Anna Shechtman
@annashechtman
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English Lit @cornell — Editor-at-Large @lareviewofbooks — Cruciverbalist @newyorker
Joined February 2013
"A riddle wrapped in a …" My book—now with a cover!—is available for preorder:
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RT @mubinotebook: "His ostentatiously intelligent films, hypermediated by film history, are all in frantic search of a worldview to adopt..…
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RT @Parapraxis_Mag: “Let’s add some more slogans or lessons. Wrest the collective from the individual. Wrest the political from moralism.”—…
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"Has our laughter been stolen? This question is especially—I would say fiercely—apposite when one falls within the blast radius of the liberal amorality of the contemporary art world and the ideological laughing gas that it perpetually huffs"
On Saturday I gave a little talk about a new painting by the brilliant Hamishi Farah. Interestingly, the work itself was deemed impossible to exhibit. Thank you to @Triple_Canopy for publishing my remarks
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For @nybooks I wrote about Leos Carax—and the temptation to write a history of anything as a history of bad dads:
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RT @markkrotov: Amazing, rangy, beautifully written conjunctural analysis by the great @orangebegum featuring Malm, Mangione, the Eldon Ave…
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"as if all the gothic, surreal, comic and fantastic embellishments were ways of metabolizing a violence too blunt and literal to process any other way" @elusivecorporal is just brilliant on Lynch:
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Wrote, w 100+ writers I greatly admire, about a horrible year (whose horrors were mildly offset by the reliability of my mother’s insult comedy) …. C/o @sashafrerejones’s hospitality and good taste:
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"In their variety and precision, Sophie’s tracks have made me think of dental drills and barking seals....the ticking hands of the doomsday clock and the sunny chime of my number being called at the DMV." @hubersamj THIS IS SO GOOD!
Sam Huber (@hubersamj) on the DJ and producer Sophie
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RT @NicoBaumbach: this issue is now open access and it's really very very good. brilliant essays by @annashechtman -"the voice" of the in…
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Read Nico's exceptional essay on exactly this:
this is right. i would only add that this way of doing politics doesn't only prevail rn but is endemic to this platform
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RT @shannonkleiber: Need a mindful distraction? I loved talking with crossword constructor @annashechtman for @TTBOOK @WPR about the femin…
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