Made an “office” in our tiny closet to lock myself in every morning until I get my pages done

Quiet poem by Sam Cooke

selections from Nicolette Polek's Twitter
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So many people become what their detractors say they are

There are always 1-2 men sitting alone in their cars in the Whole Foods parking lot near me, looking at their phones or sitting silently and staring straight ahead

'The nostalgic vision of a wonderful world is . . . an eviscerating one that . . . ruins our ability to attend to the broken one we’re given.'
Stephanie Yue Duhem + Nicolette Polek discuss Polek's debut novel, BITTER WATER OPERA (@GraywolfPress): full-stop.net/2024/05/07/int…

I write ~90% more volume than I publish. I’ve written 2.5 unpublished novels, a story collection, countless other unpublished stories, essays, poems — many of them basically edited and finished — and many half-baked drafts, since ~2017.

Never read Zadie Smith, but she declined blurbing The Novelist. I’m not saying she deserves the vitriol, but sometimes our refusal to do what is right comes back to haunt us in unexpected ways.

I absolutely love this ad

Apple just totally owning its role as arch-leveler — flattening all of human experience into a screen, Total Screen, destroying books, music, art — everything uniquely human — until finally it explodes a head and its eyes pop out.

Reminds me of P

Didn’t close water bottle all the way in Uber, so it was slowly pouring out onto where I was sitting, and I courteously soaked it up with my butt in silence

A short, prescient book that has influenced my thinking greatly

Enjoyed talking w/ Stephanie Yue Duhem about BWO, interiors, prayer.

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Until you make your models conscious, they will direct your life and you will call it 'self.'

I think mainstream roasts feel different now that the culture is totally saturated with that kind of stuff, here on X and in general. There are tweets/video clips of people dunking on celebs every day, and resentment/meanness is the default mode. This, combined with the way that

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recently remembered that a friend in elementary school would often make me hide under her bed while she fed me Boston Baked Beans.

Drake is living proof that having sex with tons of women makes you gay

The new antisemitism bill makes it illegal to be mean to Honor Levy. You’re all getting arrested.

OMG Jordan Castro and Tara Isabella Burton (HERE IN AVALON out now) coming up on Interintellect 🧭!!!

Online and soon!

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