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I'm 6 feet tall and my novel is called FAKE ACCOUNTS
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is it "everyone was inside, and now that they are outside they are more anxious about being judged, and in the meantime looked at all these pretty pictures?" i don't know...ozempic thing...cheek fat thing... bleak
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since the pandemic i have noticed, culturally critically, a sudden acceleration of the long slide into a totally mind-warped image consciousness and a kind of parodic status ranking based on looks and a disturbed idea of feminism...don't know what to make of it...
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is Elaine "supposed to be" hot, is the more concerning part of the question to me... why is this hot woman hanging out with guys who look like that, is another concerning question i have also seen related to this topic...
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Just did a podcast about David Foster Wallace for an hour and now I am AMPED! How will I ever go to sleep
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All the websites that started this are failing! Don't you see! I feel like the Cassandra of digital media
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putting this headline on this pairing is so grotesque. Rachel should complain!
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and will join senior editor to discuss all this and more at the in NYC on May 16.
For further information:
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I don’t want argue “bohemianism still exists” but if it does its resistance to the mainstream would require not being known to a social media public and not going by a shorthand identity like “punk” or “bohemian.” If someone is obscurely cool you don’t know about them!
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"For better or worse, Zoomers don’t want to be broke and obscurely cool artists; they want to be rich and legibly cool entrepreneurs." artforum.com/diary/price-of
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I’m awesome
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What's your most American-coded trait.
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At on May 16 at 7 p.m. I'll be nervously-excitedly launching my new book, A Life of One's Own—luckily I'll have & with me, bringing wit, glamour and intelligence. Come if you're in NYC, livestream if not!
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the proliferating pointless synonyms for "people"..."folks," of course, but also "humans," "persons"...people may suck but "people" is fine...
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yoohoo! come on by tonight to meet many brilliant people – and to hear, alongside far more dignified fare, my little thoughts about Denglisch & English & Germany's premier comedy-a-capella group & Olga Tokarczuk at the airport &, above all, Australians being annoying
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If you're in the Berlin orbit, don't forget to stop by our Issue Three launch party tomorrow at @acudmachtneu, in collaboration with do you read me?!. We'll raise a glass and read some things.
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One difference between me and is that when she tells her editors, "The boyfriends have to stay!!" the editors comply
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I talked to @sophiah_n @washingtonpost about the goop cruise, DFW, irony and sincerity, and the sexist genre of wellness writing, if for some reason you want more of my thoughts on this! CW: They cut the part about the boyfriends washingtonpost.com/books/2023/04/
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I talked to about the goop cruise, DFW, irony and sincerity, and the sexist genre of wellness writing, if for some reason you want more of my thoughts on this! CW: They cut the part about the boyfriends
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There are a few middle-aged internet people who have hated me since I was 24 years old, I noticed this week. Now 32, I don't think I could develop a years-long hostility toward a 24-year-old. Twitter has taught me a lot about what some people are like!
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Not an expert but it’s my understanding that this is why we have psychoanalysis
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If anyone yelled at me as much as my toddler does, I would simply never speak to them again.
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All the praise is well deserved but allow me to add that the preposterous subject matter, pitch perfect humor, and irresistible voice can easily distract from the fact that this is also a rare, penetrating meditation on what it is to write "as a woman" on a "women's topic."
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I went on the goop cruise, for @Harpers 
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Rlly enjoyed this one from about having a rough time on a boat perhaps the most American of all genres
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Fake Accounts hive: we’re exiting our chorus of ex-boyfriends era and entering our chorus of current boyfriends era
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I went on the goop cruise, for @Harpers harpers.org/archive/2023/0
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"Anyway, I am getting paid about 50 percent more than DFW was, even adjusting for inflation." Delicious on cruise social dynamics, throuples, Caravaggio, Yoni eggs, and not being at all Well
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Great new issue of out today, beginning with "getting paid about 50 percent more than DFW" for a cruise ship essay that is, imo, at least 50% better than his
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Everyone agreed I needed to get away from my two boyfriends...I love Europe...
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"Everyone seemed fairly normal—clean, peppy, average age of let’s say fifty-three, percentage white let’s say ninety-two, with varying degrees of facial work." - went on the GOOP Cruise for —
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It lives! All aboard, bitches, etc. Congratulations , this is genius (even if — or perhaps because? —there’s no “right of passage” pun regarding cruise essays by women) harpers.org/archive/2023/0 via
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And we have a cover, comrades. Each cat represents one age of capitalism, one chapter in its development, from Lion Kings to Black Panthers. And a special visual flourish: note the hammer and sickle- like tail crossings. Out this fall from
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why would the widespread acceptance of the idea that it's not just healthy but morally necessary to spend hundreds of hours and thousands of dollars talking about yourself, even in the absence of major trauma or mental illness, produce a bunch of narcissists who speak in cliches
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For @bustle, I interviewed people who've been on the flip-side of "therapy speak" — ghosted, bailed on, friend-dumped — and spoke to experts to see how we can avoid hurting others in the name of self-care. Give a read! bustle.com/wellness/is-th
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So the primary engine of transphobic discourse in the US, a nation of bad parents obsessed with parenting, is about "protecting" children (and sometimes sports), and in the UK it's about impropriety and protecting their delicate English roses. Very pathetic
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“Yet, I don’t really care if the human race dies out.” - Sheila Heti
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For decades, scientific studies suggested moderate drinking was better for most people’s health than not drinking at all.
A new analysis of more than 40 years of research has concluded that many of those studies were flawed and that the opposite is true. nyti.ms/3MdbFKF
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honestly she tweets so much it's understandable that some would slip through the fortifications...i forgive the faulty algorithm...i'm not triggered
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Why is the only person who has ever blocked me on Twitter—as usual I was ahead of the trend—and who I have muted showing up in my timeline. ELON!
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The only things people talk about now are robots and Succession…I’m bored…
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I gathered the greatest scholars, scientists, business leaders, and statesmen on earth together and after weeks of discussion and collaboration, we still couldn’t figure out what it means when a British person says “x” at the end of a text
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I wrote about "Mating" by Norman Rush and the novel's ardent fans
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Home TO THEIR FAMILIES!
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Where are the majority of folks going – is there a clear winner yet?
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Another big one is the writer is too ironic/too self-aware, but somehow everything good they do is "unwitting." No. You have to pick one. Grow up!
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Reading old reviews and remembering a big pet peeve: critics wanting to praise something without suggesting that the writer might have had any actual thoughts, which critics hate. So they say the writer does whatever it is "unwittingly." How could this possibly be unwitting?
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