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Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater is a very great & obscene novel about an intolerable man. I argue that it exemplifies the moral work art can do—& that devotion to filth gives a resolutely secular writer access to a theological dimension. TY @yalereview.
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i've been sober now for over three years and wrote a short essay about it for this month's @RiddleFence with lots of insight from @jonclaytor, makes for some nice light reading on this st. patrick's day!!
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A psychic sequel to “Tangled Up In Blue”, Bob Dylan’s “Mississippi” recasts the itinerant ten thousand mile stare of his earlier song as a kind of spiritual cleansing by ordeal. You don't live on the road for money and adventure. You live on the road because nowhere is your home.
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living an authentic and transcendent life that in no way resembles a cliche of a philosophy professor by leaving my spouse for a grad student, crossing a grad strike picket line, and constantly comparing myself to socrates
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my latest for @cbcns, the province is touting a new approach to literacy, but critics say it still needs work cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
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the very first semester i taught i had a russian student with a thick accent who was prone to saying outlandish things that would make the other students laugh. i thought he enjoyed this but one day under his breath he said “everyone always laughing at ivan”
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history as ambience, apocalyptic vibes. @thedrift_mag on Adam Curtis thedriftmag.com/all-roll-is-…
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"Ellington’s reply to Mingus’s proposal that the two of them make “a real avant-garde record” together: “Charles, let’s not go back that far.”"
– Nathaniel Mackey
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Meghan tells Harry she can’t go on vacation w him bc she’s doing an Eat Pray Love trip w her girlfriends and he’s floored that she has read a book
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All wry aphorisms, tumbling hooks and ambitious genre experiments, Elvis Costello’s ‘Imperial Bedroom’ LP is the moment when his incurable polymath impulses finally overrode his New Wave-Dylan aspirations and resituated him as the punk-rock Evelyn Waugh. Brideshead 61 Revisited.
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One time I was reading the Talk Bass message board. The board was discussing Gallien Kruger amps and the president of the company chimed in. Everyone stopped in their tracks to say what an honour it was he posted there. Like a crowd taking a knee when the king rode in on a horse.
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MILF Manor is unfortunately brilliant, and possibly liberatory—heterosexual attraction is always Oedipal, they're just making it explicit. Our discomfort as viewers isn't w incest, but w our own mother's interiority! Her separation from us—and ultimately her abandonment
