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Let's just say I'm not much of an early adopter (Thanks Mat for the push...)

@ReynosoBrooklyn nice meeting you today at goose grease pickup. Given any thought to rolling out some sort of snow season shovel share program?

Joni Mitchell

@jamesamarcus Hey if this writing/editing doesn’t work out…

@matthunte My momentary brush with high fashion.

Me in one of my boulevardier moods:

That's why I'm watching Like It Is. RT @cole_tucker Strange to publicly celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. while Guantanamo Bay is still open.

People are never going to admit it - or possibly never going to grasp it - but the inevitable byproduct of us allowing years of faux-activism, pseudo-intellectualism, brand-building, and grift disguised as collective uplift to escape real public scrutiny is this naked buffoonery.

This isn't said often enough, but Corey Glover is one of the greatest frontmen in the history of rock..

Selassie I liveth every time. Emmanuel liveth every time. Marcus Garvey, him liveth every time.

George Packer has written a wonderful essay on the 100th anniversary of The Magic Mountain. (He kindly mentions my forthcoming book toward the end of the essay). theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…

William H. Gass Centenary Celebration youtube.com/live/cQHG9W61C… @WUSTL

DAMN DAAAMN DAAAAAAMN youtu.be/xKUwcCp7LPE?si… 🫡

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New @KnowYrEnemyPod: Matt and Sam interview @vcunningham about his debut novel, Great Expectations. dissentmagazine.org/blog/know-your…

The past week or so I've received a few messages about this @KnowYrEnemyPod interview with the poet Christian Wiman about faith, mortality, suffering, writing, religion, and hope. In some ways it literally was a conversation a decade in the making …ow-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/tk-w-…

This is a great article and I absolutely, desperately, want to see this documentary.

…on the uses of a new metal matthewhunte.com/on-the-uses-of…

@thomasbeller This just occurred to me: unlike say literature, my tastes in music have never really been influenced by criticism; the closest I can think is probably Stephen Erlewine's work on AllMusic.com.

@matthunte @nyrbclassics @parabasis @GuysLibrary Everyone is allowed to have their contrarian impulses and even act on them. On a related topic, I forgot all about this Oasis piece. If I write a couple of new ones (Justine/Elastic merit attention), it's almost a collection. mrbellersneighborhood.com/2002/01/being-…

@parabasis @GuysLibrary @nyrbclassics Ben Folds dah greatest.