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The way Baldwin writes really makes you feel it. I highly recommend if you like being messy or wonder what it would be like to be a bisexual man in 1950s paris.
Apr 11, 2025
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I’m not sure how accurate this is to what you’re looking for, but Giovanni’s room definitely has an atmosphere of heartbreaking romance, jazzy, floaty summers and swooning emotion 🫶🏽
Jun 4, 2024
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Short and enthralling, with prose that is both breezy and profound and a simple yet confounding story. It’s like a snapshot of someone’s heart. I think the scenery and emotion of this book brought about a natural and gorgeous visualization of the story, which is wonderful to experience.
Sep 20, 2024
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Greenwich village , Harlem, and seaside France just after WWII. sad and beautiful and tragic and even a little bit funny. about a friend group in NY — containing black, white, queer, straight, and married people , men and women, girls and boys, actors, writers, jazz musicians, and housewives. all figuring out how why and whether they love each other when American segregation, misogyny, and homophobia are structures of daily life that make love difficult or impossible. Deals with race relations and bisexuality but in a way that is mostly narrative-driven, not theoretical. read it if you love the tv show Mad Men or the book Giovanni’s room. Or bisexuals
Jan 23, 2024
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I’ve been forced to watch actual TV recently and I forgot how much I hate commercials. so mind numbing and condescending and just stupid. its not just tv, ads are inescapable and woven into every aspect of our lives and it’s exhausting. why am I CONSTANTLY being convinced that I need something and to give my money to corporations. I’m starting to develop the belief that most advertising as it stands today is morally wrong. it’s pure manipulation often through means we can’t even understand. commercials have become so abstract that most ads aren’t even directly selling you products or services anymore, they’re selling you a vibe or an idea or an association with a brand to subconsciously change your perceptions of every day ideas. Decades of advertising has fundamentally changed our culture in so many ways, and defintely done damage to our collective psyche and contributed to this feeling permeating our society that we can never have enough. big salute to @tyler and pi.fyi for keeping this space ad free. Basically this was a really long way of saying every time I have to watch a commercial I want to light my tv on fire. curious how y’all feel about this
May 11, 2025