Jesse McCarthy

Ass. Prof. @Harvard | WHO WILL PAY REPARATIONS ON MY SOUL? | THE FUGITIVITIES | SOULS OF BLACK FOLK | MINOR NOTES VOL. 1 | THE BLUE PERIOD 2024

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

thoughts on aesthetic theory; the emancipation of sensibility
https://t.co/e5KZxViWRr

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

@cwik_greg Libra got his best opening line, rivaled only by the opener for his first novel Americana: “Then we came to the end of another dull and lurid year.” The opening to Players is also excellent and underrated. Hate the opening of Underworld, which ties for worst with Mao II for me.

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

all true. one of my favorite books to teach

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

fragile, despondent, hypnotic, deeply moving — the rings of saturn is such a gorgeous book, not just blurring the boundaries between categories of 'fact' and 'fiction' but rendering them meaningless in the face of wider truths (about memory, landscape, patterns, transience)

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

"What’s a novel but a big score of details burgled from the world? And what’s a novelist but a fence, furnishing imaginary scenes with choice pieces of reality while obscuring their provenance?" @jcljules cuts a razor sharp profile of a writer and his city https://t.co/ihFkp9TKaK

[SoulFood66 @BlackAndNative1]

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness (1974)

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

My mayor still Muslim
My bagel still Jewish
The pope’s on our side
Knicks in🖐️

[hiddenliburua @hiddenliburua]

La célèbre dédicace de Georges Pompidou à son fils Alain, sur l'exemplaire de son Anthologie de la Poésie française.

[ESPN @espn]

OmG.

[Lost In Film @LostInFilm]

😢🕊️

[Kalan Hooks @KalanHookstv]

RIP Peabo Bryson. Here’s the legendary singer-songwriter performing “Reaching For the Sky” on Soul Train in 1978:

[Vinson Cunningham @vcunningham]

no

[Camila Lourdes Galarza @sovietwithsazon]

The voice of a nation, Toto La Momposina, the iconic Afro-Colombian singer and child of political prisoners who was black listed by Colombia’s fascist government for the pride of Black resistance in her music, has passed. She was the soundtrack to my childhood, she’s who I put on and dance for hours to when I’ve had a bad day, she is all of Latin America to me, her Bullerengues are a spiritual realm, and she herself is eternal. Rest in power, Reina de la Cumbia 🕊️

[skylar @skyglorp]

Valid TA four paragraph crashout about our essay papers

[Jeff Melnick @melnickjeffrey1]

Jesse McCarthy wrote a mindblowing essay on trap’s dominance and how it related to the immiseration of the financial crisis https://t.co/ieOVrfOhaK

[Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohin]

Wonderful essay by Kevin Quashie on how Hortense J. Spillers's thought may be followed along the grain of her style -- specifically, how she constructs her sentences. Prefaced by an insightful discussion of the history and stakes of Black formalism. 👉 https://t.co/Wn6sachnfh

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

https://t.co/CmnblJ9OW7

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

reviewed this in '21 for public books: "for all its faults, it contains entire histories of the Midwest that you won’t find in Jonathan Franzen." link below

[∫obi @takasugii3]

annotations by john keene, yall gotta check this one out

[Jesse McCarthy @jessedmccart]

@ahsanb_ reviewed for B-Sides at Public Books back in '21 https://t.co/CmnblJ9OW7

[✧˖ @colditioner]

Nobody captured the ritual of the human touch quite like Robert Bresson

[Jazz Is Dead @jazzisdeadco]

Lonnie Liston Smith performing "Mysteries of the Blue" on a rooftop above New York City, 1973. Cosmic jazz suspended between the skyline and the sun.

Featuring Reggie Workman, George Barron, Lawrence Killian, and Alan Nelson.