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PhD student @UCBEnglish | words at @nplusonemag, @theavclub, @the_point_mag, Verso blog

Oakland, CA
Joined August 2011
San Francisco’s transition from counter culture capital to LinkedIn: The City™️ needs to be studied. Not so it can be replicated, but so it can never happen anywhere else ever again.
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Seeing The Devils with a slightly touchy (laughing inappropriately because uncomfortable audience) really helped me appreciate the blocking of the audience here. In the theater we’re on the same kind of stadium risers as the people of Loudun laughing as Grandier is condemned
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Drew Dickerson retweeted
𝑫𝑶𝑮 𝑩𝑬𝑳𝑶𝑾 a novel by Nick Greer 264pp October 20, 2026 double--negative.com/004-dog…
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I’m in @thedrift_mag mentioning @bradneely’s Creased Comics
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Fitzcaraldo Edition
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George Saunders
Is there a writer who you have stopped reading or refuse to read because of their politics?
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I’d forgotten how many Lucia Berlin stories are about taking the bus in the East Bay
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I think I associate her with the desert Southwest exclusively bc I found my copy of Where I Live Now in a German free library
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Seeing Pavement tonight 🤠
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The Odyssey is an epic where poor people allegorically hear less
The Odyssey is a movie where poor people literally see less
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Some controversy at my MFA abt whether it was Right or Good to clown on a classmate who won their poetry prize (yea to both)—you open it up and it’s paeans to Thiel, ads for MAGAverse books, flattery of the worst idea any reader should have of themselves, ponderous, boring
Is The New Criteron a conservative lit mag?? I picked it up randomly and the first few pages are super weird I can’t tell
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Hearing people’s justifications that “publication is hard” and the poet in question had recently gone through a divorce was very clarifying for me re: what culture is for in this first place, how much agency most writers are willing to hand over just to pay to play
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Anyone know if the Mr Melancholy figure in I Saw the TV Glow is explicitly drawing on Butler's "Refused Identification" essay or
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Bringing this energy to the summer ahead of qualifying exams
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Portland Airbnb has its standard issue skull
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Vision of the future = Sokal affair against ourselves all day every day for no other reason than it’s technically possible 👍
Well, this is a first: a ChatGPT-generated story won a prestigious literary prize (The Commonwealth Prize). "Not X, not Y, but Z" sentences everywhere, the "hums" trope, and plenty of other obvious markers of AI writing. A major milestone for AI, at any rate... @GrantaMag
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