Finished reading: How to Maintain Eye Contact by Robert Wood Lynn 📚
Finished reading: Transcription by Ben Lerner 📚
💬 “And death with a top hat quietly laughing at us as he passed, even that we will miss. Even that we loved.” - Steve Scafidi
Excerpt from Letters to a Young Poet
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>“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
🎵 Songs for the week:
Still Crazy After All These Years by Paul Simon
Out of Town by Water From Your Eyes
loose ends by Holywatr
Hangin' On by Al Green
Cristo Redentor by Donald Byrd
(for working out or dancing with friends!) BEAT UP CHANEL$ by Slayyyter
Hilarious. I loved this and had so much fun reading it. I can imagine it being a TV series eventually. Finished reading: Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash 📚
Just pre-ordered Ben Lerner’s new novel, Transcription, that comes out next week. I haven’t been this excited for a book in so long. Going to drop just about everything else I am reading.
I just discovered Eternal Family Streaming which is a “curated, artist-run streaming service specializing in obscure, surreal, and lost media, including vintage animation, niche horror, and indie art films” or “a liminal fever dream that is ad-free”. I can not wait to deep dive into this catalog.
>“The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.”
I was in an MFA class with Woody Brown at Columbia and I was a better thinker and writer for it, excited to see his book published. I will definitely be picking up a copy. You can read about his journey and book here.
Finished reading: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman 📚
Brilliant article from The Paris Review, Kafka’s Misdiagnosis by Aaron Schuster:
>”One of the lessons of Kafkian neurosis is that human beings are the astoundingly resourceful architects of their own cages”
Gorgeous evening jazz at Saturn Road in Brooklyn
>“Do not write a poetry of rarity, or of rarification, but of never again.” - Kevin Young 🌬️
Finished reading: My Struggle, Book 1 by Karl Ove Knausgård 📚
💬 “The true has about it an air of mystery or inexplicability. this mystery is an attribute of the elemental: art of the kind I mean to describe will seem the furthest concentration or reduction or clarification of its substance; it cannot be further refined without being changed in its nature. It is essence, ore, wholly unique, and therefore comparable to nothing. No “it” will have existed before; what will have existed are other instances of like authenticity. The true, in poetry, is felt as insight. It is very rare, but beside it other poems seem merely intelligent comment.” - Against Sincerity, Louise Glück
Hania Rani the composer of Sentimental Value was a guest on NTS Radio, a gorgeous selection of modern classical pieces, perfect for working or walking. You can listen here.
Rad venue underneath an instrument store, local bands only. Main Drag Music in Williamsburg, Brooklyn