every woman's dream is to have a book cover that is adam and eve but the girl is anime and that's why this is mine. PARADISE LOGIC is out March of next year with
@SimonBooks
and you can pre order it literally rn
in the mid 20s liminal space where if u entertain dinner guests half the people r gonna bring a $30 bottle of natural wine and beautiful salad the other half are going to bring themselves and the largest bag of flamin hot cheetos u have ever seen
reading werther for the first time it’s pretty remarkable that this book is like 350 years old and that it feels like it was also written last week…i’m goethe pilled sorry
wow being 26 ur just always like i am god!! i am drunk??? i am ALONE!!! i need a snack! everyone is obsessed with me…everyone hates me!!!! life is amazing …. life is HORRIBLE … i’m crying on the F train to a pavement song??? I AM BEAMING WITH JOY ON THE BEACH !!!
have been saying for years it’s the responsibility of women born in the mid to late nineties to rehabilitate DFW out of the whole basica millennial woman dunking on infinite jest era circa 2015 … miss dua lmk if u want to have a colloquium on this …
cant wait for the pandemic to be over so i can go back to parties again where a guy who smells like wet dog can ask me if ive ever "seen the movie synecdoche, new york"
got asked to write a short thing about my fav sex scene in a book for angel food so i started writing about the fucking monologue in how should a person be and then ended up just writing about my personal philosophy re: writing sex in fiction
Millions have been asking: when will Sophie sell her soon to be world famous novel? Well, this very thing has occurred. My crazy little book, PARADISE LOGIC, is out on Simon and Schuster in 2025. I’m so excited lol.
I really do hope my music criticism helps artists bc just imagine if you had to make one of the best sandwiches in the world then travel the country preparing them in-person, and still most of the $$$ comes not from the meal but weird shit you sell after, for your deli to survive
god lol houllebecq is so racist and lame...truly don't get the appeal...u ppl are idiots..he's not even an interesting sentence writer...its like islamophobic YA lol
wrote about an amazing and normal time in my life, which is when i was a diy girlfriend and had bedbugs while working at vogue magazine, for the paris review
a month or so after i graduated college, fucking around in the pitchfork fellows cubicle. hard 2 explain but was absolutely my dream job at the time. met my best friend dani there and went to shows 5 nights a week. very beautiful time in my life <3
amazing evidence of when i was 20, was obsessed w/ robotripping, did it literally every day. rookiemag yearbook on desk. lived in vegan coop where someone took a shit in a trash can. kept shaving random parts of head. read like 1 novel that year pretty sure it was a little life
cool pic of me and my dad hanging out on cape cod. crazy mf. taught me how to write really good by editing me like an adult when i was 12 years old. put new order on my ipod when i was also like 12. thats my dad.
this is what happens when nothing good happens in politics for like two decades and u have all of these people born after 9/11 learning about the movie gummo lmfao
it is incredibly easy to make art that is challenging and disturbing and extremely ambitious and not have a persona that is glib about human suffering and racism...really really loved this essay by rachel about elena velez
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its 2019 ur sophie kemp show up to work hungover listen to PiL smell bad 27k a yr salary to write about emrata's shorts trying to poop in AW's office when shes OOO once got sent home from work by sally singer out of love bc crying at desk due to 1 sided psychosexual relationship
for my first ever p4k sunday review i wrote about a mysterious LA post punk band from the ‘80s fronted by one of the most magnetic frontwomen of all time
babe wake up new sophie frances kemp short fiction about a psychedelic sex retreat, involuntary organ donation, and being chased by someone wielding an axe through the forest is up on granta (granta!)
recently tried to explain to a friend what dating at ob*rlin was like and i was like “so the song i want the wind to blow by the microphones is playing and the guy puts his hand on ur knee and is like ‘is this ok?’”
remember when the idol came out 1000 years ago? me neither! anyways i wrote a short and weird little essay for paul at LARB about how most of that show was about other people thinking it was bad and...how having violent sex is corny >:- )
could u imagine having a bunch of serial abusers on ur record label and then being like ok yes! the solution to this problem is putting the word "girl" in our name now!
over the summer i went on a "reporting trip" for the paris review to kurt vonnegut's house in alplaus new york, which is a 5 min drive from where i grew up. feat my dad, three unnamed chickens, nxvim, my senior prom and more
i stay in on a saturday one time and a darkness so vast and consuming enters my universe … like a weak and tired old man staring at a tornado i accept “the sando life y’all”
pitchfork prob the first publication to ever take me seriously as a writer. first place someone ever gave a shit enough about my writing to tell me when it was BAD !! in other words: very much indebted to it for my entire career lol ... godspeed
main difference btwn early aughts williamsburg and current day dimes sq is that the music in early aughts wburg was amazing and the music in current day dimes sq like absolutely fucking sucks lmao
According to Sophie Kemp's Paris Review article, she asked Lorde if she's read 'Infinite Jest', but couldn't quote the rest of the conversation, per Lorde's request. 🤔
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hello! i have job news. i will be at pitchfork for a lil while as an editorial fellow starting this summer. see u in nyc :) come get drinks and go dance at punk shows w me!! thank u for ur support <3
idk much love to the girls working it out on the remix but also i feel so exhausted by this box we r placing female artists in where they have to be confessional in this corny and overtherapized way to have ppl take their pain seriously.
Ok lol I have some personal news. This coming week is my last week at pitchfork...the week after that I’m going to be starting as a news writer and fashion assistant for vogue’s new vertical, vogueworld! thank u for reading this tweet.
you actually can make art that pushes the envelope w/o devolving into completely embarrassing racism and brain dead anti politics. don't know why it feels controversial to even say this in this political climate. i really do not respect it at all.
do ppl realize that...young women in their twenties also write for pitchfork dot com or are we still doing that thing where we think its all middle aged white guys...jw
the thing about living in paris france is that i feel like i am being constantly hazed by everything and everyone around me but also this is what my apartment looks like and it is $400 a month cheaper than what i pay in new york city
u ppl have no idea how insane i need the conditions for me to successfully write fiction...im in a cabin in a night gown i have no access to a car im playing a game called "spend zero dollars" which means i can only eat food that is already here (canned asparagus)
my sweet reminder that if u ever have a piece of fiction or poetry or a freaky essay plz be in touch i’m editing the columbia journal and i want it to be AMAZING
always getting advice from my girls to try "going dark" (not posting) for personal and social gain (cultivate an air of mystery). sorry but no thanks. i'd rather make my third tweet in 24 hours about 10:04 by ben lerner.
bob was my first ever boss in media :-) hard 2 say boss tho because he really just wanted to hang out and make ice cream w/ crushed kind bars as a topping and ask u if u could invite him to see ur friend's band play. legend!!!!!!!!
Bob Boilen, after 35 years, will retire from NPR on Oct. 2.
I will have more to say soon — probably even on the All Songs Considered podcast, which I'm taping with Bob on Friday if I can get through it without 😭 — but without Bob, there's no Tiny Desk, no NPR Music.
Clairo is mining a deeper, inner well of interpersonal love and sonic confidence for her latest album ✨
@clairo
covers issue 157 of
@crackmagazine
Read the cover interview now:
love being bisexual. real worst of both worlds situation. no one looks at me and thinks i look straight and also i smell crazy all the time and am pretty sure i have beef with several prominent lesbians.
psa for people who love to dance: some friends bought molly in brooklyn this week that tested positive for fentanyl. test strips literally save lives!! stay safe out there <3
after a beaautiful year of working at garage i'm sad to say my last day is in a few weeks. would be insanely grateful for any opportunities of any nature. proud of my coworkers and everything we did/are doing together <3