Marky Mark E. Smith Rowe

@sclv @gabrielwinant Hold on, just got a text from my editor at the Atlantic

@gabrielwinant “class politics is immune to capture” i say to sohrab ahmari over brunch cocktails at the faculty club as we celebrate our recent appearances on “Better Bad Ideas with Sean O’Brien”

@ThraxMaximilian Guy who only touts toponymic tomes

As late as the early 70s, a novel could be 120 pages long. Then came the paperback boom and the transition to trades. The extension of length was the product of corporate meetings and very cynical consumer psychology. It had and still has nothing to do with literature

@geoffwilt Guiraudie is kinda great fr

@geoffwilt To the tune of Hip Priest by The Fall

wonder how dude in Misericordia’s bakery ended up doing.

@nikhil_palsingh Donnaruminating over here 😞

A proper Sunday watching the Gunners with my ungrateful child.

@ARKloster @JacobAShell @herandrews maga baby

@JacobAShell @herandrews It’s almost not worth responding, but the point isn’t that any particular person in the movement can’t read, much less the leaders, but that it’s a hyper simplistic theory of class grievance for people with no ability or desire to think beyond the single slogan.

Is there an actual theory or book behind "21st century Third Worldism"? I don't mean 1970s Third Worldism, I mean this new thing which is alleged to exist (but...does it?).

@finishline646 @mr_scientism Studebakerism

@mr_scientism This is what the problem of deep pluralism in liberal democracies. The legitimation narratives of the past are unable to mobilize people anymore, so what’s left? Fear narratives about the (nonexistent) threats of communism, fascism, authoritarianism, etc is what mobilizes now.

Class, war, nation, and race don't mobilize people anymore, so what’s left?

@timgill924 @TheHonn Hope it’s a memoir. Call it Being & Tim

@TheHonn Got my words in.

Somehow, Tim Gill returned

@AnneChovy2 mo maureens mo problems

Bitches dont be named shit like Maureen anymore and that Is a problem

@ryanhasbadtaste Guy who fw franzen but can’t lerner

tweeting when i don’t like lerner or fosse or balle

@JohnsonBec32985 @thamosdeaf He liked Ellison and referred to him frequently. Morrison, Baldwin, Wright occasionally. Clearly wasn’t a focus but we can’t read everything. Gass has gobs of great essays oop. Really wish @Dalkey_Archive would reprint those next

@thamosdeaf If you are interested primarily in modernism and post modernism, there are Black American writers who belong to those traditions. So Gass's omissions in that regard is....... rather surprising

I can’t recommend enough The William H. Gass Reader. I’ve read around half its contents and it’s such an extraordinary breadth and depth of thought and daring experimentation with form. Ultimately it’s a monument to a writer who loved writing and was absurdly good at it.

@Rigga_Tony 85 in a month!

Me whenever I hear someone criticize Bob's voice as an 80 year old man

@WhatHoARat It was okay. Just one of Jim White’s many side projects. Saw him with Will Oldham a couple times too. Aussies be getting around

@SpraynardTurds Are they good?

Swans. Nobody else even comes close. It was so loud i had the thought that it was probably in violation of some public health ordinance.

@WhatHoARat Cool. Was just thinking last time I saw Swans Xylouris White opened, so reminded me lul

@SpraynardTurds Yesssss. Saw them in philly and it was spiritually restorative.

@writingenjoyer 🎶 I’d let your spider eat my fly If I can stack your sub 🎶 youtu.be/abrncnS7i6k?si…

I'd read your Substack dude. Said the spider to the fly

@WhatHoARat Did you do Dirty Three? Wanted to do a spring break trip to Chicago to see them, bookended with Mclusky a few days later, but my punk kids wouldn’t have it

@SpraynardTurds 🤘 never got to see motorhead but i love them so.

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