I for one, only believe in true love in every sphere of life and have read the Vivian Gornick

Jane Austen meets American Psycho

This May 3–May 18, a two week series of Palestinian fiction films for the 76th year of the ongoing Nakba. “Cinema of Palestinian Return” will be screened at Anthology Film Archives , including films by Qais al-Zubaidi, Kassem Hawal, Mohamad Malas. Release: mailchi.mp/4f2e0dbae447/c…

the way people talk about love now is like a LinkedIn influencer: you have to make 6 figs, you have to have a romantic history that reads like a resume, you have to have done 500 hours practicing self love, you have to be in therapy, you have to be hetero-optimist, phd in sarcasm

this is one of those stories, like everything else by Samanta Schweblin, that you read over and over being like how did she do that? theparisreview.org/fiction/8257/a…

sorry if i havent gotten back to you i have a job & a crush & the spins sober & there are “signal problems” on the 6 train & also the world is burning but i will soon

Being a “writer” and being completely insulated from and disinterested in the movements rocking the world, rocking your immediate community, should not be compatible. And yet.

don't be gaslit. this government has been brutalizing protesters, censoring teachers, firing dissidents, banning books, super-funding the police/military, suppressing international news, expanding 'conspiracy' laws, while prices skyrocket, wages stagnate, and the planet burns.

i need this released

call me naive but i’d rather 30,000 books be banned than 30,000 children be killed. kind of ridiculous to draw that false equivalence but if that’s the language you speak, there you have it. sorry i guess!

everyone deems their own little life too important to make sacrifices in any way but somehow it’s always career or fame or clout or wealth that’s so important and not love or friendship or morals or hopes or dreams or anything that really even matters

columbia just demonstrating everything that's fucked up about elite schools in general but also providing a unique example of fucked up.

for valentine's day, i made a playlist for all the yearners, dreamers, delusional psychos, hopeless romantics

69 songs about being down bad for the down baddest day of the year

yes, i'm single
open.spotify.com/playlist/5aGJQ…

feels rly symbolic that this movement began April 18, an ongoing struggle against the real estate company known as UC Berkeley which eventually led Reagan to sic almost 3000 national guard members on students and leftist protesters

Jazz

instead of arguing about “literary it girls” maybe read this essay i wrote about Daisy Miller, Marie Calloway, and how we read messy women’s writing smallwire.beehiiv.com/p/discount-dai…

“Writing is work, like anything else, and as such it can provide riches for some, and peanuts for most.” dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

Sophia asked me to do a list of sex and the city boyfriends and i started and then abandoned one but this man is, to me, the only datable man on the show

found out it's $44 now to post on the listings project so if anyone wants to rent my second bedroom, it is available june 1, it is $1500/month, it is on the lower east side, and u must be tidy sweet leftist (preferably woman). cats are fine no dogs <3

i wrote about rejection, dead girls, vengeful ghosts, and who empathy is really for smallwire.beehiiv.com/p/aftermath