@danieledited
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@DavidKairoTSep 10
some of the greatest opening lines in literature
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Shreds front to back but this in particular is one of my favorite metaphors ever written:
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@TheEsteemedFoxApr 13
Excellent, eerie, ice-cold, sinister gangster story, engrossing experimentalism, especially good for the ambient dread you just can't tear yourself away from the entire time you read it, and wants to be read in as close to one sitting as possible
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teddy@teddyburnetteFeb 10
had a great time talking with @gregorymconway about Laxness, Norwegian literature, my own work, and art in general also mentioned: Vesaas, Fosse, Faulkner, DFW, Edy Poppy, solitude, family, and horticulture (link below)
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Yoon@nicoscosc4 Apr 2023
Murnane on Kerouac’s On the Road: “The book was like a blow to the head that wipes out all memory of the recent past. For six months after I first read it I could hardly remember the person I had been beforehand. For six months I believed I had all the space I needed. […]
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Excellent opening statement from the new pope
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“He knew what was happening, even as he dwindled just so before going. He was too smart to not know.” Sam McKinniss remembers Gary Indiana. buff.ly/YIoIYRm

For Gary Indiana (1950–2024) by Sam McKinniss

March 7, 2025 – "Gary resisted, celebrated, skewered, and suffered enormously. Living was his way of preparing for death."

theparisreview.org
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Hard to forget Knausgaard on Fosse as teacher: newyorker.com/books/page-tur…
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Very excited about this—pay what you wish! lincolncenter.org/series/lin…
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nybooks.com/online/2019/03/0…

The Banality of Empathy | Namwali Serpell

The idea that art promotes empathy has become a platitude. This idea is particularly prevalent when it comes to those works of art described as “narrative”: stories, novels, TV shows, movies, comics....

nybooks.com
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Gena Rowlands, John Cassavetes.
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“Cormac McCarthy is not interested in the psychology of character. He probably never has been. He’s interested in the horror of every living creature’s situation.”—Joy Williams harpers.org/archive/2023/01/…

Great, Beautiful, Terrifying, by Joy Williams

On Cormac McCarthy

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NEW: A story about the Nord Stream mystery. Much attn has been paid (and rightly so) to a sailing yacht, the Andromeda. German investigators think it was involved in the sabotage. But there's a 2nd vessel you should know about — the Minerva Julie... 🧵/1 businessinsider.com/nord-str…

Nord Stream mystery: the tanker Minerva Julie spent 7 days idling near the attack site

The Minerva Julie, a Greek tanker, hovered for 7 days, repeatedly passing Nord Stream attack sites, according to a researcher's analysis.

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in awe 😭 harpers.org/archive/2014/03/…
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Replying to @3v3ha @IlyaGridneff @BacklistedPod
Yes. @DeepVellum has sent us a contract, I have sent notes to our agent who will discuss w DV, I think the plan is to publish in 2024 in the @Dalkey_Archive imprint
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When I look at a beautiful painting I have tears in my eyes, but not when I look at my children. That does not mean I do not love them, because I do, with all my heart, it simply means that the meaning they produce is not sufficient to fulfill a whole life. Not mine, at any rate.
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Guys, it's up. youtu.be/EDA3hIsf7LA
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Turns out that ghostwriting tweets for venture capitalists is a booming cottage industry. I talked to someone who's doing quite well at it ... businessinsider.com/twitter-…

I made $200,000 last year ghostwriting tweets for superstar VCs. It takes me 5 hours a week. Here's...

Twitter is Silicon Valley's most important social club, and top investors pay me big bucks to make them look good in 280 characters.

businessinsider.com
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a friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson: hey man sorry I’ve been so busy lately, working on anything new? Emerson: funny you should ask
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