jon repetti
@pourfairelevide.bsky.social
writer and critic - book marketer - long suffering Mets fan - “talentless discourse guy” - LARB, Review31, Full-Stop, elsewhere
https://substack.com/@fivegoodhours
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in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
How Brutalism Became Both a Utopian Dream and a Dystopian Meme
Brutalism, an architectural movement associated with state power and science fiction, is perpetually misunderstood – yet it has left an indelible imprint on popular culture.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
in honor of the reopening of the met breuer, sotheby's, its new tenant, let me write the introductory text on brutalism and its many afterlives www.sothebys.com/en/articles/...
hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself
review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
The Foundational Act
Review 31 is an online literary review.
review31.co.uk
September 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
hello Bluesky I wrote an article about the French author, photographer, and conceptual artist Édouard Levé, who wrote a book called “Suicide” and then immediately killed himself
review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
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If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
July 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
If you want to read deeply researched accounts of what happened to novels in the last fifty or so years, may I recommend Novel Competition: American Fiction and the Cultural Economy, 1965–1999 by Evan Brier uipress.uiowa.edu/books/novel-...
I wrote about Mariette Navarro’s “Ultramarine” for Full-Stop, as a story of abstract freedom, nascent class-consciousness, and libidinal bribes. www.full-stop.net/2025/06/20/r...
Ultramarine – Mariette Navarro
The sailor is a figure of subjectivity in and as flux, aspiring to the condition of the ever-changing sea.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
I wrote about Mariette Navarro’s “Ultramarine” for Full-Stop, as a story of abstract freedom, nascent class-consciousness, and libidinal bribes. www.full-stop.net/2025/06/20/r...
you ever meet an “all-male friend group” that is less a group of friends than it is “one guy and his henchmen”?
June 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
you ever meet an “all-male friend group” that is less a group of friends than it is “one guy and his henchmen”?
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"In 'The Möbius Book,' Lacey casts herself as an object of projection and analyzes her shifting responses to the fictions others make for her." Jon Repetti reviews Catherine Lacey’s new novel. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/autofictions-primal-scene/
June 17, 2025 at 12:45 PM
"In 'The Möbius Book,' Lacey casts herself as an object of projection and analyzes her shifting responses to the fictions others make for her." Jon Repetti reviews Catherine Lacey’s new novel. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/autofictions-primal-scene/
I wrote for LARB about how Catherine Lacey’s new book, which is definitely *not* autofiction, can help us understand the logics and fantasies at the root of autofictional writing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/auto...
Autofiction’s Primal Scene | Los Angeles Review of Books
Jon Repetti returns to the scene of writing in Catherine Lacey’s new novel “The Möbius Book.”
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June 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote for LARB about how Catherine Lacey’s new book, which is definitely *not* autofiction, can help us understand the logics and fantasies at the root of autofictional writing. lareviewofbooks.org/article/auto...
I wrote about Aliocha Coll, the two Attila’s, and the paradox of writing “for the future” in the era of too-late capitalism, for Review31 review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
Laocoön’s Gaze: On Aliocha Coll, the Two <I>Attila</i>s, and the Literature of No Future
Review 31 is an online literary review.
http://review31.co.uk/essay/view/130/laocoon’s-gaze-on-aliocha-coll-the-two-attilas-and-the-literature-of-no-future
April 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I wrote about Aliocha Coll, the two Attila’s, and the paradox of writing “for the future” in the era of too-late capitalism, for Review31 review31.co.uk/essay/view/1...
me on Danzy Senna’s latest, the novelist as frustrated professional, and the need for satire that goes beyond mere cynicism open.substack.com/pub/metropol...
"Ten Years of Useless Labor"
On Danzy Senza's 'Colored Television'
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March 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
me on Danzy Senna’s latest, the novelist as frustrated professional, and the need for satire that goes beyond mere cynicism open.substack.com/pub/metropol...
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"It is terrible to have such a living mind. I hate it. I want it killed, because it goes on and on so brightly and so meaningless."
John Repetti's essay on forgotten modernist writer Evelyn Scott is worth your time: fivegoodhours.substack.com/p/finding-ev...
John Repetti's essay on forgotten modernist writer Evelyn Scott is worth your time: fivegoodhours.substack.com/p/finding-ev...
Finding Evelyn Scott
on a great American Modernist currently languishing in critical oblivion
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March 13, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"It is terrible to have such a living mind. I hate it. I want it killed, because it goes on and on so brightly and so meaningless."
John Repetti's essay on forgotten modernist writer Evelyn Scott is worth your time: fivegoodhours.substack.com/p/finding-ev...
John Repetti's essay on forgotten modernist writer Evelyn Scott is worth your time: fivegoodhours.substack.com/p/finding-ev...
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Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
March 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Can’t believe Twitter keeps crashing despite Elon hiring the best 19-year-old interns that racism has to offer
I’ve got a new short fiction up at Maudlin House, about how the act of writing makes us strangers to ourselves
maudlinhouse.net/question-beg...
maudlinhouse.net/question-beg...
Question Begging
On an evening in late spring, she sat down at her desk and wrote, “Never again will he ask me, ‘What do you want?’” She paused, frowned, passed her fingers over the ink as it dried. The syntax sounded...
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March 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I’ve got a new short fiction up at Maudlin House, about how the act of writing makes us strangers to ourselves
maudlinhouse.net/question-beg...
maudlinhouse.net/question-beg...
It’s all bad right now, but it helps me to remember that my mother was born in a remote Croatian village without electricity or modern medicine, and that my father grew up in a series of 2-room tenements. One can make a decent life with indecent materials. We live and die in the middle of things.
February 19, 2025 at 1:37 AM
It’s all bad right now, but it helps me to remember that my mother was born in a remote Croatian village without electricity or modern medicine, and that my father grew up in a series of 2-room tenements. One can make a decent life with indecent materials. We live and die in the middle of things.
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these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math
February 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
these guys spent 60 kajillion dollars to make a computer forget how to do math
Okay, I don’t like the NYer but to be fair they do put out 52 issues a year and almost all of them feature multiple longform, deeply researched essays that involve an travel/expense account and a living wage for writers. Idk how else you plan to pay for that
February 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Okay, I don’t like the NYer but to be fair they do put out 52 issues a year and almost all of them feature multiple longform, deeply researched essays that involve an travel/expense account and a living wage for writers. Idk how else you plan to pay for that
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I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
January 17, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I got to be friends with David Lynch when we were both at Universal years ago. A very kind man, he was a fan of Bob's Big Boy. So was I. I'm going to miss him. R.I.P. David.
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RIP David Lynch. He saw the evil at the heart of the family and the nation. He went deeper and deeper into the dark with each film. The final minutes of The Return are the great statement of our filthy and unredeemed century. “What year is it?”
January 16, 2025 at 6:39 PM
RIP David Lynch. He saw the evil at the heart of the family and the nation. He went deeper and deeper into the dark with each film. The final minutes of The Return are the great statement of our filthy and unredeemed century. “What year is it?”
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getting my substack up and running again (mostly a supplement to @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social projects, some history of philosophy & Schelling on the side)!
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open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
New Blog: Substudies
Materials and Notes on Critical Theory and the History of Philosophy
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January 10, 2025 at 12:13 AM
getting my substack up and running again (mostly a supplement to @crittheoryworkgrp.bsky.social projects, some history of philosophy & Schelling on the side)!
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...
I feel like we might be stretching the meaning of “foreshadow” a bit far here
January 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I feel like we might be stretching the meaning of “foreshadow” a bit far here
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wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
what the fuck are we doing anymore
yes this is about social media
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January 9, 2025 at 11:17 PM
wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...
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they're calling it the most normal essay on siegfried in the world www.late-review.com/p/some-thoug...
some thoughts on siegfried
a very normal essay somewhat about wagner's ring cycle
www.late-review.com
January 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
they're calling it the most normal essay on siegfried in the world www.late-review.com/p/some-thoug...
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we have GOT to stop hypermoralizing every little thing. i’m talking posts that are like “cake isn’t just for when you’re sad” or “taking a nap is morally necessary” or whatever. sometimes you’re just eating dessert or falling asleep on the couch or spending $5 on a latte it’s not that serious!!
January 4, 2025 at 2:39 AM
we have GOT to stop hypermoralizing every little thing. i’m talking posts that are like “cake isn’t just for when you’re sad” or “taking a nap is morally necessary” or whatever. sometimes you’re just eating dessert or falling asleep on the couch or spending $5 on a latte it’s not that serious!!
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What a headline… www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...
Luigi Mangione prosecutors have a jury problem: "So much sympathy"
A former prosecutor has said he has never seen so much sympathy for a person accused of murder.
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December 20, 2024 at 10:22 AM
What a headline… www.newsweek.com/luigi-mangio...