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Day job https://t.co/rHNSnk3bRF Writing in LARB, The Millions, KGB, The Metropolitan Review, Socrates on the Beach, Compact, etc.. Also: Substack.
United States Katılım Nisan 2009
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@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...
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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.
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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.
Vincenzo Barney@BarneysRubble0
Did you know Cormac McCarthy stopped reading new novels after Infinite Jest and referred to @JoyceCarolOates as "the goggle lady?" My definitive takedown of Jest, MFAs, and the coinage of a new term "publishing-inudstrial complex" to explain it all :) unherd.com/2026/03/why-co…
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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.
PoIiMath@politicalmath
I'm not exactly a Cesar Chavez booster but there is something about the insta-erasure of anything problematic that unsettles me
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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
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"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..."
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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.
Sandra Swart@WildPasts_
@BarneysRubble0 @JoyceCarolOates Made coffee and read this twice. Sent to friends. Read it again. Fav line: “Infinite Jest was truly ahead of its time. Wallace was not an artist but an early stage generative Large Language Model”
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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/…
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This is interesting. In Australia you could be charged with rape for refusing to pay a sex worker: thenewdaily.com.au/news/crime-new…
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In this smart, funny, often (justifiably) acerbic essay @BarneysRubble0 provides a long overdue taking to task lit culture and the industry that manufactures it …unherd.com/2026/03/why-co…
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Does anyone want NEW Cormac McCarthy discourse to chew on? I might have something...
Bandy@bandy1803
It makes no difference what men think of Cormac McCarthy's books. They endure. As well ask men what they think of stone.
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