ClosDeVal
@valeriestivers.bsky.social
Contributing writer @unherd. Food column @OSV Author of The Writer’s Table, forthcoming from @thequartogroup
Why are the eco people demanding their cheap Chinese stuff? Was “shop local” always bullshit for the haute bourgeoisie? @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/05/trum...
Trump's war on cheap plastic junk
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May 25, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Why are the eco people demanding their cheap Chinese stuff? Was “shop local” always bullshit for the haute bourgeoisie? @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/05/trum...
Wooden toys won’t save us but impurity might. My thoughts on Mother Media by #hannahzeavin. Today for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/05/rage...
Rage against the mom machine
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May 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wooden toys won’t save us but impurity might. My thoughts on Mother Media by #hannahzeavin. Today for @unherd.com unherd.com/2025/05/rage...
Amanda Knox is innocent, but she does seem eerily like the manic-pixie-dreamgirl most likely to secretly be a serial killer. Today for @unherd.bsky.social @sohrabahmari.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/03/aman...
The creepiness of Amanda Knox
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March 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Amanda Knox is innocent, but she does seem eerily like the manic-pixie-dreamgirl most likely to secretly be a serial killer. Today for @unherd.bsky.social @sohrabahmari.bsky.social unherd.com/2025/03/aman...
Reposted by ClosDeVal
As promised — smart smart reviewer @valeriestivers.bsky.social and addl shout out to world’s greatest asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social for her astute work on this
I adore this reviewer’s writing (and I’ll repost this notice of it if I can find Valerie Stivers on bsky…)
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
"Kornberg writes in aphorisms; each sentence is like a bullet, targeting her characters and their milieu."
Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Valerie Stivers reviews Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized.
➡️ https://buff.ly/433peop
Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Valerie Stivers reviews Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized.
➡️ https://buff.ly/433peop
February 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As promised — smart smart reviewer @valeriestivers.bsky.social and addl shout out to world’s greatest asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social for her astute work on this
Reposted by ClosDeVal
I adore this reviewer’s writing (and I’ll repost this notice of it if I can find Valerie Stivers on bsky…)
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
"Kornberg writes in aphorisms; each sentence is like a bullet, targeting her characters and their milieu."
Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Valerie Stivers reviews Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized.
➡️ https://buff.ly/433peop
Rich Kids Want to Die Too: Valerie Stivers reviews Julia Kornberg’s Berlin Atomized.
➡️ https://buff.ly/433peop
February 25, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I adore this reviewer’s writing (and I’ll repost this notice of it if I can find Valerie Stivers on bsky…)
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
Such a smart take on one of the smartest current books— hope some of the #authors #writers #readers here check it out @therumpus.net and then check out #BerlinAtomized
unherd.com/2025/02/how-.... Today by me on @unherd.bsky.social
How porn swallowed everything
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February 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Hello is the sky blue? Up today #mishima www.compactmag.com/article/from...
From Mishima to Mangione
The Japanese writer Yukio Mishima, who lived from 1925 to 1970, styled himself as an “aesthetic terrorist,” and carried out one actual act of terror in 1970, leading a far-right coup against the Japan...
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February 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Hello is the sky blue? Up today #mishima www.compactmag.com/article/from...
I have no idea what to do on here.
February 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I have no idea what to do on here.
Today on @unherd.bsky.social a story by a teen TikTok girl on how the app’s enemies are missing the point. Also girl happens to be my daughter. unherd.com/2025/02/tikt...
TikTok girls like me are just fine
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February 5, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today on @unherd.bsky.social a story by a teen TikTok girl on how the app’s enemies are missing the point. Also girl happens to be my daughter. unherd.com/2025/02/tikt...
I edited my router’s DNS settings this morning to porn-block my home for my kids, and it blocked the @therumpus.net . What did the Rumpus do?!&
February 4, 2025 at 1:52 AM
I edited my router’s DNS settings this morning to porn-block my home for my kids, and it blocked the @therumpus.net . What did the Rumpus do?!&