Jack Denton
@jackwdenton
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Epistemologist @NYmag Writing: @Pitchfork, @Harpers, @nprmusic, @RollingStone, @PacificStand (rip), @VICE, @Outline, @thefader, @MotherJones, @nytimes
Joined September 2015
I wrote about Ted Joans, the politics of surrealism, and the meaning of jazz
Though Ted Joans emerged in the earliest wave of Beats — frequenting the Beat Hotel with Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs — he is often left out of the popular narrative of the movement.
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Sure would be great to close a busy week with a fair deal on a new contract!
5,000 @NYMag readers & counting have told @VoxMedia they plan to stand with @NYMagUnion if we walk out. Tomorrow, we're back in bargaining. The time for a fair deal is now. If you haven’t signed, tell Vox you support New York’s 150 union members:
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RT @NYMagUnion: 5,000 @NYMag readers & counting have told @VoxMedia they plan to stand with @NYMagUnion if we walk out. Tomorrow, we're bac…
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97% of @NYMagUnion members just signed a pledge to walk out of work if we don’t get a fair contract from @VoxMedia. If you love @NYMag and the work we do, sign our solidarity pledge to support us in the event of a walkout:
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RT @NYMagUnion: Some @NYMagUnion members sat for their own “elite” portraits too. (The anonymous quotes in this project do not just reflect…
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RT @NYMagUnion: Remember in October when @NYMag published its annual Power Issue with members of the “media elite?" Well, @NYMagUnion thoug…
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@alex_shephard This coinage stuck with me and has been useful
Egg manning: the practice of finding a terrible argument from an unknown Twitter user in order to disagree with it. http://t.co/w0JF7pF80A
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phrase of the day (in Ben Ratliff's Roy Haynes obit): "the clarifying semaphore of the high-hat"
NPR comment by Ben Ratliff
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RT @jackwdenton: I wrote the liner notes for The Invisible Road: Original Recordings, 1985–1990. They're fully available with the vinyl, bu…
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"Now when Kamala concedes and the spell lifts or buckles, faint and pseudo as it was, will those who pretended there was passion behind this charade feel it was worth it to lie to themselves about what love is?"
My 2AM rant last night while distracted from my other writing and furiously texting memes among friends and loved ones
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RT @tobihaslett: To paraphrase Malcolm X: “We didn’t fall out of a coconut tree. The coconut fell on us!!”
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It's cool that a father and son both get to work at Slate together
Yes, Slate is mostly—but not entirely—voting for Kamala Harris. We are also predicting who will win.
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