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Day job: music. Writing in LARB, The Millions, The Metropolitan Review, Socrates on the Beach, Compact, etc.. Why Elon joined my account, I don't know.

Joined April 2009
AS LONG AS I'M BEAUTIFUL, I'M EVEN MORE ALIVE THAN THE OTHERS.
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Yves Saint Laurent staring at L'Origine du monde
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Nothing could be farther from the truth than: seeing is believing.
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Coming soon...(in two weeks)
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as some wise person on Twitter once said, via Helen DeWitt: "procrastination is how you preserve the fantasy of your potential"
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A degree in literature can’t hurt!
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Report from the field on the Clavicular phenomenon and the environment that made him by @BarneysRubble0 who notes: "The defining feeling of this century and driving force of technocapitalism is boredom. Mankind’s attention span has been caged these three decades in the visual medium of the internet, whose momentum relies entirely on monetizing the metadata this boredom gives off." unherd.com/2026/10/the-downf…
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So...in the ongoing saga of my account having been hacked, I have some of it back. Still haven't been able to rid myself of the @em... attached to me, but I'm working on it. Still locked out of my Chat so no DMs. You can reach me on Sub*** above or email: [email protected]
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My latest essay will be published in Literary Imagination...
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In case you hadn’t thought about it: Mr Todd in Evelyn Waugh’s A Handful of Dust finds his double in Annie Wilkes in Stephen King’s Misery: Mr Todd forces a reader to read, while Annie Wilkes forces a writer to write.
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“What is the American Berserk?... The American Berserk is characterized by world-historical excess. It is the mood of a country convinced of its chosenness but drenched in self-pity about that chosenness not working out.” granta.com/the-american-bers…
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There are no images in your mind and no one has ever seen a memory.
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an impressive impresario and helluva host...
Had wonderful night of filled w/ jazz and southern food here at Hotel Chelsea. Immensely grateful to @dave_fugel and the rest of Iris Trio, and @yungchomsky for the brilliant photos 🙏🙏
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no order, just chaos
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