telling myself it's okay if Arsenal lose the champions league final tomorrow because it's publication day today
many thanks to Yannicke Chupin and Karim Daanoune for all their work putting this collection (and, years ago, an excellent conference) together
folks i have finally made the big pivot to audio
come listen to me talk about infinite jest and obama-era optimism and maybe even a little about my evangelical childhood with the incomparable billy lennon for the CRB
the crb podcast is back...@podracing_champ talks with @rlackey15 about his recent piece on the cultural history of Infinite Jest's forewords. listen on spotify, apple podcasts etc.
https://t.co/1v1k8USN2l
the first issue of @Miscjournal is here!
some extremely exciting work from guggenheim fellows, o henry prize winners, and people i play soccer with
please order our *very nice* print issues here so we can keep doing this: https://t.co/IUcPK5asme
and spread the word!!!
my only thought on the discourse today is that when I came to Berkeley I made $32k/year and I simultaneously felt like I’d won the lottery and also I was immediately ready to agitate for a decent wage
@matthiasellis totally! it’s less an imprecision or the kind of everyday getting-lost in the thickets of your own syntax than, like, an associative cloud whose meaning is supposed to appear in the negative space
HUGE congratulations to newly named Guggenheim fellows Lucy Ives and Aspen Mays, and to Catherine Lacey, winner of an O. Henry Prize—we’re honored to have their work in our inaugural issue!
Preorder: https://t.co/VTjGi7uxQF
for the incomparable @clereviewbooks i got to write about infinite jest’s three forewords encoding changes to literary culture: how we talk about Wallace, his novel, and what we expect from them
huge thanks to michael for the excellent edits
https://t.co/Zho7gJP1j2
@stevenwatts I would also like to hear more about that thing I just said without having to actually turn vague impulses into real thoughts in language lol
maybe something to write about
one day
@stevenwatts I can get behind the LK take
I wanna say there’s more to Cartarescu
That there’s some real wrestling with the psychic ghosts of the 20th century and a laying-bare of something true about the contemporary feelings of impasse
But maybe I just like him better lol
excellent news: the NYRB has reissued Coover’s baseball novel
which means (LARB controversy aside) I can engage in some shameless self-promotion
and recirculate this (written before coming to Berkeley, even, god, that’s so long ago)
https://t.co/zhpzDRuDkY
this thread is at once an excellent overview of what miscellany wants to be, a sharp reading of Lee’s work, and a significant piece of personal writing in its own right
Today, @Miscjournal is publishing @TheGloryFires poem "Biscuit," a little taste of the three (!!!) Lee poems in the print issue. I am unbelievably excited, and super proud to put these out there. To explain why I'm so jubilant, some background (1/many)
https://t.co/3QjcLEMvyA
so @Miscjournal goes to print this week
and in celebration we have a poem online from the incomparable Lee Bains
please read and, while you're there, order issue one
https://t.co/a3TfXsc1A6