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Stephen Piccarella

2 years

Please read this fiction I wrote about cranial dimensions, no-input mixing, 9/11 cosplay, and overall vibe terror in @nplusonemag

Bodies With No Surprises | Stephen Piccarella

“Volkisch Currents in Early Live Electronics,” said Tommy. “National Socialism and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse,” said Scott. “Sonic Armaments of the Waffenamt?!” Tommy shrieked.

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4 years

Good morning Lorrie Moore has declared war???

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5 years

At El Bar for the first time since I was like 24 and say what you want about this place but the guy next to me just bought citywides for the entire bar “in honor of Bernie” and it cost him $60

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It’s so crazy that Zadie Smith wrote a precocious debut in college and then a single bitchy James Wood essay just instantly transformed her into a lifelong conservative scold

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4 years

I'll say this for Grimes and Elon Musk: the name X Æ A-12 contains a capital letter, a number, and a special character, and it's not the same as any previous baby name.

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3 years

“Doritos” on an off-white bag in the Rachel Cusk font

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Just FYI if you see this tweet and feel obligated to respond with the "I ain't reading all that I'm happy for u tho or sorry that happened" screenshot, don't worry about it! plenty of people already have! you are off the hook!

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9 months

The silver lining of being in your thirties is you finally have the 10+ years of experience required to apply for an entry-level job

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4 years

I’m sorry that one of the great pop musicians of our time has passed but more so I’m sorry for the loss to anyone for whom watching a person create herself and her world to fit the shapes of her desires made life in this world possible

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2 years

Just remembered David Berman casually dropped the last word on Catholicism on his blog 10 years ago

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4 years

No one in Philly tell the Trump goon army that the dance protest is actually a diversion and the ballots have already been transported via underground tunnel to the secret HQ of Philly politics at you guessed it... El Bar

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4 months

Like this tweet and I will subtweet you in the replies

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1 year

Most of those early Pavement recordings are just Malkmus overdubbing on top of Gary Young’s drums on Gary Young’s equipment at Gary Young’s place, RIP to a man who almost singlehandedly changed so many of our lives, in some ways there are only a handful of people I felt closer to

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Stephen Piccarella

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1 year

Joy Williams’ essay about Ted Kaczynski from Ill Nature:

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Stephen Piccarella

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28 days

Draw your own conclusions I guess but just for the record the only other person I have ever heard accuse Rachel Kushner of this is Anna Khachiyan

the future lasts forever

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officer I'd like to report a murder

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Stephen Piccarella

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6 months

Almost forgot amid all the Renata Adler noise that I have the ultimate Renata Adler cover

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4 years

@T4RIG Punk was founded by middle class dissidents as an apolitical reaction to counterculture but they seem like a good person

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4 years

Really though I do kind of wish we hadn’t chosen drinking beer from a plastic cup in a plexiglass cage on the sidewalk over eliminating the deadly disease that shut down society

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4 years

Why are all these pictures of Ben Lerner?

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4 years

@local__celeb Never forget the first zoomer to ever roast millennials:

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

I went to high school at Martin Shkreli’s alma mater, every dude I knew there was a narcissistic supervillain who passed off megalomaniacal cruelty as softboy awkwardness with shockingly little effort, it’s not complicated some people just can’t believe evil can look like that

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Stephen Piccarella

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1 year

This is the first essay I’ve published in two years and maybe the most personal criticism I’ve published, it’s about Mieko Kanai’s Mild Vertigo and what it’s been like for me to live with chronic dizziness since I got COVID, thanks as always @nplusonemag

Overload, Dizziness, Vertigo, Trance | Stephen Piccarella

I was just becoming accustomed enough to the symptoms to be able to manage them when my neurologist finally referred me to a vestibular therapist. The next day, I received a publicity email from New...

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Miss when popular political dialogue was like "haha what if the dems nominated the vibes lady" instead of like "maybe if we send the army to the white house the president won't steal all the mail"

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4 years

Your email may find me well but it will never find me lucky charms

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Everyone in NY is on here rn like "if I moved out of Philly in 2014 for a bartending job and an internship at Vice no I didn't"

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Stephen Piccarella

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3 years

Happy fuck the police to all who celebrate

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Millennials will edit n+1 for 5 years and then get elected to State Senate 😂

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4 years

Ugh okay look I'm also tired of neatly precious contemporary novels exploring the inner turmoil of well-to-do young people but I'm way more tired of critics who think "you speak ill of capitalism and yet you delight in the purchase of fine goods" is some kind of elegant checkmate

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Stephen Piccarella

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3 months

Are there any animals besides humans that hang out and get drunk together

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Me: A himbo is a guy who’s handsome but stupid but in online usage the term conjures more of a psychic archetype, like a phallus without ego, or maybe posits a social role for men as functionally aesthetic rather than intellectual? My dad: (Nodding) So how’s work?

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Listening to jazz like a fucking genius

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4 years

Today is a proud day for Philadelphia, where Nikil Saval and Rick Krajewski have both just been elected President of the United States

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4 years

Is anyone else so bored

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Technically Ghislaine is in the background of any photo if you zoom out far enough

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The only people I trust to decide how and when writers should be allowed to use generative AI are actual recognized members of Oulipo

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

4 years

Hey I’m so glad that you reached out I’m actually at capacity helping someone else who’s in crisis dealing with some personal stuff right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you could we connect later date or time instead do you have someone else you could reac

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

28 days

@pourfairelevide I wasn’t associating guilt, I was associating shallow, unsophisticated analysis, or conflating a multiply dubious narrator’s reactionary cynicism with the author’s POV, rather than identifying it, as Nicolas Medina Mora does in his review in the Nation, as playful duplicity:

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

@RoseLuxemburg1 Damn going viral on a Sunday morning is pure Chad shit

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

This is not actually true fyi

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Stephen Piccarella

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1 year

Not for nothing but maybe the question of what is and is not “justified” under the circumstances of a violent occupation is itself a perverse extension of the dehumanizing logic of violent occupation?

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

4 years

You ask me Trump and Biden are actually not old enough. The debate I want is Jimmy Carter v. Henry Kissinger. Two of the oldest guys, two of the top guys in still being alive. Lot we could learn from them rn.

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4 years

Just watched @rick4westphilly and @NikilSaval officially claim victory as elected PA state legislators, the work that went into these campaigns was absolutely heroic and I am enormously proud this piece I wrote to support them was a part of it

Reclaiming Harrisburg

There’s a pandemic raging and Bernie Sanders is off the ballot, but other candidates inspired by his campaign are still running — like Rick Krajewski and Nikil Saval, two candidates for the Pennsyl...

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Stephen Piccarella

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5 years

Should I create a document and ask every writer I know to write a 10-20 page narrative account of their quarantine and then edit them all together into the first ever crowdsourced systems novel? I am not kidding. 15 likes and I will do it.

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Stephen Piccarella

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2 years

Young men aren’t having sex because thanks to the renewed popularity of Shirley Hazzard’s The Transit of Venus they are all waiting faithfully for the women they love to finally return their affections in their winter years

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1 year

Maybe forcing people into a situation in which it’s not possible to adhere to normal conceptions of justice and then demonizing them for acting unjustly and inviting the rest of the world to do the same is itself another violent occupying tactic?

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3 months

Okay in no order

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

4 years

Please read my short story about flat earthers huffing cleaning fluid it’s fiction but I promise it’s as strange as the truth we’re living

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

5 years

When I first found out Quentin Tarantino was making a movie about the Manson murders, I started working on this piece. It turned out to be about way more than that. Thanks @newinquiry for publishing it.

Charles Manson Was a Republican

Long incorrectly associated in the public mind with the political left, Manson wasn’t merely conservative; he might as well have been a Fed

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@pourfairelevide I don’t think it’s reactionary to self-consciously portray international intelligence operatives as cynical and self-interested. What’s reactionary is claiming, as Taylor does, that self-reflexive novels interrogating geopolitical myths are not novels, but Zola’s are.

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Recent Philly transplants be like I know a place and it’s El Bar

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Stephen Piccarella

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1 year

How come an apartment never has a butterfly problem

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Stephen Piccarella

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I’m a SIMP Stephen Is My name Piccarella

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Phoebe Bridgers

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@veryhotmomm Honestly she's given us so many little gifts 😌

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4 years

Crazy that Don DeLillo is still inventing new characters just so they can say shit like “disaster keeps us honest, it regulates the system” yeah dude we know everybody knows

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4 years

Two skaters at opposite ends of a parking lot pretending not to notice each other while they switch off trying to land the same trick is a mating dance

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Everyone is asking what is the way out of autofiction and the answer is just… whatever you want? Try something. Anything. Write a 10000-word Baron Corvo impression. Just write fiction

The Resurrection Appearance at Parque Lítico La Movediza | Tom Bubul

The pope consumes three grams of psychedelic mushrooms, and as he does not speak, the therapist also remains quiet. Two hours into the session the therapist plays Kimiko Douglass-Ishizaka’s 2012...

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Stephen Piccarella

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5 years

The Steely Dan virus is a common infection among males aged 25-38. In its acute form the infection may resolve within several months. However, if left untreated, the infection can become chronic and may even develop into full-blown Henry Mancini’s Disease.

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

@prismxp I covet your non-specific gentleness Chip btw this is a self-rebuke

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Stephen Piccarella

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2 months

Found on the bookshelf at the place I’m staying… let’s go

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Because I could not vibe with death, it kindly vibes with me

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vibe, vibe against the dying of the light

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4 years

No matter what else happens today I joined a fleet of skateboarders to skate through traffic in Philly as a demonstration against racist police violence and now that’s a part of the city’s history and mine

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

5 years

Um excuse me but in Philadelphia we don’t go to “parties” at the “Verso Loft.” We meet up at the anarchist bookstore, and then we get $5 banh mi. Smh please reflect here.

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

4 years

@laurenoyler will you please go get her

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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella

4 years

Thanks to @jacobinmag for the opportunity to write this profile of @reclaimphila and comrades @rick4westphilly and @NikilSaval , whose runs for the PA State Legislature I'm honored to support #PickRick #SavalForAll

Reclaiming Harrisburg

There’s a pandemic raging and Bernie Sanders is off the ballot, but other candidates inspired by his campaign are still running — like Rick Krajewski and Nikil Saval, two candidates for the Pennsyl...

jacobin.com

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4 years

I guess it’s fine that I wasn’t up when the news dropped. What would I have done? Tweeted “lol COVID said don’t talk shit on Philly” and gotten 1.2M likes? And what would that have solved, really

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4 years

Fully zoned out literally vibing communism

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5 years

Buttigieg: I listen to Nas. I listen to Wu-Tang. I may not be as conversant with trap as some of the other candidates in the field, but I'm taking steps to rectify that. I'm not ashamed to say that I even dabbled in freestyle rap in school. In Ben Lerner's new novel The Topeka Sc

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5 months

So glad Penguin picked this up when it couldn’t come out on Tyrant anymore

aud is missing gracie :,)

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HRLP ME??????

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Just saw Ottessa Moshfegh read, during the Q&A I asked her if leaning into alienation helped the narrator of Rest and Relaxation see herself through it and she asked me “Would the Unabomber have been as successful if he had had a roommate?”

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19 days

When I was at the Tom Verlaine book sale the Dare showed up and tried to cut the line and then left

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4 years

Map of all the people in ny who are nice and friendly 😌

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4 years

Found it

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4 years

Last night on my block a group of recent college graduates gathered on the sidewalk to treat our neighbors to an impromptu harsh noise set! Community is so powerful

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4 years

You’re telling me an object oriented this ontology

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4 years

Imagine finding four indie rock albums you bought in the 2000s and only throwing out one

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4 years

Don DeLillo, The Silence, 2020: "That press shot of the Zuckerberg kid. Surfing with the big ass. Online they had a field day. What they didn't know: it was a coronation. Look we said, he's showing his ass for all to see. What we're really saying? There he is. The emperor."

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3 years

People in novels are always all fucked up lol like get it together

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4 years

Just skated past a little girl and she said “you don’t know how to skateboard” and I said “what” and she said “nice skateboard”

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Lol well if anyone wants to commission a response my email's in my bio

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Stephen Piccarella

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1 year

Always funny when the Sontag Paglia thing resurfaces, because it turns Twitter into a clip show episode but also because everyone jumps to claim Sontag as their stylistic and political model when really anyone who uses Twitter for long enough starts to sound exactly like Paglia

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4 years

Was not prepared when I woke up today to get dragged like this

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4 years

Me and my gf are not married except for when the kind old man next door catches me outside and says “how’s ya’ wife” and then we have been happily married for about seven years now

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4 years

Gm it’s my birthday please reply with either a compliment or a rec for a good vibey 70s movie I can watch with my gf tonite, alternatively you can RT so I can finally break 400 followers I have worked so hard for so long

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

How do you write a novel... when the novel form... ...is cringe?

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Stephen Piccarella

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5 years

I want to start a punk band but I'm 28 so instead I have to read op eds and go to film festivals

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4 months

This is how I have felt about Rachel Cusk from day one

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5 years

Honestly anyone shitting on Rachel Rabbit White is just embarrassing themself by revealing they didn't know who she was until they read about her in the cut

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4 years

Me and all my friends in December in quarantine

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3 years

All conversation once you’re old enough is like “so what problems are you dealing with and what other problems are making it impossible to deal with them”

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Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

New Yorker union. Lauren Oyler debut. Bernie Sanders and gender politics. So many hot topics, and so many opinions sitting right here in my head, where only I can hear them.

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8 months

After two years of seeing different doctors for different symptoms and getting different diagnoses I finally today got a lab-confirmed diagnosis of dysautonomia, or dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system, one of the main mechanisms of long COVID

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4 years

Okay I will regret this but mutuals reply by 5 and I will describe you based on your brand in the voice of a DeLillo narrator

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3 years

Nathaniel Mackey's Double Trio is a dazzling work. Writing about it for @thenation was a challenge but a thrill. Thanks @krevinlorenzo for the editing and the opportunity.

The World-Historic Melodies of Nathaniel Mackey

His largest collection yet, Double Trio, is an epic feat of poetry: one that moves from the cradles of civilization to the Middle Passage to the gyre of the present day.

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11 months

To establish herself as an authority on Gaza she mentions visiting the region “before Hamas took power” to meet Palestinian women using microloans to start businesses. The following is from a 2016 Harper’s feature on Hillary Clinton’s microfinance initiatives in the third world:

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To save Israel and Gaza, Hamas must go. Read my new piece in @theatlantic .

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4 years

Novels about students in high school or college doing drugs and having bad sex are only for children. Mature literary fiction is about people in their twenties drinking at bars.

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4 years

Steve Carell’s full name is Stephen Piccarella

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4 years

Does anyone else at the end of the day now need a good ten minutes of literally staring at the wall

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4 years

Hey everyone I haven't been tweeting but I am doing very well I am busy working on an installation in the Utah desert

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