Ithink there is an emerging literary style that is essentially Synonym Irony. Protagonists don't go to school, they go to 'the building of prestigious information.' They don't have sex, they 'have the special handshake.' Does this ring true for anyone else
I wrote about the Made in LA show @hammer_museum, how the city/America has changed since 1940 (duh), and what LA curators do wrong literally alllll the time
Rather than interrogating present-day, citywide issues, the exhibition hovers at surface-level with muddled displays and obscure juxtapositions https://t.co/tk1qOrY4op
Rather than interrogating present-day, citywide issues, the exhibition hovers at surface-level with muddled displays and obscure juxtapositions https://t.co/tk1qOrY4op
I think in this world you have to accept your own choices like for example if you invite 10+ people over you can't make them take off their shoes. You invited mess into your life
I wrote about Thai architect Pitupong Chaowakul's 'Bangkok Bastards' - the ad hoc, flexible structures all over Thailand - for the Jan/Feb issue of @friezeofficial. Such a pleasure to dive into Pitupong's unique (and not widely known in the US) practice
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“Trader Vic’s was far from real Polynesian food, and it trafficked in stereotypes that betrayed what it actually was: a tacky chain restaurant.”
@claudiahh reminisces on Los Angeles’s bygone “international” eateries in LARA no. 2
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One of the primary bicoastal differences is that NYC young people treat their cars like pets or grandchildren ('look at my gorgeous girl') and LA young people are like if this hunk of metal doesn't get me from point A to point B I'm going to run over a pedestrian
María Corina Machado, a U.S.-backed Venezuelan opposition figure, has received the Nobel Peace Prize.
“They didn't give it to Donald Trump, but they seem to have given it to the next best thing," says historian Greg Grandin.
Recurring vivid nightmare that my book will be called "uneven." I plan to combat this in the typical way, by writing several reviews in which I laud uneven novels as uniquely reflective of contemporary life
I spoke with my dear friend and very special poet Leah Flax Barber for @BOMBmagazine about her truly hypnotic theatrical Plath-esque debut collection from Winter Editions. She's one to watch fr fr fr 👀
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