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Tired enough I almost googled a text message instead of sending it.

Since many of you asked here’s the foundational books I handed to the young writer. Foundational to me means I like to believe they’ve had an impact on my own fiction*. I’ve reread these many times, and most of these are quoted in my own novels. What’s to be learn from them? 🧵

Fleur Jaeggy and Ingeborg Bachmann Vienna, 1970

and AI chatbots and SAP Concur

🧵: “Jenin, Jenin,” 2002 (dir. Mohammed Bakri)

from an email Etel Adnan wrote to me on August 30, 2011:

There is a new Involutions of the Seashell I need to post. When I'm back at the laptop tonight, it will be in your hands and heads. I start by quoting Susan Stewart.

Politicians posting about working people on Labor Day who never use the words "unions,' "class," or lowercase-l "labor" and vote against every law that supports workers, analogous to posting MLK quotes without ever supporting anti-racist legislation.

As promised. Link in profile.

Amid an outbreak of polio, Israel kills the head of the laboratory department at the Ministry of Health

“Only fragments are accurate.” — Lyn Hejinian, My Life

life altering movie

Please take a chance to read the most recent Involutions of the Seashell on entropy, the possibility of language's fidelity through its impossibility, & the catalog of all things in Marguerite Young's Miss MacIntosh, My Darling. The most fun I've had writing about MMMD so far.

I had to order this from Switzerland. There's no distribution of it in any form in the United States.