Life is all about having coffee with your friends for five hours actually

if u havent read the odyssey yet but want to be ready for the nolan film.. may i recommend a modern adaptation to get up to speed

really humbled by Arundhati Roy’s generous words in response to my new book.

got attacked for being pretty, well-read, and kind hearted today

many have been asking me why economics is not a real discipline. it is not a real discipline because it hasn't properly historicized it's own methods of knowledge production. this was made clear by the economist who hadn't read marx or smith.

a knowledge of the history of one's discipline is a fundamental part of disciplinary knowledge. pple with phds in economics shouldn't read marx or smith to apply them. they should read them to understand the history of economic and social thought on which their discipline depends

The best essays I've read. (I know I'm missing some.)

a fork will be placed next to a knife at the dinner table this Sunday.

I wrote about memorizing poems as a kind of soul-making—an antidote for social media zombification. Link in profile.

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵 1. A manuscript revised by James Joyce

11. F. Scott Fitzgerald conjugates "to Cocktail," the Ultimate Jazz-Age Verb, in a 1928 letter to Blanche Knopf.

I’m tired of April.

one of my favorite poems of rage and disappointment and cathartic use of the word fuck

people who have been using the em dash long before ai know that it’s the jazz riff of punctuation, the tightrope between intuition and impulse, the trapdoor for digressions—it’s the writing fidget spinner for centrifugal thinkers

idgaf green day doing this on stage in front of thousands of people (live streamed to even more) will always be more important than whether you think they deserve to be on the main stage or not

You can easily live among either people, and some have done so, but in order to become the all knowing / neglected embodiment of wisdom and yearning, the writer pretends that they can’t live in either or both worlds, and turns each group into ideas that can be used in writing.

Ocean Vuong is an easy target. Be brave enough to say Past Lives (2023) was terrible and written for white people and we’ll really start a dialogue….