I mean, it's true. I don't know how someone could lose a presidential election who takes such evident pleasure in condescension while also lying and being wrong on behalf of laundering murderous imperialism.

For the incredible new issue of Strange Matters, I wrote about Outsider Art, communism, being disgusted by art fairs and the art market, & why we need to abolish the art market and the 'artist' as such if we want a society where art can actually flourish

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We're excited about the launch of 'Intarsia: An Undergraduate Journal of Queer & Feminist Inquiry'! This is a student-led, peer-reviewed, open-access, national journal established to promote critical engagement with queer and feminist theory at the undergraduate level. Congrats!

I’m rereading the Border Trilogy and bought a used copy of All the Pretty Horses; previous reader left some helpful notes

Hey, come work with us! (All internships remote unless otherwise specified.)
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There were three main issues on the table during Camp David: right of return, status of East Jerusalem, and territory. Here is the map that was rejected by Arafat: 22% of Mandate Palestine cut up into 4 non-contiguous zones. The 96% figure is one of the 21st century's great lies.

“Sorry, Mr Hofstadter, we don’t see a target demo for your manuscript.”

Congrats to Tim Cochrane on winning best Minnesota Nonfiction for Making the Carry, a book I really enjoyed about a slice of the indigenous history of the north country, a place dear to my heart

Better one: when I was 5, at daycare, all the kids decided to play a game called 'war' where we gathered objects, went to opposite sides of the room, turned off the lights, and threw them at each other. I got nailed by a rolling pin in the other eyebrow, face a sheet of blood

The further you look into Shaquille O'Neil's biography, the more and more you stumble upon gem after gem of insane stories like this

I hate this woman and her condescension with all of my fibers.

When I was 8 I threw a tantrum at the airport so my dad told me to 'go run around'—I closed my eyes & sprinted off, hitting my thighs on the end of a bank of chairs whose upholstery was out for repair, just metal frames: I flipped and burst open my eyebrow, face a sheet of blood

no quip could possibly be funnier than the content of this headline

Lit Hub adapted an essay from my newsletter about my frustration with PEN America's constant bothsidesing.
'...as if this organization funded by socialites, for socialites, was interested in doing anything other than maintaining the status quo.' lithub.com/whats-wrong-wi…

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Members of the UChicago community who are Muslim, Arab, or wearing any symbols of Palestine solidarity are being stopped by UCPD and Deans on Call & asked for ID. At least a dozen reports so far including of faculty seen at the encampment being followed and harassed. Despicable.

🎬 clip #1 from Episode 917, my conversation with Hanif Abdurraqib (Hanif Abdurraqib), author of the memoir THERE’S ALWAYS THIS YEAR: ON BASKETBALL AND ASCENSION, available from Random House Group.

🎧 listen to the full episode wherever you get your podcasts.

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brainwyrms by alison rumfitt (2023)

Glad to have jeremiah hayden of Street Roots on the Grants Pass case—someone who's reported from Grants Pass and attended oral arguments at the Supreme Court. thenation.com/article/societ…