The lazy laughing Jenny of the bard • fellow @magdalenealumni • once @FoxCenterEmory, @hilda_beastoxf • essays @newyorker @the_point_mag @ftmag @thenation &c.
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Spent some time with Zachary Leader’s ELLMANN’S JOYCE, thinking about modernism and the complicated allure of understanding a life through its work
Zachary Leader’s book on Richard Ellmann’s landmark work on James Joyce asks whether a biographer can be considered an artist.
thenation.com/article/cultur…
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One of the great TF pieces, courtesy of @scriblerian
Two continents, one precocious cat, and an owner determined to risk it all.
the-fence.com/article/cat-tr…
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The proper framing of today's news is less "Sally Rooney censored" and more "Sally Rooney personally sanctions the UK to protest censorship of more vulnerable voices" – which is considerably more badass
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Princeton denied her tenure.
Congratulations to Anne Carson on receiving the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature.
Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture: bit.ly/3TteJZj
eros the bittersweet changed how I thought about criticism and essay writing, and max ritvo gave me autobiography of red when we graduated from college, a gift that has ramified in my mind through the years. it's a good morning.
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I used to use long sentences. But then I realised something that stopped me in my tracks: lots of people don't know how to read. Now I only use short sentences. Lots of them. And honestly? It's a game-changer
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this is as good as everyone has been saying. incredibly funny, equally depressing and distressing, written with the charisma of a great writer. couldn't ask for much more thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-p…
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Even if you only use an LLM to make tools for your writing/thinking, never to do writing/thinking on your behalf, it still makes you dumber, and makes your writing worse, because its prose is so bad it infects you, and it's also incapable of actually surfacing its (non-)thinking.
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one of our great prose stylists, honed, it turns out, in the content mines....
Wrote about losing my content writing job to AI and then getting hooked on predatory AI-facilitated payday loan apps for @thebafflermag thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-p…
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Wrote about losing my content writing job to AI and then getting hooked on predatory AI-facilitated payday loan apps for @thebafflermag thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-p…
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We probably won’t ever see anything like this for the rest of our lives
would love to participate in bookshelf twitter however I have had most of my books in storage since I finished my phd in 2021 🙃
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Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting.
We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.
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Here's what actually happened (thread...): Massification of higher education during the final decades of the 20th century and early 21st century, normally attached to a promise of social mobility. The liberal idea, at least, was at the least that this would make society more
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Really grateful for Alexandra Brodsky—for everything, but especially for this commentary on the disappearance of public feminism: newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p…
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of all the ways to spend time in the world, thinking about, writing, and teaching art and culture for its own sake is pretty high up there for me as a Good, and I wish more of us could do that without worrying about immiseration or blacklisting