"The experience of reading the story is very different from the experience of reading a brief summary of the story." On David Foster Wallace: hypocritereader.com/15/inside-out

"When I felt that tickle of arousal or embodiment that horror managed to evoke through fear, I knew I was also somehow near to my desires, however mysterious or perverse." hypocritereader.com/101/a-transsex…

"Whenever I read Maggie Nelson I think to myself how can it be." On jealousy and art: hypocritereader.com/75/the-red-par… #literature #essays #litmag #writing #writers #longreads

"There is a life-size statue of Ronald McDonald that takes up most of an indoor bench. I have not had time alone for, maybe two weeks? and I am crying into my McDouble..." The life and times of a Hypocrite Reader editor: hypocritereader.com/101/facing-the…

"There is a joke, common amongst artists and cynics, that you can make something interesting by making it huge." The #art of scale: hypocritereader.com/20/casting-lig…

"Quinoa was her favorite grain today, but it’d likely be on the toxic list next month." On diets and power: hypocritereader.com/42/panic-in-th… #food #cuisine #cooking #culture #memoir #longreads

"You are heterosexual. That’s not important." hypocritereader.com/9/retrograde-a…

"In their sheer weightlessness, the couplets read like the bones of a skeletal architecture." Tessa Cheek on translating Pizarnik: hypocritereader.com/21/portable-wo…

"While excavating pleasure within a standard form contract is an act of reading against the grain uncommon to the legal method, doing so is necessary if we are to provide a psychoanalysis of the law and untangle its subterranean motives." hypocritereader.com/100/the-sadoma…

"The iconic image supersedes the artwork or the designed object in significance because we are far more likely today to be exposed to representations of art and design than to the things themselves." hypocritereader.com/20/casting-lig…

"Not wanting to feel inferior to the city, you walk miles from one neighborhood to another and pretend not to feel the bones of your feet rolling against thin soles." Tessa Cheek on Buenos Aires: hypocritereader.com/21/portable-wo…

"The case of Mistress Lauren draws me because it dramatizes my recurrent and evolving thesis that 'legal role play' is not confined to the sadomasochistic realm." When #kink goes to court: hypocritereader.com/100/the-sadoma… #law #bdsm #kink #sex #essays

"The #prison guard union's willingness to engage in illegal tactics & its focus on protecting its members from accountability for brutality against inmates explains why Rikers remains extraordinarily violent." hypocritereader.com/72/state-viole… #police #nyc #rikers #law #legal #violence

"The two once lived as a single entity. It was only following the creature’s obvious alienation from each of its fellows that it was sundered into two." On Adam and Eve: hypocritereader.com/3/snakes-on-a-… #literature #gender #religion #jewish #judaism

"Being able distinguish art from all-that-is-not-art has certain comedic uses." On #art and #design: hypocritereader.com/20/casting-lig…

"The labor struggles of class and race-segregated camps, populated by foreign and Saudi workers alike, were of the many histories that Saudi authorities would erase in their mission to monopolize power." hypocritereader.com/99/archives-of…

"You remember standing on Avenida Corrientes in a cold midnight, netted between a thousand or two other students blocking the street." Tessa Cheek on Buenos Aires: hypocritereader.com/21/portable-wo…

"Art, like porn, is something that you recognize when you see, though art elicits perhaps more cynical scorn." hypocritereader.com/20/casting-lig…

"Words are the raw material of communication because they are the raw material of the dynamic, relational self." Tessa Cheek on translation: hypocritereader.com/21/portable-wo…

"Just imagine a universe where you walk up to a real human and tell them your exercise for the week and get rewarded with a small token of achievement, such as a sticker for your cubicle." On gamification: hypocritereader.com/17/gamification #economics #technology