Jeremy Gordon

Thought this was super

This was a good overall read in my inbox today, though this part in particular articulates what I was joking about when taking potshots at "the youths" the other day. "Cringe" has become meaningless outside signifying something about the person who lobs it at art they don't like.

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That's fair—personally, I do unfortunately think all identities are performative, even seemingly authentic ones, and asking "do I believe this person is who they pretend to be" just takes me in uninteresting circles. And I just don't think the song is that bad!

Here's a story for the kids Subjects discussed: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes, "cringe," 2010, other people's sex lives

I dusted off my Substack to write about Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, of course jeremygordon.substack.com/p/heres-a-st...

Easy — you get drunk with Don Callis

SEE FRIENDSHIP has been out in the world for four months and a day, wow — here's a photo of me saying something incredibly witty and insightful at last week's (very respectably attended) event in Washington D.C.

This month, the eBook of SEE FRIENDSHIP is on sale at Amazon for just $1.99 — I'm no economist, but that's certainly a consumer-friendly price

It’s on the list… by 2026 for sure

This is tonight, wow. DC people, you’re in for the best night of your entire life

Hulk Hogan, who died on Thursday at 71, sold audiences a brash, brawny version of American patriotism while unabashedly ignoring the truth, @jeremygordon.bsky.social‬ writes: https://theatln.tc/VCt899KG

The Most American Wrestler Hulk Hogan sold himself as a conquering hero. The truth was far more complicated.

I wrote about Hulk Hogan as a quintessentially American figure, the pitchman who ropes millions into his orbit through sheer charisma—and sticks to his story even as the lies and misdeeds pile up www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

The Most American Wrestler Hulk Hogan sold himself as a conquering hero. The truth was far more complicated.

I wrote about Hulk Hogan as a quintessentially American figure, the pitchman who ropes millions into his orbit through sheer charisma—and sticks to his story even as the lies and misdeeds pile up www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Had a dream where my agent and a mysterious British higher-up were telling me all the things my second novel needed to be a seismic hit. Sadly, can't remember any of their advice — except for a suggestion that the main character should be from St. Louis, for some reason

Only a few pages into @jeremygordon.bsky.social ‘s “See Friendship” and already he’s perfectly represented the vibe of being a creative person for a living in two sentences.

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip since its staff journalists left in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones left to report what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to watch them die. One of them, Bashar, has been working with AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then freelance photographer, and since 2024, as lead photographer. On July 19th he managed to post a message on Facebook: “I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can’t work anymore.” Bashar, 30, works & lives in the same conditions as all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another under Israeli bombings. For > a year he’s lived in utter destitution, working at extreme risk to his life. Hygiene is a major issue for him, with recurring bouts of severe intestinal illness. Since Feb, Bashar’s been living in the ruins of his home in Gaza City with his mother, 4 brothers & sisters and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any furnishings, except a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that one of his brothers had “fallen, due to hunger.” Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, it’s no longer enough to buy food, or they have to pay completely exorbitant prices. The banking system has collapsed, and those who exchange money via online bank accounts charge a commission of up to 40%. AFP no longer has the ability to provide them with a vehicle and there is not enough fuel to allow these journalists to travel for their reporting. Driving a car means becoming a target for Israeli airstrikes. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. (alt txt continued in next post)

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency.

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die"

Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

The SEE FRIENDSHIP tour continues: I'll be in Washington D.C. on July 30 at Politics and Prose, in conversation with my colleague Megan Garber. They're saying it'll be yet another specular evening of sparkling banter and fine-tuned insights

This weekend would've been my 19th straight year attending the Pitchfork Music Festival — and thank God they killed it, I couldn't yet again grapple with the passage of time against a backdrop of college-era indie rock

Walked by a Cybertruck in lower Manhattan — it happens more and more these days, what can you do — but this one had big googly eyes affixed to the grill, upon which seeing I was forced to say: gimme a break!

Language is beautiful: In tennis, you can be a ball striker or a shot maker or both or neither. One wonders: Isn't tennis about striking the ball and making shots? How could a professional player lack such fundamental skills? But let me tell you, it's extremely possible

It is so, so important to not develop a personal politics based on an explicit opposition to the last three people who annoyed you

Fognini is part of that vanishing class of sportsman who is not trying to start a podcast, or model part-time, or partner with a mental health foundation... just myopic, stubborn hooping until his legs fall off

you are out of your MIND on the first half

The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.

"Pick up a novel," @jeremygordon.bsky.social @theatlantic.com writes, for the value in seeking "new mental frontiers beyond the accumulation of information...It may shock you, the worlds you end up exploring—and the feelings you will stir up from nothing at all." www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

terrible...

The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.

There are many pieces wondering why men don't read fiction, and what it will take to get them back on track. Today I attempted to work in reverse, and wrote about why I — an individual man, beholden to nobody but my wife and conscience — read fiction www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.

@jeremygordon.bsky.social: More men read than is commonly assumed, but more men should still be doing it: for the visceral experience, for the acrobaticness of shifting points of view, because it's a counterpoint to the thin prescriptiveness of broculture, because "Libra" slaps:

not an answer I'd give...

The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.

There are many pieces wondering why men don't read fiction, and what it will take to get them back on track. Today I attempted to work in reverse, and wrote about why I — an individual man, beholden to nobody but my wife and conscience — read fiction www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...