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letters and essays about fiction, power, beauty and how we live and think, from a novelist, nice things enjoyer, sometimes-organizer. "This newsletter feels like the best of the old internet." - Lit Hub
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every day do something that won’t compute (opens the original)
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reading tonight, an ask of youTonight (9/3) I’m reading new work at Starr Bar (Bushwick) in Brooklyn, as part of a fundraiser for the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate that’s sponsored by the National Writers Union and the Freelance Solidarity Project. Thank you in particular to Tanvi Misra and Roshan Abraham for organizing. I’d love if you came out, it’ll be a fun night. But whether you come or not, or live in New York or not, please support this by buying a raffle ticket or donating. Especiall
📖📚🎶🎞️ and chill (opens the original)
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a personal essay not an oral history (opens the original)
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Hello, hello. I’m writing from my desk, eating Concord grapes. Usually I love a C.G., but these are weirdly tannic, the chalk-sour notes of grapeseed somehow having taken over the fruit itself. Weeks ago I was in Tunisia and Sicily, where I ate really good, luscious fruit almost daily. It was a discovery of adulthood, that this was a thing that brought me small vivid joy, that produced in me the feeling I am living the life I want. Some people know, have always known, what they want and what to
getting off with the luddites (opens the original)
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It’s hard to know what’ll hold your interest. Last year, somewhat by chance, I went to a neo-Luddite event in the basement of a Midtown mall. Then I went to another. Sometimes I was compelled, sometimes skeptical, but mostly, I was curious. The scene held my interest. I wanted to know more. I wandered into the cozy forest of the Luddiverse, and then opened up my Notes app. A new generation is organizing against Big Tech, not by retreating from the world, but by trying to make it feel a little mo
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