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this one i wrote for the trees—thanks to @amhcrane87 and all the editors at @TheDodgeMag for running it

Notes on What a Tree Might Be by Cristina Politano — The Dodge

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name a more iconic opening passage i’ll wait

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self help 2024

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ok wish me luck here we go

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my outfit for my best friends wedding. posting it here because i never got to wear it

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this story i wrote for the lovers, the dreamers, and the contingent academic workers staring down the inevitable shift to automation, obsolescence

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your dark light will not invade these trees

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9 months

10 favorite novels no repeat authors We Have Always Lived in the Castle Beautiful Losers The Idiot The Master and Margarita Ask the Dust Foucault’s Pendulum Every Man Dies Alone King Jesus A Confederacy of Dunces Julian

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10 favorite novels no repeat authors Middlemarch Blood Meridian The Last Samurai American Pastoral The Overstory Infinite Jest Anna Karenina The Grapes of Wrath Never Let Me Go Dignity

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black dress, white dog, green bed etc.

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ten best films directed by women (personal favs/no particular order)

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love as the “forlorn and hopeless passion of these step-children of god”

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What actor's expression in a movie will stay with you the rest of your life?

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one of my students asked me if the english word “shiver” was etymologically related to the french word “hiver”—it’s not, but the spirit of the question has me feeling like the kids are all right 😏

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media mail (w/ cat)

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5 months

cool stuff in the pipeline…hmu if youre publishing this year and interested in being featured !!

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pleased to announce that @IbrahimSayedF1 and @monalisavitti will be joining us to take on our Interviews section ... send them something or get in touch to pitch ... (no se olviden, queda poco más de una semana para mandar vuestros textos en Español ...)

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The last ever paintings of 12 famous artists:

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one of a handful of words she knows is “gorgeous”

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i share a birthday with patti smith and jeff lynne hell yeah

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important resource, not for teaching poetry but pre-digital media (« on met la cassette dans le magnétophone »)

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a group of zoomers just told me it was a “huge red flag” that I own elliott smith’s entire discography 🙄🙄🙄 like ok fr im not your prospective gf, im you’re French teacher and I do my job better when im chronically melancholy

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90s horror fan

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was planning to maybe get something done today but then my cat fell asleep on me like this

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very much recommend reading this aloud in your haughtiest parisian accent, esp to an audience of disaffected seventeen year olds

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Anna Magnani with the Leonor Fini in the background 🔥

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the act of eating is evidently and indissolubly connected with sin (from The Book of All Books by Roberto Calasso)

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in paying tribute to Friedkin

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hbd Dario Argento, thinking about the lamp in Suspiria

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22 may: cipolin, ophite, sarrancolin, serpentine, canela, delfino, porphyry, brocatello, obsidian

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in no particular order & would likely be 20 different songs if i tried again tomorrow

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Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the 'best' songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul. Share when ready. #20tracks

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i am the one who named my cat magenta but i accidentally just called her monica

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favorite 60s films: 60: rocco and his brothers 61: divorce italian style 62: the trial of joan of arc 63: 8 1/2 64: red desert 65: le bonheur 66: au hasard balthazar 67: belle de jour 68: romeo and juliet 69: the passion of anna

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favorite 60s films (sorry for so much new wave) 60: the wild wild rose 61: last year at marienbad 62: cleo from 5 to 7 63: scorpio rising 64: umbrellas of cherbourg 65: alphaville 66: masculin feminin 67: story of a three day pass 68: teorema 69: they shoot horses don’t they

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my interview with @maxdaniellawton is up at @MinorLits check it out 👇

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“I have a weird fearlessness with translation […] I don’t think they can’t speak with an accent”: An interview with Max Daniel Lawton ( @maxdaniellawton ) — Cristina Politano ( @monalisavitti )

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the good news is that my niece said her first word, the bad news is that it was « aphérèse »

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re: daily thoughts about the Roman Empire…does it count if youre thinking of Ovid?

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one of my students told me as a small child he learned english by watching the office and i pictured him passively observing his parents at work in their cubicles or something until the horrifying reality dawned on me that he meant the show

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this is about as cool as you can look

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this is about as cool as you can look

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found in paperback: 40 y.o. improvised bookmark, raises more questions than it answers

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from the book of all books by Roberto Calasso

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it snowed 🧐

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POV ur a hs student trying to focus your overstimulated pubescent mind on some coherent, attainable task but your french teacher wont stfu about the fall of the Tower of Babel, the post-structural turn, the gap between signifier/signified, the inherent meaninglessness of language

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can women do sprezzatura

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Can I see your blue art? 🐳🦋

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the fact that one of my former students just sent me this made me wonder if I maybe go on too many off-topic tangents about my interests in class

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rip mr. wilkinson. in the bedroom is great…also features incredibly underrated performance by ms. tomei

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RIP to the gr8 Tom Wilkinson, can somebody plz rescue his finest performance from IN THE BEDROOM from DVD-only obscurity 💔

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50 pages into the letters of vincent van gogh what strikes me is his obsession with jules michelet, with rembrandt, his ambition to preach the gospel to coal miners

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🎨 Today, 133 years ago, Vincent passed away. His words about life and death continue to resonate to this day. What does his work mean to you? Share your favourite Van Gogh moment with us.

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pov youre a fly. youre about to get swatted

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last night

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otd in 1913 my great-grandfather pasquale died of a compound fracture to the skull after his bicycle collided with an automobile

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just a reminder that according to hollywood casting norms you can look italian or you can look ivy league but you cant look both

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martin seamus mcfly vitti

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these sicilian head planters…how will i choose

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last night an elderly gentleman with absolutely no front teeth rolls up to the bar on a rusty bike, orders a beer, asks if im italian cause i sure got the “schnoz” for it, stuffs a crumpled 10 into his empty glass and rides off down the highway 😶

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my new kitten learning to jump

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1 year

i fancy myself a savvy consumer but the truth is i will buy anything that offers the faintest veneer of mediterranean chic

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phases of a selfie

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made some pasta and got a new bag

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have had this Hoya for a few years and today I find out it flowers

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track list is 🔥 if you even care

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beagle-pilled

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i wish they still made books that look like this

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“your students have definitely found your twitter” oh really then why havent they liked any of my selfies ??

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7 june 1974, dad graduating law school

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had a blast talking Robert Altman, Gloria Trillo, and best/worst/most bizarre performances of Italian characters by non-Italian actors. thanks @karlokino @stevepositron for having me on @MovieFoodPod

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The effervescent (and robotic?) @monalisavitti joins the show to discuss 2 Robert Altman classics: 3 Women and OC & Stiggs … surprisingly similar…

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Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle by Remedios Varo, 1961, with the accompanying reflection from the Crying of Lot 49

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the rabbit is is

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the answer to this question on my birthday (today) and every other day 😇

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congrats to @anthgarrett on his first publication !! 🎊🎉

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My first ever publication. It's deeply meaningful to me my first published work would be both a collaborative piece and a ghost story. It would mean a lot to me if you read "Sliced This As Your Hopes" by @MordecaiPMartin and yours truly.

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@JasonAChristian The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy

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me, a bartender: can i get your name and last initial for the tab? customer: sure its john b. me: as in the sloop? him: what me: what

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saturday morning, february

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i got this cool opportunity to chat with ⁦ @TCMHealthJL ⁩ about one of my favorite authors: The American Friend Part 1 - Patricia Highsmith is my interior designer by My Picture House

The American Friend Part 1 - Patricia Highsmith is my interior designer by My Picture House

This is the first in a series of episodes on the 1977 Wim Wenders film Der amerikanische Freund or The American Friend. It's based on the 'Ripley's Game' by Patricia Highsmith. In this episode I talk...

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old pics of my maternal grandfather b. 1900 d. 1964