It warms my heart to learn Joy Williams and Annie Dillard were friends and went camping together
Joyce Carol Oates is 88 years old, guys. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
Everyone except Berta in Hedda Gabler
BeijingPalmer@beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4d agoa good question here; what are your favorite artistic depictions of evil, realistically or otherwise? I've mentioned my admiration for @abraham.bsky.social's Geder in THE DAGGER AND THE COIN series before - essentially 'what if a Gamergate guy but in a fantasy universe.'
I’ll bet Astral Weeks goes crazy when you’re six beers deep and Irish
Struggling to imagine that there could be more than one guy in the world named Dwight Yoakam. Singular name for a singular dude
Southern state highway towns often have a sense of planned obsolescence, like they were built to be abandoned without much fuss. Not the old crossroads towns, the settlements between the crossroads.
Might be coming around a bit on Sierra Ferrell. I thought at first glance she was being marketed as an alt-country honky tonk pinup, but a freighthopping Appalachian crustpunk who cleans up and gets back into stomp and holler type stuff is actually a very legible character to me.
Cranking Endtroducing… in my 2013 Town & Country as my children mutter chopped, washed, unc, etc. from the backseat. Probably. I can’t hear them.
Great excuse to show you all the single hottest photo ever taken of a human man
Le Cagle@lecagle.bsky.social · last yr.Yeah I have a type
"Bring back the WASPs" is something you say if you've never met a very interesting, high-energy WASP with the moral instincts of a junk yard dog.
computer, fuzzed out riffs 8 hour headphone mix. louder. computer…louder
place yourself on the IPA continuum Pine Grapefruit Resin —————————-Juice
Sorry for being a weepy lib about this but seeing people post their favorite Annie Dillard pieces one day and then being inundated by tech billionaire pervert news the next has got me contemplating the Void
I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
Annie Dillard and the Writing Life - The Morning News
Writers aren’t born, they’re made—from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.
themorningnews.org
RIP. Hard to think of a writer who has more directly influenced the way I try to look at the world
If you were picking 4-5 short to medium length novels for an American Lit survey (1865-present), what would they be? (Mostly non-majors taking a gen-ed requirement. Trying to see if I can get away with not using an anthology.)
Genuinely thinking about learning Greek so I know what you guys are talking about half the time
Greatest song lyric prompt is going around again - impossible, borderline nonsense question - but this is my favorite line *today*
Closing down the municipal pool for the season on Labor Day. The dog days are numbered.
Chat. Call upon Amida Buddha in faith ten-thousand times to automate my ascent to the Pure Land. Do not hallucinate. Do not make mistakes.
It's been a while since I've heard anything about emotional labor. Where did we finally land on that?
Deathless Aphrodite? Of the spangled mind? Wow, it has been a WHILE, huh. You haven't changed a bit ha ha Aphrodite: What's her name, Sappho