A new year begins I must let the way open take the path within

The world has lost Robert Redford, Jane Goodall, and Diane Keaton in one month 😭 Three extraordinary souls who reminded us what it means to live with purpose. Their legacy is a call… to rise with kindness, to protect what is sacred, to create boldly, and to love without

FOR THE LOVE OF WHISKEY SOAKED FUCK MUFFINS CAN CONSERVATIVES PLEASE STOP CALLING ANTIFA A TERRORIST GROUP WHEN IT’S LITERALLY JUST PEOPLE BEING ANTI FASCIST AND THAT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE FASCISM IS BAD.

Graham Foust

In celebration of #IndigenousPeoplesDay, Sesame Street’s Word of the Day is “tradition!" Join @BigBird and our friend Zahn McClarnon as we honor Indigenous peoples around the world and the many ways they share their culture and family traditions, today and every day.

Reading for pleasure has fallen by 40 percent since 2000. This is not progress. You should read because it's good for your brain, your soul. You should read because our freedoms will not long endure in a post-literate world. Most of all, you should read because it's fun.

Today’s poem is selected by Oliver de la Paz as part of the 20th anniversary of Read A Little Poetry. “Kansas” appeared in origin story by Gary Jackson, published by University of New Mexico Press, 2021. Shared here with deep gratitude.

—Maureen Seaton

“We hear only ourselves.” Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch outta the gate

No one says love will tear us apart like Mark Lanegan 🖤 https://t.co/EXtNxOMw52

Jean-Claude Renard (translated by Wallace Fowlie)

Renata Adler: “The onset of the state of mind consisted in a loyalty to objects. She apologized to one egg for having boiled it, to another for not having selected it to boil. [+]

Sunday morning with Hannah Grieco.

First Love— the early novella Beckett kept hidden for so many years. But also one of the “unresolved” themes in the fugue of his corpus. Thank you Eric for pairing me with B who shares my birthdate and lives in the shadows of my Blackwells, my Belacqua, my jenesaisquoi. 🖤

Ditto to all this. And so much of what Phillips says about desire is also applicable to writing fiction or criticism: what does the character want? What does the critic *want * from the book? Why is he disappointed? A story of expectations. :)

My NYU advisor, a literary theorist who studied directly under Derrida, Victoria Blythe was, in the 70s, married to an actor staring in a play alongside Keaton. One day, Keaton forgot to pack a change of clothes. Victoria loaned Keaton some of her own - trousers, a vest, a hat.

fuck...

Lauren Elkin on an understudied de Beauvoir.

Alice Notley, from 'The Descent of Alette'

W.S. Merwin, from 'Berryman' 'if you have to be sure don't write'