In his essay, @MolMoHsen reads @Atheer_alNashmi's six novels as the unfolding of a recurring imaginative obsession: love as a plea for recognition, an endless trial, and a wound that has to be judged by the person who carries it.
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Disney's 1937 Snow White depicted a technology we've never managed to properly reproduce: a mirror that tells the truth to the person bankrolling its upkeep. AI quickly internalised a more basic principle: people consistently rate answers higher when those answers please them ↓
The most short-sighted assumption of the past 25 years has been that we can discard physical libraries because everything is digital and always will be. But the digital vanishes like smoke & knowledge is rapidly disappearing from the web. You have to invest in physical media.
Quick shoutout to @azartscomm#azarts for again selecting After Dinner Conversation Magazine for their Creative Capacity Grant 2027, funded by the State of Arizona. This is our 3rd time to be selected for a grant. Thank you!
"The stripped skeleton of a bike frame
left chained to a signpost that doesn’t even say
Amen Street. No one claims address on
Amen Street. The only church on Amen Street
is a burnt-out hulk of limestone... it sees no evil."
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Check out a book review of Joshua Chaplinsky's upcoming psychological horror novel The Man in the Watch Still Visits Me At Night. Read it here ⤵️
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🔆 A peek into Ulani Main's rich short story about Hypnos and Endymion.
🔗 Read Issue 11 now through the link in our bio or at https://t.co/DZSFL2HMtQ
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Our Premium Fiction category closes on August 31st! You submit one short story, we give you a response in a week. Oh, and the link to our Submittable page is right here: https://t.co/ljwZa1RzMs
thanks for your emails. we realised something we should clarify: by social media au we mean all forms of internet texts: tweets, but also academic papers, headlines, digital scrapbooks etc. go crazy 🍦
We are on the hunt for the weird, the fantastical, and the headscratchers in the form of your deeply odd fiction, poetry, and art.
To get a taste of what we like and read our guidelines, check out website: https://t.co/0yuSP2ZrwM
“Where Is Everybody?” is a celebrated essay by Egyptian writer and novelist Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, later collected in Coffee with Uranium, first published in 2012.