@JonesOnTheNBA Re: Joker: when Kareem won his record sixth MVP in 1980( and he arguably should have won in 73 and 79 as well) he’d only been to the finals twice and won one title up to that point.
People are never going to admit it - or possibly never going to grasp it - but the inevitable byproduct of us allowing years of faux-activism, pseudo-intellectualism, brand-building, and grift disguised as collective uplift to escape real public scrutiny is this naked buffoonery.
George Packer has written a wonderful essay on the 100th anniversary of The Magic Mountain. (He kindly mentions my forthcoming book toward the end of the essay).
https://t.co/SAJKmPzzK8
The past week or so I've received a few messages about this @KnowYrEnemyPod interview with the poet Christian Wiman about faith, mortality, suffering, writing, religion, and hope. In some ways it literally was a conversation a decade in the making
https://t.co/jUBBqAkuE5
Have been working on this story about Ezra Edelman's brilliant Prince documentary for a long time. It's story about a suffering genius, Edelman's huge effort to piece together who he really was, and the forces that are stopping the world from seeing it. https://t.co/GmwBQpMKVt
@thomasbeller This just occurred to me: unlike say literature, my tastes in music have never really been influenced by criticism; the closest I can think is probably Stephen Erlewine's work on https://t.co/f2o5evjCx8.