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Edwidge Danticat story: “Shame is heavier than a hundred bags of salt.”
Alexander Chee • The Best American Essays 2022
I see this girl, Vanden, for a while, who paints my futon frame black and who stopped seeing me because she said she saw “a spider the size of Norman Mailer” in my bathroom. I didn’t ask her who Norman Mailer was, and I didn’t ask her to come back.
Bret Easton Ellis • The Rules of Attraction
In Filterworld, it becomes increasingly difficult to trust yourself or know who “you” are in the perceptions of…
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
There were many ways to be alienated from someone, few to actually belong.
Brit Bennett • The Vanishing Half: A Novel
The problem remains: we are still producing an unbearable volume of information; we still need some way to sort through it. The regime of the hipster was an inefficient way of sorting it; it died. The regime of the nerd was an overefficient way of sorting it; it is dying. The last remaining option is mal d’archive , the Kang solution: you ease the ... See more
Sam Kriss • All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
But such interconnection has also led to a more mundane and pervasive flattening of individual experiences.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
