Jack Denton

Epistemologist @NYmag
Writing: @Pitchfork, @Harpers, @nprmusic, @RollingStone, @PacificStand (rip), @VICE, @Outline, @thefader, @MotherJones, @nytimes

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

I wrote about Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon's cartoon sublime, and his 360 vision of rising fascism

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Pynchon-heads, this one’s for us. At 88, Thomas Pynchon has written his most urgent novel yet. ‘Shadow Ticket’ is about rising fascism — both abroad and at home. https://t.co/h8UvUYUi1r

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

@RobbieBSosa Nope.

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horse down in central park

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Harold Bloom Endowed Editorship

[Max Tani @maxwelltani]

NYT book review editor Gilbert Cruz is stepping down, per a note to staff. He'll become "Canon editor," where he will build a team dedicated to "expanding our embrace of those moments when we invite experts and readers alike to help us declare the definitive works in a given discipline."

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From:
https://t.co/cfwP7sQXZN ,
https://t.co/yOsaSvoOfT ,
https://t.co/e9PTlHL1Qt

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against the tyranny of story—in N+1's appreciation of Frederick Wiseman, and in Chris Richards' interview of Jeff Parker

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and the great discussion from that 2017 Ben Ratliff-Mark Turner conversation

[Jasper Craven @Jasper_Craven]

For @NYMag, I traced the Democratic Party's mixed history and messy realignment on issues of war + peace: https://t.co/DcAq0oBGWH

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

wow, media with an explicit political agenda? that's crazy. this is a completely new and unheard of development. next they're going to invent journalism with historical consciousness

[Molly Crane-Newman @molcranenewman]

The future of journalism? Credentialed members of the NYC press corps came to Luigi Mangione’s hearing today to support the defendant they’re purportedly reporting on and to promote jury nullification “to the most cucked and submissive population in all of human history”

[Jacob Rosenberg @jrrosenb]

Telling a lot of people about something really important: I learned Sheepshead Bay is named for a fish (the sheepshead) that has human-like teeth

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blogged my AI angst

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@NoahHurowitz I love doing this to all my neighbors who are away at their Quebec City cottage for the weekend

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https://t.co/1RxUnkokXM

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blogged my AI angst

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Garden State residents will not miss this for what it is: a hostile speech indicating intended annexation of the Bergen-Hudson-Essex region

[Governor Kathy Hochul @GovKathyHochul]

New York isn’t just hosting the World Cup. New York is the World Cup.

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

A pet enjoyment of mine is the LRB’s occasional strain of exoticizing the US that I call American Orientalism. (We deserve it.)
Usually just a tossed off sentence but occasionally, as here, they will devote a whole beautiful essay to the genre

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Good writing though, and compelling even at significant length. Fun to think alongside someone with a different perspective. I also did think he really could have gone so much harder on the ending of the Topeka School—missed opportunity there

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This review is what happens when you harbor such resentments about upper middle class left-libs that you are only capable of literalist line readings—and then of course there's no humor or irony to nuance the sentiments and earnestness

[The Baffler @thebafflermag]

In the fiction of Ben Lerner, real experiences struggle to break through a dense thicket of wordage. @a_nathanwest considers “Transcription.”
https://t.co/oUgXtP2r8B

[Jack Denton @jackwdenton]

Also, sorry but the polysyllabic can indeed be a form of liberation,—however fleeting—and someone who recently published thousands of words about drill rappers should know that it's not specific to the academically trained

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@j_ckh_ns_n Mont Royal, Parc Jarry, Jean Talon market, just walking around Outremont and Mile End, and this awesome Mauritanian spot
https://t.co/114tCVmVHV