RT @nicoscosc: “What! Our culture in its dotage!
Yet this very poem refutes it,
springing up out of the collective unconscious
like a wease…
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Join us on September 24th to celebrate the launch of @johncusack new book MOMO! Tickets available through the link in the @strandbookstore bio.
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Oh, really?
David Foster Wallace on Charlie Rose, 1996, twelve years before he killed himself: "Compulsory viewing of television is evil. One of the last refuges in which we can read are these interstitial zones, waiting for planes, check-out lines. Now airports have televisions."
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RT @nicoscosc: sometimes a little wine leads my fingers back here 🥂

🎹 Debussy: La plus que lente

(recorded in a regrettably sober state 🐰…
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RT @nicoscosc: Meanwhile, Adorno on Proust:

“He kept faith with the childhood potential for unimpaired experience and, with all the reflec…
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I’d like to express my gratitude to Yoon Kim @nicoscosc for introducing me to a marvelous, absolutely unique writer I’d been completely unfamiliar with - Maria Gabriela Llansol.
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Thanks so much, Mike. This is extraordinarily flattering, especially coming from the likes of you!
If there's a funnier writer than @LeynerMark, please let me know. It's like a higher life force level of intelligence.

@RickKisonak
@backbaybooks
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I have just realized that the stakes are myself
I have no other

-Diane di Prima and this exquisite opening to the revolutionary letters
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Mille grazie, Mike.
@LeynerMark is a genius. And a huge influence for me, and many others. He has a new book out and it looks amazing. If you like comedy, literature, pop culture, greatness, please buy this.

amazon.com/Shimmering-Ser…
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Preorder here: greencitybooks.com
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“I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.”

— Clarice Lispector

from her last book, the incomplete A BREATH OF LIFE: Pulsations (compiled posthumously by her friend Olga Borelli, tr. Lorenz), excerpted in Moser’s biography
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TONIGHT! Join us at @POWERHOUSEArena to celebrate the launch of A SHIMMERING, SERRATED MONSTER: The @LeynerMark Reader! Featuring Sam Lipsyte, Nicole Rudick, Darcey Steinke and more! powerhousearena.com/events/book-la…
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Friday was grand.
We went out, we came
back, we went wild. You
slept. Me too. The pup
woke you and you dressed
and walked him. When
you left, I was sleeping.

- James Schuyler, “a photograph”
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Pub date February 1, 2025. My foray into science fiction, gene editing, and switched consciousness.
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I thought the earthquake was much better than the eclipse.
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