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Writer. Learning to die in the Anthropocene. Teaches @notredame. RT=schizoid howl.

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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to ChatGPT for democratizing the creative process and freeing the written word from humanity’s limitations.

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"Write what you know" was good advice for novelists when most of them had been drafted, or hitchhiked across the country with drug-addled degenerates, or worked as a migrant rancher. It’s bad advice for people who mostly just know how to turn in homework assignments.

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"A dune is never just a dune." Very pleased to have this piece about the Indiana dunes, nature writing, and metaphysics up Emergence Magazine. emergencemagazine.org/essay/strange-…

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The time has come to put the philanthropic telescope away, realise you've wasted a decade feeling empathy for entirely unworthy causes, and start realising that your life, and that of those immediately proximate to you, matters a lot more, and always did.

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"Typhoon Halong was one of the region’s strongest storms on record, picking up extra fuel from a record-breaking marine heat wave spanning the North Pacific Ocean as it raced toward Alaska" washingtonpost.com/weather/2025/1…

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"The mushroom said to me once, it said this is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for the stars.... It's a fire in a madhouse." youtube.com/watch?v=P4EnRN…

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"The question is not how to avert the end, but how to live ethically through it." Great short review of IMPASSE in The TLS from Rhoda Feng. the-tls.com/regular-featur…

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Hey San Francisco! Join me tomorrow night City Lights Books to talk about IMPASSE, civilizational collapse, climate change, and pessimism with Mark Greif. citylights.com/events/roy-scr…

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"It is too convenient to imagine that America’s present upheaval springs from one man’s head. It is also the result of a deeper process, of which Trump is merely a symptom: the ongoing transformation of the American state." yalereview.org/article/dasgup…

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A random reply guy called the late poet Kenneth Koch, whose poem I posted yesterday, "another paid shill by the Koch brothers." 🤣

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Indonesia record heat is unstoppable: Today 26 October it was the hottest night in history for any month at Tanjung Karang (Sumatra) with a minimum temperature of 26.0C