Torrey

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EUROVISION SONG CONTEST: The Story of Fire Saga is one of my favorite movies & of course, Graham Norton, possessor of the best-voice-ever puts that best-voice to perfect use in that movie. SO...big fan day for me when I got to talk to him about D,B on his podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/1NDj...

Ep 2: Torrey Peters and Helen Ledereropen.spotify.com Listen to this episode from The Graham Norton Book Club on Spotify. Graham talks to Torrey Peters about her smash hit story of love, parenthood and trans life-choices, Detransition Baby and to Helen L...

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“What a Gazan Should Do During an Israeli Air Strike” by Mosab Abu Toha:

I’ve long lamented Google serving up terrible increasingly SEO-inflected info, but in the last year, I have found myself reading nonfiction books on questions I previously would have asked Google (on everything from Palestine to running routines) and it’s made my day-to-day better.

The institution of marriage can neither be saved nor reformed, only fetishized.

Have begun to read various works in order to deduce when the writer has hit two crucial lines of demarcation in a literary career: 1.) when a writer finally learns the names of trees 2.) when a writer starts fetishizing fountain pens (writing less fussy, cuz laborious to re-write)

The Lana Del Rey lyric “like a barge at sea/in a storm I stay clear” betrays a real misunderstanding of barges.

I am writing a story about a lumberjack and it is taking me forever because I am method writing.

Omg PEREGRINE FALCON (?) OUTSIDE THE KITCHEN WINDOW (crown heights)

one trick in Cormac McCarthy's pulls in The Passenger is to recycle (w/Thalidomide Kid) the slang from his youth, which has been out of fashion so long that it now sounds ghostly & apocalyptic--which indicates that in forty years I'll be able to write "amirite asshat?" to the same effect.

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my masterpiece that was lost when my original twitter account was permanently suspended 💔

into saunas these days. Big change since last on social media. Most dreams of mine are sauna-related.

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