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It’s my birthday month, and I can’t think of a single thing I want or need besides a surge of support for Kamala Harris. If you’re a Democratic voter, please donate to my birthday fundraiser. Scan code below.

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Happy birthday to the magical @miraclecharlie.bsky.social

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It's so good! @sannewman.bsky.social

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I wrote a thing for the Guardian about 1984, the free speech wars, and what is and isn't truly "Orwellian" www.theguardian.com/books/2023/o...

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Welcome to the party, @tericarter.bsky.social 👋🏻

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One of my literary heroes, @sannewman.bsky.social, did me the honor of chatting with me about Losing Music for The Rumpus:therumpus.net/2023/08/23/john-cotter/

Rumpus: In doing that work of reassembly, do you find that writing transforms the material for you? Does rendering the experience into prose change how you feel about your life?

Cotter: It does, yeah. For my own sake, I had to make sense of this thing that was happening to me. I had to make it mean something to stave off despair. My original plan for this fell apart—I couldn’t find a cure, couldn’t return to my old future—so I had to figure out a way to orient myself to this new meaninglessness. That’s a formal dictate of memoir.

One reader said she thought the latter half of the book felt a little extraneous. But from my perspective, that was also a formal imperative: I’m exploring the question of how to make sense of your life when the old motives collapse, the old raisons d’être. I had to allow the story to become a little picaresque because I was wandering—that’s the nature of someone who’s searching.
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