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For @nplusonemag, I wrote about Michael Hurley and his sublimely strange folk tunes about eating a lot, hanging out with friends, and sometimes being a lonely loner nplusonemag.com/online-only/…

Weirder, Deeper, Pervier, Lovelier | Sam Dembling

We are near an old strain of folk utopianism, one that depicts the afterlife as a place with towers of food rising to the heavens. One of the first songs Hurley came up with was a sort of mantra he...

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“On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the first pot of jam was mysteriously discovered by a child. His parents only learned of the event once the pot was empty — of course.” —Erik Satie
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lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/… Gorgeous read on cyanotypes this morning from @LRB. At once an on-the-ground history of the race to invent photography, an evocation of the omnivorous lives of 19th c naturalists, a record of personal obsession, & the story of a father and daughter

Gaby Wood · Translucency: Cyanotypes

I don’t​ remember when I first learned to make cyanotypes, but I had loved Anna Atkins’s prints for many years...

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G.K. Chesterton in a letter to his fiancé, describing his morning subway commute from an unusual and fantastical perspective in 1899.
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Massive Attack & Elizabeth Fraser performing "Teardrop," live on "Later...With Jools Holland" (1998)
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RIP to a giant
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“Why, you may be wondering, was this long whine ever written down? It’s not a memoir, not an argument—what is it, anyway? The first draft—very much shorter and even more purple—was a suicide note”
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I wondered what type of house Jordi Savall lives in. Looks about right.
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The Paris Review
@parisreviewApr 3
Saudi Aramco is perhaps best known as the rapacious national oil company of Saudi Arabia, but since 1949, its U.S. subsidiary has also published an unusual print magazine—a free periodical that, as Krithika Varagur (@krithikavaragur) writes, blends “the recondite trivia of an almanac with the effortful style of the classical general-interest magazine, like Life.”⁠ theparisreview.org/blog/2026…

The World of Aramco by Krithika Varagur

April 3, 2026 – “Over the years, it evolved into a charming and slightly bizarre enclave of print media, combining the recondite trivia of an almanac with the effortful style of the classical...

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"The gift was immense, the creative profusion unprecedented, the promise magnificent, the curtailment brutal." - an absolutely gorgeous piece on the life and lieder of Schubert. lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n05/…
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Wayne Shorter perforns "Nefertiti"
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Good Country People - Flannery O'Connor
Bernard T. Joy
@bernardtjoyFeb 25
Which was the most thrilling short story you read as a teenager?
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Ana@_motherslugFeb 22
Fernanda Melchor's Hurricane Season is a modern masterpiece.
🎃 herbert von carrion 👻@ragandboneshopFeb 21
i'll stick my neck out for fernanda melchor and missouri williams (older and younger ends of the millennial spectrum, respectively; both under 45). gen z is just about hitting the main publishing age. if we're talking about living writers, there are clearly many greats.
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Lovely. Tribute to a friendship, working in publishing in the late 90s / aughts, and talking about books for way longer than you're supposed to. Of course Silverblatt was a Szymborska fan
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RIP Michael Silverblatt. Here's a favorite episode with Grace Paley kcrw.com/shows/bookworm/stor…

Grace Paley | KCRW

Grace Paley The Collected Stories (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) The invaluable, funny, mischief-makerGrace Paley speaks of Jews, men, politics, children and the voices that have entered her permanent,…

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Read this to see the future
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Luigi Ghirri's photographs of his visit to Atelier Morandi
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Just awesome. Excited to read more from this new mag
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"Alcohol, it cannot be stressed enough, is central to journalism in Inner Mongolia." Incredibly fun story from the new @Equatormag equator.org/articles/the-xi-…

The Xi Jinping School of Journalism • EQUATOR

The education and reeducation of a Mongolian reporter

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"Fidel" sent this photo saying we are covering the grapevines in Delano CA with plastic as it's supposed to rain later. The plastic helps protect these late season grapes from rot and mold that can damage the fruit. #WeFeedYou
Grape vines with full clusters covered with plastic for predicted rains

ALT Grape vines with full clusters covered with plastic for predicted rains

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“If I write better German than most writers of my generation, it is thanks largely to twenty years’ observance of one little rule: never use the word ‘I’ except in letters.” — Walter Benjamin, from “A Berlin Chronicle”
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