Who knows what comes next? Yesterday was a terrible day. Today might be good. I don't know. I don't have to know. I'm going to experience what I can before I leave this plane. If I am lucky enough to get old, I hope I can say it was an interesting ride.
Studying history or anthropology will teach you that being alive has always been an unpredictable mix of horror and beauty, and so I do not feel the same kind of doomerism that some peers have succumb to. Instead, in my forties, I feel overwhelmingly alive and full of potential.
The newest evolution of this orientation towards my own existence, for lack of better terminology (personal ontology?) is that I have begun to feel a new gratitude for all I have experienced and a new urgency around what each day can be.
And one of the great joys of my middle age is that at some time in my thirties I consented. I became okay with being here.
When I was in my twenties, there are so many frustrations and hardships I can now attribute to the fact that I hadn't yet consented to being alive. I was mad about it. I was trying to escape.
Being a Luddite Is Cool and All, but Have You Seen the Hilarious Tapestries These New Looms Are Making? - now #2 on the trending list at @mcsweeneys.net !!
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one serene and moonlight night, when all the waves rolled by like scrolls of silver; and, by their soft, suffusing seethings, made what seemed a silvery silence, not a solitude; on such a silent night a silvery jet was seen
"I have met people who would eat my soul right in front of me, not from spite
But because there’s a reverence in consuming a person in front of them"
—Lucy Jones
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this term school girl, they keep saying 160 school girls
not girls
not 160 girls
it’s anachronistic—othering to say school girl
even though i keep thinking, i was a school girl
i was a girl at school
today was not my best day, but there will be other days
Reviews help people discover books that would otherwise languish in obscurity.
Thank you to everyone who has reviewed my book—past, present, and ye future folks too!
Fucking illiterate pedants everywhere
Twain was my special interest from ages 21-26. I, too, endorse this message.
Omg how did I forget to mention The Golden Ass by Apuleius? The only ancient Roman novel to survive in its entirety? And people say my book is horny. This thing is a bawdy romp from start to finish!
ooooof facts
The problem with edgelords in left spaces is that once they're validated they think being complete dickbags is a form of organizing
When you support indie booksellers and bookstores, you are supporting human curation, the exercise of judgment and taste, the storefronts that make cities interesting. You make it possible for writers and readers outside the mainstream to be found again. You support real people who love literature.
When you support indie presses, you keep art and writing made by people alive. You make it possible for voices to exist outside the mainstream. You support real people who are going to work everyday and creating when they can (usually by sleeping less).
"You preferred human writing. You're either sharply attuned to the qualities that make for great writing, or a lucky guesser. Maybe you also noticed that human writing often includes som clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's 'Blood Meridian,' caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.' A.I. used to make mistakes like these. But today's systems are much more fluid than their predecessors—so fluid, in fact, that finding grammatical errors or nonstandard syntax is often a hint that you're looking at a human's prose, not a machine's."
i genuinely hate this guy
What a great conference you had!!! Thank you for supporting indie lit and indie authors! (And oh how I adore Casey Plett, one of the founders of Little Puss. We went to grad school together.) xo
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Meanwhile, at the classically inspired literary magazine, @danielmiller.bsky.social shows what it’s all about:
That's why I'm so against ChatGPT. I'm against letting a machine do your homework for you. I think you should cling to Doing Your Homework Yourself like it's the last opportunity you have to liberate yourself from mental enslavement. Because it basically is.
Anyway shout out to Kai Cenat.
I am so sick of near illiterate fascist fools telling the rest of us how Culture and Art and History should be done, when they haven't bothered to learn how it ever was created in the first place. They lost the past by never knowing it, and I'll be damned if they win the future.
I am so sick of near illiterate fascist fools telling the rest of us how Culture and Art and History should be done, when they haven't bothered to learn how it ever was created in the first place. They lost the past by never knowing it, and I'll be damned if they win the future.
Spouse to himself, in a migraine haze, speaking of our cat:
"Meeps knows what's what. He knows Bob Fosse wasn't actually a very good dancer."
*read
I’m not even asking for your policy paper on how to get there I’m just asking people to imagine it with their minds and want it. It’s free to do!
