just met this bunny at the santa monica erewhon juice bar. “her name is tofu. she’s a year old — she’s a gemini. i take her everywhere—to the coffee shop, to erewhon. we’re going to the beach later”
i'm so glad to be joining USC as a society of fellows postdoc this fall, and the english department as an assistant professor in the next. grateful to be staying in LA, and for everyone who's supported me
surprise werner herzog cameo at the wim wenders screening last night, which led to a fantasy of mine finally fulfilled: watching a film as werner herzog periodically kicks the back of my seat
my husband knew a scientist who spent a summer at the sante fe institute, and when asked "did you ever see cormac mccarthy around?", his response was "who?"
and then after some clarification: "oh that weird author guy? yeah he was always just sitting in the cafeteria”
bookforum was one of my favorite places to write for--and one of my favorite magazines to read. the work it did (short but comprehensive and sharp pieces of literary criticism) was undeniably a public good, and i hope it finds itself reanimated in some other future form 😭
ohhhhh my god you hate barbie? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite everyone else on twitter acting like they’re the only ones who hate barbie
everyone in my household has now tested positive for covid -- my fiancé, his dad, his mom, and his brother -- leaving me sequestered in the basement and what carol clover famously theorized as the "final girl"
Online early from Bookforum's fall issue! Read
@hujane
on Sigrid Nunez, her new novel THE VULNERABLES (
@riverheadbooks
), and how her writing quietly breaks the rules.
do you ever think about how only dogs can move freely between the covid-infected and covid-free, which is to say, within the liminal space between the fallen and the as yet morally pure? anyway, my fiancé’s whole family has covid and i’m watching tarkovsky’s stalker in the baseme
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The reason I read most of my reviews (other than narcissism and curiosity) is that I think the smartest ones have something to teach me about my own writing. This is one of the smartest ones and also one of the most generous
during one scene of the film (wender’s “tokyo-ga,” starring a much younger herzog), herzog’s companion (i assumed his wife) whispered to him, “is that john wayne?” to which herzog responded, deadpan: “yes”
“Guillory’s reluctance to embrace the empty radicalism of many of his colleagues is understandable, but his tragic realism can feel complacent” — have been so excited about
@evankindley
’s review of the hottest book in a losing profession, finally out:
totally lost it in front of nunez last night. blurted out, among other insane things, "i'm, like, your stalker" and "i'm writing a long essay about you." she played it off so cool. totally unperturbed. a genius writer and social virtuoso and now my best friend i'm pretty sure
emailing my tattoo artist my research statement and emailing the search committee chair my idea for a delicate semi-abstract flower with 4-6 leaves branching out from the stem, but not necessarily all from the same point in the stem,
as
@brianphillips
put it to me, that was just like him, "just happiest in a place where someone would cook and clean up after him... the cafeteria.... of a scientific institution"
dream bf:
- 5'7"
- humble
- is very popular in china
- can hold his breath for 6 minutes
- understands that adhd is a scam
- is in a cult
- spent years living in canada
- 60 years old but has aged perfectly because he’s unproblematic
- does his own stunts
- is saving cinema
friend keeps getting mad at me for finding no real distinction between fictional and nonfictional writing so i told her that “fact” and “fiction” actually share an etymological origin! they don’t, of course, but it kind of sounds like they could which is pretty meaningful i think
in the end i am not so different from pamela anderson -- another scrappy canadian from vancouver island who is intimidated by the "mainland" (vancouver)
(my pilates instructor) (after seeing my corgi tattoo) (into the microphone over the staggeringly loud techno beat) everybodyyyy jane has a corgiii!!!!
solidarity with all the uc graduate workers going on strike today. my uc berkeley stipend is part of the reason i never stopped freelancing 🥲
#fairucnow
my review of charlotte barslund's translation of vidgis hjorth's *is mother dead* (an international booker longlist finalist!) is now live at
@readlux
🔪
my favorite independent bookstore
@EB_Booksellers
suffered a devastating fire in oakland yesterday and need help to rebuild. please donate anything if you can:
too many people telling me i'm too old to listen to taylor swift, not enough people telling me i'm too old to be wearing selena gomez's signature line of lipgloss
got into a small argument with a friend about which novel victorianists generally liked more--villette or jane eyre--so my morning is going actually great