Matthew Keating
@matthewkeating.bsky.social
Writer, reader at The Paris Review, sometimes pianist
Had the unbelievable privilege of hearing Seong-Jin Cho perform the complete solo piano works of Ravel on Wednesday night. Cho is one of the best Ravel interpreters alive, I think; so sensitive and coloristic. His soft playing is utterly transcendent
February 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Had the unbelievable privilege of hearing Seong-Jin Cho perform the complete solo piano works of Ravel on Wednesday night. Cho is one of the best Ravel interpreters alive, I think; so sensitive and coloristic. His soft playing is utterly transcendent
TRUMP: And we’re actually planning, if you can believe this, we’ve actually been working with Elon, and we’re going to cognize, they tell me that’s the word, we’re going go cognize noumena,
January 30, 2025 at 3:39 AM
TRUMP: And we’re actually planning, if you can believe this, we’ve actually been working with Elon, and we’re going to cognize, they tell me that’s the word, we’re going go cognize noumena,
Shout out to the 20+ minute first movement of a romantic piano concerto…gotta be one of my favorite genders
December 22, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Shout out to the 20+ minute first movement of a romantic piano concerto…gotta be one of my favorite genders
Issue 250 of The Paris Review drops today 🖤 💙 Feat. interviews with Frederic Jameson, Hanif Kureishi & Gerald Murnane and a really lovely portfolio by Ann Craven www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/...
December 10, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Issue 250 of The Paris Review drops today 🖤 💙 Feat. interviews with Frederic Jameson, Hanif Kureishi & Gerald Murnane and a really lovely portfolio by Ann Craven www.theparisreview.org/back-issues/...
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the fact they think this will be enough is hilarious…. have they seen the cost of living in america
December 7, 2024 at 10:12 PM
the fact they think this will be enough is hilarious…. have they seen the cost of living in america
STUPID soap companies FOOLISHLY produce Rupi Kaur tie-in handsoap when they SHOULD be making Ben Lerner tie-in handsoap
December 7, 2024 at 4:19 AM
STUPID soap companies FOOLISHLY produce Rupi Kaur tie-in handsoap when they SHOULD be making Ben Lerner tie-in handsoap
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Someone should make an immersive video game/sim where you play as Joan Didion and try to manage a beautiful writing career in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The title, which is also its marketing gimmick, could be JRPG, short for Joan (Didion) Role Playing Game, instead of Japanese Role Playing Game.
December 5, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Someone should make an immersive video game/sim where you play as Joan Didion and try to manage a beautiful writing career in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. The title, which is also its marketing gimmick, could be JRPG, short for Joan (Didion) Role Playing Game, instead of Japanese Role Playing Game.
A very short chapter I just fell in love with in Marías’s “Dark Back of Time.” (The “it” referred to in the opening sentence is being remembered as a “nice young man.”)
December 5, 2024 at 5:46 PM
A very short chapter I just fell in love with in Marías’s “Dark Back of Time.” (The “it” referred to in the opening sentence is being remembered as a “nice young man.”)
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The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
NEW: Human rights organization Amnesty International has released a 296-page report concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
The group joins Holocaust historians, United Nations experts, and a growing number of nations worldwide in doing so.
BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
zeteo.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:48 AM
The New York Times had entire homepages full of stories on campus antisemitism hearings.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
It has not yet written about the biggest human rights organization in the world saying that Israel is committing genocide.
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Pre-orders opened today for my forthcoming book! It's got
✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones
✅ Epistolary prose poems
✅ Image-text collages
✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/yes-...
✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones
✅ Epistolary prose poems
✅ Image-text collages
✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/yes-...
YES I AM HUMAN I KNOW YOU WERE WONDERING - Erin Dorney — Autofocus Books
ABOUT THE BOOK Like millions of others, Erin Dorney discovered Adriene Mishler's "Yoga with Adriene" YouTube videos in 2020, while isolating at home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Yes I Am Human ...
autofocusbooks.com
December 5, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Pre-orders opened today for my forthcoming book! It's got
✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones
✅ Epistolary prose poems
✅ Image-text collages
✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/yes-...
✅ Yoga with Adriene/influencer undertones
✅ Epistolary prose poems
✅ Image-text collages
✅ Nature & early pandemic isolation
autofocusbooks.com/store/p/yes-...
Once again my wrapped is completely torched by having an album I played on repeat while writing for ~2 months
December 4, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Once again my wrapped is completely torched by having an album I played on repeat while writing for ~2 months
hey all, any recommendations for introductory stuff on Deleuze? I’m reading Todd May’s intro to Deleuze right now and finding it difficult because it feels vague. Maybe I just need to dive into his work or closely study the SEP article??
December 3, 2024 at 4:33 PM
hey all, any recommendations for introductory stuff on Deleuze? I’m reading Todd May’s intro to Deleuze right now and finding it difficult because it feels vague. Maybe I just need to dive into his work or closely study the SEP article??
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ME: How are you?
GUY WHO JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORD ROBUST: Robust.
GUY WHO JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORD ROBUST: Robust.
November 29, 2024 at 10:45 PM
ME: How are you?
GUY WHO JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORD ROBUST: Robust.
GUY WHO JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THE WORD ROBUST: Robust.
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just checked out BarfGalaxy, the website for pissed off annoying losers. i didn’t really like it
November 25, 2024 at 2:31 PM
just checked out BarfGalaxy, the website for pissed off annoying losers. i didn’t really like it
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Feels like no one decrees a stately pleasure-dome anymore these days
November 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM
Feels like no one decrees a stately pleasure-dome anymore these days
I feel bad for not liking The Waves as a novel. Its language is often beautiful enough that I write down phrases to save them but I am just not enjoying it as a novel…it’s possible I’m a monster idk
November 23, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I feel bad for not liking The Waves as a novel. Its language is often beautiful enough that I write down phrases to save them but I am just not enjoying it as a novel…it’s possible I’m a monster idk
how to boil watched pot
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November 16, 2024 at 9:49 PM
how to boil watched pot
watched pot not boiling
when will watched pot boil
is it normal for watched pot to not boil
watched pot not boiling
when will watched pot boil
is it normal for watched pot to not boil
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the best part about bluesky is that, unlike twitter, it isn’t putting annoying bull shit designed to piss me off in front of me every 3 minutes
November 15, 2024 at 11:19 PM
the best part about bluesky is that, unlike twitter, it isn’t putting annoying bull shit designed to piss me off in front of me every 3 minutes
Enjoying my mistrustful transitionary period with this website, where I get to like everyone’s post on two separate platforms
November 16, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Enjoying my mistrustful transitionary period with this website, where I get to like everyone’s post on two separate platforms
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The goal is to make bluesky as bad as 2021 twitter but not 2023 twitter
November 16, 2024 at 3:24 AM
The goal is to make bluesky as bad as 2021 twitter but not 2023 twitter
I keep twitter on dark mode and bluesky on light mode for the easy unconscious moral prompting that twitter is something to be glimpsed at furtively in shame whereas bluesky is a bright and open exchange of ideas etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I keep twitter on dark mode and bluesky on light mode for the easy unconscious moral prompting that twitter is something to be glimpsed at furtively in shame whereas bluesky is a bright and open exchange of ideas etc
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i swear to god circles are some of the roundest shit i've ever seen in my life
November 15, 2024 at 4:17 PM
i swear to god circles are some of the roundest shit i've ever seen in my life
Sebald’s photographs!
December 7, 2023 at 9:28 PM
Sebald’s photographs!
Ben Lerner is exciting and inspiring to me in a way so few other writers are; I think he’s a genius. This latest piece is another bit of brilliance:
The Hofmann Wobble, by Ben Lerner
Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory
harpers.org
November 22, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Ben Lerner is exciting and inspiring to me in a way so few other writers are; I think he’s a genius. This latest piece is another bit of brilliance: