixed stars, and other musings. avmarraccini.substack.com/p/a-birthday...