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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

these captchas are getting downright philosophical

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

Funny how for the last 5 years a million articles have pushed the ‘inevitable’ fully autonomous self-driving vehicle until Google recently admitted it was probably too hard, and people talked about this for one day

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

2 years

I saw the best minds of my generation lowkey fall off

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

knowing how to burn CDs means that members of gen Z consider you the equivalent of a blacksmith

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brooks sterritt

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2 years

@horsediving @HotGirltm

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i’ve been saying this

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

every car company and tech company poured millions into research and lobbying in various states, and now your car can beep when you try to change lanes into a large truck on a sunny day

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

a version of Stephen King’s Misery featuring Sufjan Stevens and a deranged fan who wants to see the 50-state album project reach completion

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

Reading American Psycho and shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with it

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

1 year

retiring this short story for a while after a student read the first line in Borat voice lmaoo

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

poets take note

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

2 years

throwing out my dad’s meds, turns out he was Bolañopilled

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

had no idea Truffaut invented the distracted boyfriend meme in 1977

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1 year

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7 years

it’s catholic canon that in the garden of gethsemane jesus christ saw every sin committed by human beings which means that he watched a guy blasting rope to waluigi hentai and still decided to sacrifice himself for humanity. absolute legend

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

also when Teslas started EXPLODING left and right they changed the term from self-driving to autopilot, with its most functional feature being that the steering wheel vibrates from time to time

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

The History of America in My Lifetime is out today and available online, and you can ask a physical bookstore to order you a copy. Many thanks to all who helped make this happen

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brooks sterritt

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1 year

how to cite a dream in MLA

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brooks sterritt

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2 years

my dad is at rest after a very long life. always a joker, he never tired of saying i was his favorite son (i'm an only child). much love to everyone who has reached out, and apologies if i'm slow responding <3

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

my first novel, The History of America in My Lifetime, comes out 5/3/21 and you can preorder it here:

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5 years

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Joan Didion

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brooks sterritt

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6 months

random guy just asked me if i’ve ever heard of synesthesia. heard of it? buddy, i’ve smelled it

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brooks sterritt

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1 year

my take on the Agnes Callard travel discourse

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

I couldn’t think of Jeff Koons’s name so I had to google “inflatable art fraud man”

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1 year

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1 year

What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)

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brooks sterritt

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5 years

I know things are pretty dark, but there’s no reason we have to resort to sharing Vonnegut quotes yet

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

2 years

amazing to think that Jupiter won’t be this bright or this close to the Earth for another 59 years

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

Mumford and Sons is Fleet Foxes for people whose Iron & Wine is Calexico, just like Eliza and the Bear is Bon Iver for people whose Noah and the Whale is Old Crow Medicine Show

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brooks sterritt

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3 years

@CaseyJPod @razzkerry fond memories but I did recently see this

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brooks sterritt

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3 years

[sincerepost interlude] after 17 days in the hospital and many more in rehabilitation, my dad is coming home tomorrow

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3 years

1. logging on

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brooks sterritt

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3 years

Miss you, Gian. (Hell’s Kitchen, 2012)

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

years ago we had Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Elon Musk. now we have no Buffets, no Jobs, and no Musk (sense of smell lost to covid)

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brooks sterritt

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1 year

best responses to this (reasonable!) tweet 1. you can become very good at something by not doing it much actually 2. you should sociopathically avoid all human contact to maximize efficiency

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The most important lesson I ever learned as a writer: When I was 28 I was at a bar on a Friday night. My friends and I were dancing and getting wasted and having an amazing night, when I looked around and noticed that my buddy Clark was missing. I asked my buddy Jeremy, “Hey

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

deleting tweets < tweeting so much that HR can’t process everything

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

dudes will literally mention two things and call it dialectics

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

I am begging you to stop saying 'normalize'

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brooks sterritt

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9 months

dropping a witch house album

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

'wow this blew up,' here's a link to quality public goods and services not subordinated to the market

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

The novel is like the US space program: groundbreaking in the 60s and 70s, followed by occasional technical achievements despite declining funding and public interest

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

5 years

I took a piece by @BAKKOOONN to a frame shop in South Texas, and the nice lady said: “Well. First of all you’re gonna have to tell us what this is”

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brooks sterritt

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3 years

a parasocial relationship with god

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

Girl are you neosporin, because I love your work in The Cut

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brooks sterritt

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11 months

it’s a cosmic novel and the whaling chapters alone are better than most books

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Everyone listing Moby-Dick as one of their 10 favorite novels: no one believes you

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

Cheering myself up by imagining how mad everyone would be if Elon Musk tweeted “the novel is dead”

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

1 year

there are only so many times in a life that one can ask, Why on earth is it called Ruth’s Chris Steak House

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brooks sterritt

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why does this look like they arrested Mark Zuckerberg

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@MilesKlee

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

5 years

Excited to share the news that my novel, THE HISTORY OF AMERICA IN MY LIFETIME, will be published this summer by @SpuytenDyvil !

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

You can’t spell ‘dialectics’ without ‘ladies’

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brooks sterritt

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90 days clean and sober, might drop a witch house album later

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5 years

My new email strategy

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

2 years

when your doctor leaves the examination room they’re googling things in the back

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@hum_dunkin

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brooks sterritt

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4 months

back in the day you could tweet with a dumb phone by texting. meaning you could post without looking at twitter at all, which should be the next improvement tbh

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

4 years

remembering the time I found a bunch of Cormac McCarthy books in this old store and as I was checking out the bookseller said “get ready to sleep forever, bro”

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brooks sterritt

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2 years

New York’s Hottest Club Is a Portal That Allows You to Inhabit the Mind of John Malkovich for 15 Minutes Before Dumping You Onto the Side of the New Jersey Turnpike

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

can’t stop laughing at this text from my mom

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brooks sterritt

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2 years

we get to the bottom of the Hobart situation, the Kanye situation, literary aggression, aesthetics vs. politics, and more:

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3 years

i did not beat the Pavement-liking allegations

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4 years

if you scroll long enough you’ll find a tweet that can take the edge off of any good news

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brooks sterritt

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9 months

finally watched Grey Gardens, which was amazing. those ladies seem pretty normal to me, however

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

3 years

flights canceled two days in a row, starting to get cabin fever. every time Keanu Reeves comes on TV, which is often, my mom keeps saying “look, there’s Mulder”

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

1 year

i’ve been automatically sharing my instagram stories to facebook for a year without realizing it. when i logged in recently my inbox was full of messages saying “no, NO” and “Is everything OK? -Your Aunt Judy”

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brooks sterritt

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normalize living lives of quiet desperation

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watching Gummo with my mom

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brooks sterritt

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9 years

Give America what it wants and deserves: caffeinated beef

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1 year

Brian Eno album called Music for Walgreens

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

My teen daughter just asked me to explain the dialectic. I told her to paypal me first

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3 years

my dad when he gets to tell me that someone i barely knew from elementary school is dead or in jail

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2 years

in a Baton Rouge McDonald’s bathroom i heard something i’ve never heard before, which was someone beatboxing while taking a shit

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brooks sterritt

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3 years

self-help books are always like: change your whole perspective by imagining your own funeral! buddy, i’ve been doing this for a long time

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9 years

Interviewer: So, how long have you been "problematic?"

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

Every big thing that’s supposedly dead is actually undead and still stumbling around. New York, the novel, painting, hip hop, God, blogging, writing letters, poetry, literature, Laura Palmer

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3 years

overwhelmed

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Obama crafts these dubious summer playlists while listening to Wilco and blasting cigs in his garage

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4 years

I have a Morrissey joke but it isn't funny anymore

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brooks sterritt

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2 years

🚨now🚨 @posterapod talks to Caitlin Forst and @footloosechange about NDA: An Autofiction Anthology from @ArchwayEditions 🚨tomorrow🚨 launch at 7pm @POWERHOUSEArena

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3 years

If I Did It by George W. Bush

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5 years

Biden: I believe women can win. I campaigned for 27 different women in 2018, and let me tell ya they all smelled wonderful

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2 years

James Joyce’s Ulysses is very good actually, and you should have to read it twice to renew your driver’s license

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4 years

not only is Scorsese right when he says “the art of cinema is being systematically devalued, sidelined, demeaned, and reduced to its lowest common denominator,” this applies, and increasingly so, to art in general

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

10 months

i don’t think i’ve ever called a book “courageous” before (or heartbreaking or unflinching), but Molly by Blake Butler is exactly that. by grappling with the truth—the task of a memoir, surely—it’s also a tribute to Molly as an artist and human being

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5 years

Using the “close friends” option on instagram to privately share the most boring images of all time

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6 years

If gift cards to therapy don’t exist, they should

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8 years

Y Tu Ambien También

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2 years

China spy balloon recovery photo giving John Singleton Copley’s Watson and the Shark…

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2 years

when Howard Taft allegedly became stuck in the bathtub, he also said “Nothing like this has ever happened to a President of the United States before”

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1 year

new “For sale: baby shoes, never worn” just dropped

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brooks sterritt

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4 years

“Just as [the novel] 300,000,000 imagines the end of America, there’s a way in which Alice Knott imagines the end of art, or art’s final form.“ I wrote about Alice Knott by @blakebutler for @thenation

Is This the First Great Quarantine Novel?

Alice Knott tells the story of a housebound heiress going slowly mad from a combination of 24-hour news and isolation.

www.thenation.com

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brooks sterritt

@brksstrrtt

7 months

deleted social media apps from my phone so now i just keep checking Calculator

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