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Carina del Valle Schorske
@fluentmundo.bsky.social
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writer + translator + phd 🇵🇷 / contributor @ nyt mag

updates: https://tinyletter.com/carinadelvalleschorske

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artisforliving.bsky.social
I have watery eyes after reading the piece on Eddie Palmieri by @fluentmundo.bsky.social in the New Yorker.

This was done with such love, care and meticulous research. The writing is tremendous.

#music #musicsky #writing #writingcommunity #salsa #latin #jazz #piano #nyc #eddiepalmieri #nuyorican
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
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thetrudz.photo
Eddie Palmieri’s cultural history; so interesting.👁️
Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “When Eddie was around five years old, the family moved to the South Bronx. The neighborhood was mostly German, Irish, and Jewish, and new housing projects were beginning to attract rural migrants from the Caribbean and the American South. Isabel thought piano lessons might help keep the boys off the streets. They went to study with Margaret Bonds, a Black American classical concert musician with a studio on the top floor of Carnegie Hall. But their training wasn’t only academic: Isabel’s brother had a band called El Chino y Su Alma Tropical, and sometimes the family would go down to Harlem to record 78s.” Article (Carina del Valle Schorske; The New Yorker) excerpt reads: “Palmieri knows how precarious life can be for many musicians: his brother Charlie died of a heart attack at sixty, and Barry Rogers died of complications from arrhythmia at fifty-five. Palmieri attributes his own longevity to ‘watercress, parsley, figs.’ But the body can’t survive without the spirit, and ‘for that,’ he told me, ‘there’s voodoo.’ He was never formally initiated into any Afro-Caribbean religions, but they suffuse his music: ceremonial drum calls, protective spells, snatches of Yoruba. He feels a particular bond with the orisha Osaín, the fugitive god of the wilderness, whose shrivelled left ear is keen enough to hear the sound of a single flower crying.”
August 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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dcsuburbanite.bsky.social
If you have never read this profile of Eddie Palmieri you should. RIP Eddie Palmieri & thank you @fluentmundo.bsky.social for telling his story in the New Yorker
August 7, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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dadastrain.bsky.social
Great Eddie Palmieri x NYC Read 2 | Last May, Carina del Valle Schorske @fluentmundo.bsky.social spent a week watching/listening to Palmieri at his annual Blue Note residency, profiling him from the vantage point of what would be his last year on Earth. As usual, her memoir-ish bits bring it home.
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
www.newyorker.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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lilliamr.bsky.social
God, I love this profile of the Puerto Rican legend Eddie Palmieri, beautifully crafted by @fluentmundo.bsky.social

I’ve seen Eddie perform at least four times. Lucky.

www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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bluegallo.bsky.social
Loving this vibrant tribute to the great Eddie Palmieri written by @fluentmundo.bsky.social
www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
www.newyorker.com
November 17, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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joelcalahan.com
So proud of dear friends creating incredible work. My former student @fluentmundo.bsky.social has a great piece on salsa musician Eddie Palmieri out in the New Yorker this week

www.newyorker.com/culture/pers...
Eddie Palmieri Says Don’t Call It a Comeback
The eighty-seven-year-old pianist, bandleader, and Jazz Master is a living link between mambo and salsa—and he’s never been busier.
www.newyorker.com
November 19, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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rmbodenheimer.bsky.social
It's been a minute but I finally have a new ep out, a deep dive into Bad Bunny's exquisite DTMF!

If you love it as much as I do you won't wanna miss my guests discussing it: Boricua percussionist/educator Hector Lugo & Bad Bunny scholar @fluentmundo.bsky.social

www.buzzsprout.com/2158804/epis...
February 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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fucktheory.bsky.social
Almost a year ago I pitched NYRB an essay on Sinead O’Connor.

Last week, while we were editing, Sinead left this life.

With a heavy heart I present to you a labor of love.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2023/08/05/incomparable-sinead-oconnor/
Incomparable | FT
Nothing Compares, the documentary about Sinéad O’Connor directed by Kathryn Ferguson and released last year, opens with her 1992 appearance at a tribute
www.nybooks.com
August 5, 2023 at 1:19 PM
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phillewis.bsky.social
Free prison calls in California are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation. Advocates hope the calls will reduce recidivism

“Incarcerated people who are connected to their families and support systems are more likely to come home and stay home”
California’s free prison calls are repairing estranged relationships and aiding rehabilitation
California is the second state to mandate free calls in state prisons. The move is restoring frayed family relationships and may reduce recidivism rates.
www.latimes.com
August 5, 2023 at 10:13 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
Me @ the Freud Museum in 2005… she started young 😇
August 5, 2023 at 7:42 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
Montana Ray took some portraits with REAL FILM, shadow & shine 👥✨
August 4, 2023 at 4:57 PM
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thepointmag.bsky.social
On the new episode of Selected Essays, @fluentmundo.bsky.social talks to Jess Swoboda and Zach Fine about “Times Square Blue,” Samuel Delany’s classic account of the bygone porn theater scene at the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue:
Selected Essays | Carina del Valle Schorske on Samuel Delany - The Point Podcast
On this episode of “Selected Essays,” Carina del Valle Schorske joins us to discuss Samuel Delany's 1996 essay “Times Square Blue” and her 2019 essay “The Ladder Up: A Restless History of Wa...
thepointmag.buzzsprout.com
August 2, 2023 at 7:48 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
But how do you approach a draft that is, in fact, a grown dog…
maudnewton.bsky.social Maud Newton @maudnewton.bsky.social · Aug 1
A friend recently reminded me not to approach my draft like a grown dog when it is a baby puppy, and I share this for anyone who needs it today.
August 2, 2023 at 3:11 AM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
re barbie, agreed
angelicabastien.bsky.social Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · Aug 2
yeah i haven’t seen one essay of rich critical thinking and beautiful prose on this movie from anyone. i’m disappointed. there’s a lot to question and consider. and yet…
August 2, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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banditelli.org
It's weird how being indicted as a former president carries no real penalty, union busting carries no real penalty, but steal some food so you can eat and you'll be thrown in prison.
August 1, 2023 at 10:15 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
What do y’all think about indices, end notes, and other paratext in trade books (as opposed to scholarship)?
August 1, 2023 at 8:57 PM
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tomscocca.bsky.social
A guy got stabbed to death in Brooklyn over the weekend for voguing at a gas station but go off
August 1, 2023 at 5:09 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
THIS IS NOT A SERIOUS WORLD, said Alice Notley:
July 26, 2023 at 6:23 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
This book continuesssss to fuck me up
hanvanderhart.bsky.social Han VanderHart @hanvanderhart.bsky.social · Jul 24
i don’t believe poetry or writing or love want death from me.

Simone White
i want to talk about abandonment. i don't believe poetry or writing or love want death from me. rather- my son began using this word rather in the last two weeks, so i am sensitized to beauty in iterations of being in stead--rather, i am cheered by the absolute indifference of the universe to my desire. A long time ago i gave over to godlessness; that is, there is no god but there is something like division or departure or rapture that neither begins nor ends each time i am abandoned to an irruption of understanding. Simone White’s poetry collection from Duke University Press: or, on being the other woman
July 25, 2023 at 2:25 AM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
Little bluesky shadow play 🍃
July 24, 2023 at 8:35 PM
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robdelaney.bsky.social
Threads is the worst. Massively psychologically damaging to scroll thru feed of factory-installed celebs who suck & brands. Better to be hatecrimed on Twitter or vibe-policed by some weird teenager named BipsyWolf on here. I wish it ill.
July 8, 2023 at 12:50 PM
fluentmundo.bsky.social
my superego:
snarlsdegaulle.bsky.social snarls @snarlsdegaulle.bsky.social · Jul 3
almost shared something deeply personal on here and no. just because i have 15 followers rn doesn’t mean we’re not setting boundaries
July 8, 2023 at 11:43 PM