@AChemeche
New York City and Edinburgh
Joined November 2015
Huge congratulations to the brilliant, indefatigable Dani Blum!
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in the increasingly claustrophobic sphere of long-form prose, it can seem like people might only be boosting writing bc they’re friends, or to “network.” So let me say Idk his guy, nor do I want something from him. I just think he’s one of the great living American writers
Spent a few weeks earlier this year roaming a Hollywood almost entirely reoriented around the production of “microdramas,” which are kind of like soap operas except they’re short and completely demented and optimized for your phone. Started as one kind of sad story and ended as another, differently sad kind of story. You can read it now in @NYTmag nytimes.com/2026/10/06/magaz…
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Had wonderful night of filled w/ jazz and southern food here at Hotel Chelsea. Immensely grateful to @dave_fugel and the rest of Iris Trio, and @yungchomsky for the brilliant photos 🙏🙏
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this is as good as everyone has been saying. incredibly funny, equally depressing and distressing, written with the charisma of a great writer. couldn't ask for much more thebaffler.com/salvos/paid-p…
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A year ago we secretly eloped before the wedding with @gracecamille_ as our witness, and afterwards we went to Balthazar where we took a couples quiz from a book we bought in the City Hall gift shop, where one of the questions asked what books we were reading and my answer was "Horse Crazy" by Gary Indiana, and Grace asked if it was a picture book, so I complimented her then blonde hair and told her the women in my family all have blonde hair like hers, only natural. And anyway it was the perfect day
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Wrote about mourning, memory and the things artists leave behind when they die. For Oldster Magazine, edited by the brilliant Sari Botton. oldster.substack.com/p/chels…
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One and only cover girl moment in my life. Thanks @PublishersWkly for this lovely review - of an anthology I edited gathering my favorite of poems of illness and resilience.
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Last Wednesday, Ottessa Moshfegh’s Plimpton Prize–winning story “Bettering Myself” found itself at the center of a lawsuit filed against a Florida college by one of its faculty members. Vinita Prabhakar, the English professor in question, is suing for wrongful termination after being fired for teaching the story, alongside works by Hemingway and Carver, in a unit on unlikable narrators. This week, we’ve unlocked “Bettering Myself,” published in issue no. 204 of the Review, from the archive. theparisreview.org/fiction/6…
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I was out to dinner last night with a bunch of translators in Athens, many languages represented, and the conversation was almost entirely shit talk about shoddy translations.
no, I was commenting on the tradition of collegiality when disagreeing about something so subjective & esoteric as adaptations of films & translations. there is a long tradition of translators building upon pre-existing translations. the relatively small world of mostly academic / literary translators is not usually one in which people speak so harshly; as with philosophers the stakes are not only low but entirely subjective. there are no "objective" opinions. insulting & name-calling are commonplace in politics today but frankly surprising in other quarters. that was my (personal, subjective) response which I do not consider weird in the slightest & I stand by it.
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imagine this diva’s contribution to the odyssey discourse
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“A visão de mundo de Nolan não é grande o bastante para caber deuses de verdade nem pessoas de verdade que pudessem ser diferentes de nós.” gente ela esmagou KKKKKKK
Emily Wilson, a tradutora feminista da Odisseia que teve a obra usada como base para a Nolanceia, foi com tudo pra cima do filme. Digam agora que quem não gostou é redpill de direita que não leu, seus trouxas. Alguns destaques do texto dela: “É um espetáculo audiovisual para toda a família, como uma queima de fogos elaborada do 4 de Julho, e com mais ou menos a mesma profundidade narrativa e emocional.” “A Odisseia não é chata, graças ao material de origem, que é impossível de estragar por completo.” “O filme entrega a combinação habitual de Nolan: grandiosidade e superficialidade.” “O casting racialmente neutro da Odisseia de Nolan foi inevitavelmente deplorado em certos círculos. Mas não há nada de progressista nele.” “A maioria dos atores não brancos interpreta variações do melhor amigo negro, cujo único papel no drama é socorrer o protagonista branco.” “Calipso é uma terapeuta não remunerada, acalmando a alma do maltrapilho Odisseu, tomado de estresse pós-traumático, com drogas.” “A Penélope de Nolan não tem sonhos.” “O roteiro não lhe dá nada para fazer além de ansiar por Matt Damon, por razões desconhecidas.” “Não há deuses, e ainda assim naufrágios e mortes são apresentados como consequência inevitável de cegar o filho de Posêidon.” “A lei de Zeus é retratada como decisiva, e ainda assim não existe Zeus.” “A visão de mundo de Nolan não é grande o bastante para caber deuses de verdade nem pessoas de verdade que pudessem ser diferentes de nós.” “Escrever diálogo não está entre os talentos de Nolan. A linguagem é implacavelmente expositiva, sem humor e sem relevo.” “Eu teria vergonha de ter escrito qualquer parte deste roteiro.” “O Odisseu de Damon não é complicado, nem astuto, nem engenhoso.” “A escrita é péssima. Não há cenas de sexo, e toda a comida parece horrível.” “Matar com a ajuda de truque, tecnologia e armas é ruim quando os gregos matam troianos, e bom quando Odisseu mata os pretendentes.” “Estrangeiros em Ítaca devem ser tratados com bondade, como possíveis deuses disfarçados. Estrangeiros em terras estrangeiras costumam ser monstruosos, para serem cegados, roubados e massacrados.” “Não nos mostram que a guerra ou a matança são ruins, apenas que homens bons às vezes se sentem mal a respeito. É um ponto muito diferente.” “Essa subtrama confusa é enfiada no filme para sustentar o ponto incansavelmente didático de Nolan sobre o mundo anglófono contemporâneo: que as mentiras e a xenofobia da guerra ao terror e do Brexit deram início a um declínio cultural que agora destrói os valores que ‘nós’ mais prezamos.” “Apesar de tudo isso, o lançamento de A Odisseia ainda é motivo de comemoração.” “Numa era que nos dizem ser de letramento em queda e de ‘morte das humanidades’, traduções da Odisseia, inclusive a minha, estão voando das prateleiras.” O texto dela aberto e na íntegra: archive.is/19rUN
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everybody wants to come for women who read romance-fantasy smut, but the real non readers are “self development” book readers
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“But the representation of Odysseus as a reluctant warlord makes a nonsense of the movie’s imagined world. We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it—a very different point.”
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I talked to Natalie Adler, author of Waiting On a Friend, about The Red Sacrament for Bomb Magazine >:)
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fewer americans are paying for open casket funerals. what does this bode for the craft of necrotic beautification known as "restorative art"? for the new issue of @Harpers, i met with morticians to trace the history, and future, of their dying art. harpers.org/archive/2026/08/…
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these paintings went to Bergdorf Goodman's last year for a show on their 7th floor, both sold and I miss them!
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I’m doing my first ever performance in which I raised my grandfather from the dead this Thursday at earth
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hbo john adams 2008 has my favorite sex scene ever put to film AND correctly portrays the Virginia planter contingent as the rouged reptilevampires of the Continental Congress
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if you like substack you’ll love these great things called magazines
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