Almost every essay we publish is at least that long, often longer. People still enjoy deep reading & are looking for a good excuse to immerse themselves in something worthwhile—especially in a clickbait economy/world. Clickbait articles are cheetos & some of us still prefer a well-prepared meal 🤷♂️
My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.
18 years old! goofing off in the park in the snow! racist, violent losers cannot let go of their seething rage that young black men were having fun
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
(because it’s a staggeringly great novel, just to be clear)
I rarely if ever have this reaction to reading something upsetting (I usually rush to read something different to drown it out) but the last book that made me do this was probably Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea, where I finished it and was like “imagine reading another book?? after that???”
‘markwayne.’ that is some trashy shit right there. i shouldn’t have to know about a guy named markwayne until the day im finally ready to hire a monster truck chauffeur
people get mad at me when I say stuff like “you don’t miss 2016, you miss being a little bit younger than you are now” but this definitely is a case of you think you remember this show being good but what you actually remember is being a whole lot younger than you are now
Say what you will about Kristi Noem.
you know, if the government’s going to fund theater for the public to enjoy, it would have cost a hell of a lot less to just do a new WPA
it was my best answer to “maximum yearning + hallucinatory beauty”
oh my god I wish I could commission this article, goddammit
sometimes I really do miss the “ @jesszimmerman.com and I turn our goofy texts into articles” era
haha to be clear the first two, like at least half the jokes in here, are me roasting first and foremost myself, in this article from the first year after I stopped drinking
I thought way too hard about this and I’m pretty sure it’s Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red + Red Doc
Every single time you love someone should be the first and the last time. You should believe in it with your whole soul even if it breaks you in two (and it will), because the love is what we’re here for. The grief is just the toll we pay.
I simply cannot describe the amount of deja vu I am feeling from post-9/11, when nearly every other democrat was revealing themselves as a mask-off racist who cared only about whether they could vacation in the middle east and could justify every single illegal and amoral action to do so.
Richard Linklater’s late career masterpiece, On the Calculation of Volume
torn between Mona Fastvold’s Lincoln in the Bardo and Barry Jenkins’ Lincoln in the Bardo, leaning Jenkins
hand to god Schoenbrun doing Black Flame was one of the ones I cut because it didn’t fit in the character limit, one of my absolute favorite books of the last few years
he wants to make that movie SO BAD somebody give him the book already
oh and the big one: Robert Altman come back from the dead and make Ulysses
Joanna Hogg doing Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black; Danny Boyle doing Lev Grossman’s The Bright Sword; Dea Kulumbegashvili doing Karen Russell’s Proving Up; an american equivalent of Bi Gan doing Against the Day; a young angry marxist nobody’s heard of doing Lucy Prebble’s Enron as a killer debut film
most days I sincerely believe that a better world is possible
I found that show 90% unbearably annoying but the other 10% was when they let him do the Richard II “sit upon the ground and tell sad stories of the death of kings” speech and I levitated off my couch
I mean, I certainly don’t love what my phone is learning from all this
honestly, seeing La Chimera, Challengers, and then Wake Up Dead Man in rapid-ish succession left me convinced he’s a real-deal generational talent
(on my dad’s side, both doctors, met in the
medical corps in WWII; genuinely no idea about my mom’s side, pretty sure nothing good, though. I do know lots of cool lore about older generations of her family, just not her parents)
doctors; bullshit
a lot of people are gonna note how they’re capitalizing He in an evangelical worshipping jesus way and sure but the even more crucially accurate thing that that analysis overlooks is that they’re capitalizing He in a paypig way
