Turning to questions of genre, an excellent piece from Vanessa Angélica Villarreal in Harper's Bazaar: "Does Every Latine Story Have to be About Magical Realism?" www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...
Magical realism has a complicated place in the stories Latine people tell about themselves and to others.
Thank you so much for reading and sharing, it means a lot to me 🙏🏽
Vanessa Angélica Villareal's Magical Realism: Essays on Music, Memory, Fantasy, and Borders is amazing. I had intended to read a chapter or two yesterday as a break from another book, but I'm not putting this down.
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
Thank you so much, Wendy 🙏🏽🩷
I LOVE THIS SO MUCH 🥹😍
What did everyone look like 10 years ago? God. Break up with him
Sarah McLachlan is Tori Amos for Abercrombie girls Bjork is Tori Amos for Studio Ghibli girls PJ Harvey is Tori Amos for A24 girls Jewel is Tori Amos for REI girls Alanis Morissette is Tori Amos for Delia's girls no I will not elaborate
A fellow writer recently advised me to scrub all my personal info off of the internet ahead of my book release, so out of curiosity I looked myself up on Spokeo. I'm pretty clean, but lmao I did not expect Etsy to snitch on me like this?!
The interview with the inimitable David Naimon. Have a listen to this one. Keep listening to all of them. https://tinhouse.com/podcast/christina-sharpe-ordinary-notes/
There may be no writer, no thinker, who has shaped my conversations on the show more than Christina Sharpe. Whether her work is explicitly part of a conversation (in episodes with Ross Gay, Solmaz Sha...