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writers

Joan Didion. Camila Sosa Villada. Mona Awad. Ottessa Moshfegh. Yukio Mishima. Mary Gaitskill. Books I'm currently reading and liking so far: A Little Life-Hanya Yanagihara. Carmilla-Sheridan Le Fanu. Hunger-Martín Caparrós. Books I've read in the past and liked: Mist-Miguel de Unamuno. Bad Girls-Camila Sosa Villada. Bunny-Mona Awad. Death In Her Hands-Ottessa Moshfegh. My Year of Rest and Relaxation-Ottessa Moshfegh. Animal-Lisa Taddeo. This Is Pleasure-Mary Gaitskill. Running With Scissors-Augusten Burroughs. Cultish-Amanda Montell. So You've Been Publicly Shamed-Jon Ronson. Rosario Tijeras-Jorge Franco. Educated-Tara Westover. Maus-Art Spiegelman.

@mariamaria

Sep 24, 2024

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Been meaning to post this one for a while

Favorite books in no real order •Gilgamesh (David ferry translation) •The passion according to GH by Clarice lispector • Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (Burton Raffel translation) •le princesse de Clèves by mme de Lafayette •mrs dalloway//Orlando//the waves - all by virginia Woolf •paradise lost by John Milton •autobiography of red by Anne Carson •the poetics of space by gaston bachelard •house of leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski •theory of colors//metamorphosis of plants by Goethe •meno//symposium//republic by Plato •ethics of ambiguity By simone de beauvoir •invisible monsters by chuck Palahniuk Bonus: not a book but: the wasteland by ts Elliot

@sofe

Sep 24, 2024

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poetry, non-fiction, some fiction

- Metamorphosis, Ovid (trans. Stephanie McCarter) - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Andrea Lawlor - Union!, Ish Klein - To The Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, Herve Guibert - Lovers’ Discourse, Roland Barthes - Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russel - Address Book, Sophie Calle - The Selected Stories of John Cheever - Madness, Rack, and Honey, Mary Ruefle - Empty Wardrobes, Maria Judite De Carvalho - Mercury, Ariana Reines - Look, Solmaz Sharif - The Recognitions, William Gaddis - Stranger, Baby, Emily Berry Frank O’Hara, Sam Sax, Philip Larkin, Kiki Petrosino, Sandy Florian and myself are among the many other writers who I love.

@florinegrassenhopper

Sep 25, 2024

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Hating on ai

Sometimes I recommend being a hater. I’m not here to talk about the numerous quality uses of AI, how often it is actually used nor am I here to critique AI without strawmanning it. I don’t care if I strawman an account of AI because I genuinely despise the way most people use AI. I think AI generated images are ugly. I think that AI cannot hold a half decent conversation. I’m completely avoidant when it comes to showing AI my writing; I’ve never done it and I refuse to. I hate when you go to that one poetry website and there is AI “analysis” there, because its not real textual analysis and it upholds a certain contextualised intentionalist framework of reading a text reinforced in high school English. I hate that the meta AI will influence what products will be advertised to you. I don’t care if it’s the future. I genuinely love being called a dinosaur because I hate AI.

@jessisonline

Sep 24, 2024

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tzatziki

It’s now beat babaganoush as my favourite dip.

@jessisonline

Aug 31, 2024

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Immersing yourself in the world of bugs

When we let go of the fear we hold towards the smallest creatures of our environment, and learn how to immerse ourself in an instance of nature rather than making an instance of nature our own, we learn to truly be alive. Bugs are great because you can’t own them, but you can admire their beauty. #bugnation2024

@jessisonline

Jan 21, 2024