@gdess

AS LONG AS I'M BEAUTIFUL, I'M EVEN MORE ALIVE THAN THE OTHERS.

@AlannaSchubach I have it, I haven’t gotten to it yet. Will move it up.

Lotta talk about dead writers. I’ve been trying to read more contemporary fiction and am nearing the end of a killer new-ish novel now: MILKMAN by Anna Burns. It is fucking great.

@cwik_greg not today

Should I read The Making of Americans

@derekcrneal @jmrphy @the_point_mag heard he relocated to Portugal

@jmrphy @the_point_mag A very good article. He's on substack and publishes a great newsletter btw (The Feckless Bellelettrist)

This February essay for @the_point_mag looking back at the history of the N+1 publication, by co-founder Marco Roth, seems to have flown under the radar but is worth a close reading. Very honest and astute on a matter of great importance. I think any serious male writer trying to accomplish anything meaningful over the past 10 years would have to admit—if he is honest—to something like this being the great psychological challenge of the current frontier. Some are handling it better or worse than others, but I've yet to see anyone name it so perfectly while also, admirably, sharing their own failures. The next era of independent arts and letters will be led by men and women who understand this problem well enough to solve it. Is Marco Roth even on X? I can't find him.

@BarneysRubble0 @WhatHoARat !!!!!!!

@WhatHoARat Great synopsis

It's a 350 page buildup to the saddest literary handjob ever written.

@jrostopovich 🙏🙏♥️

A full week of insomnia has me in existential crisis. I can’t stop thinking about the vastness of the universe and being pulled into the depths of the ocean (I don’t even live near an ocean).

the chances of it all working out are very slim...very slim indeed...

@IonaItalia totally true ... and sad... but the Palestinians spent years building their status as victims with the help of Iran and the people of Sudan have had no such beneficiary to publicize their plight...which is ongoing and horrific...with up to 14M people displaced and 250K dead...

Twice as many people have been killed in Sudan as in Gaza over the same period. Yet we don't hear a word about those people because they don't have the same romantic status. IMHO, the romanticising of Palestinians as eternal noble victims is very bad for that group indeed.

Empedocles, there's a good solid name...

@plfrnz oh yeah

Loud chewers --> justified homicide

@bernardtjoy yep

Something I appreciate about my friend Vincenzo Barney is that he routinely says what we are not allowed to say and writes in similarly forbidden prose styles. Here he's saying them again about Cormac McCarthy, David Foster Wallace, and Vladimir Nabokov, no less.

Yeah because it frees people from the pain of having to hold multiple thoughts in their head at the same time by letting them pass cynical motives off as moral superiority. Once this has happened, there’s no “off ramp” for society. Everyone is dumber and weaker and more cruel.

@bartlebytaco occupational hazard...

a few days ago i realized i have a 15-year log of every book i've read—i started writing down every book i read in 2011. as i was combing through this list i would occasionally stop on a title and realize i couldn't remember a single thing about it, and this was 60% of the books

@pourfairelevide no sardines?

went on a chove run

nothing like hyperbole to get the heart racing...

"In the mid-20th century, the novel and short story began to be decentralized," writes @BarneysRubble0 "...the writer’s artistic sovereignty ultimately relocating itself into the hands of the editor and finally to the C-suite..."

@BarneysRubble0 and it does have a lot of great lines...

When you publish a 10,000 word essay, the more thoughtful comments and compliments start coming out at least one day later, bc people have actually had time to read the piece. I woke up this morning to lots of thoughtful comments both here and on Substack.

Yeah well Sentimental Value is a good enough movie but I want that house.

@WhitStillman his military career was outstanding...

R.I.P. Robert Swan Mueller III (1944-2026), most respected prosecutor, greatest FBI director, courageous marine & class act, dead at 81. nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/…

@S___Elliott makes sense

This is interesting. In Australia you could be charged with rape for refusing to pay a sex worker: thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-new…