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@gwenergyreigns Ok since you’re asking me, I’ll share my opinion that the Derek Jacobi BBC Hamlet is better than Kenneth Branagh or Mel Gibson. & the version of MacBeth w/ Ian McKellen and Judi Dench directed by Trevor Nunn (I think) is fucking awesome. Haven’t seen the coen bros.

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The Gift has always been my most favorite Nabokov novel, even before I read it. This was an absolutely fascinating knockout of an article, @_ryanruby_ and it made VN’s ruminations on time and mortality jump back out at me again. I want to reread The Gift. Thank you. https://t.co/aNKNvX91Ei

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I stopped reading George Saunders at Tenth of December. The kindle just didn't agree with me. My Syracuse ex gf was friends w/ GS & she boosted my name to him & he emailed me once. Here's twitter celeb Patricia Lockwood giving a reassessment of Saunders: https://t.co/ZgSB2jeQAS

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@LitMiddle spitting heat. Wanted to quote him here but not enough characters allowed. I’m getting a strong negative transcendentalism vibe from these substack essays of his. Not sure what that means exactly but I enjoy the thought of Ralph Waldo Emerson having a shitty day online https://t.co/fqzlAvrAoh

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Some may think it’s corny and old but I watched Creepshow again after a long time and it really holds up in some of the writing. Stephen King is notorious for having bad adaptations, but this was an original, witty screenplay by the schreckmeister, and it was good. https://t.co/6qtrDOUmnz

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William Irish is a pseudonym of Cornell Woolrich. This book is from 1944. It’s prit-near 100 years old. It has two whole novels and a bunch of short stories including the one they based “Rear Window” on. Addition to my crime and suspense library. https://t.co/aF3Z3qdlek

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This podcast episode of The Last Thing I Saw on the upcoming Netflix adaptation of DeLillo’s White Noise in discussion with @xlorentzen is recommended. Also fwiw to my friends, the move for November is upgrading to “paid” on Christian Lorentzen’s Substack — best $5 I’ve spent https://t.co/p0BpPqMAmB

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Four new books for my library. This is not a list of accomplishments, buying books is the biggest nothing activity there is. 1) Maldoror. It’s an old New Directions paperback edition, not the new translation that @GabrielHart77 outlined recently. https://t.co/kLCXljEyjM

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3) oh you read Ulysses and Gravity’s Rainbow? Want to read a really hard book? Selected Letters of Ezra Pound. This guy was a master letter writer and a condescending know it all artiste who practically wrote in code language during the birthing of literary modernism. https://t.co/hSO4PyCF2d

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burning frankincense, writing on my phone, reading Polizzotti’s Revolution of the Mind & Ada Calhoun’s St. Marks Is Dead, submitting things, looking forward to seeing @MagExcuse #7 and @ExpatLitJ’s anthology soon, planning interviews & reviews, spending my paycheck https://t.co/yy3gIbegMe