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Conversations with Friends about Normal People « Post45

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I read Conversations with Friends alone and loved it; reading Normal People with friends was an unrelieved frustration. I'd picked it for a book club soon after finishing Sally Rooney's debut. The fir

3 years ago

Britney Spears Was Never in Control

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. Photo: L. Busacca/WireImage The New York Times’s Framing Britney Spears docu

3 years ago

Ryan Ruby, Reading the Room — Sidecar

newleftreview.org

Since its consolidation at the end of the eighteenth century, the realist novel has been the premier vehicle for the depiction of contemporary life. For over two hundred years, a relatively fixed set

3 years ago

No One Is Talking About This | 4Columns

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No One Is Talking About This Sasha Frere-Jones A debut novel from Patricia Lockwood, author of the memoir Priestdaddy. No One Is Talking About This, by Patricia Lockwood, Riverhead Books, 205 pages, $

3 years ago

100 Tips for a Better Life - LessWrong

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(Cross-posted from my blog) The other day I made an advice thread based on Jacobian’s from last year! If you know a source for one of these, shout and I’ll edit it in. Possessions 1. If you want to fi

3 years ago

The Rise and Fall of Getting Things Done

newyorker.com

In the early two-thousands, Merlin Mann, a Web designer and avowed Macintosh enthusiast, was working as a freelance project manager for software companies. He had held similar roles for years, so he k

3 years ago

Rachel Rabbit White Finds Perspective in Cemetery Nudes and Perpetual False Lashes

vanityfair.com

“This is now a pious wife account,” the poet Rachel Rabbit White recently declared on Instagram, alongside a portrait with Nico Walker: the veteran turned convict, the author of Cherry, the co-conspir

3 years ago

How to Think for Yourself

paulgraham.com

November 2020 There are some kinds of work that you can't do well without thinking differently from your peers. To be a successful scientist, for example, it's not enough just to be correct. Your idea

3 years ago

Nemesis | The DOOM! Report

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0. Intro The end of trends has been heralded by various outlets for years (see here, here and many more on our Are.na channel). But COVID time is crazy. We had a hunch that the hype cycle itself was f

3 years ago

My Addicted Son

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My Addicted Son A father's story. One windy day in May 2002, my young children, Jasper and Daisy, who were 8 and 5, spent the morning cutting, pasting and coloring notes and welcome banners for their

4 years ago

Sun Myung Moon's Lost Eco-Utopia

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Day three aboard this muggy cargo boat and I’m still incapable of turning around without bumping into a hanging bag of oranges, or a sack of wheat flour, or a jug of cooking oil. Crammed to the rafter

4 years ago

THE USES AND ABUSES OF OBJECT-ORIENTED ONTOLOGY AND SPECULATIVE REALISM Andrew Cole

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A BRICK HOUSE CRUMBLES in the village of Veselovka, Russia, just a few miles from Kaliningrad. It’s said that Immanuel Kant had something to do with this house back when the region was part of Prussia

4 years ago

Cómo diferenciar un sobre de un tejado - Zenda

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Ilustración: Juan Carlos Viéitez. Parece intuir hacia dónde va esta conversación que no hemos empezado, dice una mujer en un libro lleno de conversaciones en las que casi nadie dialoga o, con suerte,

4 years ago

Why the right wing has a massive advantage on Facebook

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A company executive responds to claims of bias. The growth of right-wing content on Facebook has enraged liberals, who accuse the social media giant of kowtowing to the right out of fear of being pain

4 years ago

An Urban Planner’s Trick to Making Bike-able Cities

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When the citizens of Barcelona returned to the streets in mid-May after a 2-month lockdown, they discovered a changed city. Not only was it overgrown with plants and wildlife, but the streets had been

4 years ago

What Thom Gunn Thought of Oliver Sacks

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Thom Gunn, left, in 1960 at Hampstead-White Stone Pond. Oliver Sacks, right, with his beloved BMW motorbike at Muscle Beach. Courtesy of the Oliver Sacks Foundation. Photo taken from Sacks’s memoir On

4 years ago

Going Postal

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https://www.bookforum.com/print/2703/a-psychoanalytic-reading-of-social-media-and-the-death-drive-24171

4 years ago

Buying Myself Back

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Photo: Tina Tyrell for New York Magazine. Set design by Eric Mestman. Photography assistance by Matt Shrier. This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter.

4 years ago

Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

technologyreview.com

Sara Garner had a nagging feeling something wasn’t quite right. A software engineer, she was revamping her personal site, but it just didn’t feel like her. Sure, it had the requisite links to her soci

4 years ago

How Do I Live With the Choice to Leave My Partner?

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Illustration: Angelica Alzona (GMG) Dear Fuck-Up, I just broke up with a man I love dearly because I am more gay than not, and need some time to live out this knowledge. My first romantic experiences

4 years ago

How to Poach an Egg and Leave a Marriage

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If I can poach an egg, maybe I won’t have to leave my marriage. The thought didn’t come to me fully formed. Whether it was an accident or not, the sudden and unbidden urge to poach an egg coincided wi

4 years ago

Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s

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Longform Why Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children Is the Greatest Psychedelic Album of the ’90s Unlocking the mysteries behind the Scottish electronic duo’s hallucinatory classic, which

4 years ago

The Unexpected Sunlight of Waxahatchee’s “Saint Cloud”

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https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-unexpected-sunlight-of-waxahatchees-saint-cloud

4 years ago

It wasn’t easy to describe The Outline. That’s what made it great.

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On April 3, the day The Outline was shut down and its editorial staff let go, my coworkers and I received hundreds of messages in public and private that went a long way toward making me feel better a

4 years ago

Joel Schumacher on His Colleagues, His Critics, and His Sex Life

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Photo: Matt Carr/Getty Images Joel Schumacher died on June 22, 2020. We are revisiting this interview, which was originally published in August of 2019, in commemoration of his life. Speed couldn’t ki

4 years ago

What Is an Anti-Racist Reading List For?

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The usual subjects you’ll see on an anti-racist reading list. Photo-Illustration: Vulture I have this pet theory about book recommendations. They feel good to solicit, good to mete out, but someone at

4 years ago

Paul Ford — The Framework Project

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Paul is the co-founder of Postlight, a digital product studio based in New York, and a writer. The first I'd read from Paul was his fantastic and informative 38,000-word opus, What Is Code?, in Bloomb

4 years ago

How to Be a Know-It-All

newyorker.com

A yearning for mastery, or the illusion of it, has helped make a nerdy series from a nerdy publishing house impressively popular.Illustration by Tamara Shopsin and Jason Fulford In addition to all of

4 years ago

Where Do Eels Come From?

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Once, the pair tried an old Swedish fishing method that involved stringing lots of worms on a thread and then rolling them “into a quivering, stinking ball of slime and secretions and writhing bodies.” To catch the necessary worms, Svensson’s father attached electric cables to the prongs of a…

4 years ago

Pandemic Marriage, Ménage, & Me

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Mondadori Portfolio/Electa/Bruno Balestrini via Bridgeman Images Detail from Simone Martini’s Blessed Agostino Novello altarpiece, 1325–1328 One of the first things I read about China’s coronavirus ou

4 years ago

Renata Adler Is Making Enemies Again

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Renata Adler Is Making Enemies Again See the article in its original context from January 16, 2000, Section 6, Page 44Buy Reprints View on timesmachine TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home de

4 years ago

I’ve Quit Writing Personal Essays About Quitting Things: A Personal Essay

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Photograph by Jochen Tack / Alamy Before I pioneered writing personal essays about quitting things, people simply quit things and maybe told their friends and family about it. They didn’t quit things

4 years ago

Letter of Recommendation: Lent

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What I didn’t understand yet is that Lent concentrates guilt, then cathartically explodes it — it’s a kind of intermissionless Bergman matinee that leads you stumbling back across the parking lot beneath the newly blinding sun. By depriving you of just one vanity, just one of the many little…

4 years ago

Renata Adler - Interview Magazine

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View Full Images I think once there is conventional wisdom or received ideas in the press or there is unanimity, you’ve got a disaster.RENATA ADLER Last year when New York Review Books republished Ren

4 years ago

Cast in Doubt

bookforum.com

Jen Fein ruminates on everyday ephemera: allegedly bulletproof taxi partitions, for example, or the enigma of the “self-addressed envelope,” or bizarre form letters. In company, she is drawn as if by hypnosis to the flaw, and, implicitly, the void. Attuned to the wrong word, the malapropism, the…

4 years ago

Renata Adler | Speedboat | Pitch Dark |

sydneyreviewofbooks.com

Were circumstance, or accident, contrive to have you flick through the 4 July 1964 issue of the New Yorker, there is a chance you might notice, sitting between the columns of text on page 71, what is,

4 years ago

Why We Focus on Trivial Things

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Bikeshedding is a metaphor to illustrate the strange tendency we have to spend excessive time on trivial matters, often glossing over important ones. Here’s why we do it, and how to stop. *** How can

4 years ago

A Children’s Bible

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A Children’s Bible David L. Ulin The reunion apocalypse: a new novel from Lydia Millet. A Children’s Bible: A Novel, by Lydia Millet, W. W. Norton, 224 pages, $25.95 • • • How did Lydia Millet know? “

4 years ago

Bookslut | An Interview with Renata Adler

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If it turns out to resemble fact, well, that's not that the line is thin, is it? I don't know why, but I keep coming back lately in my head to Henry James and The Princess Casamassima. I wonder how he knew what he knows, and I wonder how he was prescient about a certain kind of political reality.…

4 years ago

The Radical Self-Respect of Fiona Apple’s “Sleep to Dream,” 20 Years On

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The Pitch “Sleep to Dream” is the first track on Fiona Apple's 1996 triple-platinum debut, Tidal, which turns 20 this weekend. It is also a fight song like no other—a demand to be taken seriously, by

4 years ago

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