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Aesthetic Arrest: Mick Harvey & Amanda Acevedo, Catherine Ringer, and My Brilliant Career! (opens the original)
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“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph CampbellReading: Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver by Mary Oliver“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love. . . . Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our
Aesthetic Arrest: What Does It Take to Bloom?, The Captive & The Ministry of Utmost Happiness! (opens the original)
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“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph CampbellReading: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy (published in 2017) and her recent viral essay: “Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous” (July 22, 2026)“
Aesthetic Arrest: Betye Saar, Brian Eno, Joseph Tawadros & Jack DeJohnette! (opens the original)
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“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph CampbellWe usually recommend books, but this week our reading recommendations are two important Substacks that we consider *essential* reading for understanding the full-fledged attacks on civil rights in the United States (and elsewhere) right now: Reading #1: Erin in the Morning by Erin Reed </st
Aesthetic Arrest: The Rolling Stones, Cécile McLorin Salvant & The Big Johnson (opens the original)
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“The aesthetic experience is a simple beholding of the object . . . you experience a radiance. You are held in aesthetic arrest.” - Joseph CampbellReading: LOTE by Shola von Reinhold“LOTE accomplishes that rarest of literary feats—a totally fresh, funny, urgent iteration in a storied tradition: one hundred years later, the Bright Young Things are back.” — Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Ba
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