Lucas Mann
@LucasWMann
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On the feelings beat. Books: ATTACHMENTS, CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, LORD FEAR, CLASS A Co-Owner: Riffraff Bookstore and Bar Professor @umassd
Providence, RI
Joined December 2012
*ahem* SOME NEWS! My fourth book, first collection, is officially on its way. I’m really proud of these essays and really grateful that this book is going to exist. Plz share! And I hope you like read/like it, or at least lie to me if you don’t!
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there are so many answers to this!
What’s up with the huge demographic of older american millennial readers who love Pynchon, Zadie Smith, Delillo, McCarthy, etc. but haven’t kept up with literature since then? This is one of the most prominent “literary types” I meet irl.
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as a writer now being on the bookstore side of things, i am 100 percent certain that the most important thing any writer needs to know about an indie press is who their distributor is + what's the discount they've negotiated with bookstores + do they allow returns
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loser shit for losers now even more losery
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have
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Somertime in Providence!
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fwiw my kink is actually being surveilled by the nannystate
I never really thought about “masculinity” until my book came out and now I’ve been made aware of like hundreds of thousands of words written about “men,” “the crisis of men,” and so on. I’ve been asked to speak at various universities and institutes about “masculinity,” to write
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man i have made it so clear that i probably won't catch you if you use AI because i don't consider it my job to police losers, but when people cheat so poorly and obviously i am FORCED to catch! it's making you a worse cheater and that will serve you so badly in life!
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obsessed with famous and wealthy brown alums publicly expressing their shock that such a bastion of progressivism would capitulate to fascism because they got to do an interdisciplinary major and dartmouth would never
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where have you gone andy borowitz our nation turns its lonely eyes to you
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some poor sap in 1700 trying to politely say can i get you something for the third time to a dude who's been there for 6 hours and has inexplicably taken off his shoes
forget literary readings and parties; can someone in london please bring back the 6am-10pm literary coffeehouse?
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someone do a deep dive on a generation of gen x magazine writers, the last to make a decent check off it, also the last to be stylistically terrible but allowed to call that distinctive, and have uniformly responded to a harder new world by becoming reactionary substack grifters
Malcom Gladwell says he is “ashamed” of having said in a previous panel discussion that trans women have a place in women’s sports. He says he was “cowed” into saying so. “Trans athletes have no place in the female category,” he says.
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remake of taking of pelham 123 but only the subway takes guy held for ransom and actually there's no ransom he's just held until the world forgets
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the kneejerk belief that nothing is sincere is def bad for the world and imho related to this weird thing now where people only like the same shit they did when they were 11 cuz they kinda believe that's the last time they were geniune https://t.co/CGXyNkNSBS
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Are modern men really using literature to get laid? Lydia Spencer-Elliott speaks to the book boys themselves – and the women scorned – to find out the truth about the roaming readers getting mocked...
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would truly be horrible if students were cut off from valuable open information, otherwise how could i spend class time trying to gently persuade that hellen keller was in fact real
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it was actually kind of fun and exhilarating but in grad school i got to go to a dinner with gornick before a reading and she was just...mean
Why do we feel inadequate, and how does that feeling shape our characters? Vivian Gornick writes about low self-esteem.
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academia is a dumpster fire and only getting worse BUT there's always a powerful moment that pops up to remind you why it's worth it to do this work* *freak injury requiring extended hospital stay and therefore decent insurance to avoid hundreds of thousands in medical debt
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The humanities teach critical thinking. Part of critical thinking is self-doubt. The worst students to teach are those who are certain that what's happening is too easy for them (often this comes with a thousand page sci-fi novel attached, begun when they were 12, never edited)
@ppyowna You will never hear a Math major say "My English and History classes are too difficult"
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im 100 percent certain there's things about the margins that make me technically wrong here, but my god there are so many books that would be perfect little career starter sleeper hits at 18 dollars that are doomed at 29
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and i would invite you to close your eyes and try to imagine a person who is excited to take a chance on a 29 DOLLAR HARDCOVER essay/story collection from someone they've never heard of. can you describe them? do they, in fact, exist?
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publishers i just want you to know the sound that i make when there's a very cool looking debut (or, and especially, story/essay collection) in the catalogue, and we get excited, and then see that it's a 29 dollar hardcover
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are they allowed to read on love island? seems like the best possible reading scenario
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