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jon repetti
@pourfairelevide.bsky.social
writer and critic - book marketer - long suffering Mets fan - “talentless discourse guy” - LARB, Review31, Full-Stop, elsewhere

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I feel like we might be stretching the meaning of “foreshadow” a bit far here
January 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
This guy on Chopped looks like if all the Impractical Jokers had the same dad
December 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
“What’s the family situation?” We all know that the assassination of a health insurance CEO was a political act. No one can deny that after seeing the writing on the bullets. But acts such as this must always be privatized and pathologized, their political character defused.
December 6, 2024 at 4:14 PM
late to this one, but not too late. a deeply Evil book in the best way
December 2, 2024 at 12:13 AM
penguin classics did not need to do all this for their Jude cover, but I’m glad they did. Every Victorian novel should have a cover so sexy I’m self-conscious to read it on the train
November 17, 2024 at 3:42 PM
there’s a new Sharon Cameron book coming in January and I’m going to read all her monographs (from “Lyric Time” to “The Bond of the Furthest Apart”) in preparation, if anyone wants to join
November 16, 2024 at 2:05 AM
why is this handwashing poster so sensual
November 15, 2024 at 8:42 PM
There are a lot of things wrong with Jesuit education, but goddammit if I wasn’t tested on the 4 Aristotelian causes by October of my freshman year. Education without philosophy is no education at all.
November 14, 2024 at 9:38 PM
this is the coolest anyone has ever looked, I think
November 13, 2024 at 11:48 PM
I would just like to point out that this particular kind of grief is famously not “unspoken”
November 12, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Arrived today. This one will fix me
November 11, 2024 at 11:47 PM
Creeley: “The story has no time finally… The old assumptions of beginning and end—those very neat assertions—have fallen away completely in a place where the only actuality is life, the only end (never realized) death, and the only value, what love one can manage.”
September 24, 2023 at 6:18 PM