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1) makes me think of ketamine
2) book about downtown new york
3) book about insufferable people in the “culture industry“ of downtown new york - clout chasing during aids
4) aids literature showing the literal and metaphorical dangers of love and the risks entailed. to get close to someone is to risk contagion. the hedgehog’s dilemma. jesus and judas ‘when i kiss you i damn us both’ (another thing i’m into is poetry that draws parallels between jesus / judas and gay lovers)
5) reminds me of giovanni’s room
6) writing about getting peed on but in a beautiful way somehow
Jan 5, 2024
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Picked this up at McNally Jackson based on premise alone & realised halfway through that it’s a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic! Beautifully written, harsh and gory, a great translation from Jeffrey Zuckerman.
Jul 1, 2024
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This novel from 1992 is being reissued by New Directions in May, and it is hilarious, very sad, and constantly teetering on the brink of being genuinely offensive. But it isn’t offensive! It depicts the fraught, competitive, and co-dependent relationship between gay men and women in a way that not many writers of either group have been able to pull off. I don’t know that many writers at all have attempted to depict this relationship as a primary goal in their texts—it does come up as a consequence of other plots and themes—but that’s what this book is “about.” I was going to add one of my favorite lines from the book here, but out of context it does indeed seem offensive, even if I promise it’s narrated from the perspective of an Emma Bovary character, so you just have to get the book and see for yourself.
Jun 6, 2024
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not underground or indie but upsettingly good
have been mostly able to write while reading it because i am paralyzed by its greatness
not even done yet just astounded
Oct 21, 2024
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every ig update reminds me of how far i am from the life i was promised. i was supposed to be working at buzzfeed making six figures writing listicles wearing those studded steve madden pumps and posting only squares with the rio dijanero filter.
every ig update is like a new gunshot to my already bleeding body. they’re useless and unwanted. idgaf about turning my feed to rectangles. show me who unfollowed me. next update is gonna be a tab with two buttons: one sucks your dick and the other shoots you in the face except you don’t know which one is which. honestly i’d rather have that instead of the rectangles. Modernity I Rebuke You.
Jan 17, 2025
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i feel like an 80s mobster. or a 19th century bachelor with an unfortunate attraction to bohemia. someone who would’ve been called a rake in those days bc i was dancing with married women and gambling and learning french instead of carrying on the bloodline or courting duchesses.
Feb 9, 2024
i fell up the escalator at the union square station and ended up with this bruise on my thigh that quite literally spells out HI. if it is who i hope it is then thats cool. if its not then thats also ok too because this is the coolest shit ever. i feel like that guy in glee when he found the grilled cheesus. here’s the bruise with the photo edited for clarity i promise im not unwell just turn up your brightness. let me think about the dead people i know whose birthdays could be coming up.
Feb 6, 2024