'The toothless, gentle, atheist-but-spiritual style of a book like Orbital falls into the popular bracket of wellbeing literature. It is already a difficult and confusing world, it says. Why should your reading be difficult also?'
@HarrysunSee on Orbital: https://t.co/5nAfJCVe8s
Brixton is easily one of the best parts of London. It’s just such a shame about the drunken walk curse they had to put on the tube station. The which-way-am-I-facing spell. The zigzag charm. The Brixton Macarena.
I almost choke on a piece of popcorn every single time I go the cinema, and I’ve never once made a noise about it. It’s called self-respect. And forgetting to chew.
went to watch obsession last night. started to choke on a piece of popcorn but didn’t want someone to accuse me of not having theater etiquette so i just died instead
Welcome to France. It’s 1997 every year. They make the best food in the world and the worst pop music. The supermarket has three aisles just for yoghurt. Everyone smokes and you’ll be shot for apologizing. That racism you can hear is, technically speaking, ‘medieval’.
A puff of smoke leaves the Ian Fleming estate. The new 007 has been elected. It’s an XL Bully. “I can’t believe it,” he tells media. “I only wish my mum was here to see.”
I mean falling for the very clear bait here - and in fact, why the fuck is any painting selling for almost $100m - but I’ll tell you what. Rothko in real life is like a a personal church.
I am seeing a sentiment coming along from people that this AI story means they’re glad Granta has never published them…they really dodged a bullet there…like phew ha ha…
Now online: Kevin Duong (@ktduong88) on how André Breton triangulated a love relation between surrealism, psychoanalysis, & Marxism.
“Breton would fight for the social revolution to create a future world in which an honest experience of love might be possible.”
Christopher Nolan says #TheOdyssey has the "original superheroes":
"They are the original superheroes. Even comic book culture, whether you're talking about Marvel or DC or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics. The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer in a way is the George Lucas, maybe, of his time… Homer is the Marvel of its day, that's the thing. It's very directly this desire for us to feel or believe Gods could walk amongst us, and I think the modern comic book is kind of our expression of that."
https://t.co/ru6NRowQ63
A lot of chatter about the big male writers on here - Hemingway, McCarthy, Harold Bloom - seems to appear without anyone bothering to read them. Because they’re all much softer on the page than in the public eye.
@GeoffreyDMorri1 Gallant’s stories have this depth to them that I find hard to explain, because it’s not exactly visible on the page, but her digressions and sentences produce this sense of endlessness? Or of a continuing present moment that feels as long as a lived present?
After seeing the latest in Wuthering Heights and Great Gatsby retellings come out of the microwave recently, this is excellent timing (and a dreamy final line)
When the author of a lucrative series dies, his or her estate will sometimes tap a writer to tie up loose ends—or keep the story going. In this preview from our upcoming issue, J.W. McCormack writes on continuation novels:
https://t.co/1q48GY0G0m