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writing about writing about writing
A good grab-bag of writerly tips and tricks here from Irina Dumitrescu, mainly focussed on… well, not productivity, exactly (because that’s a framing that I am trying to avoid using these days, for Reasons) but what we might call instead the Getting-Something-Done Problem. Many of them are commonplaces of online writerly discourse, but some are…
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Through a Dylan, darkly: Invisible Republic by Greil Marcus
I have, I confess, never understood the reverence in which Bob Dylan is held by music fans of the generation prior to my own. I mean, I understand it as a fact, as a thing that is inescapably true; and I think I understand its as a historical contingency, much the same as I can…
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the dissonance is a kind of messenger
This from Mandy Brown was exactly what I needed to read this morning: … the dissonance that can happen when you come back to work after some time away is a kind of messenger. It’s so easy when caught up in the day to day to become complacent about your own needs; it’s nearly a…
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02JAN23 / accessions
The big bad book from Bleecker and the boys… this actually arrived during Dead Week, but whatevs. (And no ISBN, which has given the accessions department conniptions, and will likely present all sorts of challenges when it comes to citing the thing in academic contexts. Ah well.)
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”