Timothy Denevi

Assassination attempts, convention battles, failed candidacies, protests and police: if every day feels like 1968 again, at least we can look back at how bad things actually got during that long-ago summer... And might still get today

Tomorrow (11/11), join Matthew Davis for A BIOGRAPHY OF A MOUNTAIN -The Making and Meaning of Mount Rushmore - w/Vann R. Newkirk II - 7pm @ Conn Ave: politics-prose.com/matthew-davis-…

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@JoyceCarolOates Joan Didion uses this same language when she quotes a runaway in "Slouching." It's reminiscent of how she uses Orwell's phrase "foredoomed to failure" to reproduce her psychiatric evaluation in "The White Album"...

After his father’s suicide, Hemingway wrote, “My mother is an all time all American bitch and she would make a pack mule shoot himself; let alone poor bloody father.” in time, Hemingway's mother mailed him a gun of his father's though not the one that Hemingway would eventually use on himself.

@JoyceCarolOates Hi Joyce, this is quoted without context: I’m the actual text of F&L, HST is telling the reader what Spiro Agnew thinks journalism is. As you know, Thompson—at least when he was writing this in March 1971, thought the opposite.

why would anyone say this, or quote this? great investigative journalism is essential for civilization. the early 20th century muckrakers (including Upton Sinclair), mid-century John Hershey ("Hiroshima"), Rachel Carson ("Silent Spring"), Capote ("In Cold Blood"), Michael Herr ("Dispatches").... look at what is highest in the profession like these books, not at what is lowest.

@Ladiwoods1 That's nice of you to say Lauren!

Finally finished the @TimDenevi origin story! So much good writing! Now I want to catch up and discuss!

Thanks for posting man!

7pm tonight at Kramers: In discussion with Chris Richards from the Washington Post and Jeff Weiss about Weiss’s fantastic new book WAITING FOR BRITNEY SPEARS Come hang out!

The second leg of the "Waiting For Britney Spears" tour continues this week. Readings and conversations in Chicago, Atlanta, Philly, and D.C. I'll be signing books, attacking Justin Timberlake's vests, and making belabored Britney and Laura Palmer analogies. A gala affair

Thanks Lauren!

Really late to the game here but finally really diving into @TimDenevi’s first book… really thoughtful, immersive memoir + research, making me think carefully about my own family’s multiple diagnoses.

Next Wednesday in New York. I'm in conversation with @amandapetrusich at Powerhouse Arena in Dumbo. 7 pm Free admission but you must be dressed like Britney and Snoop in the "Outrageous" video.

This is indeed awful, @LitBoxBooks!! They should really release our funds today. We are incredibly stressed after fronting all of that $$ for book inventory and not getting reimbursed for book sales because @NayaxGlobal won’t resolve the issue!!

Congrats to @Mason_cw alum @ashlenrenner for her new essay "Abundance and Thirst," a selection from her larger project about St. Hildegard of Bingen, out now in the latest print issue of @ninthletter!

Solid state books next Tuesday at 7p to chat with @TimDenevi about Ethan Hawke & Me.

Launch event for Ethan Hawke & Me: The Before Trilogy, will be held at Solid State Books on June 10th at 7p. You can register for the event below. I’ll be in conversation with @TimDenevi ! eventbrite.com/e/andrew-berta…

The first excerpt of "Waiting For Britney Spears" is now live at GQ. Las Vegas, NYE '04. The Palms nightclub. Too Short x Lil Jon. MDMA in the Von Dutch hat. Kobe x CWebb wandering around. Britney unveils "Toxic" on the dance floor. American history. gq.com/story/on-the-b…

What's the best Denis Johnson poem and why is it this one?

@amandafortini Ha, it was taken out front of the garage to the giant old house she was renting on Franklin Avenue--right after Slouching was published in May and probably right before she had a mental breakdown in Honolulu in June... 1968: far and away her most productive and least-sane year!

This is one of the famous Joan Didion portraits Julian Wasser took for TIME in 1968. I've always thought it was a very glamorous photo—she's posing in front of her Corvette Stingray and smoking a cig, after all—but it just came up in my Instagram feed, and when I looked at it now, I suddenly saw it anew: She appears to me like a writer barely holding it together—who was up late on deadline, threw on a dress in a rush, and didn't brush her hair. I relate so thoroughly.

I wrote about the Jake Paul - Mike Tyson fight, the desolation of modern Dallas, and what it was like to lose at beer pong to Logan Paul in @countyhwy — a fantastic print-only publication available at bookstores across the country. Check it out!

It's impossible to convey the sprawl of these fires to an outsider. These aren't just multi-millionaires living in bucolic canyons. These are regular residential neighborhoods too – ones you would think were too embedded in the maze of concrete & commerce to ever go up in flames