i am a day late, but i am quitting bluesky for lent. i will try to write more at my blog--you can subscribe here: shooktownreview.substack.com
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celebrate valentine's day by reading this thing i wrote last year about geoffrey chaucer: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/parliament...
Parliament Fowladelic
I apologize for the title
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would you like to read, six months after the piece came out, my thoughts on kelefa sanneh's article about whether music critics are too nice? well, have i got the url for you: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/sweet-thur...
Sweet Thursday
A long walk about music criticism, context, and the album I've listened to the most in the last six months (and also John Steinbeck)
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would you like to read, six months after the piece came out, my thoughts on kelefa sanneh's article about whether music critics are too nice? well, have i got the url for you: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/sweet-thur...
Sweet Thursday
A long walk about music criticism, context, and the album I've listened to the most in the last six months (and also John Steinbeck)
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Five classes I took in college: 1) Great Big Books 2) Hegel: Freedom and History 3) Wonder 4) Plato's Socrates and the Sophists 5) Samuel Johnson and the Literary Tradition
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 8mo agoNever mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1). Heterodox Global Political Economy 2). Television and Black Struggle 3). Marguerite Duras (en francais) 4). The Frankfurt School 5). Calculus III
“This final disruption gives us a small way to learn from the past—to just look at all of it; to try to find meaning as we can, and to hope for better results when we chisel our own runes onto rocks.” Matthew Schratz revisits “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart.”
B-Sides: Lydia Millet’s “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart” - Public Books
Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for
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How do we make meaning from history? Lydia Millet’s 2005 novel “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart” offers a path forward when history “means too much.”
B-Sides: Lydia Millet’s “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart” - Public Books
Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for
publicbooks.org
“The novel forces us to contemplate the gap between the meaning of three nice men who want the world to forswear nuclear weapons, and three men who brought about a world in which a relatively small number of atoms can reduce cities to nearly nothing.”
B-Sides: Lydia Millet’s “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart” - Public Books
Nowadays, if you wish to seek the wisdom of past ages—to look for wisdom or help from Socrates or Machiavelli or Abraham Lincoln—there is ChatGPT for
publicbooks.org
I wrote a B-Side at Public Books, about Lydia Millet's great Oh Pure and Radiant Heart--enjoy!
Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 8mo agoNew at PB: In our latest B-Side, @mattschratz.bsky.social revisits Lydia Millet’s beautiful and bizarre “Oh Pure and Radiant Heart.”
now that studios are apparently never going to make a good movie again, my strategy of neglecting to watch most movies has paid off--there will be plenty that's new to me
my favorite part in "who's on first" is when costello exhibits his frustration by yelling "SAME AS YOU!" at abbott
my dog is not doing well with daylight savings time at all
for years, people have demanded to know: what do i think the henry james story "the beast in the jungle" has in common with the wordlebot? well, i am finally ready to tell you: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/what-is-it...
What Is It Like to Be a Bot in the Jungle?
James, Nagel, WordleBot
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for years, people have demanded to know: what do i think the henry james story "the beast in the jungle" has in common with the wordlebot? well, i am finally ready to tell you: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/what-is-it...
What Is It Like to Be a Bot in the Jungle?
James, Nagel, WordleBot
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i am worried that i am not going to "get" the band geese
i bet your life is great if you really love the tv show DEXTER
sometimes i spin around to get the lee child paperback that's behind the couch: that's when i revolve for my reacher
i have been working on this for a really long time: i have revivified my blog to write about vladimir nabokov's pnin, and why i find it good to think about currently: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/the-unethi...
The Unethical Avalanche
How Nabokov helps me think about living among lies
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i have been working on this for a really long time: i have revivified my blog to write about vladimir nabokov's pnin, and why i find it good to think about currently: shooktownreview.substack.com/p/the-unethi...
The Unethical Avalanche
How Nabokov helps me think about living among lies
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i used to get emails from laura gillen's dumb campaign asking for money all the time, and i was generally mad (i am not in her district or anything) and now that i know that she sucks, i'm specifically mad!
people should be less proud of how fucking lazy and cruel they are
I try not to be hyperbolic but this is the single worst comic I have ever seen in my entire life.
a further humiliation of all of us, and of language, that we are asked to call this stupid and hateful thing "the one big beautiful bill"
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fights about whether gen x is cool, or millennials are the only legitimately sad people, or whatever, remind me of a reading group where we talked about malcolm harris's theory of millennials in KIDS THESE DAYS for like an hour; and we noticed that my adviser had not said anything (1/2)
the "cute adults" of the white house press correspondents dinner are all genuinely evil people and it makes me extremely unhappy to have to see them
if i hated the people of michigan and thought they were too stupid to know what "oligarchy" means, i would simply not be their senator