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Writer & translator. I am writing VOYEUR (2027) and wrote THE THIRD SOLITUDE (2025).
Joined August 2015
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"He was capable of taking off from the point of his own minor perversities—procrastination, prolixity—and supplying a far darker setting for them." Emily Ogden on Poe’s imagination.
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.@MinorLits Berlin weekender ...
@benlibman @MortenHoiJensen @LucyKulwiec @MinxMarple @AUTOMARTZWEI
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This is an almost identical list to the Columbia Core circa 2013-14
A faculty member shared this with me today: a preliminary list of 50 “foundational authors” for @UTAustin’s proposed Great Questions of Human Life core courses. At least two-thirds of each course would draw from the list. What do you make of this list?
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Five years of my life went into this thing. It started out as a joke, then got strange and scary and I am incredibly happy to have it out in the world: my novel SCHOPENHAUER is out today!
I happen to know that this will be extremely good
My short story “The Hater” is being serialized! in the @NYMag newsletter, starting tomorrow, for six weeks. Great idea by @EmilyGouldNYmag. No one knows what’s going to happen, including maybe even me. Sign up to get the emails (it’s free) thecut.com/article/dinner-pa…
I am ultimately on Moser's side, and having myself written an antizionist polemic that earned me a good deal of flak, I think it's essential that we not dismiss legitimate criticism as a form of ad hominem attack in public. It makes us look like clowns. More importantly...
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Looking forward to being part of this @MinorLits reading in Berlin next month!
REMINDER that if you're in BERLIN on OCT 16 & 17, we're putting on a few spectacular events:
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REMINDER that if you're in BERLIN on OCT 16 & 17, we're putting on a few spectacular events:
minorliteratures.com/minor-i…
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Susan will be talking part in a roundtable discussion at our Berlin weekender, 16th-17th October ...
more details here:
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Benjamin Libman retweeted
today @MinorLits ...
The Ultraviolet Catastrophe — Susan Finlay
link below 👇
I don’t think there’s a better writer-artist pair for a symptomatic analysis of a transformative period in world history than Mallarmé and Cézanne
Ok can someone get me a free link to this??
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. trib.al/FyZjBWs
