is this is a publicity stunt?
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "Eat, Pray, Love," delayed her new novel, set in 20th century Siberia, indefinitely after online backlash condemned the book’s publication while Russia is at war with Ukraine. https://t.co/nDBum1b75i— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 12, 2023
― mookieproof, Monday, 12 June 2023 21:31 (eleven months ago) link
Yes.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 12 June 2023 21:56 (eleven months ago) link
a weird one
― mh, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 00:33 (eleven months ago) link
has naomi wolf responded at all to naomi klein's new book, which apparently uses the former as an example of descending into madness?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:12 (eight months ago) link
https://x.com/Birdyword/status/1398574511826497537?s=20
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:18 (eight months ago) link
hmm that was supposed to be just the image, but I imagine her response is the same
naomi: well, yeah
― mookieproof, Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:25 (eight months ago) link
i like what i have read of the klein book. personal, speculative, and even experimental. a different mode than i am used to her writing in.
― treeship., Thursday, 14 September 2023 00:36 (eight months ago) link
made me think of this: https://www.amherstlecture.org/perry2007/Borges%20and%20I.pdf
i respect the commitment
absolutely despise it when humanities academics talk about "loving books." you shouldn't love books and you shouldn't demand anyone else to love books, it is wildly inappropriate. just fundamentally not the correct way to do serious work in the archive— i read a book, and i liked it (@drumm_colin) October 3, 2023
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 04:54 (eight months ago) link
His commitment to arguing with every single commenter is something else
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 08:26 (eight months ago) link
I lolled
Had you opened more books, you'd have learned "eros" is a Greek word (the Latin translation is "amor") for a kind of love, and also that love is also "philia" and "agape", which are not the same with eros. Thinking love is only eros only shows you should enagage books more.— Alexandru Mircea (@Alex__Mircea) October 4, 2023
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:06 (eight months ago) link
This guy is a researcher in monetary history. I wonder why doesn’t love books.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:33 (eight months ago) link
I think there’s a kernel of a defensible point in there but it’s not at all represented in what he’s actually written
― the new drip king (DJP), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:43 (eight months ago) link
I lolled🐦[Had you opened more books, you’d have learned "eros" is a Greek word (the Latin translation is "amor") for a kind of love, and also that love is also "philia" and "agape", which are not the same with eros. Thinking love is only eros only shows you should enagage books more.— Alexandru Mircea (@Alex__Mircea) October 4, 2023🕸]🐦
― I’m going to get fined for being right, again (gyac), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:53 (eight months ago) link
i followed the colin for a while, it's a fun academic nutter account. had to unfollow after a while tho he's just way too intense. i don't pretend to understand (or care to learn about) his schtick but i think "monetary history" is kind of a misnomer, he's mostly a philosophy humanities guy who reads old books
― flopson, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:22 (eight months ago) link
From his thread I learned that everything you don't agree with is "cop shit"
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:39 (eight months ago) link
Fellas, I heard that liking books is subconscious (at best) racism and erasure of indigenous epistemologies, wyd?
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:42 (eight months ago) link
It is certainly exclusionary of pre-literate and pre-verbal societies
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:48 (eight months ago) link
I nominate the second sentence of that initial tweet for ILB board description.
― jmm, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 14:56 (eight months ago) link
When someone questioned him about what archives he was talking about he was like, you know, all the books in the world
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:01 (eight months ago) link
don't follow this guy but he reminds me of a load of other very clever and generally correct people I used to follow on twitter until I tired of them constantly trying to start fights with absolutely everyone else on the website
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:07 (eight months ago) link
just about every defense of Colin's initial tweet has come from people that attend his school lol
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:13 (eight months ago) link
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:15 (eight months ago) link
not sure he'd agree with this guy
"I always imagined that Paradise would be some kind of library.”
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:23 (eight months ago) link
No, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t.
― Dose of Thunderwords (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:24 (eight months ago) link
He means "you shouldn't demand that anyone else love books," not "you shouldn't demand anyone else to love books"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:26 (eight months ago) link
But I'm just a non-academic who loves pedantic usage distinctions
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:32 (eight months ago) link
I think you just wiped out a small civilization with that correction
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:33 (eight months ago) link
We should be very careful of dark magic on this thread
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 15:34 (eight months ago) link
(he doesn't mean anything)
What, like I’m going to have an untoward reverence for what the text says because I appreciate the book it’s printed in?— Katherine Harris (@mst3kharris) October 3, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:24 (eight months ago) link
Didn't expect a former FL Secretary of State to weigh in on this clusterfuck
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Wednesday, 4 October 2023 18:29 (eight months ago) link
I hadn't seen this before, but NaNoWriMo (or at least the centralised support and forums for it) seems fucked?
Remember how the quirky "write a book in 30 days" #NaNoWriMo program allegedly ignored reports of minors possibly being funneled to a ADBL fetish site from their forum & allegedly didn't investigate even tho it allegedly involved one of their mods?*Pepperidge Farm Remembers*🧵 pic.twitter.com/e3A9K0D36X— Arumi Velociraptor | sudo -426 int (@Arumi_kai) November 7, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:43 (six months ago) link
good luck Agriculture Development Bank of Nepal
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:38 (six months ago) link
so, blake butler’s “molly”
― flopson, Thursday, 7 December 2023 08:32 (six months ago) link
lol i thought about posting about that to this thread yesterday and decided... fuck it I don't care. but yeah, messy
― Roz, Thursday, 7 December 2023 09:18 (six months ago) link
Is that a clusterfuck? Like, is there a story beyond the story in the book?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 7 December 2023 10:16 (six months ago) link
Oh I thought it would be this https://x.com/Natalie_Leif/status/1732542297936732607?s=20
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 December 2023 12:07 (six months ago) link
Bah
HOKAY, for anyone else on Writer Twitter who just woke up to a bunch of weird memes and posts about Goodreads and Reylo and reviews, here's a recap thread, as best I can manage. Buckle up as this is gonna be a long one: 🧵— Leif Leif Leif (@Natalie_Leif) December 6, 2023
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 7 December 2023 12:08 (six months ago) link
what is the substance of the thread?
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 December 2023 13:02 (six months ago) link
Tho re Blake Butler and his new one, he has always been an utter piece of shit, no surprise that he wrote a book that posthumously smears his deceased wife.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 December 2023 13:06 (six months ago) link
re: the guy's memoir about his dead wife, i can see how there's elements of an ethical clusterfuck -- on the one hand, he's got every right to share his experience; on the other, he's profiting off a lurid tragedy; on the other other, he appears to have been victimized by her; on the other other other, she's not around to tell her side of the story; and depending on one's pov you could see the whole thing as either "this dude is opening up about an unimaginable dagwood sandwich of tragedies and that is good" or "this dude is getting back at and making money off of his tortured and much more talented/celebrated dead wife and painting her as a toxic slutbag and himself as the devoted naïf and that's bad", and it could coarsen down to people yelling at each other on twitter (or wherever people yell at each other these days)
but maybe no one gives a darn, which imo might be for the best
maybe i've read too much daphne du maurier but i incline more to the dead wife. there's a bit in one interview where the guy says he once explained what gaslighting was to her, but after she died and he found out about her secret affairs he realized she'd been gaslighting him all along, and that is an awful situation of course, but also (forgive me) somewhat lol
― Mrs. Fifi Greywhiskers, P.S.C. (cat), Thursday, 7 December 2023 13:07 (six months ago) link
dang table, how has this dude's shitness manifested previously? i'd never heard of him before (i have not heard of most things/people)
the excerpts from the book seemed well ropy to me but it feels churlish to point that out
perhaps i am a churl, o no
― Mrs. Fifi Greywhiskers, P.S.C. (cat), Thursday, 7 December 2023 13:14 (six months ago) link
cat, he’s always been an “all-for-myself” egomaniac who has purloined strategies from various sources and utilized them to further his own career while never giving credit. he’s a shit.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:04 (six months ago) link
I read a few reviews of this book before he started getting dragged and they made it sound like a loving portrait full of admiration -- if his goal was to smear her with the book he must have failed
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:15 (six months ago) link
I admit that I also despise the editors behind the book— like am in occasional online snipe-fests with them over what I feel is their mean-spirited and aggressive posturing.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:17 (six months ago) link
xp Ha, I thought that Twitter thread was about Blake Butler and read the whole thing like "WOW it's gonna be a really interesting twist when Blake Butler is revealed to be behind all this"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:21 (six months ago) link
In other news, when I first started seeing reviews of "Molly" I thought Blake Butler was Blake Bailey the Philip Roth biographer, and I was like, wow, they rehabilitated this guy and they're not even gonna mention...?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:22 (six months ago) link
willing to start a literary clusterfuck with anyone remaining on ilx who thinks that posting the first tweet of a thread is acceptable conduct
― imago, Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:36 (six months ago) link
That debut authors clusterfuck is pretty run of the mill: sniping, sock puppets, claims of racism and appropriation, ending up with someone using “albino” as a putdown.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 December 2023 14:49 (six months ago) link