Glück has a great ability to pressure the reader. I would give my left tit for the same.
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Glück has a great ability to pressure the reader. I would give my left tit for the same.
Too right! The Margery Kempe
novel is astoundingly fine.
Grab it now. You will be transformed.
Meaningless. Succession already well-organized along with leadership and funding of IRGC. I will be very very surprised if this regime collapses any time soon.
Yes, in Kansas they've progressed from banning gender affirming treatments for minors (citing Cass) to making it illegal for trans people to have a driver's license in their affirmed gender. The next step is making us a banned category of human being. And the next step is?
You mean the transborder capitalist patriarchate is a small group of people, do you?
The Conformist (1970)
A very rare video of the very great but weirdly, upsettingly under applauded writer, Rosalind Belben, reading from the very extraordinary novel, Dreaming of Dead People.
In fact, you do get there by reading and re-reading writing you admire, marking it up for form, structure, and method. And you do get there by consciously trying in your own writing the form, structure, method you marked up. And when you’ve got it, fuck it over good and hard. It is called work.
Oh, wie schön wäre es, im Mai wieder einmal durch den Großen Garten in Dresden zu spazieren.
May in eastern Germany.
You've seen a California totally foreign to me.
Sometimes, I long for eastern Germany in May forever, and this is part of why.
OK nerds, ANNOUNCEMENT
I have a book coming out this May with @sevenstories.bsky.social!
it is called
The Dinner Party: A Book about Love"
it's a collection of five sequences or stories, all in verse. They are about different kinds of love. You can pre-order it here, if you are so minded.
The Government of the Commonwealth of Australia sent me a letter advising me to have my cervix examined.
Dear Mme Macron,
The correct response is: So the fucking what.
That is a generous squint that anchorite has on her anchorage.
DM from reader: I ❤️ Worthy of the Event except all those errors of syntax, punctuation, word forms, run on sentences, capitalization, I could go on.
DM from me: It is a character study and the character studied is the narrator.
It’s NYE in Oz and here I am, cleaning, cleaning, cleaning. Some habits acquired while living in Kamigyo-ku appear to be on me for life.
I am of the belief that anything you write at any stage of writing it would be readable.
It takes as long as it takes. And given all your other busy, I think 2 years for a 77K draft is fast. I don’t have much other busy at all and it took me 2 years to get a readable draft of Sciences of Appearances (94K). So, huzzah.
Nate Lippens does it perfect.
Also in no particular order: More of the best things I read this year.
In no particular order: Four of the best things I read this year.
Def
“Lift a stone and you’ll find a girl writing about her little life.”
Ahmed from the Shire is the very definition of a true mensch.
I love this book and the magnificent woman who wrote it.
Some party half way through the Ph.D. at EWC and UHM, maybe 1988.