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[jack @alfonsohoops]

I wrote about Emile Zola’s The Fortune of the Rougons, the first in his 20-novel cycle about France during the Second Empire.

I’m quite happy with how it turned out!

Please read.

https://t.co/QdMtsRFnRJ

[jack @alfonsohoops]

It’s fine if you don’t believe in electoralism but you can’t then get mad at politicians for trying to win elections. It’s like getting mad at a QB for throwing an interception when you’re not a sports fan. Why do you care?

[jack @alfonsohoops]

It’s gonna be so funny when people on the left convince themselves to hate AOC for no reason

[san 🇵🇸 @ndsnas]

I just think that if you unironically say “woke 1”, you are a bad fucking person and you should not be listened to in any capacity.

[jack @alfonsohoops]

Spiderman Brand New Day review:

The best non Tobey movie.

Too much AI assistant bullshit

Too much Jean Grey

Otherwise very fun. The Punisher stuff works really well. The suit looks good. Holland is doing more of an accent in this one which is funny

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

There was woke 1 and pre-woke, if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@curtcarlson99 @Alf954 Which 3 guys did we trade that play both sides of the ball? Can you name them?

[jack @alfonsohoops]

People should just say “Jaime Jaquez” cause that’s the depth they gave up

[.Ryan @r3pliku]

“They gave up all their depth.”

I want people to name this “depth”

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@ZakKondratenko Well take all the help we can get

[jack @alfonsohoops]

I love East of Eden but it’s very clear that everyone reading it all of a sudden was an astroturfed movement to promote the upcoming Netflix series.

[jegævi @jegaevi]

Can we make this the new East of Eden? I need the entirety of booktwt to start reading this book.

[jack @alfonsohoops]

Heat made the finals less than 5 years after Wade retired

[coup d’brah @jacobjbg]

Not trying to rattle cages but were Joe to do this, I think he’d be the first owner in NBA history to return to the finals within five years of a Top 75 player retiring. So at worst, Joe would be like everyone else. No better nor worse.

Folks, what are we doing here? Venting?

[jack @alfonsohoops]

My Hawthorne recommendation is Wakefield. One of the great very short stories

https://t.co/gk6JnHWJXd

[jack @alfonsohoops]

I think sports journalists should spend more time caring about uncovering cap circumvention than they spend breaking free agency news that’ll just get announced 2 days later by the team’s official Twitter account

[myles brown @mdotbrown]

Once again, unless Kawhi was funding the Hologram Hitler Society who cares?

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@Less_HumbleTeej Fernando’s team

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@CoreyAtad Ed Harris in The Dink does say our age of tennis is collapsing

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@battlefrick @_motherslug consider reading Baron in the Trees if you want a very different but equally powerful Calvino work

[jack @alfonsohoops]

Liking Flesh less than some of the other Szalays so far. Maybe some Marias or back to Zola after this

[jack @alfonsohoops]

Bartleby and Co>>>>

[Lee @leeartr]

Recently listed rare books for sale @/underworldbooksnyc on IG/eBay

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@mj_a_w @_anthonynash Go Hoosiers

[jack @alfonsohoops]

@Lauzin John Fetterman looks great

[jack @alfonsohoops]

assuming the Kawhi trade doesn’t happen this is where I think the regular season standings end up

1. Knicks
2. Celtics
3. Cavs
4. Pistons
5. Heat
6. Sixers
7. Hawks
8. Pacers
9. Hornets
10. Magic

If it does happen I’ll slot the Raptors at 7

[The New York Review of Books @nybooks]

https://t.co/G5n31GigJY