it's a card game. if she likes that song she might like this one open.spotify.com/track/7H3iom...

talkin' about the new book, the old books, research habits, internet damage, language gnosticism, good music & more

Did anyone publish a novel last year about how the internet itself is an accelerator for mental illness & stochastic terror that works not just across ideological lines but as an active solvent of said lines, maybe presented in a slightly oblique way like idk a fake celebrity memoir? asking 4 friend

if you wanna read some good criticism today read this thebaffler.com/latest/mille...

STEM major (smiling, well-dressed, rosy cheeked): hey, who's that bell ringing for?

English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol

It's also bad for critics in that every book coming out within a certain window is now competing to the one you write about. If there are two titles you really want to go to bat for but they're both published on Sept 16, good luck pitching the other one to the same venue for October or November.

Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.

is the Calvino quote from the Six Memos?

the only time i saw someone doing this was in the delta lounge in the minneapolis airport

she's giving me a look as though there were any confusion as to who caught who licking what

and likewise the metaphor of the computer as a brain - just as fake and insidious, maybe moreso

sandwich is the powerup that gives the throw strength

long live late great Snock

just throwing this out there

if u even care

wrote a note

tulsa's not so scary!

if anyone needs me i'm at the World of Bob Dylan Conference in Tulsa dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/#conf...

found this presumably rare Against Me! 7" in a box in my Mom's basement. it's in really good shape, dont think mom has listened to it much

i'm listening and learning

if we read OP's sentence literally she's actually saying that it is "the trope that this is what all litfic is about" that needs to be retired, rather than saying the scenario itself *is* the trope that needs retiring. in which case she agrees with you. what are the odds that's a viable reading?

could they all be reading Philip Roth's The Dying Animal?