Wrote about desiring a profound experience of art and also resembling the subjects in a Gaugin painting while the docent describes them as "brown and somewhat Asian" and "not pornographic" isabelacervantes.substack.com/p/brown-and-so…

Black friday is like: $20 off a $1.2K iPhone

The look in her eyes

#NewProfilePic don't mind my chapped lips

December is for subtle (sometimes tragic) magic: Fanny & Alexander The Double Life of Véronique Dancer in the Dark In The Mood for Love Certified Copy The Juniper Tree My Neighbor Totoro Wings of Desire A Little Princess Synecdoche, New York The Clouds of Sils Maria Holy Motors

"I ate cricket but avoided the tarantula" — me, Mexico City, 12/08/2024

My boyfriend is very happy I missed the Iowa NWP deadline

Lee Chang-dong wrote a short story for the NYer

Thank you Twitter AI for this objective description of my talents

Thank you Sasha for doing this. I am 1/108. Go support.

Morzhi Soviet winter swimmers playing chess on ice, USSR, 1969.

Yo, Ellena Basada , you probably know this, so--this is Edmund White in 1993, writing about Hervé Guibert, using the word autofiction to describe some of his work. Who was the first to use that term? White? I'm curious. It's really rainy here.

I promise I want to hang out with you, I'm just in the middle of finding a lease in NYC while winds blow a constant 50 mph making 20° feel like 0°

Some genius has made a Pauline Kael Letterboxd

Clarice Lispector when asked about her books being relatable/understood by people

It is always an astute pleasure to consider VI KHI NAO 's work. This time, for The Adroit Journal <3 theadroitjournal.org/2025/01/20/a-r…

Ellena Basada (Ellena Basada) reviews VI KHI NAO's THE ITALY LETTERS today The Adroit Journal. Melville House theadroitjournal.org/2025/01/20/a-r…

"What is the belief that drives her, if not that memory is a form of knowledge?"—Annie Ernaux, A Girl's Story

Removing the exclamation poiint from my personal lexicon, for professional reasons