Jack Denton
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Epistemologist @NYmag Writing: @Pitchfork, @Harpers, @nprmusic, @RollingStone, @PacificStand (rip), @VICE, @Outline, @thefader, @MotherJones, @nytimes
Pynchon-heads, this one’s for us. At 88, Thomas Pynchon has written his most urgent novel yet. ‘Shadow Ticket’ is about rising fascism — both abroad and at home. vulture.com/article/thomas…
The suburbs could never experience this…
Oh the sheer irony, Chris Smalls, wears a bedazzled “Fuck Ice” t-shirt, while in Cuba, meanwhile goes on a chartered flight by Atlantic airlines, a company which is currently being subcontracted by ICE.
The writer Tom Junod talks about his memoir about his dad, who had numerous affairs and may have sexually abused the writer’s sister: ‘I finally just decided to tell the truth wherever it happened to lead.’ vulture.com/article/tom-ju…
So cool that Brandon Lopez who I met on a Fung Wah bus 15 years ago is now kind of the mayor of noise/free jazz/neue musik in New York
learning that denver has a bar called “fort greene” where people go to pretend they’re in new york
I should also recommend George Prochnik's truly beautiful and brilliant essay in @cabinetmagazine on Freud's trip to America, his doomed quest to meet a porcupine, and more. it's splendid and moving cabinetmagazine.org/issues/26/proc…
Jewish boy from Chicago goes to juvie, learns the blues, decides he is black (truly and literally believes he is a black man by the end of his life), moves to Harlem, falls in with Louis Armstrong, loses four years to opium, records some hot jazz. Very strange book. 5 stars.
Just learned the theory that you're not supposed to enjoy False Spring — that you will be kicked harder in the teeth by its retreat if you let down your guard. I've never heard anything wronger in my life.
Buffalo Wild Wings unveils wing-flavored protein espresso martini usatoday.com/story/money/fo…
