10 things worth sharing this week
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| Hey y’all, Happy Friday the 13th. I couldn’t resist starting off with this scene I discovered after getting back from dropping my kids off at school. Life imitates comedy. Here are 10 other things I thought were worth sharing this week: How to write a book. (I printed this out for my motivation corner.)
Iggy Pop on his mother’s love. (Compare with the father of 1/2 of Daft Punk.)
Reading: I’m slowly making my way through Tree Abraham’s Cyclettes, which reads to me like a mashup of the numbered structure of Maggie Nelson’s Bluets and the vibe of Keri Smith’s The Wander Society. (Sold to me by the author’s mood board — the power of showing your work!)
A few years ago, I wrote about reading more than one book at a time and letting them talk to each other. Someone asked me what that actually looks like in practice, so I wrote about a few times when two or more books led to a new piece of writing.
The hottest Gen Z Gadget is a 20-year-old digital camera. (I’m enjoying this strain of “the kids are alright” from the NYTimes. See also: “Luddite teens.”)
Music: Billy Nomates’ Cacti is out today. At the time of writing this, I haven’t listened to it — I’m going out to the actual record store to buy a copy! (I wrote about her in “A shed of one’s own.”)
Movies: I once took my pregnant wife to get a cheeseburger at an acclaimed restaurant in Austin and they wouldn’t serve us ketchup because “tomatoes aren’t in season,” so yeah, the horror/satire The Menu was definitely my cup of tea. (For pizza night with the kids: we liked Matilda (1996) directed by Danny DeVito and shot by cinematographer Stefan Czapsky, who also did a bunch of Tim Burton movies, like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, and Batman Returns.)
I didn’t watch the Golden Globes, but I caught the heartwarming acceptance speeches of Ke Huy Quan and Jennifer Coolidge, both of which are about resilience and luck and and just keeping going.
RIP poet Charles Simic. I wrote about his friendship with the artist Saul Steinberg.
AI can’t kill anything worth preserving.
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