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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 14h

Ah damn— and they probably already decided on the Nobel Peace Prize winner. Maybe they can J6 whichever Nordic country hands that one out?

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 22h

You don't go down to where Terry Moran works!

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 22h

I'm reading Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, and maybe secretly a poet!

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 23h

"And do it in a lawful manner."

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 1d

I mostly love the folks that are like "No no, just ignored Trump— he just talks!" Yeah, well, at some point, he seems to stop talking and start doing.

Pay no attention to the giant head on the wall with the smoke and explosions!

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 1d

Been thinking a lot lately about Hofstadter and "living the life of the mind." For
its many faults, academic life remains open this way...for the moment.

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

I don't come down to where you work, @yalereview.bsky.social

yalereview.org/article/cros...

Sloane Crosley: “How Sober Should a Writer Be?”

Sloane Crosley on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s On Booze and the state of American drinking culture.

yalereview.org

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

Are modern English students attracted to cw because it scratched the neoliberal itch to learn skills directly translatable to jobs? 🤔

Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

The ad came on during something this weekend and I just sighed really loudly. What kind of story do you tell while these people are still alive anyways? Lookin' at you, A Complete Unknown.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like they shouldn't have to recruit if it's so perfect and moral and righteous. 🤔

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 2d

Teaching Blythe & Sweet. Thought I'd see what I had already written on them. For: @nicksturm.bsky.social

Myers goes on to cite statistics from Best American Poetry, thus marking success as a function of publications with enough symbolic capital to be noticed by the editors of Best American Poetry.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 3d

Don't be a hero.

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 3d

I started one to do fake interviews with AI which was a few weeks of fun over the summer. That's been it. I just delete subscription emails 🫣

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Amish Trivedi @amishtrivedi.bsky.social · 3d

Thinking today on a thing my late friend Matt Henriksen said to me years back that come across as flippant in all conversation and correspondence and then you read my poems and I am brooding and dark and intense. I'm sure my therapist will love this memory.

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