At a coffee shop in Bend, Ore., and just overheard the phrase “Ja Rule is performing at the Deschutes County Fair.”
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I need Christopher Nolan to keep adapting towering works of literature as a sort of Keynesian stimulus for literary culture.
Aaron BadyOkay now it's getting real
On one hand, every disruptive technology comes with the obligation to normatively punish and shame people who use it for anti-social purposes, but on the other hand, please focus on your own homework.
Manisha KrishnanAuthors and journalists are doing more first-person (hello 2010s blogging) and embracing "mistakes" in writing to prove they're not chatbots. There's even an “anti-Grammarly" app that leaves in typos and signs off "sent from my iPhone" to create more authenticity: www.wired.com/story/more-t...
I think there is a perfectly consistent Freudian reading of Nolan’s “Odyssey” in which Nolan is saying over and over again that sexlessness and guilt are how you rebuild society. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-surviv...
Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey" and the cinema of stiff upper lipsChristopher Nolan's "Odyssey" and the art of decline.mattdpearce.substack.comNolan’s Odysseus is very English. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-surviv...
JamesIf I’ve a complaint about the Odyssey it’s honestly that Nolan softens Odysseus way too much. He has Hector’s infant baby thrown off the walls of Troy and hangs all of his maids. He’s definitely not the type of guy to tell Penelope that she can remarry.
Sunday newsletter: The Freudian Odysseus. mattdpearce.substack.com/p/the-surviv...
Boox is taking on Xteink with its own tiny e-reader
The VergeBoox is taking on Xteink with its own tiny e-reader
The NYRB Author’s Closet, a series of videos of the least camera-ready people in society mumbling inaudibly about Vasily Grossman.
Ned ResnikoffNYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo