It’s about how the pain of losing someone you really love is sometimes so unbearable and humiliating in spite of how mundane it is that you have to manufacture a psycho situation in your life that is so terrible it gives you permission to process your emotions.

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At the end of the day, the tortured poets department tells the story of two deeply incompatible people bonded by the objective truth that no one else will ever understand them quite the way they do. That is the true grief that fuels TTPD.

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James B · Oct 10, 2026 · 9:06 AM UTC

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James B@piercepennilessOct 10

Dipped in here to see reaction to Carson Nobel – a series of very silly rote culture war execrations. X also seems to have invented a new figure, the subliterate literary influencer/grifter. Anyway, this is from Carson's sublime Isaiah sequence. It's great.

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The New Yorker · Oct 8, 2026 · 4:00 PM UTC

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The newly minted Nobel Prize winner Anne Carson shared a book recommendation and some timeless writing advice at the 2024 National Book Awards.

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jeff · Oct 8, 2026 · 3:25 PM UTC

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jeff@jlee4219Oct 8

Congrats to Anne Carson on the Nobel

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todd dillard · Oct 8, 2026 · 3:00 PM UTC

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todd dillard@toddedillardOct 8

did you listen to the wind today? no? then you probably won’t get an award

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Ayesha A. Siddiqi · Sep 28, 2026 · 11:45 PM UTC

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Ayesha A. Siddiqi@AyeshaASiddiqiSep 28

so much grief on behalf of women and girls - the price of being committed to the betterment of our shared condition is a shared grief. may each of us get the justice we deserve

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𝚁𝚎𝚋 · Aug 21, 2026 · 1:40 PM UTC

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Infinite Jest

John Attridge@John_AttridgeAug 20

"it's a page turner" no. A good book should be almost impossible to read. It should require a heroic act of will to turn every page. You're wasting your time

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lake micah · Aug 19, 2026 · 9:12 PM UTC

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lake micah@afrofatalismAug 19

like odysseus, i too am constantly getting myself ensnared in plots and ploys of my own making and working my way out by grit or grift only to arrive at another impasse that tests my mettle and taxes my wits until at last i escape again and lurch home where yet more trials await

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