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lucrioual.com
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lucrioual.com new site & two zines for sale! 1) a 20,000 word essay about the reviews of sally rooney's "beautiful world," a novel i have not read! 2) a short story about winning a book prize for an unpublished, uncompleted novel! free PDF if only curious!
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75 pages of epigraphs, a 70 page digression / essay "about" testicles and ambition, pictures of john bobbitt with porn stars, archaic words, harebrained theories about jonbenét ramsey, sex, writing, etc., i tried to do it all !
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for all of his relative fame and success, mcguane remains underrated
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Morow Jävis Kærdenax (@IneluctableQuak) profile pictureMorow Jävis Kærdenax@IneluctableQuakSep 26
the locals told me this is one of their best & the bookseller said it arrived today
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it’s been a day but are people still on about hawkes? who wants to buy my galley?
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bought eight more today, too, fuck it
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luc (@theYoungLuc) profile pictureluc@theYoungLucJul 11
just what i’ve accumulated in the last few years, don’t tell me what to do
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just what i’ve accumulated in the last few years, don’t tell me what to do
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Malcolm Harris (@BigMeanInternet) profile pictureMalcolm Harris@BigMeanInternetJul 10
People are misunderstanding — dare I say, misreading — this tweet. If you have 10,000 books you intend to read, you already own a high percentage of *total books you will ever read*. No need for that.
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counterpoint
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Max Lawton (@maxdaniellawton) profile pictureMax Lawton@maxdaniellawtonJul 3
Five best Dalkey books without question — and you can include Céline’s whole late trilogy in the arrangement
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my surrounded claim is: oasis is the greatest band in the world as you were LR x
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Updated my iPhone 11 (a second-hand bday gift four years ago to replace my iPhone 6) for the first time in three years so I could use the grocery store app to see what’s on sale
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*taps sign*
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Dennis M. Hogan (@dennismhogan) profile pictureDennis M. Hogan@dennismhoganApr 29
Replying to @dennismhogan
Unfortunately the economics of small mags are EXTREMELY bleak because no one in this country is willing to pay for culture. There is unlimited money for bad things and no money for good things. It isn’t the biggest problem in the world, but it is a big problem.
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once again arguing about the finances of a magazine whose taxes are available for all to read—the baffler made $77,331 in 2024 after expenses. of their revenue, $2,100,569 came from gifts and $358,972 from sales, total: $2,465,764. they spent $2,388,433, EOY net assets: $144,494.
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and here's a kicker: of the gifts, one party alone gave $1,302,500. i don't think one should comment on the financial choices of literary nonprofits without first reading through their tax filings, it just seems like the polite thing to do.
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the callous lack of generosity some people have shown for helen dewitt is mind boggling, as though a person who has been incredibly, radically open about their struggles with publishing, writing, money, you name it, would just give up all that money on fucking principle? come on!
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people pointing to other writers who could've or would've gone about this differently like people are interchangeable. people aren't bananas, you fucking nitwits! still: salute to AES and GR, great writers who were given and deserve the award; anyone claiming HD's openness about
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all this, & the winners finding out they were a 2nd choice is overlooking the fact that dozens & dozens of writers deserve awards like the WC, and one person's win isn't indicative of anything more than a lack of resources, not talent, skill, vision, or hard work.
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nick (like hem's Adams) one of the problems is you're victim to your own comments below, too, not on a stylistic level but a rhetorical/promotional one, using mccarthy's two dismissive words about IJ, and IJ itself, to smuggle your finger-pointing screed, and, but, hey, it works!
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Vincenzo Barney (@BarneysRubble0) profile pictureVincenzo Barney
@BarneysRubble0Mar 21
What I find so interesting is that this article has generated a lot of predictable vitriol for the opinions it reveals. However, the main argument of my article is an intricate analysis and critique of the monopoly capitalism at the heart of the “publishing-industrial complex,” and the sociological conformity therein. No one so far has engaged with this new analysis. Maybe try reading it :)
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i think few would disagree w/you the industry has contracted and that MFAs maybe have to do with it, but i think even fewer, from the whole, would think DFW the best effigy or McC the best exemplar; the same feels true if your problem is the "emasculation" of "literature".
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frankly, i think you do far more speculating than "intricate analysis and critique"; hell, your opening is imagining Lolita marked & rewritten by an MFA (cliché). & yr og tweet is even semantically askew: "main argument..is an..analysis"? like, i get it, but you didn't write it.
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