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Ben Purkert
@BenPurkert
debut novel THE MEN CAN'T BE SAVED. words / poems in @newyorker, @slate, @kenyonreview
Jersey City, NJ
Joined January 2012
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    Woke up to a stellar review of my novel in @washingtonpost, WHAT IS MY LIFE ?!?!?!!?
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    Toni Morrison wrote the best opening paragraph of a novel ever
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    my toddler loves pizza and loves bagels so I figured I'd notch an easy win and make him his first pizza bagel and holy shit I've never been so wrong in my life
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    hey remember when Anne Carson did that Guardian interview and just totally slayed it
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    Replying to @BenPurkert
    I will add that, as someone who has both Jewish and Italian ancestry, I took this L especially hard
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    even he, mid-tantrum, has some pity for me I think, because he can tell that I really genuinely thought I had this one in the bag
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    sometimes i'll just be walking down the street, saying something in my head, and then i'll add "including the parrot"
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    Anne Lamott on writing toward vulnerability
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    every semester I make myself PROMISE to begin with a happy poem and then um
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    the opening totally slays me every time
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    Mary Ruefle on motherhood is a beautiful thing
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    This new Kaveh Akbar essay on spirituality and poetry is absolutely stunning, a revelation bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/what-can-ancie…
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    wild how every writer has basically one central theme that runs across all their work, and when readers point it out, the writer is like Huh
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    this juxtaposition, i'm fully dead