Daniel Felsenthal 🇵🇸
@D_felsenthal
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Writer of all shapes n’ sizes, critic of all forms @newyorker @guardian @thenation @newrepublic @theatlantic @villagevoice @pitchfork he/him 🪡 very gay leftist
New York, NY
Joined March 2020
I had the chance to write about my rather niche sexuality on a large stage for @guardian and their Saturday Magazine. And, you know what? I took it.
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RIP Gena Rowlands, who not only anchored the most important films of John Cassavetes, but also acted in one of the first featured to ever acknowledge the existence of AIDS. One of the best to ever do it
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Just learned that Alan Vega was nearly 40 when the first Suicide album came out—kinda blowing my mind rn.
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For my @NewYorker debut, I wrote an essay about Robert Glück, mourning on the page, and the best book I read last year
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Wrote about Nala Sinephro’s phenomenal 2nd record for Pitchfork
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Very glad @TheAtlantic asked me to write about Gary's importance and my favorite novel of his, Horse Crazy
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Absolutely disgusting. Bluestockings are what’s known as a “good neighbor.” They do something astonishing—it’s called contributing to their community. Sign this petition and help prevent their eviction:
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For @pitchfork, I wrote about the brilliant 2023 record Bathhouse Blues by @_jakemuir, the undersung history of gay pornographic auteurs, the emotions of cruising, and some other steamy subject matter that can, yep, be evoked by whipsmart ambient music
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One of my favorite rock bands is called Being Dead and I was glad to write about their wild second album for @pitchfork.
Being Dead's EELS is named Best New Music 🏆 .
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Great writing by @paranoiacs about a record that has obsessed and mystified me for most of my life. This piece makes it a bit clearer and more magical at once.
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Gary Indiana was a lodestar and he rebuked easily moralisms in favor of more difficult or cutting ones like few in his generation could manage. RIP. I wrote about his essay collection, Fire Season, a couple of years ago
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Making my @Artforum debut with this piece on the brilliant and intrepid @orenambarchi, whose music I've loved for a long time. His new one, Shebang, comes out Friday.
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I ride the subway everyday, there's no violent crime, just a bunch of cops and men with assault rifles wearing fatigues who harass commuters and make everyone feel unsafe. The most dangerous, well-funded, and violent gang in New York is the NYPD. Stop-and-frisk redux.
The National Guard and 250 additional police officers will carry out random bag checks and help patrol New York City’s subway system amid a spike in high-profile crimes, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Wednesday.
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So this year was really good for music and I usually don't do this but. I expanded the ballot I submitted for the Pitchfork best albums list to around 100 records that have stuck with me. And alphabetized them, because rankings are for skool kids. Here's the best shit from 2022
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Really pumped to have two short stories coming out in @nocontactmag—one at the end of 2021, the other in the wee months of next year :))))))).
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A cop guarding Eric Adams’ house shot his neighbor for entering his own home, and then they arrested another neighbor who tried to help the man who was shot, and his pregnant partner, who soon after delivered a still born baby. This should be a huge story.
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This book by @HillbillyBijoux is a true 21st century masterpiece, that’s all I’ve come here to say:
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So glad to have worked on the brand spanking new issue of @NOONAnnual. Another coiled edition of short fiction that pushes into novel emotional and syntactical terrain, and feels completely fresh more than 20 years (!) after it began. Plus, some astounding artwork.
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Hundreds and hundreds of people (maybe a thousand?) demonstrating in Sayville. #BlackLivesMatters #DefundThePolice
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So very thrilled to have been named a finalist for AICA's Irving Sandler Award for New Voices in Art Criticism by @AICA_USA. Huge congrats to the winner and to the other finalist—support art critics! It's tough out there, but sometimes you learn folks are paying attention ✨ 🧡
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My husband @jeffweinstein has a sparkingly good essay in the new @thebafflermag about aging, promiscuity and how Medicare fails the sexual health of seniors. It's his grand return to writing for publication and also an undiscussed, necessary perspective
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I wrote about Compassion, the terrific new album by @vijayiyer, @lmoh000 and Tyshawn Sorey, which resonates emotionally during a time when human rights are pervasively abused. ❤️ to @pitchfork for letting criticism, like music itself, be political
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Wrote about Television Personalities for the Sunday Review this week.
The Sunday Review☀️Television Personalities' …And Don't the Kids Just Love It
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Lol, stumbling into anything on Yahoo might be your first mistake
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lol SXSW just destroyed their already dubious legitimacy with the worst “defense” of a shitty sponsorship I have ever seen. Goodbye buzz band era goodbye 2009 goodbye techno-optimism, we knew ye too well.
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My Airbnb in Uruguay comes equipped with a copy of Lolita on the bedside table lol
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Wrote about maybe the first and maybe the last word in the genre known as @ambientcountry, the ever-skilled band SUSS, and their profound and gorgeous new album for Pitchfork:
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Remember, on this sad day and every one, that terrorism is societal forces conspiring to make you think you need to live in a police state in order to be safe.
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‼️Just finished this amazing novel about early 20th century Redondo Beach, CA, comprised of doctored newspaper clippings, by @APolitanoff. Ceaselessly beautiful, unaffectedly experimental, resonant today. What else can I say! Out now on @Dalkey_Archive
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So excited to have written about the phenomenal new @perfumegenius record for @pitchfork. I grew up as a gay man alongside his career—some of you might know what I mean:
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RIP jamie branch, one of my favorite composers in the extended world of jazz. I didn’t know jamie personally but I’ve been following her work for years. Deeply shocked by this. Her Anteloper album from earlier this year crushes. Here’s another masterpiece:
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Thanks so much to @lithub and @danpjsheehan for publishing this piece about our work to publicize the astonishingly poor pay rates affecting book critics today. Spread the word about our campaign! Help make $1/word an industry standard, not a pipe dream.
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Book critics—all critics—deserve to be far better compensated for their hard labor. Freelancers are drowning, truly, but they don't need to be. Join @FSP_NWU in fighting for better rates and working conditions for critics. $1/word must become a baseline industry standard.
"Low rates mean only rich people can afford to review books. What a bleak idea." —Erin Somers . Book critics are tired of being paid a pittance by outlets that undervalue and exploit their labor. Join FSP-NWU in calling for $1 a word as the new floor for rates!
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Chatted with one of my favorite singers, Meshell Ndegeocello, for this feature. My first piece for The @guardian
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The ‘walk’ signs in Mérida, Yucatán, go really fucking hard.
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Nursed a huge crush on this guy for literally years
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Most 2022 Manhattan thing is an "art gallery" that deals in shitty NFTs and is also somehow a marijuana dispensary as well as a purveyor of "exotic snacks," by which they mean potato chip flavors that were previously only sold in Japan.
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Cops have no place on college campuses, in cities, on trains, in towns, in villages—the idea that we live with armed gangs of racists hanging out in public makes me feel unsafe every time I leave the house. These are wartime conditions: Fuck the police and Free Palestine forever.
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What a sad—cowardly? Clearly—reversal on the previously courageous, righteous idea of distributing Plan B at concerts. Extremely sick of financial and political caution in the face of our crumbling political and medical structures, normalize bravery please.
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Gay sex is allowed to have Drummer magazine because music got Uncut magazine. That’s how it works.
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Wrote this one.
The Sunday Review ☀️ Coil's Horse Rotorvator
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This June, @FSP_NWU launched a campaign raising awareness of the plight of book critics. My friends and I in the book critics working group were delighted when @awpwriter asked us to continue this conversation with a roundtable in their October issue.
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As a lover of chicken sandwiches, every day I pass this sandwich board and vomit a little bit in my mouth.
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For @thenation, I wrote about some developments in queer nightlife and the engrossing new book by @Amin_Ghaziani .
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As a member of @FSP_NWU and their book critics working group, I’m thrilled to stand behind @amylittlefield and the #freelancesolodaritychallenge. Read her new piece in @thenation about how freelancers can organize and take back power in their industry.
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Last night was a wildly fun birthday bash and might have involved playing Radiohead and Fujiya & Miyagi b2b. Teenaged version of myself feeling like a star rite now 👨🎤 Here I am mere moments after taking a massive, ill-advised rip from an Indica vape
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@saintsoftness Not to be the person who does this but I just published something about Hesse’s new show at Hauser & Wirth a couple hours ago!
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Wrote about @jeffparkersound and his fantastic new live album, which @pitchfork has given best new music 👑👑👑 Easily one of my favorite records of the year:
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Books I read in 2022 that I thought were completely amazing and highly recommend, listed in the order in which I read them:
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‼️Just published a short story in the new issue of @storySouth. I wrote this about a year-and-a-half ago and wondered, as one does, whether it would ever see the light of day. Pleased to share it with you now:.
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I wrote about nostalgia for the early internet and a survey of several decades of work by net artist Auriea Harvey, which you can see at @MovingImageNYC.
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Told the person taking monkeypox appointments that I'm gay and have multiple sexual partners. He replied, "That's OK, sir, it doesn't bother me.".
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Wrote about one of the most beautiful, heartfelt pop records I've heard in a long long while, from @pandabear and Sonic Boom:
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There’s a huge fire on East 7th Street and 2ave in Manhattan right now. The building was vacant because of a previous fire, so hopefully no one is getting hurt or displaced
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If you liked my piece in The New Yorker about Robert Glück, you may enjoy this essay I wrote about him for @thebafflermag back in the wee months of the pandemic—when NYRB reissued his fantastic novel Margery Kempe. A beautiful book very worth reading! 🖤🧡
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Saw tons of great stuff live this year, so I guess I'll just have to make a best concerts of 2022 list, ordered by date. All shows in NYC ~unless otherwise noted~ would truly love to hear who y'all liked seeing on tour this year.
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This music documentary is truly good: Unsentimental, personal without being egotistical, incisive, musically knowledgeable, with a director who asks daring questions that unsettle his talking heads into surprising places. Also, King Crimson is just so great.
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Floating points fanning himself with 45s at the Boiler Room Ridgewood set.
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All awards are a joke, but this one is a slap in the face.
The award for Foreign Reporting goes to the staff of The New York Times for unsurpassed coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas.
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Sicily comes out in support of Palestine!! Photographed in Palermo.
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Protests in NYC tonight. A gesture of solidarity and righteousness in a tumultuous time. Everyone is peaceful, indignant, organized and masked. #NycProtest #BreonnaTaylorMatters #BlackLivesMattter
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Gotta kinda laugh at how the trajectory of the subway shooter in Lower Manhattan was like a drunk 23-year-old unwilling to give up the ghost on a shitty night out: Dimes, St. Mark's Place, McDonald's, and then the deli.
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I bet everyone is gonna be really excited to go to “GQ Music Festival Chicago.”.
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Years ago a young writer who was just starting to get published told me that the only rule I should follow is don’t drink in the same room where you sleep and I realized then that his apartment was much bigger than mine.
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Truly a new American low. This is a barbarous and thoroughly evil country.
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Program for @LaurieSpiegel’s concert at Karma Gallery on Sunday, where legendary pianist Joseph Kubera performed her music….fantastic stuff.
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I wrote about the new Marc Ribot album for @pitchfork.
A rollicking, leisurely hour imagining rock music’s role in a world more invested in social justice than commerce
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". The most important culture publication of the 21st century. Pitchfork's painstakingly written reviews focused on music as art, not fashion." I am so sad that this piece had to be written, but @skornhaber gets at the momentous reality of the past day.
I worked at Pitchfork, and have many friends who worked there — it's too close for me to write objectively about. But @skornhaber wrote this piece filled with lines that are hitting a bit hard:
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I wrote some short fiction about my favorite French actor/fuckboy Michel Piccoli. Here it is in the beautiful new issue of @nocontactmag:
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Just received the beautiful, brand new Winter 2023 issue of @ExactingClam — I have six poems in here! 🤩 Here’s the first one. Pick up the magazine to read the rest!
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Coverage like this is really the lowest of the low, I can’t believe news agencies still position their readers on the side of strategizing generals, like we’re all commandeering alongside the big decision-makers instead of powerlessly witnessing untold death.
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Brought four pairs of shoes for a two-day weekend. Happy pride.
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RIP Astrud Gilberto, your music is genius and you are so much more than The Girl From Ipanema!
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@octopus_grigori Not that this is a reflection of his reprehensible politics, but I maintain that Book of Numbers is one of the worst novels to ever receive such wide attention, legitimately not so much written as it was vomited onto the page. It has all the urgency of an NFT artwork. .
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Me and @jeffweinstein , photograph by the ever-poignant Chris Buck, from our photoshoot with The Guardian Saturday Magazine earlier this year. Mr. Buck says this is his favorite photo of the more than 800 frames he shot, so I thought I'd share it with y'all.
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Something people never mention about Paul Auster: In 1995, he directed Lou Reed in a movie about working a bodega in Park Slope
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One of my fave little magazines in the whole wide world published this short story of mine today. Thanks @xraylitmag:
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New @Jensen_McRae record slaps so hard. What a lyricist—she uses couplets like Phoebe Bridgers, but builds worlds out of adolescent female experience that are very true and very much her own. Out Tuesday.
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Fascinating discovery (repressed early childhood memory?): William Burroughs starred in a ‘90s Nike ad, and it was directed by Peter Christopherson of Coil and Throbbing Gristle. We used to be a proper country, amiright:
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Happy, as always, to be involved with bringing @NOONAnnual into the world each year! Really excited for this one.
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@blgtylr As a Jewish person who gets stopped by the Orthodox in New York every time they’re out looking for kindred blood, I just want you to know that I wished they asked you and left me alone ♥️.
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I love the new Tim Hecker album and I also love this review by @bromf3, which takes into account the state of ambient music in its totality.
A burly, physically imposing release peppered with moments of gentle beauty
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Spinning some warm-up tunes before the inimitable @djlizaminneli’s set next Friday. Come thru if you’re in Brooklyn. 9pm til—
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.@jeffweinstein is spreading a **demonstrably false** narrative on his Instagram about my mopiness while we travel around Italy, when in reality I’m practicing blue steel-style looks a la Zoolander. Time will vindicate my gaze.
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Was just thinking about how writing as a vocation initially seemed like a way to not be a victim of corporate America—lol, and also, yikes.
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This new record by @Eiko_Ishibashi and Jim O'Rourke is really something. Pretty floored right now.
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My brilliant sister @JulFels has a solo show of her seascapes in watercolor and gouache up at JDJ Tribeca. If you’re in NYC, go and see her gorgeous, elegantly composed paintings! up until July 21
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