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i kind of get now why pooh bear was always saying “oh dear” all the time—i’m the same way
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texting all my white friends “heard about rbg 😔 damn that’s crazy.. lmk if you need anything ✊🏿” like they did me when the protests were at their height
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you in her DMs im in her work cited page, we are not the same
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i love it when a girl has a little project she’s been working on
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we need a word for when clothes you rely on to feel stylish or whatever suddenly lose their power, so that when you wear them again you feel as if a disgraced aristocrat now made to work the bazaar fruit or fish stand, in what he hopes is quiet anonymity and not recognizable ruin
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this pandemic has been STIFLING for those of us who like to charm and flirt
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vampire weekend where tf are you.. i need you to make a song titled gwyneth paltrow
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a girlfriend is sort of like a minor god, a household deity who must be pleased and appeased lest generational curses be incurred
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a scene from today’s mass, intergenerational demonstration in bay ridge
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people who read at bars must love to make two pages’ progress every thirty minutes
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NO ONE dares to say it but lisa frank, precisely because she is sontag’s entire esthetic opposite, is as well her ludic twin: distended replica of her persona, deformed and corrupted into a churlish kind of chirality with susan
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so funny to me when people speak of “run-on” sentences—like oh, you mean GOOD WRITING??
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the hottest girls have always somewhere to be, at which to appear, their presence expected, with: a garment to return, an appointment to keep, a lesson to take (barre; pilates), friends to meet and whose company to keep, until the final homeward trek where routines await—and rest
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my first allegiance is to my friends, of course! then to aesthetics. next literature, the workers, women, history, pleasure, wit, and finally fate.
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this reads just like a Mitski song
Exactly 168 years since Leo Tolstoy wrote the greatest diary entry of all time.
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I ❤️ how The Cut’s like, What if the most profitable magazine was not only basically a tabloid but one devoted to the lives of odious, addled strangers with blunted, bleary senses of self who for our entertainment were tricked into divulging all manner of unflattering confidence
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phoebe bridgers stans are now charging me on venmo for insulting her lol
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Anne Boyer resigns as New York Times Magazine’s Poetry Editor: “I can’t write about poetry amid the ‘reasonable’ tones of those who aim to acclimatize us to this unreasonable suffering. No more ghoulish euphemisms. No more verbally sanitized hellscapes. No more warmongering lies”
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Everything Everywhere All at Once must be nice if you like art to pander, flatter your vanities, authorize your attitudes, preserve you from exposure to anything that is not a positivist jamboree with the pacifying succor of pert little morals—so many readymades—lying in store
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In fact she’s more specific than that: “When we only name the problem, when we state complaint without a constructive focus on resolution, we take away hope. In this way critique can become merely an expression of profound cynicism, which then works to sustain dominator culture.”
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i try not to tweet before 9:30AM—that’s when the new york stock exchange opens. who knows what unforeseen effect my words might have, what international implications...
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sorry but the person with the ACAB tote in which A stands for açaí and B for berries deserves our derision! we in fact *ought* to be bitchy and disgruntled as we witness the slogans of our struggle transform to the stuff of neolib parody… plus, bitchiness is a good Left quality!
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the hot people on here should post more photos, the clever people should write more tweets, and we who are both—well we have twice the responsibility don’t we
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in the first year of the pandemic i watched GIRLS and gained total glittering comprehension of the white women of the generation directly above me, writing the books now appearing; in the second year i’m watching 30 Rock, and learning about the older white women, who dont hire me
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i just think women deserve some more recognition for the little outfits they wear
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Joan Didion…was an answer to the recession of poise and intellect from our lives. Polish, exactitude, remove: of these she made an atelier. Novelty and anomaly, too, were at her disposal, never far off. She was the West’s reluctant First Lady, armed with charm and bizarre acuity
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someone should write a novel of a woman getting both too much and too little—from experience, lovers, wonted satisfactions—and who’s devoted her life to a casual kind of philosophical inquiry but is no better for it, for though she’d make a project of her life she’s too alienated
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Stephen Sondheim rescued American musical theater from its own flippancy, its disbelief and even ignorance regarding its ability. His dramaturgy was a catharsis, or an exorcism, in which the recombinant materials of our present fused, split off, then struck us, there in our seats
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i think our parties should feature at least one round of spin the bottle… the potential for drama, the disinterring of so much unacknowledged, illicit feeling—it’d be so clarifying for our relations, and obviously cathartic. who cares what it complicates, things are growing dull
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besides a fascist, the worst thing a person can be is a bad guest
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is it just me or do most men lead lives of quiet desperation
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the “hot girl” as an category of being is at risk of becoming both semantically overdetermined and totally fucking meaningless
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One thing they don’t tell you about Neo in the Matrix is that his last name is Liberalism
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i have so many memes of Future on my phone that its software began to recognize his face—and then to make this memorializing video...
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Everything Everywhere All at Once represents a huge win for ChatGPT, which couldn’t be there to accept the award in screenwriting
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women who have shared a lover are eventually so kind to one another, it’s amazing
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if u think about it, we all occupy the same ontological position: waiting on gunna and solange to collab
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people don’t allow themselves the pleasure of being disagreeable anymore... to make a scene, to take offense and have preposterous predilections—nobody does it well anymore!
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all the hottest people i know are at the cinemas seeing Zola or F9 or both
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the reason is that women are usually beautiful and men usually ugly. this tendency explains occurrences of the same phenomenon across really all disciplines
Has anyone ever figured out why it’s only beautiful women and ugly men that become writers?
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lana really made an album whose first words are “you fucked me so good that i almost said i love you” like ok ENERGY
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phoebe bridgers gave a pun so atrociously facile and ineloquent—so egregiously trite and immature—about having “emotional motion sickness” and everyone just catapulted her to stardom lol. fine, by that token i have, uhhh…synesthesia anesthesia! ok now where’s my celebrity, hmm?!
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What, today, is middle-brow? The obvious: HBO, Warren, The New Yorker, films by Baumbach, podcasts, veganism, merch, documentaries, etc. Less evident: “peaceful protest,” master’s degrees, the late Janet Malcolm, salad, summer (as verb), midcentury modern, Claudia Rankine, et al.
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rip philip seymour hoffman, you would have made a great bunny corcoran in an adaptation of the secret history
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i’m not proud of the things i post online… i do this because i’m compelled to, by external forces beyond my ken or control
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it’s the most excruciating thing, not having someone to call while you walk somewhere
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didion in 1961:
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the most fucked up thing you can do with a phd is put it in your bio
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why is a forthcoming bookforum review being circulated as a low-res, byline-redacted screenshot of a screenshot like some sort of trafficked and imported contraband otherwise unavailable in our country. and only two excerpts from it at that! like the fucking fragments of sappho
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being someone’s ex is like being the diplomat from a country that no longer exists
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Paul Schrader, from his book Transcendental Style in Film, written when he was twenty-four(!)
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i feel sorry for liberals, who seem to take SNL for a branch of the government
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when both members of a couple follow me it’s like—okayyyy so you want a threesome
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not about anyone particular but i thought the whole draw of being a grad student or some other gainfully unemployed person (sugar baby, scion, luftmensch, sinecurist, flaneur) was to attend matinees and political demonstrations with equal frequency—yet some of you are…not?
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GOOD MORNING TO ZADIE SMITH’S HUSBAND WRITING A POEM TITLED MISCEGENATION HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
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many “allies” and “comrades” in solidarity with the project of black liberation arrive at that “commitment” by way of their own awe at what they perceive as the nobility of our suffering—a framework which will always rely on our abuse for their renewals of energy and dedication
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Edward Said being Obama's teacher is an irony almost too large to assimilate—and thus entirely apropos. Treachery like his is a theme of Palestinians' dealings with the West, which seems only to want to make a mockery of them, reducing even their tutelage and discourse to rubble.
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love when a 28 year old acts 25 (people over 30 will have no clue what this means)
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i don’t follow people on instagram because they’re hot, i do it because i want to know what their relationship to the tyranny of images is—whether it’s one of submission, contravention, collaboration, whatever
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Richard Brody is one of like three intellectuals remaining of the New Yorker's writing staff. Contrariness is not the mark of his prose--of his views--but dissidence, unorthodoxy, disdain for convention or truism. We should be so lucky to make such ruthless critique of everything
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one’s aim in life should not be to do well (unimaginative), to earn large sums and salaries (vulgar), to pursue the obvious pleasures (assimilationist)—but to cultivate mystique, to tread lightly, wear perfumes, and stir up feelings of devotion and enchantment among all you meet
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phoebe bridgers isn’t gay????? then why’s she so annoying 🤔
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im going as a liberal for halloween, anyone have a spare “i voted” sticker
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i’m sorry but she is my FAVORITE scammer, i’m writing her into my novel
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wearing clothes is not the same as having an outfit, when will you people understand!
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i’m sorry but phoebe bridgers is the least interesting thing about sza’s album and if she’s all that you find worth mentioning about it you’re anti-black!
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you fr have to be on some freak shit to use a highlighter on a book
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oh my god if you losers are upset that some people are reared with hereditary prerogatives the likes of which we tend to associate with aristocracy, then boy do i have the book for you
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for an entire monograph of a francophone’s withering observations of our vulgarity, try this
“With your first experience in Vegas — what did you think?”
“On earth, it’s probably the closest thing to a dystopia.” - Victor Wembanyama 😂
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there is no way of being chic in LA... all that ended with Didion
being depressed in LA is much chicer than being depressed in NYC
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she out deschaneled zooey i fear
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the greatest job in all of recorded history was probably the video store clerk
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If you’re a contributor-turned-conscientious-objector to Artforum, Poetry Foundation’s POETRY magazine, or The New York Times Magazine—as indeed all their writers should be—I’d be glad to consider your pitch or on spec work as you find somewhere else to place it: lake
@harpers
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sad that so many of you seem to be intimidated by syllables
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bell hooks: there was someone for whom words were never inapt, inept. her literature was a terminal for thinking-feeling; everything was there: the distribution of death, by state or fate; accounts of heroes and of marathoners in the dowdy lounge of history
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the Columbia kids graduated when they pitched their tents, having committed alma matricide; they crown a valedictorian with every arrestee and political prisoner; each rallying cry is their commencement speech; their plein air school confers not a humanities but a humanist degree
Greta Gerwig is supposed to speak at Barnard convocation. IMO, she should boycott until, and if, the students terms are met
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this has the look of the sort of image you’d find replicated and stretched across the book jacket of a university text, a volume entitled something like—
Deliquescent Ontologies: (En)Gendering Corporeal Peril in the Anthropocene (Duke UP, 2023)
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can’t wait to turn 27, begin a serious relationship whose trials and adventures in public or private i’ll refract through my university-acquired politics and regimes of thought (respectively Marxism and affect theory) and think: “what these circumstances call for is autofiction!”
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mention of labor is conspicuously absent—because work is for the women i know the least occupying thing that they do, the most minor of their endeavors
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along with a recess for lunch, the american workday should include one for the pursuit of the small errands requisite to sustaining a life
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