Robert Rubsam
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Books, movies, the arts: NYT Magazine, the Baffler, Washington Post, Atlantic, Paris Review, Nation. Commonweal Contributing Writer. Hire me: robjrub @gmail .com
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I wrote about grief, politics, reproduction, and the
@MuseumModernArt
's spectacular Käthe Kollwitz retrospective for
@commonwealmag
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What are the best essays/books about the relationship between things and their representations? So between say a person and their photograph, a real event and a narrative adaptation, a work of art and a digital image, etc? I've already got Benjamin and Sontag but I need more.
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Starting the Girl in your MFA twitter account, tweeting something like "just reading Her Body and Other Parties in my high waisted jeans" and getting immediately canceled
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@maddiewhittle
It does present the violence as pervasive and mundane, which seems central to the conceit: that these murders are commonplace in a country as filled up with violence as ours
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A nicely succinct illustration of how the dumbing down of creative culture represents a dilution of worker's rights.
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selling out doesn't mean anything anymore blah blah blah—i'm sorry but no one has to do this sort of thing! you simply do not!
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@davidgross_man
Not that person of the year has ever been a bastion of integrity but this one achieves previously unknown levels of hack
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@anarchosuccubus
@BrandyLJensen
Damn...looks like the French revolutionaries who freed him from the bastille are low key problematic
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@tomscocca
Now if only there were a school of thought that might explore how facially neutral positions might actually lead to racist results…hmm, what was that called…
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@LingoUnbound
Me too! Though I will say it wasn't such bad casting to have him have basically no lines for 2 and a half hours only to give him a good stirring speech once you've forgotten him. It uses his moviestardom to good end
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That's right sickos: it's time for 4000 words on Paul Schrader and the Global War on Terror in
@thebafflermag
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Probably the only good metric for this sort of thing nowadays is how it affects your fans, and literally excluding certain fans from certain shows because they don't have the right credit card is pretty terrible behavior
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@LingoUnbound
He weaponizes his own geniality. He admits everything, but through these indirect phrases.
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@sour_mamba
@metaltxt
*art angels is released*
jk: hermoine is super into lo-fi pop
*grimes meets elon musk*
jk: unfortunately had to cut the chapter with her "witch house, ride or die" speech
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For
@thebafflermag
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Enjoyed the whole essay but this section particularly stuck out. So much of the fiction I don't like treats character as something to be explained, rather than explored or expanded upon. They're always tunneling back into the past, seeking some justification for who they are.
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I wrote about the past, the dead, Sir Thomas Browne, ancient burial practices, the international antiquities trade, the Chauvet Caves, and Alice Rohrwacher's mythic new film La chimera, for
@mubinotebook
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@mcmansionhell
Have not been able to come up with a good answer for why young people are so obsessed with these kind of essentialized explanations: bone structure, phenotype, etc
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@mattzollerseitz
Just saw the restoration of La Strada, and the thought occurred to me that films of that era generally allowed characters to live to regret their choices but not to redeem them, whereas the popular trend now is that characters ought either to correct themselves, or die.
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Listen, I run a reading series, I like having fun, and I like bringing people together. But there is a real divide between people who write to write and people who write to go to parties, sorry!
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I think about this a lot. Being a public schooler from pre-K through college made me an egalitarian, even if I didn't realize it until later. If I had something, other people should have it. If possibilities exist for me, than they should for others.
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@hitrecordjake
@AADowd
It's also the idea that as one's taste is essentially normative, anyone who likes things you don't has to be lying to themselves and others. "No one could actually enjoy this movie if didn't," "everyone else is a phony," etc. Also just code for "I don't like subtitles"
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I wrote about ~*obsession*~ and some favorite books by Kleist, Jaeggy, Abe, and
@emilyhallnyc
, for
@TheAtlantic
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@blagojevism
Impossible as it may seem their interest in historical inquiry has somehow gotten even lazier
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For
@Artforum
, I wrote about Hlynur Pálmason’s new film Godland, the canon of missionary cinema, and much more:
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Question for twitter: what are some good examples, in fiction, of a character narrating another work, fictional or non, within the the novel/story itself? I.E. Sebald, Borges, etc.
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@Nicole_Cliffe
Approximately 85% of our self-worth is based on how far we can chuck a recently finished apple core.
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For
@NotebookMUBI
, I wrote about the collaboration between Agnes Hranitzky, Laszlo Krasznahorkai, and Bela Tarr, who is at
@FilmLinc
tonight and tomorrow:
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The Idiot
Middlemarch
Song of Solomon
The Trial
House of the Sleeping Beauties
Remembrance of Things Past (yes I'm cheating)
Go Went Gone
Austerlitz
Zama
To the Lighthouse
...this question is actually impossible
Either/Or (both SK and Batuman)
Brothers K
Gulliver’s Travels
Skippy Dies
The Custom of the Country
Love in the Ruins
Gilead
Ravelstein
Middlemarch
…and Brideshead, which I do really love
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I wrote for the
@washingtonpost
about fate, chance, and history in Kairos, the latest novel by Jenny Erpenbeck:
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Journalism really went downhill once we stopped publishing four articles a day about dimes square
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I don't know why this is so funny to me. Hemon's books read like parodies of real books, this is like John Green trying to take down Shakespeare.
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In my first for
@NotebookMUBI
, I wrote about old age and bodily alienation in the late films of David Cronenberg:
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At long last!
The Interval Reading Series will return to
@kgbbarlitmag
on 1/19, with an absolutely stacked lineup:
@vcunningham
,
@SophieHaigney
,
@GemmaKaneko
,
@CameronMenchel
,
@Jay_Gao_
,
@Chesanek
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@AChemeche
, and more.
Doors at 7, Reading at 7:30. Free!
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Yeah the trans-Siberian was exactly like this
Train dance from 1970 Soviet film "The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev"
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We're back!
The next Interval Series event will take place on Thursday, 4/25, at
@kgbbarlitmag
with readings from
@jeremypgordon
@alex___tanner
@emilyhallnyc
@j_ckh_ns_n
@hannahpgold
and more!
Doors at 7, Readings 7:30. Free!
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All of us who are pro-Palestine need to acknowledge that there just are people who join the cause because they truly, deeply hate jews, and if we are to succeed at all by any metric then they need to be expelled.
Jewish students get harassed trying to leave
@Columbia
’s campus tonight. You can hear someone yell “Yehudim Yehudim”- “Jews Jews.” They curse and yell “go back to Poland.” Antisemitism has become the new normal here.
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"Bad writing, self-conscious writing, comes out of an essential disillusionment with the one real tool that writers have. ... The sarcasm functions as a protective armor, but unlike real irony, no hypocrisies are exposed."
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ICYMI, I wrote about my favorite film of the year so far, Alice Rohrwacher's stunning and delightful La Chimera, for
@mubinotebook
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So many losers replying "but I like to go to restaurants"...grow up! Believe it or not Anne Carson is not actually writing about you!
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I need the Cafe Sabarsky back
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@jbouie
It has to be the obscurity, right? The average person (even the average 'intellectual') has no idea what this means, so (like post-modernism) they can project whatever set of values they want onto it. It's not like they're actually going to read Paul Gilroy.
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So...I am in the New York Times:
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Everyone yelled at him at the time but Scorsese was not only dead right about this, his comments on the collapse of everything into "content" were prescient. An AI can't be used to create art, only content, and, as it turns out, plenty of people would just rather have content.
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Bought my ticket to Ulan Ude this afternoon. Expecting this.
Train dance from 1970 Soviet film "The Seven Brides of Corporal Zbruev"
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Not to be earnest about this dumb site but it has been a genuine boon for freelancers if only because so few publications actually make their editors’ emails public, and twitter often breaks that down
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For
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, I wrote about a pair of new translations from Jean Giono, and his growing ambivalence about resistance to modernity:
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@jaycaspiankang
It also makes the story about something debatable and unknowable (his character) rather than what we all know: that he killed a 14 year old girl
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I wrote about Jason Molina and my humiliating desire to be unmade by love, for the
@parisreview
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@adamgurri
You can tell this guy used to be a Trotskyite, he's just swerving wildly between whatever tyrants are on hand
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Among other things, American Dirt seems like a really good example of a major publisher selling mediocre mid-list fiction as A Serious Literary Event
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@sbbilyeu
@Nicole_Cliffe
I once threw one off the deck so forefully it exploded against my satellite dish.
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Sure sure sure, lists are silly, why did they do this in 2024, why did they ask Sarah Jessica Parker, etc etc, but this...this is funny
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@willystaley
Between Harry Potter and avocado toast, officially calling it: Gen Z has the sense of humor of a 45 year old financial planner
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Thrilled to announce the inaugural edition of the Interval Reading Series, organized with my friend
@ruefleurus
, with top class readers like
@bdmcclay
@togglecoat
@kimhewlow
@sallyjaygorce
@offbrandsanchez
@jemmawei
and more.
March 10 at KGB Bar
Doors at 7, Reading at 7:30
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Re long movies, long books, loud music, abstract painting, whatever: if your theory of art is oriented towards the audience rather than the artist then you have a problem
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