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@malmesburyman the lime twig, by john hawkes

I want to read an American postwar novel of high literary merit and I really don’t want to hear that I should read Cormac Macarthy. What should I read?

@beyondzeropod looks really interesting. where can i order a copy?

Coming up this week...

@neoagrarian @thomashobohm Yes, but this is presented as though Johnson simply regarded the whole MFA institution as a fraud. This was far from true.

@charles_prusik @thomashobohm I think he’s a teacher not a student in that Columbia passage

Since we're talking about MFAs again, here's Denis Johnson on the Columbia MFA program: "an academic Ponzi scheme, a literary racket," populated by "congenital mediocrities."

@saturnalreturn where did you get the couch?

we now have a nice cosy living room :)

@AzatAlsalim Except Boko Haram is not a US Ally.

Bill Maher on the Islamic slaughter of Christians in Nigeria: "They are literally trying to wipe out the christian population of an entire country. Where are the kids protesting this? They don't care because the Jews aren't involved"

@janefeinsod respect

@TheChiefNerd Idiocy prevails

ROGAN: “Did you get COVID?” JENSEN: “I got COVID like six times.” ROGAN: “Of course you did, because you got vaccinated. The people who didn’t get vaccinated got it once or twice.” JENSEN: “Really? … Sh*t!”

But how do we all feel about Frank Kermode?

@maxdaniellawton how do you feel about Meades?

Complete Conrad minus SECRET AGENT pilfered by little brother, ALMAYER’S FOLLY in the wild, and Wilkie at the breakfast-burrito joint

I'm okay

@maxdaniellawton damn

Holy cow, man!! This blew my socks off. Conrad’s best longer work for sure (unless either CHANCE or THE ROVER really surprises me)

@elonmusk course he is

Going back to this haircut

the wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an immense accumulation of eggs.

@DannyDrinksWine Peter Medak. Ghost of the Noonday Sun.

Has there been a movie that destroyed the career of a director / actor?

@rafkhach theyre not letting the clearing unconceal itself

This is the future Heideggerians want.

there is only one cybernetic text. Heidegger's Identity and Difference.