In fairness I once had a friend say “you love books? That’s like saying you love DVDs,” and I still get a chuckle out of it.

Hey that’s cool man ok gotta run!

Surely an enterprising editor will assign this to me to review, since I've read every word Wiman has published (poetry & prose), and, a decade ago, wrote the best essay published on him that I've seen. It'd be fun to update my thoughts 10 years later
us.macmillan.com/books/97803746…

“Things being extremely hard to explain using language.” Why is everyone trying to bother me this morning?

I may just be on my fourth day of sleep deprivation, but it seems like a banner day for posting excerpts of bad writing and indicating that you are sighing sweetly.

Imo all of these sentences are bad, because our only inkling of their sense is as ready-made cudgels for polemics about writing. They give the impression of thought, but do not invite it.

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

Sunday

Jacket copy: “It hasn’t been going well.”

For instance: we heard John Zorn’s New Masada Quartet at the Vanguard tonight and it was the greatest musical night of my life.

Deleuze’s reading of Hegel is so excruciatingly bad it can only be explained as a literary reenactment of The Golden Bough.

Just realized I have an answer to that “most conservative opinion” prompt

Ofc this is bait, but always worth noting that jazz is one of the greatest human achievements, a rediscovery and enhancement of baroque variation so capacious that it absorbs and accentuates any other form it touches, including classical tonality. Music of the gods.

Marked decline in The Juice.

The fun never stops with this guy.

Heh, isn’t that odd though? Yet after all, why not? Why should I oversleep and fuck my whole day up?

Incurious, ignorant, hateful little worm.

Excited to launch 'A Closer Look,' The Yale Review's new interactive feature, with a deep dive into Ms. magazine's 1972 debut cover by Maggie Doherty: yalereview.org/article/closer…

I'm glad to see we're seeing a post-Dobbs surge in pro-family legislation that supports parents and kids from the right!

Today is the anniversary of Walter Benjamin's tragic death, an important reminder that you can be unemployable for most of your life, die while trying to flee fascist persecution, and still become an entire publishing niche decades after your death. There is hope, just not for us