Seth B

literary adaptation • fiction • theater • film • teaching @uchicago • insta: sethboke • Gilgamesh!!

[Seth B @sboke]

@comBradStevens "...see what makes us shine!"

[Seth B @sboke]

might be time for you to read Ray Bradbury's creepy and wonderful AI / holodeck family nightmare story "The Veldt" (1950). Prescient? Oh, oh yes https://t.co/LRIaAuVA2R

[Sean Hayford Oleary @sdho]

I am hopeful that Minneapolis voters will reelect @Jacob_Frey next week.

I'd like to share why — as someone who did not like him when he first came into public life, but has come to respect and admire his leadership. 🧵

[Seth B @sboke]

'Weapons' is very good. Highlights include the finale as a riff on Cheever's "The Swimmer" and the 3 seconds of The Handsome Family's "Don't Be Scared" when the cop is driving

[Chi Urbanist @chi_urbanist]

"A Visit to Houseboat City: Floating Homes of Chicago's Strange River Colony" March 1, 1936

[Seth B @sboke]

@yuanyi_z Trust me you don’t want bobbies out there tackling these thieves. I’ll take the signs any day (I had my phone stolen in london recently, hate the arseholes that dunnit)

[Seth B @sboke]

Come to your confessional, the morning cried. Confess your love. - Pierre: or, the ambiguities

[Seth B @sboke]

appearances can be perceiving

[Seth B @sboke]

@misternagel 'Discognition' - Shaviro

[Seth B @sboke]

a late afternoon proustian revery for the New England Mobile Book Fair

[love drops @lovedropx]

women in PHLEGM (poetry, history, language, english literature, ghost stories, music)

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Gemstones premiere was incredible and yes, cinematic as everyone is saying, but more than anything...it gets TV. Brilliant and poetic one-off but it does further along the show's themes and also builds out the history and does it all in like an hour. McBride and Hill get TV

[Seth B @sboke]

2026 will be the hundredth anniversary of the invention of the Tilt A Whirl. What are you doing to prepare

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Large amounts of ketamine can make anyone feel like they rule the world. When should Americans start worrying about Elon Musk’s regular use? @shayla__love reports: https://t.co/hfGmhAEDS4

[Seth B @sboke]

Read this thoughtful essay on Chatbots of the Dead! (by @amykurzweil) https://t.co/t0V1Rqzs1Q
Makes clear, as so little writing on this topic does, that we are in control of the future rather than at the mercy of it

[Seth B @sboke]

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s main contribution to pop culture has been to add an unprecedented amount of syncopation to all Disney songs

[Seth B @sboke]

today is a complete-Charley Crockett-discography kind of day

[Seth B @sboke]

@charise_lee I did Djibouti and got lost with an ibis

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“The Prisoner,” a British show about an intelligence agent who wakes up in a seemingly idyllic town, is the “perfect low-stakes, high-octane episodic mystery,” @shayla__love writes in The Atlantic Daily. https://t.co/G42Ix8KaLI