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upcoming books in English translation I found online

“I never dreamed of becoming a beef puppet for a large language model. I wanted to be a distinguished writer of mournful vignettes in the American grain, or else operate my own soft-serve-ice-cream truck…” —Sam Lipsyte, “Final Boy”

& then you find it, but actually the quote was very different from what your imagination contorted it into... & it's not actually a good fit for this piece AT ALL... (I am weary)

When you read a thing recently... & you remember the thing itself, but not where it came from... & you haven't been keeping up with your commonplace... & you're reading like six books simultaneously, so you have to go flip through each one of them before you find it...

A Prose Is a Prose Is a Prose - Green Mountains Review Poetry had the feeling that they’d always been holding hands, that they sometimes forgot. Prose had the feeling that when they forgot they forgot on purpose. These feelings they had, they had them, th...

This piece on the distinction between prose and poetry is delicious!

greenmountainsreview.com/a-prose-is-a...

Storytelling and the Art of Tenderness: Olga Tokarczuk’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech “Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels, no one swears by it, no one cites it… It appears wherever we t…

“Tenderness is the most modest form of love. It is the kind of love that does not appear in the scriptures or the gospels… It appears wherever we take a close and careful look at another being, at something that is not our ‘self.’”

Superb read: www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/21/t...

For most of the history of our species, we had no systematic way of classifying the colors of the living world in order to describe it, until a German geologist came along and created a pioneering nomenclature that Darwin took with him on the Beagle: www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/06/w...

nvm I forgot I already bought a ninth book. SO IS TEN TOO MANY OR JUST RIGHT? 🥹

A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews Failure is the story, but the story itself is also failure.

"Well, they had wanted me, they had prayed for me. It was me or death."

(I want this book... but I just bought eight new books & can't decide if that means a ninth is too many or no big deal.)

Returning to Church Won’t Save Us from Nihilism Engaging in ritual for ritual’s sake only deepens nihilism.

"Young people seeking out churches would indicate for Arendt not that religion will save us from nihilism, but rather that young people are desperate to find places to meet other young people that aren’t online."

I am somewhere between young/not-young, but I feel this.

"Plato's legacy to European thought was a trio of capital letters - the Good, the Beautiful, and the True. [...] Europe owes much of its murderous history to errors of thinking engendered by the alphabet."

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:

1. Heating pads & fluffy throw blankets.
2. A candlelit game of Scrabble at the end of a long day.
3. That first cup from a freshly opened bag of loose leaf tea.
4. Spider-pals webbing in the summer door wreath.
5. Dark, sweet cherries.

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Done live on Twitch at twitch.tv/wobblypython

'What does the lover demand from the body of the beloved in order to secure certainty. Little things. Eternity.'

the divine Alina @alinaetc.bsky.social

This is a fabulous interview by @monalisavitti.bsky.social, I need more

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In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

— Robert Brault
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Child's school worksheet: ACTIVITY SUBTRACT THREE-DIGIT NUMBERS Do this activity with your child to subtract three-digit numbers. Materials 3 number cubes, pencil and paper Play this subtraction game with your child to practice subtracting three-digit numbers. The goal of this game is to get the least possible difference when subtracting a three-digit number from 880. Each player rolls three number cubes. Have each player form a three-digit number from the number cubes. (If the rolls are 2, 6, and 1, the possible numbers are 126, 162, 216, 261, 612, and 621.) Write down the chosen number. Each player subtracts their number from 880, using any subtraction strategy Whoever has the least difference wins the round.

Number cubes.

Something I've been thinking about lately is how to assert my right to think about the things I want to think about, the cultural or intellectual questions that are interesting to me, rather than have my day-to-day attention yanked around by someone else's agenda (i.e., the guy with the megaphone)

what subtype of social anxiety is it when you are enthusiastic about HAVING conversations but overcome with existential dread at the prospect of STARTING one?

25 years ago there used to be teams of people who tried to make buttons fun to press. Now we can't afford avocados

John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter of Advice to His Lovesick Teenage Son “If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

“If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.”

Steinbeck's timeless advice on love www.themarginalian.org/2012/01/12/j...

illustration of a deathhead hawk moth

A vibrant, symmetrical moth illustration with intricate patterns in green, yellow, and pink hues, set against a starry black background.

drawing of moths

gothic luna moth artwork

brøther I cräve the forbidden lämp👁️

Arthur Sze has been named the new U.S. poet laureate. He succeeds Ada Limón, who has held the position since 2022. During his term as poet laureate, Sze plans to have a special focus on translating poetry originally written in other languages. Read more: at.pw.org/ArthurSze

hangry on main

I'm in one of those turbulent bad moods that has no obvious remedy because it has no obvious cause.

Love hurts. And can even kill according to Vasari! Find out more with our very own Professor Jill Burke, Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures.