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@bassem__saad @weakanalogy also, there's a great three page description of the mechanics of a very specific kind of printing press at the beginning of Balzac's Lost Illusions that is so neat and necessary, and seems a likely influence on Jonathan Franzen's long descriptions of patents in The Corrections

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Another note perfect paragraph from Gary Indiana’s Horse Crazy (“There are myriad ways . . .”) https://t.co/40qf7z0oH1

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@spbrodsky In the penultimate or final chapter of Leo Bersani’s Thoughts and Things he argues that the very difficulty in pinning down what drives are or from where they emerge is Freud alluding to the slippery nature of making a mind/body distinction whatsoever

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@BarryPierce Missouri Williams's The Doloriad and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais are both superb

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@hannahkateboast Samuel Delany's The Motion of Light in Water, a queer memoir, also often expensive.

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This what always seemed suspect to me about that Ben Lerner book. The Hatred of Poetry? Okay, yes. Try loving it -- much harder. But what good things aren't also, at times, truly difficult?

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really enjoyed this paragraph on Perseus in Emily Ogden’s ‘On Not Knowing’, forthcoming on @PressPeninsula https://t.co/VeXtcSZTVD

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@BarryPierce Missouri Williams's The Doloriad and Fernanda Melchor's Paradais are both superb

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"Feelings can make for very bad literature." LOVE this interview with Constance Debre by @HollyMConnolly https://t.co/BzIifZY5HA https://t.co/jt0w0LvQGS

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Helen Dimos and Will Rowe are reading from their translation of Cesar Vallejo's Trilce at @hundredyearsgal on Sat 6th May -- I was v. lucky to hear some of this work last summer and it is phenomenal. https://t.co/atFdZL2Jot