Zito

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“It is all one to me where I start — I arrive there again soon enough.”

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He’ll be lucky if I don’t continue calling him Keith

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Read FLAMING HYDRA it is so freakin good. Also support real (not corporate controlled teachers' pet) media!! For $3/month WOTTA STEAL flaminghydra.com/subscribe

Happy Saturday, hopefully you are spending it at the beach or under a cool damp rock. Here is a THREAD of all the great stories we published this week:

Flaming Hydraflaminghydra.com a collective of 60 writers, on fire and hard to kill

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it begins with immigration already a proper read today then it moves through “poverty, foreignness, racism, ..rage and regret” www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-minota... a memoir of our world moment

The Minotaur at Calle Lanza|Paperbackwww.barnesandnoble.com The Minotaur at Calle Lanza is an unforgettable travel memoir about the mysterious transformations that may lurk inside us all.Venice, 2020. As a pandemic rages across the globe, Zito Madu finds himse...

Brittle Paper put up an excerpt of my book. Read it and then buy it. brittlepaper.com/2024/06/exce...

Excerpt: The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madubrittlepaper.com The first place I ever saw outside of Nigeria was Paris—from the inside of Charles de Gaulle Airport. I was seven at the time. The sight left a deep impression on me. It didn’t make me want to go back...

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So be it, then. Born in throes, ’tis fit that man should live in pains and die in pangs! So be it, then!

Getting ready to do some work

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I wasn’t there to accept the award in person but if I had been, here’s the speech I would’ve given ❤️

Oh damn I just won a Beard Award!!!

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Talked with Zito Madu about his fantastic new memoir THE MINOTAUR AT CALLE LANZA -- along with some ruminations on travel, conversations, art residencies, and more. www.insidehook.com/books/zito-m...

How “The Minotaur at Calle Lanza” Reinvented the Travel Memoirwww.insidehook.com Zito Madu’s chronicle of Venice is like nothing you’ve read before

Talked to Inside Hook about the book www.insidehook.com/books/zito-m...

This is @jomc.bsky.social’s book

This guy says in the replies that this was 7-10 years ago but it makes you wonder how many companies are still doing it like this with 100% human labor. We already know every AI company is doing this with some degree of human intervention, they just call it “training the model.”

They’re saying it’s the greatest book ever written www.goodreads.com/book/show/19...

Doing a reading in the courtyard at Bart’s Books before I spend the rest of my summer reading esoteric books and laying next to rivers, seas, and lakes

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Media companies like Vox are feeding their journalist's work into an AI wood chipper: aftermath.site/openai-vox-a...

“Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel; the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart…”

James Baldwin on Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Native Son is a big one for me nymag.com/news/frank-r...

Excerpts From James Baldwin’s ‘Everybody’s Protest Novel’ -- New York Magazine - Nymagnymag.com Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a very bad novel, having, in its self-righteous, virtuous sentimentality, much in common with Little Women. Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emo...

Muriel Spark has a wonderful essay about this and the need to mistrust sentimental art that tries to move you in this way. Let me see if I can find it.

I don’t find being emotionally “gutted” by movies and TV shows to be a transcendent experience. I usually just find it… gutting rather than cathartic. I spend my week writing and thinking through “gutting” ideas, experiences and memories.

If you, like me, feel powerless in the face of the mass casualties in Gaza, this charity is working to provide healthcare, education, and aid to kids on the ground there. If you have a few dollars to spare, they can use them! www.healpalestine.org

HEAL Palestine – Health, Education, Aid, Leadershipwww.healpalestine.org

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HEAL Palestine – Health, Education, Aid, Leadershipwww.healpalestine.org

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All he had to do was not enthusiastically fund materially and politically the massacre of 50,000 and counting innocent people and folks like me would have eaten the shit and said ah he’s better than usual I guess.

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The Washington Post had this to say about my book: “His prose has the smooth and constant warmth of blood in a vein, a fluidity so steady it sometimes seems no different from stillness.” You should buy it. www.amazon.com/Minotaur-at-...

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Poverty and perceived precarity, at their most basic level, ultimately serve to deprive folks from having time to be political subjects and having the resources to risk political actions. It’s by design. A world without extreme haves and have nots is a world that actually has to do democracy.

We did a paper on student collective action that found that students at more "elite" institutions protested more, likely because they felt they had the *right* to protest

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you should absolutely buy this book—a gorgeously written, creatively constructed memoir about travel and love and longing and figuring yourself out

The people who like it a lot end up just messaging or emailing me instead of rating it, which is lovely. Also it’s funny that the lowest rating on came from a dude I made fun of on Twitter. Which was fair.

we need to get that rating higher!

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I read this recently and highly recommend it. Really good.

@philipchristman.bsky.social that weightlifting essay was beautiful. Reminds me of the Prayer in Tarkovsky’s Stalker youtu.be/8qpgL6ndEQU?...

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"I will spend my whole life trying to figure out my spiritual life, but I do know that it’s bound up with music." Read my latest article on Substack! marthaannetoll.substack.com/p/on-yearning Shout out to @zeets.bsky.social!

On yearningmarthaannetoll.substack.com Intimacy, spiritual yearning, and music

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"It’s no surprise that this bird – a bird at the birth of creation, a bird that brings life and the sun, a bird that represents the revolutionary heart of men and women in the West Indies – would end up in a poem, my poem." www.plough.com/en/topics/ju... By @zeets.bsky.social

I wrote about hummingbirds and love www.plough.com/en/topics/ju...

Hummingbirds Are Wondrouswww.plough.com Zito Madu on the wonder of hummingbirds.