christine pardue

fiction MFA at WashU. former events manager at nyc bookstore

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

I've been listening to old episodes of Bookworm, they're better than any formal education. He made the author interview a radiant form of art in itself.

[LAT Entertainment @latimesent]

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 https://t.co/n8z50trjOn

[Haskell Industries @HaskellIND]

Issue 001 preorders ship next Monday. 12$ + shipping. https://t.co/eJAfjG6GjO

Debut issue features:

@blakebutler
@diedisappointed
@veedaveedaveeda
@xtinepardue
@lilso3x
@lynnrossilynn
@writingenjoyer
@okaypompeii
@alibanach

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@megandey4night <3

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

so happy to have my story "The Battle Has Been Decisive" in this great print journal!

[Haskell Industries @HaskellIND]

MEMO-001 is here. 12$ + shipping. Pre-orders ship 12/15/25.
https://t.co/VIckBHlpXA

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

i'm supposed to be mad that Zohran's one-bed apt costs $2.3k a month? i'm supposed to believe that a homeless woman could pay for that if only it were on the market? how much should a one-bed cost??? how much would it cost if it WEREN'T rent stabilized???? we're not stupid....

[Andrew Cuomo @andrewcuomo]

Somewhere last night in New York City, a single mother and her children slept at a homeless shelter because you, assemblyman @ZohranKMamdani are occupying her rent controlled apartment.

You grew up rich and married an even wealthier woman. You’ve had weddings on 3 continents. You own property in LGTBQIA+ murderous Uganda. You make $142,000 a year plus stipends, and your wife works too, meaning you together likely make well over $200,000. No matter which way you cut it: Zohran Mamdani is a rich person. You are actually very rich.

Yet you and your wife pay $2,300 a month, as you have bragged, for a nice apartment in Astoria. That should be housing for someone who needs it.

We are in the middle of a historic affordability crisis. Millions of low income New Yorkers need this apartment and an apartment like it. Yet your apartment remains rented to rich people who don’t need it.

Today, I am calling on you to move out immediately and give your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who need it. Leaders must show moral clarity. Time to move out.

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

my last day at work is fri. I made an ig graphic for an event for a famous fashion designer. out of the blue I get an email from the designer. “it’s me, **** ***.” she wants to talk. we talk and she says, monotone: why is the graphic red? red is not part of my world….

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

i fear that we're taking Joy Williams for granted

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

i'm reading last tonight. very powerful

[j mone¥ @TW1NKD3STR0YER]

works in progress this saturday, 7/19. partiful link in the next tweet

[Harmony Holiday @Harmony_Holiday]

John Berger on the living dead

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

The full manifesto is great https://t.co/ifV9fUP9B2

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

"'Trying to be funny' (as distinct from simply being funny) must now be regarded as a reactionary aesthetic rather than an innocent failure or flaw." Johanna Fateman in @4_columns

This is at least partly bc corporations have spent a decade being weird-funny online. No more

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

i wish i had done a better job of explaining jean genet to those two (separate) gay guys the other night.... "he loved prison" "I mean not really but kind of" "he's my birthday twin"

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@exhaustdata i would buy

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@SteveRattner i would be overjoyed if my tax money funded these things instead of a blank check for nypd overtime

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@K_Scanlan_ how joyful, i'm so glad to know Gerald Murnane loves Kick the Latch

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@rielleisack this was great

[New York Review of Architecture @nyreviewofarch]

“Did Corb really carry the bone of his dead wife in his pocket? Did he really bind a book in the fur of his dead dog? Did Eileen Gray walk a panther on a leash around Paris?”

@xtinepardue reviews Jane Alison’s “Villa E: A Novel” (@LiverightPub) in NYRA.

https://t.co/y73ooYr9WH

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

i wish they would let me dj for the ice skaters at lefrak

[christine pardue @xtinepardue]

@AriaAber Summer Will Show by Sylvia Townsend Warner