A brief but harmless period of weightlessness
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I like books and music and things like that. Design Flaw (Acre), The Invisibles (University of Georgia). Novel forthcoming from 7.13 in 2027. Beacon, NY (He/Him)
When you realize that it has in fact been years since there was something fun to look at on a phone, and yet here you are
Jonathan Chait: [Jonathan Chaits] Jonathan Chait: hold my beer
Wrote about a great Kelly Link story (link in reply)
I sure hope they find a nice farm upstate where he can spend his last years in peace and, you know, a gigantic hoodie
Well, this, naturally, *provided* we are saying the 90s includes 1992
One difference between this and 2008 is we now have recalibrated the collective death drive to monetize legacy press basically live-streaming the collapse
Pic hits a little differently now, doesn’t it
There are a lot of perfect passages and paragraphs in this novel. This one is among my favorites
He jumps in light and in shadow and he is a great favorite. He never sleeps, the joey. He is jumping, jumping. He says that he will never die.
Miriam: you must be fun at parties cephrad:
Probably something like “history’s revenge”
From Edward P Jones’s “Resurrecting Methusalah,” an elegant, mysterious, and sometimes very funnily (if painfully) ironic story that offers a big-picture view of the way(s) one family comes apart. Fascinating story from a collection that showcases how fiction can ask powerful, haunting questions
Meanwhile npr is running a free ad for ai featuring a former heritage foundation guy they identify strictly as an academic. His take? The future of work is “everyone will be the ceo of their own fleet of ai agents.” Sweet vision of even worse computer-induced collective psychosis
Unfortunate (accidental?) misspelling of “Brigham Young” here
He resembles one of the orcs from Ralph Bakshi’s Lord of the Rings
Know who else wants to make life more affordable for everyday Americans?
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These water carriers remind me of the kid on the left in this photo
Susan Neville’s essay “Where’s Iago?” is pretty rad
I had a hunch these guys had the support of Big Chair