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reading through old issues of studies in american fiction -- writing criticism used to be so easy. you could just end an article the same way my freshmen students do and then keep your job forever

browns victory friday

I like that when Jokic gets hit a bunch of rings pop out of him like egg man in Sonic adventure 2 battle

[breathless, nerd-voiced chuck klosterman] “the spectacle is not a collection of images; it is a social relationship between people that is mediated by images” [bill simmons] yeah and i think vegas would agree with you,

i’m going to the big Apple browns bar to watch the browns beat the steelers. then on Tuesday a krasznahorkai talk. it’s actually shaping up to be a really pleasant few days

last sentence feels like a coda to Herscht 07769

melinda cooper right again

against all logic i am feeling good about the cleveland browns today. lock that in

a ringer-produced documentary special about the macarena is coming in the next decade. there will be a questlove talking head: “man, nobody . . . [looks down, smiles, looks back at the camera] — nobody was dancing like that”

prediction: at least 90% of reviews will parenthetically mention the prescience in specifically calling out declining air traffic safety measures

very excited ... and if anyone calls me a brodernist i'll drive down to the reservoir where no one can find me and set myself on fire

bravely announcing that, as someone who got three pynchon tattoos before turning 20 and only thinks two of them are corny and embarrassing, the pta vineland movie looks awesome and true to tone

Holding the guitar behind my head and playing float on penguinrandomhouse.com/books/316427/s…

Can’t watch the Pitt because whenever I see a Steelers hat, shirt, sweater, ballcap, jacket, coat, blazer, dress, skirt, pants, jeans, shorts, overalls, jumpsuit, scarf, gloves, socks, tights, or fathead, I throw the Browns helmet I eat ice cream out of at the TV

love thinking w/ guillory. informed by the gutting of english depts in favor of the vague “writing/composition” department. gotta learn to read to learn to write: good criticism is a rhetoric that models thought and sustained engagement. s/o as always to crb for letting me yap

Featuring: •Martin Dolan in The Point Magazine on Andrew Lipstein, •Cobi Chiodo Powell in Cleveland Review of Books on John Guillory’s book about close reading, •walter been michael in The New Yorker on Ron Chernow’s biography of Mark Twain, (1/2)

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