Jason Binder

New essay: Regret and a Crooked Mirror Reflections on Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit"

From Coleridge’s preamble to Kubla Khan, a play on Narcissus. Alas, “the visions,” the “fragments dim of lovely forms,” never did come back, to his disappointment. Still, Byron was clearly right to urge the publication of Kubla Khan.

The Raptors set another franchise record in assist this year at 2417. Darko Rajakovic's charitable foundation donates $33 USD per assist to children's hospitals in Memphis, Toronto and Serbia. The total is $79 761 this year.

@ClaireMPLS For sure. But they'll learn. Close game with Wemby shooting awful from 3 and that overall dud from Fox? Can't be too down.

@jasonsb that’s the inexperience issue a bunch of us got called haters for bringing up headed into the playoffs

surprised san antonio didn’t call time out there

@realMattKParker Beautiful study! What are you writing?

on break from reading because I'm writing and because I can't do both it's either one or the other I am monomaniacal

@JaycelAdkins Enjoy!

Emails for this private reading group go out very soon. 80 weeks of close reading and deep feeling.

@HitFactoryPod Fantastic list. Good luck!

unreasonably ambitious tbr for the remainder of the year. subject to change at a moment's notice.

@charmreduction It’s happened to me before. I complained to Amazon and received a full refund.

i ordered a penguin classic off of amazon, and all i got was this shitty print on demand. anybody else seeing major publishers trying to pass off this garbage quality?

“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . .”

This is why Harden doesn’t have a ring. Unethical, ugly ball.

Can’t beat the Cavs and the refs. This is unethical, ugly ball.

A beautiful sentiment, from Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Eolian Harp”: man (and all of nature) as the eponymous harp, his strings plucked by the wind, his soul.

this development was absolutely impossible to foresee

Academics tend to overestimate their own intelligence. Fortunately I am too smart to ever do this

@TheLuisPanini What pretty covers.

Recent arrivals: the major novels of German author Wolfgang Koeppen, a late modernist known for a fragmented style heavy on shifting perspectives and stream-of-consciousness techniques. A few years ago I read Pigeons on the Grass (1951), a solid, early critique of social amnesia.

Nietzsche on poets and readers

@will_nba_hater Could work on his court vision too. But he’s a dog these playoffs and playing physical. Love to see it.

Unironically RJ Barrett is a total man. Not an ounce of mouse to him. Sure he’ll have some gross 5 for 16’s and get lost off ball on defense but he’s going down swinging every-time.

@jaycaspiankang Eat it. Tbf it wasn’t a good shot and we were terrible off set plays, but he’s actually shooting at a great clip.

This game features many guys who should never be taking a shot in the 4th quarter of a playoff game but most notably RJ Barrett

@_Zeets Parity baby.

Three game sevens in the first round. The NBA playoffs are so dramatic and tense already. There’s no easy matchups right now.

Just wow