Had the unbelievable privilege of hearing Seong-Jin Cho perform the complete solo piano works of Ravel on Wednesday night. Cho is one of the best Ravel interpreters alive, I think; so sensitive and coloristic. His soft playing is utterly transcendent
TRUMP: And from what they tell me, you know, Kant said we couldn’t do it, and the Germans have done great things, really great things, but I don’t know about Kant, but they tell me that we’re going to see it, and frankly maybe even touch it,
TRUMP: And we’re actually planning, if you can believe this, we’ve actually been working with Elon, and we’re going to cognize, they tell me that’s the word, we’re going go cognize noumena,
Shout out to the 20+ minute first movement of a romantic piano concerto…gotta be one of my favorite genders
Issue 250 of The Paris Review drops today 🖤 💙 Feat. interviews with Frederic Jameson, Hanif Kureishi & Gerald Murnane and a really lovely portfolio by Ann Craven www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/...
the fact they think this will be enough is hilarious…. have they seen the cost of living in america
STUPID soap companies FOOLISHLY produce Rupi Kaur tie-in handsoap when they SHOULD be making Ben Lerner tie-in handsoap
Someone should make an immersive video game/sim where you play as Joan Didion and try to manage a beautiful writing career in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The title, which is also its marketing gimmick, could be JRPG, short for Joan (Didion) Role Playing Game, instead of Japanese Role Playing Game.
A very short chapter I just fell in love with in Marías’s “Dark Back of Time.” (The “it” referred to in the opening sentence is being remembered as a “nice young man.”)
The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
Pre-orders opened today for my forthcoming book! It's got
✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones
✅ Epistolary prose poems
✅ Image-text collages
✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation
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But make no mistake Bryant’s Angel Eyes IS incredible and worth listening to many more than 36 times
Once again my wrapped is completely torched by having an album I played on repeat while writing for ~2 months
Pretty sure Lerner doesn’t have any active social media accounts. He has an instagram but I think there’s like one post on it from years ago with no text lol
hey all, any recommendations for introductory stuff on Deleuze? I’m reading Todd May’s intro to Deleuze right now and finding it difficult because it feels vague. Maybe I just need to dive into his work or closely study the SEP article??
I remember he has a violin sonata in D-flat major which is such a bizarre key for that instrument. Something a little magical about the choice
What’s on the listening menu today? fwiw, if you’ve never heard Rachmaninoff’s piano trios I adore them…and the Ravel trio is to die for
ME: How are you?
GUY WHO JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORD ROBUST: Robust.
I haven't fallen in love with Woolf yet—I read Mrs. Dalloway and I wasn't in love with that either. Maybe her work just isn't for me but I love to love things and always seek a way in if I can find it...it could be that I'll reread these in years and love them, and thus avoid cancellation :)
I think it's tough for me to get over the artifice of the form and the very ceremonious way every thought is delivered. Those thoughts can be very beautiful, but sometimes there's a dense cloud of figurative language that feels if not opaque then at least occlusive
I do! :)
I did some kind of paper or presentation on Muczynski at some point (I have no memory of its content now). I think it was about the usefulness of his intermediate repertoire for teaching purposes though…it was for piano pedagogy
just checked out BarfGalaxy, the website for pissed off annoying losers. i didn’t really like it
Feels like no one decrees a stately pleasure-dome anymore these days
Dear humans,
Just wanted to share something I've been quiet about, in the year of my loud self-doubt, with gratitude to @sarabandebooks.bsky.social and to many others whom I look forward to thanking in the coming months, MY HERESIES, forthcoming in April 2025.🖤
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I feel bad for not liking The Waves as a novel. Its language is often beautiful enough that I write down phrases to save them but I am just not enjoying it as a novel…it’s possible I’m a monster idk
yeah I was truly shocked by this
how to boil watched pot
watched pot not boiling
when will watched pot boil
is it normal for watched pot to not boil
Honestly to me he looks sort of
smarmily self-satisfied (I love Bach fwiw 🙏)
the best part about bluesky is that, unlike twitter, it isn’t putting annoying bull shit designed to piss me off in front of me every 3 minutes
