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starting this over—
im going through dylans studio & live output in chronological order (no bootlegs). did it last year and it was one of the v best things ive ever done. ill be posting a comment or three about each album as we go in replies for anyone who wants to listen along.
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cuomo just asked when was the last time you saw the american military deployed against american citizens. burnett says 1807.
lets try wounded knee in 73 and and standing rock in 2016.
the way this country forgets what it does to native people is fucking remarkable.
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there are many things to say about whats happening in the US right now, but the one i return to most is—we are losing narrative coherence at every possible level. every. possible. level.
I try not to let this stuff depress me but, oof, this is very bleak. Not surprising. But bleak.
Reading actual books was about the only thing worth a damn in my secondary school education.
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tfw your kids think and talk like your characters
also why does any writer at this point believe their work will be destroyed when they ask for it to be destroyed
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1/? talked to a palestinian friend tonight who has lost thirty three family members since october. it was a devastating conversation. i dont talk about this much on twitter but i have not stopped thinking about it bc how can you. this is one of the worst things we will witness
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many fiction students right now struggle with irony. not that they dont get it. i mean they feel like its not ok. when a work allows for full and proper irony on a character we get to see all the good and bad and students have been told thats not ok—esp with women/poc characters.
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swifts songs dont come close to matching lanas in terms of complexity or novelty—and lana has a genuine artistic vision. i still cannot for the life of me figure out who taylor is. there are chameleons (bowie) and then there are people who dont seem to have like…an interior.
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no one has ever hit the mark by utterly missing it so perfectly one of the sickest threads of all time 11/10
Charles Bukowski's work will change your life forever.
His work takes 100s of hours to read. I've gone through it so you don't have to.
11 ideas. 11 opportunities to upgrade your mind.
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general thought on what has happened in US fiction— middle class collapses; less and less ppl below umc pursue the arts; also MFA system explodes; more ppl go straight from col to MFA; market is glutted with fiction by ppl who have never been out of school/never had a job. finis.
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you would never know this unless you grew up on a reservation + had studied your own tribal language enough to know its cadences and ways of saying things but: there are people who use english in a way that, to a remarkable degree, mirrors the tribal language they dont speak.
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lily gladstone turned in a once in a lifetime performance for a once in a lifetime role in what may turn out to be the magnum opus by one of the great masters of cinemas. poor things is a childs crayon drawing by comparison.
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its amazing how deeply unpleasurable flying is now. like sometimes i just sit back in amazement at how much it sucks. this is a v pre 9/11 thought but every part of the process start to finish sucks.
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fwiw this is part of the reason the lit world is generally condescending about steinbeck.
Americans should stop teaching Catcher in the Rye & Slaughterhouse 5 in high school so when they read them as adults they can see they’re both fine novels.
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now imagine every kid in this country growing up with an understanding of how these treaties created the US—and not just that they were broken, but how they were broken.
Hundreds of Native American treaties have been scanned and are now available online, for the first time, in our Catalog.
In partnership with The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture (MIAC), you can learn more about these treaties: .
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a raymond carver renaissance is coming. my students—all colors, all genders, everyone—respond to carver like no one else. we do a basic survey of american short stories and hes the only one that utterly silences them. things are gonna change. i can feel it.
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name a book other than 2666 whose cover was not only better matched to its subject matter but whose artist was mentioned in the book itself yes this is just me wanting to talk about 2666.
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high literacy is still the name of the game. i regularly have very smart very literate students but when i get a student who has had an education in the classics they are immediately ahead of the others as writers and readers. the main thing? they have a stronger sense of irony.
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native people and in his experiences with activists and protesters since last fall have baffled him bc none of them want to do the work of connecting the genocide in palestine with the genocide of native people here. i told him this has always been my experience with american
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man. marty and crew got snubbed starting with no nod to leo. i dont think america has any idea how good that film is or how important it is.
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talking about this with a friend who just went on a road trip across the southern part of the US—i do not think people in urban area understand how much the places outside of money centers in america are just…falling apart. and how bad this is for all of us.
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recently thinking that *the* hallmark of high literature is sentences that slow you down a little bit. language that slows your endlessly ranging mind and makes it pay attention to just this one thing. this is nothing new. but it’s one thing to know it and another to get it.
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on rereading 2666—when i got out of grad school i had no idea why i wrote or anyone read. (MFAs can do that to you.) i worked myself to the bone that summer, 12-16 hr days, and every spare minute i had i read 2666. i fell asleep at night with it on my chest...
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in our lifetimes. since the start of genocide he has lost his jobs and has had to move back in with his parents. he is organizing and protesting of course bc how could he not. he also believes his dream of being a professor someday is over in part bc of his experiences with
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with profs in the program he was in and their responses to what he was saying about the genocide. what he said after that surprised me tho. he started talking about how he realized - like really got it - that everything here in this country is connected to the genocide of
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@PetreRaleigh
if i may say…there is something else going on too i think. kids in their early 20s right now seem *particularly* disconnected from the artistic past. like…i had a music stronger sense of reference to the past at that age than these kids do.
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activists. they either do not mention us or if they do they use us as symbols to support their causes and often native people are happy to participate bc it is a chance to help but also a chance to speak where people might actually hear us. but the reality is that we often
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end up feeling used bc american activists never fully engage our issues — the primary one of which is the restoration of our sovereignty — and move on to the next cause. i said this is why so many native people remain reticent during moments like this bc while we have not
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also “they found literary worth in the novel” yeah i bet they fkn did lol
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america just...does not know what to do with its great art. 20th c american literature music film painting architecture transformed the world. yet this sense persists that artists are not doing anything. what are you contributing? protestantism at its finest.
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read this story for the first time last week and was rocked by it as everyone said i would be. changed my understanding of how time can work in fiction.
Mar. 13 story: “Going for a Beer” by Robert Coover
Reread & marking this up for class today…
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the reality of the artists task and the highest purpose of art is so simple we cant help but lose track of it.
Borges, near the end of his life, gives one of the best definitions of a writer's "joyful duty" I've ever heard.
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about it. listening to him i realized he understood my life in a way almost no american ever has and i found myself thinking about what happens to native people who try to engage the systems here and how often it eats them alive and destroys them. ive seen it over and over in my
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and often he is the only one. he said the reason he does this is bc his father who had grown up in palestine (both his parents are palestinian) raised him to think about the fact that he was a settler here and he has never let him forget it and even now he reminds him to think
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literatures weakness is that it takes a long time to produce a good book, making it v not-ideal for responding to the current moment. this is also its greatest strength—this is also why the demand of the last decade for literature to be relevant to the moment was a mistake.
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me nearly speechless. i rarely talk this way in public but my prayer tonight is that the reservation-prison of palestine will be free and that someday somehow palestinians will heal from this and that my friend does not destroy himself between now and then.
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seen this particular horror we have seen others and whatever the outcome we are always left in the background and v little if anything ever changes for us. he said that he could not stop thinking about it and that he always talks about it at protests and organizing meetings
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my no 1 advice for people thinking about the MFA is...wait until after youre 30. you are guaranteed to have enough life behind you to have something to say. the thing ppl struggled with the most at my MFA was—what to write. 99% of those people were under 30.
general thought on what has happened in US fiction— middle class collapses; less and less ppl below umc pursue the arts; also MFA system explodes; more ppl go straight from col to MFA; market is glutted with fiction by ppl who have never been out of school/never had a job. finis.
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the suffering there is beyond my comprehension. i have nothing else to say.
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i wish the genocide in palestine would turn more americans back to their own history but the reality is it will not. i know this place too well. in the meantime there are people like my friend who have lost so much and the loss is so immediate and vast that talking to him left
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they do that there is no real way forward for america. there simply isnt. protest whatever you want wherever and however you want but until the US turns to face the genocid of native people here there is absolutely no chance of fixing anything. fix up your house however you want
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young artists—you dont have to be activists too. you dont have to be 17 things. its enough to be an artist and your art does not have to be overtly political to matter. your art should be beautiful tho. adding beauty to this world—one of the most important tasks we have.
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so im gonna come of twitter retirement & talk about this "article" re: roanhorse. i have next to no interest in identity issues. youre either related or youre not. youve either done the work to learn about your tribe or you havent. and that goes for both on- and off-rezzers.
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life. almost everyone i know finds a way to mitigate their rage about our situation or they end up bitter in a way that ruins their lives and often the lives of their families. the thing about this i have said this many times in my life but this was one of the only times i knew
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i really encourage young writers to read as much as they possibly can. you get into your 40s and even if you dont have kids etc like me life just takes everything from you it can and its reading that gets lost in the shuffle and all you hear all day is the clock ticking faster.
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something we will live with to our graves and there is no way around that and we will all have to find some way to contend with it. but what a lot of these protesters dont seem to grasp is that they have not yet begun to deal with the original shadow over this country. and until
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its still built on a grave yard and everyone knows it. talking to my friend reminded me that i am the product of genocide and that there is no way around that no matter how much i do or dont think about it. its just a fact of my life and i was fortunate enough to find a way to
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genuinely heard and understood. many people protesting this genocide understand that this will mark our lives forever regardless of what we do or dont and regardless of what happens after this. we are witnessing ethnic cleansing and this country is supporting it and this is
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got to hang with two of my favorite people yesterday before i head back to work. never enough time at home. never enough time with the ones you love.
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for certain that the person i was talking to understood me. it was a relief to hear someone talk about the problem with american protesters in a way that made perfect sense to me. it was a profoundly moving conversation for me and i realized how rarely in my life ive felt
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idk who needs to hear this but native nations do not need to perfectly align themselves with liberal or leftist views in order to gain support from those liberals and leftists. our sovereignty is more important than your views. we will decide those things for ourselves.
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met some writers a few months ago who were so “in” the writing world. their entire sense self worth was bound up in it. they would not give me the time of day until they realized i was talking at the same event. if i ever end up like that i need someone to do the following:
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hear me out—what if americans were never going to be the best at STEM? what if american culture was always best at producing people who excelled in the liberal arts? what if all this time and money spent on promoting STEM was the like the year jordan spent playing baseball?
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we traditionally rode dogs before the horse came. and...we were...much smaller. thats a full grown man you see pictured. 🧐
A Blackfoot / Siksika boy on a dog. Name unknown, early 1900s. Photo by Walter McClintock.
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the place you dont want to go is the place you have to go
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this is as viral as ill ever get so: ndns who dont talk the end of blood quantum laws and the full restoration of sovereignty to indigenous nations are avoiding *the overriding* issues for native people today for the sake of likes and airtime, aka white-people attention. period.
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best/favorite short story collections from the last decade? looking for recs.
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why do people in the arts—artists, critics, etc.—struggle with or reject the idea of hierarchy. the idea that some works of art are better than others. what is the difficulty. its related to the v much contemporary fear of making a quality judgment. why tho?
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watching people talk to lily over the past month honestly has been shocking. in the end what its about is americans still have no idea what to do with native people so they just say dumb shit. couple that with the idea shes new to acting and needs shepherding and…¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Interviewers try not to be total dipshits to Lily Gladstone challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
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this is why so much fiction feels "the same"—not bc everyone went to MFAs (workshop naturally pushes things to the middle; good writers break out of this) but bc most people in MFAs (the ones submitting/publishing) have spent little time outside of academia/white collar america.
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work with that pain without killing myself either by suicide or slowly with addiction and destructive behavior the way a lot of people i know have. this is not me asking for pity - i have zero interest in it. catharsis isnt interesting to me. understanding and knowledge are and
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gonna say a thing here—carefully lol. we should not have invested to the degree we did in identity-focused works in american fiction. the relentless focus on difference encouraged writers of color to be deeply concerned their their own specialness. rather than finding the…
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“good art is a colonial construct.”
people who say this dont realize how insulting it is to, say, my blackfoot ancestors. as if they had no standards for their art. as if they didnt care how things looked. sometimes the anti colonial discourse gets really fkn stupid really fast.
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america says if youre not working yourself to the bone then youre not worth a shit—but art requires exile and cunning, silence and retreat, long fallow periods of inactivity, sometimes years outside the light of attention. the capacity to follow your internal compass.
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underread masterpiece. the first collection of stories i read. strange and dark and idiosyncratic and ambiguous in the exact right way.
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its time to talk—really fucking talk—about how the theft / forceful-acquisition of indigenous lands and resources *is* genocide.
why? bc our identities are inextricable from the land.
just because theyre not holding a gun to our heads doesn't mean theyre not killing us.
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what are peoples thoughts on why fiction writers are producing so much less work than in the past, say up into the 80s but moreso w/r/t the writers of the early part of the 20th c. for the most part we dont have major writers who publish 10, 15, 20+ books anymore.
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i think there are certain writers who require a higher degree of maturity/experience not just to grasp what theyre doing but to be stunned by insights—alice munro is very much one of these. who are others?
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what work of lit would you go to the mat for. its gonna be some minor/weirder/lesser known. nobodys going to the mat for war & peace but maybe haji murat. not the old man and the sea but def the light of the world. cheevers death of justina. augustus over stoner. what is it.
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what a thing to hear lily say edward north piegans name at the golden globes. he was the first blackfoot speaker many of us from our part of the rez learned from. he was a wonderful man. we all miss him.
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and i say this as someone who really likes some of swifts tracks. but they hit like…candy. lana rolls in like a spring storm. i can still feel them long after theyve passed.
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this is turning into the poor mans “shakespeare was fifteen people.”
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kafka is so unimpeachably great and significant and sick af. there are at best like a handful of writers like this…if you say theyre bad or overrated we should just be able to throw you in the river lol. i really mean this. how do we get this legislation passed. who do we call.
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many non-native responses to flower moon fall into the camp of being very disturbed by the facts of the story. but if youre native you grew up with it. the things that make the film hard for non-native viewers are the the things that often make it hard for native people to live.
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the writing world goes on bc there are countless english teachers and readers and writers who exist outside the spotlight who buy the books and pass them on and think about them and love them read them again. theres no reason for literature without these people.
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those of you who teach, how do you deal with students being on laptops during class? i dont care what anyone says; it disrupts and destroys the continuity of an in class discussion and it negatively impacts learning.
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interested why so many people my age and younger struggle with calling one work of art better than another. its not even about whether its provable. its about a willingness to play the game. instead a lot of people half-playing the game. one foot in one foot 2 cool 4 school.
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tonight we find out if the girl who grew up down the street, who ive known pretty much my whole life, who killed it in KOTFM, wins an oscar. good luck lily g. super proud of you. all of ndn country—except those ones who don’t shower enough—is pulling for you. 👣
#oscars
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lily doesnt know how bad she messed up by mentioning
@DeadDogLake
. now hell never shut up. worst thing you can do is give a ndn man *any* credit. next thing hes got one of those reverse batman smoke bombs: he throws it down and poof he appears in front of any open mic…
Thanks for the shout out
@lily_gladstone
. Our languages are precious and they are the greatest tools for our sovereignty. No one can deny who you are when you speak your language. Where ever you go, no matter how far, those old words carry the vibrations of our ancestors
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spent yesterday in sea ranch—the place denis johnson died. i dont speak this way often, but it is a magical, mysterious place. a piece of ireland in northern CA. i got to witness this and consider what a gift DJs work has been in my life. some writers do impossible things for us.
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your sentences need to be magnetic bc regardless of what hype etc you get on release within very little time your book will vanish into the past. it may be a year or three but after that…99% of books vanish. beauty is your first and last defense against irrelevance.
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thinking about the way people struggle with art being *primarily* about and for beauty and not for politics is very much a symptom of the time. its also about the collapse of the moral—actually, everything—into the political. its the most common symptom of our current anxiety.
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had the honor of interviewing louise erdrich for the paris review. many thanks to anyone who reads it; one of the few writing-related things ive been part of i can unmitigatedly say im proud of.
“By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.”
This week, we’ve unlocked our Art of Fiction interview with Louise Erdrich from the archive. You can read an updated conversation between Erdrich and
@MrHWM
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sacrifices bolano made at the end of his life to finish it. the great works come into our lives like this. they clear the table and tell us to listen. nothing else matters. listen. they find us when we need them most. i think every writer has a book like this.
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re: reminders of rodney king and other moments, im fully aware of my tweets partiality. my point was: the US military in all its forms has been used against ndns since the very beginning. in fact developed its core identity in relation to conflict with indigenous *nations*.
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2666 establishes a tone of dread that runs for nearly a thousand pages and follows you off the end of the last page and never leaves you. there is no book like it and no writer like bolano, one of those facts that becomes clearer and clearer the further we move from his death.
Finished 2666 this morning and it is undeniably a work of genius that also made me more unsettled and upset and uncomfortable than maybe any other book I’ve ever read.
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so few people saying hemingway. he had more capital g great stories in one pinkie than most story writers combined. only a few others at or nearby that level w/r/t output + quality: chekhov, cheever, munro. you simply cant understand the form without hemingway.
Who are the best short stories writers of all time?
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tell me you know absolutely nothing i mean *nothing* about indian country or history or pretty much anything at all. 😂
While I applaud the sentiment, I do question why an indigenous person would fight in the armed forces of a government which destroyed their people and robbed them of their homelands
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louise erdrich is truly one of the best short story writers ever and its a travesty shes not acknowledged as such. her best stories stand up to anything written by the greats. and shes the only american writer qualified to win the nobel in the next 20 yrs—and i think she should.
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was any major literary fiction writer of the 20th c further ahead of the curve than borges? literature seems to be slowly turning his direction in every way but it still feels like we are about a hundred years out from catching up. or we just never will. which is more likely.
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there is a dividing line in the arts. there are people who dont see the point in living if they cant do it—and there are people not like that. my worst fear is dying not having written the things i need to write. career has never meant anything to me. its ok to not feel this way.
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a real question—why does indie publishing exist? like there was no such thing 30 years ago. so why now. is it that we have more writers than ever? is it that the big houses are collapsing into one huge lame house? is it culture no longer supports ars gratia artis?
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one of the most important things i encountered as a younger writer was hugos assertion—in triggering town—that most of what passes for experimentation in writing is just emotional dishonesty. in the nearly 16 years since I read it no statement about writing has held more true.
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one of the weirdest things i see in the writing world is people talking like theres still a status quo/trad vs experimental conflict. man its over baby. its been done. the conflict now is between people who give a fuck about the history of literature and those who don’t.
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some of the most heinous shit i have ever heard about indian country—and i am from it. and what do you know the piece of shit koch family is right there in middle of it. incredible how many american “fortunes” were made thru outright robbery of native nations.
This week, Scorsese releases his film Killers of the Flower Moon: the true story of the mass murder of the Osage and the theft of their oil wealth. But the story doesn’t end when the credits roll. For 27 years, I've been investigating what happened next... 🧵
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trauma narrative rhetoric has done so much damage to native writers. students in my class afraid to write bc they dont want to write trauma. fuck. moby dick is a trauma narrative. the Iliad. hamlet. gatsby. trauma talk is simply the wrong way to look at art for artists.
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i have sympathy for younger people interested in art bc theyve been denied a nonpolitical view on art. they think the only way to talk about art is thru politics. they have no idea there is another much older and time tested way. one that will certainly outlive this moment.
Conservatives are incapable of producing good art because they lack empathy, which means they are incapable of creating anything which communicates to a larger audience. When they try to produce art, they only end up producing clumsy in-group signaling.
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this list of novels is—as im sure many have noted—strange. but there is one book selected by elissa washuta that deserves to be on every list of US novels: winter in the blood. i just read it with some students. even better than stranger than i remember.
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after about three decades of watching myself and other fiction writers work i really think there are two basic dispositions w/r/t how we work—some start with a tone/feeling, some start with an idea. pos 1: inside-out. pos 2: outside-in. both excavate life but from dif directions.
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