James Butler-Gruett
@etinarcadia3go
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Writer | Associate Prof @YorkUNebraska | @ArizonaMFA alum | Writing in @The_Millions, @havehadhavehad, @poetry_london @On_The_Seawall, @EL_DIAGRAM, and others.
Joined April 2018
I wrote about Mark Doten's debut collection, Whites. The piece analyzes Doten's previous novels, Minnesota, Elon Musk, Trump, podcasts, impressions, hatred, and satire. Thank you to @ronslate and @On_The_Seawall! https://t.co/5beRnaQ3J8
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Shirley Jackson: "Vicky had great, long-lashed dark eyes which she disguised, as though it were a joke between herself and the beholder, with heavy-rimmed glasses."
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Baron Corvo: "'Oh!' George ejaculated, suddenly sitting down, and staring like the martyr who, while yet the pagan pincers were at work upon his tenderest internals, beheld the angel-bearers of his amaranthine coronal."
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Baron Corvo: "'That was the gossip of my fellow-students, immature cubs mostly, hybrid larrikins given to false quantities and nasal cacophonies."
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Shirley Jackson: "She looked fatter sitting down, but the wide lawn around her was becoming, and she wore it with dignity."
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BREAKING: Google announces partnership with Polymarket, odds will be integrated into Search & Google Finance.
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Rickey Laurentiis: "(Behind the face, the Soul's a process.)"
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Great painting. It’s amazing how it made people flip their lids at the time. Dickens said Millais made Mary “so hideous in her ugliness that ... she would stand out from the rest of the company as a Monster, in the vilest cabaret in France, or the lowest gin-shop in England.”
When this painting was first exhibited in 1850, there was an outcry. Even Dickens hated it. The idea of Jesus as a red-headed boy, barefoot in the sawdust, showing Mother his well-placed wound was... radical. Not only does the painting depict Christ's humanity and divinity but
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Cervantes: “I’d rather lie down in the shade of an oak tree in summer and wrap myself in an old bald sheepskin in winter, in freedom, than lie between linen sheets and wear sables, subject to a governorship.”
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Virginie Despentes: "Read my lips: I'd rather die than do Pilates."
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Virginie Despentes: "Nowadays people will put up with provocation only from those with power. But it's not fun when it comes from the top down. Wreaking havoc is only fun when you're a filthy little rat."
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"I have always been an omnivorous consumer of books, and now, as in my boyhood, a vision of the night's lamplight on a bedside tome is a promised treat and a guiding star throughout the day."—Vladimir Nabokov
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There's so many poems from Jose Olivarez that I love and admire, this one is my current favorite:
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C.S. Lewis: "Higher degrees in the asceticism of anti-Nature would doubtless follow: the eating of abominable food, the dabbling in dirt and blood, the ritual performances of calculated obscenities."
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Cervantes: "God help us, for the entire world is nothing but tricks and deceptions opposing one another."
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Had so much fun talking with @gabbydozal and @rhymeswithbee last night!! Posting link below.
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9:30 Eastern!
Going live with @gabbydozal and @rhymeswithbee in an hour to talk One Battle After Another, the U.S.-Mexico border, poetry, and Pynchon.
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Going live with @gabbydozal and @rhymeswithbee in an hour to talk One Battle After Another, the U.S.-Mexico border, poetry, and Pynchon.
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I don’t care about the concept of performative reading at all like I’m just happy you’re reading
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