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Jon Baskin
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Jon Baskin
@BaskinJon
Founding Editor @the_point_mag
- "I haven't read this and neither should you" is a genre I admit I did not see catching on with humanities professors
- I wrote about DFW’s late fiction, his struggle to find a larger cause worth committing to, and our nihilism-to-sincerity seesaw
- I wrote about Riefenstahl, Malick, Knausgaard, and the possibility of an antifascist aesthetic for @NYRDaily
- The disdain for / distrust of genius might be the single thing I felt most alienated by when I first got into literary studies. I literally couldn't understand why we were there if not to read and talk about geniuses.Barkan: 'The War on Genius' rosselliotbarkan.com/p/the-war-on-g…
- Yes, I am aware that the @nytimes has started an opinion blog called The Point. Yes, it is annoying.
- Replying to @GDesswhat’s strange about this passage is now noncommittal it is. When it starts you think she is going to endorse the move beyond the amoral “is it interesting?” but then she describes what succeeds it in a voice that makes it sound even shallower
- I wrote about Ben Lerner, my traumatic memories of literary studies in college, and the hatred of literature in the editorial for our new issue on art and experience (subscribe today!)
- Great new issue of @Harpers out today, beginning with @laurenoyler "getting paid about 50 percent more than DFW" for a cruise ship essay that is, imo, at least 50% better than his
- “We tried, and we failed, to save the world from our parents. And because we failed, we have been written out of history.” Been waiting a long time for someone to write this article
- here’s something that I learned from this article passes for “education” thepointmag.com/politics/educa…
- Replying to @moonbeeaamit has a lot to do with the style and the deliberate attempt to create an impression of spontaneity and "unartiness." The David Shields book Reality Hunger, as annoying as it is in some ways, is extremely helpful on this (I got the term from him).
- "We are giving young people the idea that the unhappiness that they have about their relationships is a matter to be taken up with the authorities.” @wesyang on Jeannie Suk Gerson and the "bureaucratization of intimate life":
- much of my frustration w reading Rooney can be summed up by the fact it’s not clear to me whether she knows this is satire
