Tina K.
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Freelance editor, artsy fartsy. "I am free, the enemy of organized, clothed society" -Álvaro de Campos
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@theheatherhogan
This is good, basic home administration and I simply don't understand why everyone doesn't live this way
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Lolita is not a moral test. In his essay in the 50th anniversary edition of the novel Nabokov says he is not "a writer of didactic fiction", that "Lolita has no moral in tow." For Nabokov " fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I... bluntly call aesthetic bliss"
Lolita is a moral test. Kempner passes it. Rowling does not. I will only add that the reason Rowling doesn't pass--she is tricked by aesthetic quality into excusing cruelty and domination--is also part of Nabokov's point, and what makes the novel the true masterpiece it is.
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A beloved memory from my Russian lit class: a student said she'd do a painting of Anna Akhmatova and my prof — a very candid Polish woman — was so excited, and on the day the student unveiled it my prof regarded it with disgust and said "No, NO" b/c it was done in the anime style
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@erikphoel
My spouse dances for me every single day and it's so annoying, but then later I have a great laugh about it, so I would argue that not only is dancing yourself good for mental health but having someone dance really badly specifically for you is also good for mental health
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@anthonyfurey
It's a feedback loop: the govt tells the CBC what to say and the CBC tells the govt what to say
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@Perez_Writes
Social media has had this effect on the working class as well. Having access to and interacting with mediocre elites and credentialed public intellectuals/academics is as good an exposure as a hifalutin education.
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I just learned of the "Borges Labyrinth" in Venice, a kilometre long, book-shaped, mirror-image hedge maze of his name. There's no exit, you wander forever until all that's left of you is your entry in a guest ledger that only exists in the dream of a man asleep in his library
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I've been reading these wonderful essays by Walter Pater, and I'm a little ashamed to say that his eloquence and depth were a challenge at first to my internet-addled attention span. If you need a reset (and wanna be immersed in a book Oscar Wilde cherished in prison) this is it
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Jean Renoir's bio of his father isn't just about the art and the artist but about his whole world: how the Industrial age completely transformed handwork, the chaos of the Paris Commune, the wax and wane of Impressionism. Plus, I was not expecting that Renoir would be so funny
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Never forget that Harold Bloom aptly called critical theory in English departments "bad social science". We just lost one of the last important defenders of literary studies as an art.
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The Writing Life by Annie Dillard is a seminal book for writers, not for any writing secrets it may contain (because I don't think there are any) but for its many consolations, like this one, should you be discouraged that your progress is just too damned slow
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@daily_barbarian
@shoe_sticky
When I saw the Theranos doc I was fucking stunned that Mattis, Kissinger, and Schultz all sat on the board, the sheer demonic cronyism of the whole operation was beyond absurd, how are such massive levels of business knavery considered ethical lol
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I didn't know what to expect but what I got was an amazing war novel, a Brazilian western, a national political saga, a religious commune drama of freaks and vicious bandits reformed as saints, Jesus vs the Antichrist, and a scatological taking of communion I will never forget
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@walterkirn
The Ottawa protest has a beer tent, saunas, a Sikh place of worship and samosa kitchen, a pizza oven, a hot tub, and not a single crime has been committed. These are my people, full of peaceful, carnivalesque resolve.
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I just reread this magnetic novel, that's twice this year. Such a morose study of what it means to grasp at reality with chemistry, math, and physics, often ending in failure, Uncertainty (as in the principle), madness, evil. It's a massively cool union of Humanities and STEM.
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Nabokov purposely tried to unsettle everyone by writing about taboo
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*opens trench coat in alley* Hey, you wanna read about the most respected and admired mathematician in the entire world, and how in the decades that followed he slowly began to exhibit the undeniable signs of mental derangement?
This should be the blurb on every Labatut cover
I just reread this magnetic novel, that's twice this year. Such a morose study of what it means to grasp at reality with chemistry, math, and physics, often ending in failure, Uncertainty (as in the principle), madness, evil. It's a massively cool union of Humanities and STEM.
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@dieworkwear
I just made a coat from Italian twill and the materials were about $250, but factor in labour (drafting the pattern myself and tinkering with the mockup for a few weeks, and then three constant days of sewing) and cost easily goes into the thousands
It took all of January to design the pattern and do a full mock-up but I did it, I actually made a coat. Navy Italian twill, hummingbirds lining, velvet pockets. Materials were $250 but now I get why all the swanky coats are $3000+, holy hell, the labour cost easily exceeds that
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I spent the past month with the itinerant Maqroll and his schemes and scams, his ruminations on his failures, friendships, near escapes, tragic losses, and I'm confused as to why this book isn't famous. It's as if Graham Greene conceived of Quixote in the 90s as a sailor. Very
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@SwiftOnSecurity
I used to work in insurance. People would call and expect to just get shit for free, not realizing that it covers you for out-of-pocket expenses. They have no idea what it's for, they would say, "Why did I buy this then??" and I'd be like, "I don't know, why DID you buy it?"
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I thought these two couldn't be any niftier, and then I learn that Camus named his cat Cigarette and Sartre named his cat Nothing
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I've lived with a philosopher for 13-some years and sometimes, to really skewer a philosopher in an argument, this is what I know works, you have to tell them that you don't like the conversation anymore and they're a poo poo head.
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@AmericanGwyn
She co-authored a book with Roxanne Gay called Do the Work about power, keep your literary expectations small with this one
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A favourite anecdote about writers who started late in life: when Robertson Davies was asked why he waited until his fifties to start writing he said, "People finally died"
Penelope Fitzgerald, long expected to produce works of genius, only began writing serious fiction at the age of 62. How come?
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It took all of January to design the pattern and do a full mock-up but I did it, I actually made a coat. Navy Italian twill, hummingbirds lining, velvet pockets. Materials were $250 but now I get why all the swanky coats are $3000+, holy hell, the labour cost easily exceeds that
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You don't see this a lot in books but the trajectory of Blackwood's (extremely!) blackly comedic novella about her dysfunctional, aristocratic family is totally guided by character study. I tend to lose interest if there's not even a tiny whiff of a plot but this artful little
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@dieworkwear
This is why I make my own clothes. If you want woven, natural fabrics and you're bigger than a size 8 you will never find fitted garments off the rack, you'll either have to pay someone to make them from a block of yr specific measurements or learn to make a block yourself + sew
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Very cool Inuit sculpture of an otter, it's like a little sea ghost
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Look at this great statue.
The "sculptor... has once again erected a memorial statue marking a fictional occurrence in New York City... that Mayor Ed Koch sent wolves into the subways of the city to ward off graffitti artists [and] are still the reason behind missing tourists."
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I've been watching Columbo, which is a corny but surprising show bc it's written with the classical Greek formula of the Alazon (a perp who thinks he's smarter than the cop) vs the Eiron (the cop who brings the perp down by pretending he's dumb). 'Eiron' is the root of irony btw.
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Book Twitter can be perplexing, now and then someone posts a pile of books seemingly from a parallel universe, I don't recognize a single author. In the replies everyone's like, "Ah SEA-ANTLERS, I love that Bort Juggs novel" or "Bort Juggs, just genius" and I'm over here like
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@Ro_InTheCut
Phthalo green was a staple on Bob Ross's palette, it's integral now to American art history
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400 pages, no plot, vignettes interspersed with travelogue, yet it works on the strength of its themes (ageing, disfigurement, death, immortality), its depth, its rad sentences. I don't usually finish books like this bc they so often lack direction, but boy she earned that Nobel!
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@fitzfromdublin
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I also liked it when he posted this photoshopped pic of himself giving the Congressional Medal of Honor to the dog that caught al-Baghdadi and the papers went nuts trying to fact-check it
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@LaloDagach
@BernieSanders
@lsarsour
Canada has 12 months mat leave AND you can go outside without a guardian OR niquab! Like a real adult!
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lol this is the first time I've seen an illustration of the true distance between Troy and Ithaca, it's so comically short, now it makes The Odyssey seem like an ancient Marx Brothers epic about a ship of Grecian schlemiels cluelessly clowning their way around the seas.
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1/4) Please join me on a baby raccoon escapade, where it took 5 hours for this scared little guy to finally follow his mom into the den. I have never cheered harder for a raccoon family to successfully infest my house.
First, the 5 am wake-up call of shrieking and dragging:
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Finally, I finished Solenoid, the plotless, 600+ page, surreal novel that every highbrow bibliophile is reading lately. It was hilarious, grotesque, too repetitive, profound, a bit derivative, but so unique in its depiction of failure, fear, and literature, it's truly canonical
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No book has had such a grip on me as The Master and Margarita. Bulgakov is thrilling, what chutzpah and moral courage it took to write Stalin to explain why he fought censorship and why critics were right that his work couldn't exist in the USSR. Here are excerpts of his letter.
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@markAcorn
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This amazing BBC documentary on Korea has a falconer in it who's lost plenty of falcons that way, he knows a falconer's time with his bird is temporary
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When I read something that astonishes me by how well-written it is it sends me into a kind of sensory overload, like it's almost too good to sit still & keep reading, I have to stop & get up & do something else for a bit, I'm just too excited. Know what I mean, or is that mental
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@SarahBlick3
This guy gives an interesting interpretation on how it's a portrait of Arnolfini mourning his wife after her death (he's dressed in black, the candles in the chandelier above her are burnt out while his are lit, etc)
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I took my 74 year-old mother to get vaccinated and this is her thank-you text.
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I don't know this book or the author and I'm not familiar with the translators but this just made me jot down a short story idea: "two married translators working together on a novel translation, and one sentence whose meaning they can't agree on ruins their marriage" lol
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What I hate abt the activisty pivot from 'homeless' to 'houseless' is that houseless sounds like nothing, like you just live in an apartment, whereas 'home' is such an evocative word, homeless hits at the heart of what it means to lose it all, and I resent the obfuscation of that
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I didn't take any eclipse pics because I didn't wanna be futzing with my camera and miss it, and I don't think a photo even comes close to seeing it with your own eyes, but I looked down for a sec and noticed that the dappled light on the patio was crescent-shaped
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When I was young I thought Coen brothers characters were over-the-top, oddball caricatures, and now that I'm middle-aged and amused by how totally fucking absurd life is I think they're an astonishingly accurate portrayal of everyday human eccentricity, comedy, and folly
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@RebeccaRHelm
In Canada we've been sending our plastic to Malaysia to have it burned. Duterte was pissed at us last year and he sent our garbage barge back and it just sailed around like the garbage barge from Delillo's Underworld.
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@Heghoulian
Is it redundant to say "candid" and "Polish" in the same sentence? I feel like every Polish person I've ever known has never hesitated to tell me just what they think
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My parents collected antiques and left them to me. I eat breakfast each morning with their china and silverware. If your family wants to give you nice things then take the nice things, using the stuff they loved evokes their memory every day in sweet, heartbreaking ways
This is going to be a sad story for so many families. People are saving mahogany dining sets, breakfronts full of exquisite glasses and plates, and whole sets of silverware for their children who do not want, need, or have a place to put them.
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I struggle with loooong contemporary novels because many of them are too sprawling and unfocused and I have no patience for that anymore. A stylistically tight and meditative novella coming in at 100-ish pages is much more satisfying than a meandering giant that's lost its way
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@TomlinsonCJ
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Any pleb with basic customer service experience could've solved this crisis faster than Ford or Trudeau
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I'd come home totally wiped from my corporate job and be so pumped to read the Ishiguro I was in the middle of or to watch a 'challenging' movie, because the arts are my refuge. I don't think it's that ppl are exhausted, it's that they — dare I say it — don't have good taste
That so many people are emotionally and intellectually exhausted by their workday and wind up only having energy for idle distraction at the day’s end is not an indictment of those people but an indictment of the society they live in that keeps them so wrung out…
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I was reading about Gabriel García Márquez and found this quote about where he got his ideas from. He had a gift for characterization, probably because he was such a social man. No writing program can rival a nice little lunch, a nice little nap, and then hitting the streets
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My mom was the coolest, silliest, sweetest, most irreverent person I've ever known. I wish she and I could recap her death together, laugh inappropriately at the absurd bits, cry at the heartbreak of an ending. I was honoured to hold her as she died but I do not like this at all!
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These are phenomenal essays on the utter annihilation of German civilians and cities in WWII by Allied firebombings. Sebald studies the various "literary approaches to the German past" that came after the war from a people so demoralized and tight-lipped about their ordeal that
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I got called a wuss twice for not culling, so I culled
Autumn of the Patriarch - Márquez
Cat's Cradle - Vonnegut
Barney's Version - Richler
The Unconsoled - Ishiguro
Remainder - McCarthy
Train Dreams
The Fall - Camus
Invisible Cities - Calvino
Pnin
The Metamorphosis - Kafka
I wouldn't dare cull my favourite novels down to a mere ten, my literary memory is like the warehouse at the end of Indiana Jones, it's a fool's errand
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After my mom died I found my favourite childhood book among the baby things she kept, about two mice who wreck and plunder a dollhouse when they discover everything inside it is fake. Who made me so cynical in my youth I often wonder: Kafka? Vonnegut? No, it was Beatrix Potter
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There he goes again
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@samhaselby
In 2011 the University of Toronto English dept held a seminar for MAs where the PhDs warned us about the abysmal academic job market and how depressed and burnt out they were generally, and all of my aspirations ended with a whimper. Some schools do provide this humane service
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I'm at that stage of middle age now where I not only relate to this deeply but feel the hurt of it deeply.
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@aliamjadrizvi
Enjoyed your book but supremely confused by one important detail: why this wasn't the author photo.
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I've been revisiting Joyce and Gaddis, both formative to me in my 20s, but in my 40s I don't enjoy the schtick so much, there are eloquent bits but I'm also skipping over a lot of blah blah blah, and I might be going to Book Hell for saying it but I think I've outgrown Ulysses.
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This study of solitude, writing, manners, friendship, cruelty, melancholy, & the desire to be seen & loved is so funny & trenchant & tragic, recommended by
@BacklistedPod
, a book I hadn't heard of that feels like a classic. As only a classy person would say: it's fucking awesome.
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@ticiaverveer
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This is hanging in my bedroom above "Men carried home from a drinking party".
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@FarmsteadDad
All the bread bakers are whispering "Nice ear, very nice ear" to themselves lol
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As a language person I've always struggled with math/shape problems so I avoided them all my life. Then I began making clothes, and I realized that math is not an expression of innate genius but a practice you have to steadily work at to improve. This has been a huge red pill!
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Omfg there was a juvenile red-tailed hawk on the powerline outside my window!
All my favourite trails are too snowed over and remote for hiking, so I almost wept when I saw this gorgeous bird lol
I waited forever for its dramatic takeoff and I... I got a claw
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Booksellers need a section devoted to Books That Outlasted Communist Censors. Hrabal's messed with me so much that when I finished it I read it again. It's one thing to have a protagonist who loves books, and yet another that he also takes such pride in his job destroying them
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America is a literary powerhouse but I'd nominate Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter. It's got all the core American virtues and vices: religious morality, individualism, sin, shame, cowardice, bravery, loyalty, love, justice, judgy mobs, a hot heroine, and a scheming rich guy
For decades, critics have struggled to settle on *The* Great American Novel -- a canonical work of fiction that captures the true character and meaning of the American experience.
What work would you nominate as the Great American Novel?
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@pourfairelevide
Their legal system is the Napoleonic Code, it's not only wildly interesting from a Western perspective but awesome for fictional legal drama
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