Wonderful

surprise benefit of having canceled nyt subscription is redirecting my crossword energy to memorizing the flags of the world

United States of Attica by Faith Ringgold (1972), a map detailing many Indigenous, slave, and immigrant uprisings in each state since the 1700s and dedicated to the men who died during the 1971 Attica prison riots in upstate NY.

“Candy, who never had a permanent home as an adult, whose underground cachet never translated to a living wage, had no choice but to endure the ignominious treatment whenever she had nowhere else to go.” bookforum.com/print/3004/the…

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

finally read ENTER GHOST on joshua gutterman tranen 🇵🇸🍉's recommendation and it is exactly as good as he has been saying

reading remains one of the best ways to find yourself less interesting

Is it using human shields to go home at night to your family?

Oddly, I remember a piece, published by Jezebel, in 2015, that skillfully mapped the dynamics of backlash/offense/clickbait and women’s online writing—and the many paradoxes thereof. Didn’t answer any massive questions, but asked the right ones, well. It’s by Jia Tolentino lol

“Today, if confronted or insulted, I will first remember my goals. Secondly, I will walk away. Lastly, I will not personalize anything and give in to my ego.” themarshallproject.org/2024/04/05/pri…

“I think it’s fun to play around with this stuff and no one seems to have gotten too angry, but maybe it’s just because I’m such an amazing person. I don’t know.” thecreativeindependent.com/people/musicia…

The distinctive horror of the Holocaust was that mass murder was carried out as if on an assembly line at a factory, using all the lastest techniques in logistics, management, and engineering.
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

i’m biased but… nuggets most lovable team in the league?

“Even in contorted, convulsive relationships—ones that approach the sororal before becoming sexual, eventually bending into the maternal until, finally, something like friendship emerges—Lewis’s narrators reveal and recognize their capacities for care…” lareviewofbooks.org/article/violen…

I think Rachel Kushner is having more fun than the rest of us

She’s in the midst of a Girls rewatch, a show she adores and refers to as a “period piece”… “Their outfits feel so heightened,” she says, with the tone of someone considering an ancient civilization for the first time. “Is that what it was like?” gq.com/story/hunter-s…

This is why they did it

what a rotten festering thing to watch your tax dollars fund genocide and starvation and horrors quite literally beyond comprehension and then be told to “just vote blue” as if what’s happening on our dime in gaza shouldn’t guide our participation in the (broken) electoral system

i don’t know what the value of your relatively safe life is if you are not totally distraught by what we are being shown from gaza. i don’t understand what you live for at all… is it just to buy things? to try a restaurant you saw on tik tok?

WEDNESDAY APRIL 3

NEW MUSIC FROM *I AM TOWARD YOU*

Ἀπόφασις-core if you will

this one with heavy lifting from ｃｆｃｆ and trayer – Anenon and ACR too