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@ragandboneshop This is just the sign I needed to stop worrying about things like ‘betraying others’ and instead choose my joy (ie abandon my wife and kids to become a full-time gambler).

Poetry *can* change lives

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@ragandboneshop Laxness has been on my list!

Would be a nice switch after a period of reading 20th-c US proletarian lit…much of which I loved as objects of their time/glimpses into lives of great commitment and conviction…and didn’t quite love as novels. Another potential genre pitfall.

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@ragandboneshop Peter Weiss’ ‘The Aesthetics of Resistance’ is the best example I’ve read recently

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@ragandboneshop …also fall flat. Their versions of political life are received from caricatures at worst or a sort of reportage at best. This isn’t a general rule for ‘experience’ (perils that way lie) but I think it’s imperative for a political novel to have anything worth saying

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@hotdamhistorian Levels of the Game by John McPhee is about one tennis match at the 1968 US Open. Love everything of his I’ve read

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@bartlebytaco I got soooo much secondhand cringe from his adverb usage that I ended up doing the awkward turtle alone in my room and barely got any reading done 🤪 Don’t get me started on those subordinate clauses! Amazing how much we’ve learned about writing since those unenlightened times

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@mcmansionhell This just makes me want to read your Harper’s ‘sibling fiction criticism’ takedown piece more, hope you write it!

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I know the OP is an AI shill but I’m seeing smart people endorse this ‘baby’s first essay’ genre of writing guide too. Spare prose and efficient sentences aren’t the only way to write well! These ‘rules’ are ridiculous outside of a very narrow set of writing goals and styles

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Hilarious to see many of the people who have nothing but derision for MFA programs because of the way they ‘flatten voices’ gushing about these dull maxims. Essayists can be stylists too!

[Mayank Vora @aiwithmayank]

William Zinsser taught writing at Yale, then wrote the book that has fixed more bad writing than every English class combined.

Here are 10 cuts from "On Writing Well" that instantly make your writing twice as strong.

1) Delete every word doing no work

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The midlife crises are gonna be out of control with this genre of Zoomer. That’s the optimistic read at any rate.

[HankHeIl @HankHeil]

Elder Millennial weddings be like "come celebrate the start of their life together".

You're both 38, it's not starting, it's already over.

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@void_hyacinth @matthiasellis … ‘retreat from class’ in the words of my hero EMW) so the class dimension would be complicated or elided, but worth noting that tactical/strategic orientation. I disagree with the post-Marxists and didn’t read OP thread in that vein, but thought they should be in the discussion

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@void_hyacinth @matthiasellis The Laclau/Mouffe/post-Marxism school is largely premised on alliances of varying terms with sections of the bourgeoisie, and it’s quite different from the nat liberation third worldist approach. Adherents prob wouldn’t frame it in those exact terms (it is after all based on a…

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@johnvvariety We live in the aftermath of failed revolutions and that fact has us mired in conditions whose best possibilities already played out. You don’t even need poetry or other art to notice it, you can tell it’s true by looking around, by talking to just about anyone

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@johnvvariety It’s a raw deal, following the 20th century, an inordinately fructive time. So many new forms and styles sprang up and it taught us everything but now here we are—same joke doesn’t land twice, ambitious work struggles not to be mimicry, even geniuses might be epigones.

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@maleformed @xlorentzen Already interested in checking it out & this seals the deal. Been wondering when a new novel will attempt this kinda thing… contemporary in its concerns w/o getting caught in the trap of more or less faithfully transcribing the ‘online experience’ in a bid for cheap relevance

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@StewartRiley14 @SamBuntz @creepingmraxist I’ll forever man the barricades for Steinbeck, and I expect he’ll be well-regarded again by online lit circles soon enough. Fashions change quickly, doesn’t take much. This is Twitter after all, not a sphere apart, and not conducive to stable judgments and unwavering convictions

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@tristero69 @poemPilled Work derivative of the original alt-lit style—there’s plenty of it—can be usefully described as such, but it loses all utility as a category when it describes work that is in no way stylistically similar and just happened to find a home in a scrappy online lit mag.

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@tristero69 @poemPilled ‘Alt-lit’ should really just be a term we use to refer to a certain set of writers in the early 2010s—ppl try to categorize such an eclectic range of works and styles now that ‘alt-lit’ really is just shorthand for ‘online writing,’ which isn’t clarifying.

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@artwithinpod Yeah, it's a complete reversal of the 2010s era when older people bragged "I've still got a dumb phone!" and ridiculed the youth's tech dependency.

Covid, short form video, & whatever other confluence of factors made them completely defenseless against AI