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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cosima bee concordia

Thank you! 🩵I hope so! Apparently it was the story I needed to write, but I’ve lost perspective.

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David Noll

Thank you so much David!

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Nic Anstett

There’s this Philip Roth quote “I came here to be insulted!” that I find very helpful. It sucks, but if you’re a trans woman making art, you get insulted—intentionally and inadvertently. But if you remember that by making art, you showed up to be insulted—then they can’t surprise you.

I was briefly on TV in one of the Nordic countries and the only question the interviewer asked was “you wrote a novel about transsexuals…why should anyone else care?” And luckily, I remembered that I had travelled across the ocean to be insulted, & felt pleased that they could offer such a good one

Making your charachter a man on a “Best of” list! Really cherish that one. You came, you wrote, you got the kind of insult that is really the only sign of accomplishment I’ve come to value.

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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.

An optimistic flip side of Doctorow’s theory of enshittification: The shittier the Internet becomes, the more pleasurable it is to be elsewhere alive www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

His own speorg-note!

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉

The joy it brings me has never lessened. The songs should have won the music Oscar.

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Agathe so lucky

I went to Berlin a couple years ago! To She Said. It was a good event! But nowhere else in Germany.

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Agathe so lucky

You were both nice about it! No need for panic!

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

pre-congratulations!

We got married at the Brattleboro town clerk during covid, celebrated with an ice cream cone, and blew the rest our budget on dresses, jewelry, and vicodin. Would recommend!

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michael

With pleasure! Mostly I use a Pilot Metropolitan (because I am afraid of losing anything fancier), but I inherited a Pelikan Souveran that I keep at my desk

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R.O. Kwon 권오경

I love this news!

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 fountain pen thing, im convinced, results from moments of despair, when one cannot write, and convinces oneself that really the problem is not oneself, but simply the medium.

Completely unrelated: this is my handwriting one year ago, and my handwriting this year

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

Probably she meant, “like a deep V hull with proper ballast/ in a storm I stay clear.”

get one!

Yah, clearly I agree. Brandon Taylor has written a fair amount about why he rules, including his most recent substack, if one is looking for verbage.

subskeet? whatever. Sounds gross.

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cosima bee concordia

Thank you! I hope it is exciting, but I know it is weird.

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

I own two chainsaws now.

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