I wrote about Hera Lindsay Bird's Hera Lindsay Bird, a book that changed my life when I read it many years ago, and Juvenilia, the North American/@DeepVellum edition, which changed my life again, for Zona Motel!!
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If you want to hear the inspiration for this scene or maybe the real life version of it, here's a recording of Matt visiting my Canadian Cinema class back in 2020 that was secretly recorded on an iPhone by one of my students: https://t.co/LHtbJVyIa4
Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas
"Cohen is [insists] upon a deep connection to a place she is actively othering. She is both photographer framing ironic images of gun-filled rooms and lung-shaped ashtrays, and the subject, posed in an exaggerated hillbilly costume."
-@ellagoinggray
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devastating. obsessively listening to episodes of bookworm when i was a young man was my literary education. it was as important as school. silverblatt taught me what a life of devotion toward literature could look like. he clearly cared so much about what he did. goodbye michael
if you are looking for something charitable to do to express your holiday cheer, you can support a great independent poetry press @fonograf_ed by participating in their fundraiser here: https://t.co/VxqPnqXdsG
my next book is coming out from them in fall 2026
a small 🍩 goes far