Not to be a bitch but maybe instead of reposting videos of my friend being senselessly murdered you could donate some money to the fund for his memorial, his girlfriend, and his parents. 🤍
last night dean kissick walked into the party, said “i can’t do this,” and then turned around and left. there’s really nothing i respect more than a man who doesn’t fuck with me.
"We both identify with Anne Frank because we're horny shut-ins who fetishize Jewishness and wear Peter Pan collars, and we're in a state of arrested development so we're basically pubescent girls."
@RedScarePod
coming in real self-aware this week
summer 2024:
+ vermouth and soda
+ gua sha
+ “fruit fasts”
+ wearing a nightgown to the beach
+ women supporting women
+ train autism
+ internship at Halliburton
+ sending your enemy a bullet in the mail
+ calling your grandmother
if you’re my friend and your co-hosting parties with a bunch of godless freaks who laughed and applauded when ryan was murdered in some kind of weird alt right mating ritual — you’re not my friend anymore. don’t speak to me. don’t look at me. die miserable.
should not have searched “literary it girl” — turns out every Gen X writer guy excluding
@xlorentzen
thinks we are ugly and annoying and have generational wealth. if you don’t wanna read about book parties maybe just log off and go to the Pavement show or something??
I have suffered hundreds of minor, voluntary humiliations over the last couple years but nevertheless — I am about to call the Guggenheim and ask whether they have any Jenny Holzer condoms left.
i borrowed this signed copy of taipei from a boy in 2015 and soon after it vanished from my childhood bedroom. last month I found it on my mother’s bedside table and when I confronted her she said “I like Tao Lin also.”
Not to be a bitch since I know some of you guys don’t know how to read anything longer than a post, but maybe the cure for Blake Butler Derangement Syndrome is actually reading the book??? Just spitballing here.
pure joy teaching earth angel today.
my students were so moved by these stories and amazed by the way they handle subjects like eating disorders and the Islamic state and freezing your eggs. I’m proud of madeline and happy to be associated with this book.
@xlorentzen
@RachelConnoll14
bret easton ellis, michel houellebecq, tao lin, knausgaard, chris kraus—more locally 99% of Forever and the other descendants of Tyrant—and also probably the other writers you think I mean. This whole phenomenon is well-documented as commented upon ad nauseam, as we both know!
Two years ago I was assaulted by the head of my department at Pratt. The institution allowed him to hand in his resignation discretely rather than being fired. Now he has a full-time position at CUNY. His name is Thad Ziolkowski.
blake and megan were among the first established writers who agreed to put work in Forever when the magazine was literally just a twinkle in Madeline’s eye. they are two of the nicest people you will ever meet in real life.
One thing that hasn’t really been mentioned in the coverage of Molly and the bullshit pearl clutching of its detractors is
@blakebutler
‘s longstanding generosity to writers, writing communities, and diversity of written expression.
He’s encouraged / supported / championed / put