@clairdesolji
Grief is a constitutive part of our temporal existence. We can't experience anything without experiencing grief; anything can be lost at any moment. Unless your claim is one loves everything, "grief is just love preserving" is a meaningless sentiment
Feeling incredibly blessed and overjoyed that my review of "Obit",
@VChangPoet
's poetry collection from
@CopperCanyonPrs
, found a home with the folks over at
@TheRuptureMag
. "Obit" is a truly amazing achievement — a masterpiece work.
A little more than a year ago, I went to Tucson to talk with
@richardsiken
. Now that conversation is in
@BOMBmagazine
. This link is a preview to the interview; the rest is available (for now) in the print edition. If you like what you read... get a copy
Been traveling for a while, but it was amazing to come home to this. Issue 15.2 of the
@Hopkins_Review
has my favorite essay (review?) I’ve written. Thank you to
@DoraMalech
as so many others.
Hopefully you pick it up and give my work a look
My thanks to
@nickripatrazone
and the rest of
@Image_Journal
. I am so, so grateful to have found a home for this essay with you all. In this piece, I consider the question of God’s calling and the calling of literature (calls to submissions, calls to readers)
Last year, I had the privilege of speaking with
@MonicaYoun
about her collection From From (
@GraywolfPress
). Her answers, as always, were brilliant and particularly insightful. Today, the interview was published by
@Gulf_Coast
:
With the recent report that millennials are killing sex, I have prepared the following statement: I cannot wait to not have sex at a boarded-up Applebee’s
Today I was able to publish my favorite review in a long while with
@salthilljournal
for
@topazandmaddy
's remarkable first collection I/O (
@uarkpress
). My thanks to everyone who helped make this happen — especially my editor. Hope you all enjoy!
@Helenreflects
His first published text literally argues against the Christian morality, for which he believed was nothing less than an antipathy to life itself. It is incorrect to read him as nihilistic
@pourfairelevide
Gotta disagree on Jia. Trick Mirror has some really good essays. At her very best, she writes from the window of someone who very clearly remembers pre-internet and early-internet, and there is value in that
@andrewbrenner
@ohjohnrussell
Respectfully, Representative, that doesn't answer my question. Are you committed to voting 'No' on a bill that would guarantee
#RightToWork
for our Ohio union employees -- yes or no?
@ShadiBartsch
This question isn’t intelligible insofar as, for the Greeks, to “let go of things” in this way would be to violate the destinal consequences of these characters. “Letting go” isn’t ever on the table for anyone
Joy is the focus of my "Lace & Pyrite" review by
@RossGay18
@aimeenez
(from
@GFBPublishing
), and I am joyful for the opportunity to publish with
@CrazyhorseLitJo
. There is no time in the garden, there is no time in joy—that is why we enjoy it. Read here:
What does it mean to go out of nowhere and into nothing? These concepts are at the heart of my review with
@ecotheo
of Caryl Pagel's latest collection (
@UnivofALPress
). My thanks to
@hmvanderhart
and my editor, who worked with me on my last five reviews.
@ShadiBartsch
For my MFA thesis, I wrote the closest thing I could to an original Greek tragedy, following Höderlin’s attempts to bring the Athenian spirit to bear on the modern age. What always stood out to me was how critical that destinal attitude was… broke my heart as a writer
Just got a write up from
@Vanyaland617
for our latest song. "Their song “When I Need You” piles the chant-worthy zingers high." This is a huge win for today.
@CoachD178
The 2014-15 squad is the most fun I’ve ever had rooting for a team. Brey has adapted to every hand he’s been dealt and reinvented the program time and again. He’s earned the benefit of the doubt—the much is certain
@moonbeeaam
It probably has something to do with the fact that they are willing to push on the (unbelievably rigid) constraints that classics places on itself as a discipline. Most classics professors are vaguely aware of Caron and fairly pissed at Wilson. Those who aren't are the exception
I examine the works of four contemporary writers: Eliot Wineberger,
@legroff
,
@kvquade
and Claire Luchette. If you’re into angels, saints, abbesses, nuns and Holy Week re-enactments… I hope you consider picking up arge latest issue of
@Image_Journal
@DilettanteryPod
This displays a disposition to respond reliably to external stimuli. No communication is happening here because the orangutan is incapable of forming concepts
@andrewbrenner
@ohjohnrussell
Representative, as your constituent (I live in Westerville), I am undeterred by your insults. You have avoided my question twice now: will you vote 'No' on any bill that would ensure
#RightToWork
for Ohio public employees? Please answer in the affirmative or negative
@CharlesPPierce
@SethDavisHoops
To knock out the second-place ACC team with a win over Kentucky out would be absolutely bonkers. They soundly handled Miami and UNC. No way they should be in doubt, let alone out
@Kyben36
@ChiSportUpdates
Cool. So we get an all-league defender, except this one is like four inches taller, can pass as well as anyone in the league and is about eight years younger than the guy you mentioned? Sign me up
@old_ric
There’s a lot to say about Rorty’s reading of deconstruction. But we have to at least acknowledge the fact that, of anyone considered to be at all analytic, he *by far* took it the most seriously
"Of the many delineating characteristics of human beings, it is the fact of our finitude that brings us the most disquiet and terror. And oh, what a terror it is."
New essay + omnibus review for
@The_Rumpus
on Marianne Boruch,
@BK_Fischer
,
@biancastone
and Rosmarie Waldrop
@filibadger
@lwvohio
If a candidate doesn't show, that is its own statement. Why do they interpret this as if the candidate doesn't have a chance to speak? Their absence is in itself a public declaration--take it for what it is.
Also, if *one party's candidates* consistently refuse to show...
@RoiRoiDame
Thank god that first quote is taken from someone who had more access to information than Aristotle. Would have been utter bullshit otherwise
My students are making fun of me for not having a valentine, but I don't care. Because tonight I'm getting ashes smeared on my forehead for someone who loved me, even though he never knew me! (God, I am so alone)
@djmecca
No. But not because of the tennis. He would have correctly identified it as a kind of internet byproduct (the illusion of a threesome that never really quite climaxes)
@sushidouchey
I don't even feel bad about this: I refuse to work in Google Docs. I will copy my prose in Word and paste it into the Doc. I cannot adequately describe how angry this has made folks at me and how little I care. Fuck
@googledocs
; long live
@Office
As
@maxjohnporter
wrote the transgressive novel, The Death of Francis Bacon, I followed with my own attempt at a transgressive essay in this incredible issue of
@Hopkins_Review
. My thanks to
@DoraMalech
for finding a home for this piece
@Helenreflects
DFW’s response on this is the best I’ve seen. There is no etymological evolution that does not refer back to the fallacy. It cannot ever be correct usage.
So my recent omnibus on the calling of literature and god for
@Image_Journal
was picked up by
@lithub
. So very excited to have had this opportunity and my thanks to everyone on both staffs!
"Let us begin by taking up a cry of sorts: that literature cannot exist without a calling."
@HereAndNow44
considers Lauren Groff, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and more.
For centuries, we've believed in the binary of the lyric. In The Book of Fools (
@NegCapPress
),
@samtaylorpoet
shatters this belief in astonishing fashion. My two reviews-in-one of this collection (
@Colorado_Review
): non-classical logic and original works.
Helped write a Statement of Solidarity for
@GEOUAW
in support of graduate employees striking at the University of Michigan like
@juliajwrites
: . This is a fight worth winning:
@geo3550
is a creating a model to follow for graduate unions everywhere.
@frankjcjohn
@jacobinfante24
Nah. Jimmy Graham played less than 20 snaps. Robert Quinn isn't cutting it. They paid Andy Dalton 10 mil when they could have had him a year ago for 20% of that. The money was there; Pace doesn't know what he's doing
@sushidouchey
[In the greatest John Mulaney voice, so good you would swear I was him] “So where are we going to dinner tonight? ... Applebee’s? Didn’t we kill that? Oh, well. Let’s go sit outside its razed ashes while we ignore the urge to copulate”
I wrote a feature for
@SPIN
about cultural criticism, our current cultural collapse into the subjective, and the latest (and most distinctive)
@CKlosterman
work, The Nineties (
@penguinrandom
):
@daisyldixon
I'm not even sure what "objective truth" means. Truth as verification? Correspondence? If you've ever claimed to feel an emotion, you're arguing for an expressive truth...
Also, all meanings are made up jfc
@richardsiken
@clairdesolji
Usually I try to watch your Twitter interactions from a distance… but then people go and make their bad taste your problem, and I can’t help myself