Alex Estes

@deskofalex

Literary Critic | , , , , | Member of the National Book Critics Circle

New York City
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  1. 4 Nov 2013

    John Berryman, mostly on Henry from The Dream Songs, but on other things as well, like Tolstoy, Crane, and fan mail.

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  2. 4 Nov 2013

    "What a wonderful experience this must be for someone who can't read." | G. K. Chesterton on his first visit to Times Square

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  3. 3 Nov 2013

    I'd say reading Flannery O'Connor is when I find myself proudest of being from Savannah, GA. Ain't much else come from there worth a damn.

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  4. 3 Nov 2013

    Flannery O'Connor's ETRMC: "He walked along, saturated in depression, as if in the midst of his martyrdom he had lost his faith."

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  5. 3 Nov 2013

    I really dig this Hockney I was unfamiliar with. Great essay on him in the latest .

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  6. 1 Nov 2013

    Rollerskating on a Friday night. Bed-Stuy till we die!

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  7. 1 Nov 2013

    Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein split over religious differences? Huh. Wittgenstein's devout Christianity was too much for Russell.

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  8. 1 Nov 2013

    What's this whole connecting tweets thing twitter is doing now? Whatever it is, can it be turned off?

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  9. 1 Nov 2013

    "People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them." | Emerson

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  10. 1 Nov 2013

    I missed everybody. Truly did. Just needed some silence for a while. But damn it feels good to hit that tweet button.

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  11. 1 Nov 2013

    So yeah, I'm back. Silence broken and all that.

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  12. 3 Aug 2013

    Fashion designer Alexander Wang gave away a bunch of free shit, filmed it, played it back in slow motion. A shitshow:

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  13. 3 Aug 2013

    From "Meant" by Rae Armantrout:

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  14. 30 Jul 2013

    "If you could see landmines beneath the soil...you’d avoid them." | Great work by in :

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  15. 26 Jul 2013

    Fishs Eddy's powerful window display honoring Trayvon Martin. (This is why I love New York.):

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  16. 22 Jul 2013

    There's something about the way he's napping today that feels like an optical illusion:

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  17. 22 Jul 2013

    I'm absolutely terrible at the guessing-the-weather-by-looking-at-the-sky game.

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  18. 21 Jul 2013

    "I wouldn’t write faux dream poems myself—and I’m not sure why. I’m phobic, somehow, about 'making things up.'" | Rae Armantrout

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  19. 21 Jul 2013

    Poetry is the main genre where if you judge books by their covers, you're definitely going to miss out on great work:

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  20. 21 Jul 2013

    Rae Armantrout is one of my favorite living poets; this new poem "Spent" is at least one reason why:

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