Jess Row
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Novelist, essayist. Pronounced "Row": a British argument. He/him. My new novel, THE NEW EARTH, came out in March 2023.
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“Richly imagined, reflexively neurotic and frequently quite dazzling.” Thanks to the NYT for this thoughtful (and funny) review of THE NEW EARTH!
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Hesen Jabr, a nurse at NYU-Langone Hospital, was given an award for her work with bereaved mothers on May 7th. At the awards ceremony, she briefly mentioned Palestine in her remarks. On May 22nd, Jabr's first day back at work following the ceremony, NYU-Langone fired her.
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The Alice Munro news is so completely and tragically consistent with the world she evoked in her stories—all those young people betrayed and sabotaged by adults who were supposed to care for them. This is the most awful feeling of recognition. Not “I always imagined this,” or 1/2
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In the US you cannot be recognized for your humanitarian good deeds *and* express humanitarian concerns about Palestine. It's one or the other. There is no more stark illustration that in this country Palestinians are not really considered human.
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“I’ll never read her again,” just that the cruelty, the obliviousness, the victim-blaming , were all things she could describe in fiction without accounting for them in herself. Her daughter withheld this news out of kindness, but I don’t think Munro deserved that consideration.
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Guys, I don’t really care whether you or I or anyone we know stays on Twitter or leaves. Elon Musk is going to reinstate Trump’s account, and that will set Trump up to win in 2024. That’s all that matters here.
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Thanks to all who have reposted. Please keep at it. Everyone should know this story.
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It took longer than I expected, but short people, Fox News has finally come for us.
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@ellomelissa
Are you talking about some alternative version of the early 2000s where Bush v Gore and 9/11 never happened? Like Gilmore Girls?
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@ellomelissa
I turned 26 in 2000, and it was a horror show. Bush became president in a coup, 9/11 happened six months later, and everywhere you looked, someone’s thong was showing.
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@AbuYoshi
@theferocity
I’m a white English prof who asks students not to say the n-word in class, and just yesterday a white student wanted to argue with me about censorship for half an hour! I’m looking forward to your paper. Pls circulate.
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@Danez_Smif
No lie, I had a fancy lunch recently with a friend who ordered and ate an entire head of cauliflower. With a knife and fork. The Cauliflower Growers Association has done some serious work to get to this point.
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@SenFettermanPA
John Fetterman, your future in the Democratic Party is over. AIPAC can have you. The base will never forgive you. Goodbye.
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& (since this is "doing numbers") if anyone wants to buy my book about Palestine, I'd be grateful. Paperback comes out July 2nd.
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John Gardner's wife hated him so much she hired an airplane to drop flyers over Bread Loaf with pictures of the woman he was dating
“I really do believe that a novel has to be a feast of the senses, a delightful thing.” —John Gardner
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@abienen
Yes it does. This hurts so much, to talk about stories I’ve known and referred students to for decade.
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@PhizLair
Those are special therapeutic buildings for billionaires with erectile dysfunction.
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@BriceCollin
Not only did they have land lines, they had answering machines. This was a central feature of college life in the mid-nineties. My dorm room's outgoing message was, "You have reached the Consulate of Djibouti. Press one for the passport office, two for consular affairs..."
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@kemiaalabi
Last weekend there was a video of a white yoga mom teaching the Crip Walk. Now this. It’s some kind of reverse learning curve.
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I have to give a presentation on my WIP soon, and just for fun, I threw together a book cover. Kind of perfect, right?
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@EmilyGould
Are we going with “fauxcialist”? I thought the correct term was “Neiman Marxist”
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@conny_asf
@IBJIYONGI
@Pale_0ntologist
Jews live nearly everywhere on Earth. Only about 4 out of 10 live in Israel. Assuming that Jews can (or should) *only* live in Israel is a common, and repugnant, form of antisemitism.
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@mikemwilson
Mike, I say this respectfully, but think about all the middle-aged dads you know when you ask this question. Wouldn’t at least half of them fall into this category (maybe not quite so overtly, maybe passively, maybe self-destructively?) For me it’s at least half.
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For an essay I'm working on, here's a question for parents and non-parents (non-parent adults):
When did you know that you wanted, or didn't want, to have children? And *how* did you know?
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@bronwentate
“Weep not, young ones, the spread of bland on bread is done! / Reach for Sriracha, chow-chow or Dijon!”
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URGENT: The College of New Jersey needs a poet to teach an undergrad poetry workshop and a graduate class in creative writing. Classes start the week of January 28th. If you're interested, please contact the department chair, Glenn Steinberg, at gsteinbe at tcnj dot edu.
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My trans kid is almost exactly the same age as D-Wade’s trans kid. Everything he says here is what I feel. Our kids are on their own journey and it’s our job to help them and protect them.
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@MorganJerkins
If you walk around the glass-front-condo blocks in Williamsburg, LIC, the LES, Dumbo, or NoHo, on an average day, you can hear a pin drop. It’s scary as hell.
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@PhizLair
I was flying into Manhattan at night
Watching the Hudson turn the sky the color of coke
The sun was setting to the left of the plane
And those billionaires' false penises made me feel broke
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How nice that
@nytimes
has finally decided to cover the one story about Israel—THE story about Israel—that Palestinian observers, progressive journalists and human rights groups have been documenting day in day out for decades. Is there a Pulitzer for “better late than never”
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Cover reveal time!
Friends, I'm so excited to share THE NEW EARTH with you next spring. It's big, it's timely, it's...slightly unhinged. Preorder link in bio. Thank you as always for your support.
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@ellomelissa
Anyone who could read a newspaper knew climate change was already happening. The Clinton years already felt like a dream. And you still had to use a dial-up modem to get online.
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@ellomelissa
1990s indie rock had morphed into these almost-indistinguishable bands (The Strokes, The National, Radiohead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) who couldn’t write a single memorable song. Worst of all, people were convinced Dave Eggers was the future of US literature.
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@Vanessid
All rock music comes from Black music. Period. It started in the blues. No blues, no r&b, no rock n'roll. It's that simple. The idea that rock is white music is a racist fantasy.
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@BabsVan
Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Colson Whitehead, Samuel R. Delany, Gayl Jones, Maxine Hong Kingston
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@taylorgarron
Well now we know who’s not getting invited to the spring rolls and latkes party
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The traditional blessing for the dead ברוך דיין האמת (Baruch dayan ha’emet) means “Blessed is the true judge” and that seems quite appropriate here
What’s the opposite of “may his memory be a blessing?”
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Let’s celebrate Chloe and the other Artforum editors who resigned in protest over the firing of David Velasco. It’s not easy to do the right thing.
Yesterday I resigned as a senior editor of . The firing of David Velasco violates everything I had cherished about the magazine and makes my work there untenable. I’m devastated by this outcome and will deeply miss my talented colleagues and contributors.
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Am I naive to think that Twitter has been chaotic, precarious, and largely harmful for its entire history, and that the M*sk acquisition isn’t necessarily the existential shift so many of you seem to think it is?
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Goodbye to one of the true greats, a singular visionary who worked without success for decades and, like Faulkner, was only recognized after his most important work was done. Cormac McCarthy, who created the template for so much that followed, ars longa vita brevis.
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After a troubling conversation I had recently, some thoughts about our collective obsession with celebrity and fame, and how it’s driving young writers (really all writers) over the edge.
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Here's some birthday news: I'm working on a new essay collection for
@FIONAMCCRAE
and Graywolf, called ON BEING SHORT. It's about men, masculinity, and not measuring up.
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Can anything be done? Bookforum is too precious to let go. If Conjunctions and The Believer can be saved, surely there must be an answer for Bookforum.
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@OhDionne
@surlybassey
My salary is public record, because I’m a state employee of NJ (as it should be). I’m an associate prof at a state college, and it’s 103k/year.
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So far I’m fascinated. Very much a riff on Pedro Páramo (Torres quotes the first line of PP early on) but with hints of Kafka and Ondaatje as well. Full of allusions, but very much its own thing. Who else has read it?
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@upstaterica
I have photos of Hegel’s grave too! I love that Brecht chose his spot so he’d be facing Hegel.
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@thrasherxy
As a creative writing teacher and a thinking human, I'm begging you: please teach your students the difference between fiction and nonfiction. It's a basic, cognitive, epistemological distinction.
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The NYT has the story:
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@PENamerica
The whole point here is that PEN America has *not* stood up for Palestinian writers and their allies. Not since 10/7. Not ever. PEN has never spoken out against anti-BDS laws that are direct state censorship. It has never defended Palestinian writers in Israeli jails.
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@imjasondiamond
In an alternate universe, Sufjan is just now finishing his 50-album series with "New Jersey," nothing but disco renditions of Bon Jovi songs
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@AdamOPrice
I (Lyle Lovett) baked a custom kid's birthday cake for this mom and she never picked it up. I called her a few times to remind her about it. Turns out her kid got hit by a car and died in the hospital. Now she's really mad. AITA?
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My book of essays was also trashed in Bookforum, but the reviewer didn't call me the Renata Adler of anything, and I've been bitter ever since.
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“I’ll be brutally honest and say I’d give up Sebald any day in favor of Susan Orlean’s 2020 drunken Twitter thread, in which the responses were half the fun.” My latest for LitHub.
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@ambernoelle
And other media as well! My parents subscribed to The Washingtonian for years when I was little, and I read it religiously from ages 9-12. I learned so much useless trivia about Washington high society, like the right caterers to call for a polo match.
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@BenPurkert
Here's one. I submitted a very Carver-esque story about teenagers during a drought in Arizona to my undergrad workshop with Robert Stone, and in a private meeting afterward, Stone said to me, "Don't make your characters sound dumb. Make them as smart as you are."
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I've been longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize for "a mid-career author of fiction in the midst of a burgeoning career." As M and A assure me all the time, I am extremely mid. Also meh. Glad for this confirmation.
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@brycecovert
$20 million is not enough. For what KKR and Bain did to that company? Those private equity bros should be up on the guillotine.
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@WendyLBelcher
@surlybassey
It’s shocking to me that ostensibly educated people don’t understand how long, and to what extent, there have been written African languages. For christ’s sake,
some of the oldest texts anywhere come from Ethiopia and Timbuktu. This is basic global knowledge 101.
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@PriyaSatia
@AMNH
Just commenting as an NYC resident (& parent): AMNH is a vast museum, and most visitors focus on other things—definitely not the anthropological exhibits. It’s also been the target of protests for years over its association with colonialism & racism.
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@ambernoelle
This kind of thing infuriates me as my partner, my first kid, and many of my mom friends and THEIR kids would likely not have survived childbirth outside a hospital.
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Seconded. When you teach undergrads for 25 years, you see *a lot* of raw talent—but you also see that very few students have the means, the security, the confidence, the encouragement to pursue a life on the arts.
One of the biggest lies we’ve been sold is that talent is rare. As someone who works in the arts, it’s absolutely not. Once you realize that, you’ll understand how much luck (and privilege) is involved in being chosen to be one of the few who get the limelight.
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I'm so amazed and excited that
@esmewang
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@NifMuhammad
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@SF_Montgomery
For all the professors on this thread saying “but students lie!”: give me a break. Your job is teaching, not enforcing your personal punitive regime. Requiring documentation for deaths sends them the message that your satisfaction is more important than their dignity.
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@ThatJBF
@biblioracle
Make sure that you communicate with people fairly. This means sending rejections as soon as you’ve chosen your semi-finalists, finalists, and so on. You’d be amazed how few committees do this.
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@hutchingsmusic
@Kristen_Arnett
Back in high school Parmesan Larson hit the weights too hard and his friends started calling him Meatball Parm
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@ambernoelle
I've had similar issues (they run in my family) and the solutions are the same as others have noted: the Epley maneuver and other related exercises, plus otc medications like meclizine.
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Dorothy is one of the best presses out there. This is a rare opportunity. If you have a manuscript floating around, check them out!
We will be open for submissions for one month, from 9/15/21 to 10/15/21. Please send us your best and weirdest book-length manuscripts of fiction or near fiction or writing about fiction. Guidelines here:
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In class today an undergrad introduced a concept I'd never thought about before: a "meta-flat" character. That is, a character whose seeming one-dimensionality or predictability prompts other characters to interpret and investigate them. (Bartleby is an obvious example.)
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@magsrdoherty
Most of the answers are already here, but I think it has to do with teaching being for the common good, for the good of many, rather than as a way of building up your own power, influence, and resources. It’s a giving/caring profession. It’s not competitive.
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“Our meth had terroir. It had notes of high rocky peaks and sparkly river valleys.”
Sen. Steve Daines: “Twenty years ago in Montana, meth was homemade. It was homegrown. And you had purity levels less than 30%. Today the meth that is getting into Montana is Mexican cartel.”
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@MauriceRuffin
Make all MFA programs fully funded MFA/PhD programs. Teach translation. Highlight careers outside academia.
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This is chilling news: the
@smithsonian
canceled the Asian American Literature Festival a month before it was scheduled to take place, is refusing to say why, and won't reimburse the authors and organizations who've invested thousands in preparation. What is going on?
"It just seemed like it had come out of nowhere." A report on the sudden cancellation of a literary festival.
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Interesting, isn't it, that when talk turns to literary biographies or documentaries it's always Roth! Hemingway! Doctorow! Mailer! Kerouac! when in our actual literary present hardly anyone gives a shit about them?
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This review. What a day.
"'The New Earth' is all about resurrection. If Row isn’t pulling a jumper back to safety, he’s reasserting the value of fiction about fiction...a masterpiece for our fractured time."
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@SteveHofstetter
@fred_guttenberg
$300 million isn't the entire holdings of the pension system. So yes, it was an egregious and likely corrupt move, but it's not 2/3 of the whole thing. You need to revise this tweet.
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@mariskreizman
Buzzfeed and Jezebel and Gawker came into existence when legacy media were eagerly repeating Bush’s outright lies about Iraq. I hope no one forgets that.
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Oh god the truth hurts
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Hot damn! I didn’t get a good picture of the room, but that was the most people I’ve spoken to in a long time. Thanks to
@mdbell79
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@ReeAmilcarScott
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@tracysoneill
and
@AlexKleeman
for a 🔥 🔥 🔥 panel on capitalism and the futures of fiction.
#awp2022
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@thrasherxy
In this case shouldn't "internal storage" mean "we're out of water"? I'm so confused. What is that screen supposed to be showing, a soap ad?
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@tnyfrontrow
Nah. It was a brilliant movie, a cultural landmark, and its use of “the multiverse model” was satirical and idiosyncratic, never to be repeated. Its deep characterization makes it comparable to another genre-defying classic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
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@WendyLBelcher
@surlybassey
Part of the poverty of the white American literary imagination is that it assumes its own default sphere of knowledge is the sum total of all things.
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Tony Kushner put it this way: politics is a blood sport. This is the way the GOP has acted for decades and the DNC has sat in its hands. Leaders like Stacey Abrams know that politics is about seizing and keeping power.
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