Weston Clayton
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On her death bed, Flannery O’Connor wrote letters to a close friend of hers, signing them as “Mrs. Turpin,” the prideful, racist, middle-aged white lady protagonist of O’Connors’ final short story.
“Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor: andrewmbailey.com/oconnor_reve...
“Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor: andrewmbailey.com/oconnor_reve...
October 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On her death bed, Flannery O’Connor wrote letters to a close friend of hers, signing them as “Mrs. Turpin,” the prideful, racist, middle-aged white lady protagonist of O’Connors’ final short story.
“Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor: andrewmbailey.com/oconnor_reve...
“Revelation” by Flannery O’Connor: andrewmbailey.com/oconnor_reve...
“Roy Spivey” by Miranda July. Probably the funniest short story I’ve ever read. Her brain should be studied (complimentary, but also concerned).
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
“Roy Spivey”
From 2007: “It was startling to see such a famous face look so vulnerable and empty.”
www.newyorker.com
October 17, 2025 at 1:56 AM
“Roy Spivey” by Miranda July. Probably the funniest short story I’ve ever read. Her brain should be studied (complimentary, but also concerned).
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/200...
Say what you will about historical writing pre-20th century, but some of it bares emotions in a way more truthful than a modern text. From Horatio Cushman’s History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians detailing the Trail of Tears:
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Say what you will about historical writing pre-20th century, but some of it bares emotions in a way more truthful than a modern text. From Horatio Cushman’s History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians detailing the Trail of Tears:
Dorothy Parker’s “Just a Little One” is equal parts hilarious and haunting. One of the best short stories I’ve read.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...
“Just a Little One,” by Dorothy Parker
A comic, catty, boozy monologue in a speakeasy, from 1928: “If you would ask the waiter to bring a fairly sharp knife, I could cut off a nice little block of the atmosphere, to take home with me.”
www.newyorker.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Dorothy Parker’s “Just a Little One” is equal parts hilarious and haunting. One of the best short stories I’ve read.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/192...
Just finished Moby Dick and now feel compelled to bring it up in every conversation…sorry
May 30, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Just finished Moby Dick and now feel compelled to bring it up in every conversation…sorry
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Herman Melville when he gets to describe whale anatomy.
April 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Herman Melville when he gets to describe whale anatomy.
Fires by Rick Bass. A sweet, down-to-earth story about the renewal of someone’s outlook on romantic relationships through one which doesn’t last. A delight to read.
bigskyjournal.com/fires1/
bigskyjournal.com/fires1/
Fiction: Fires by Rick Bass - Big Sky Journal
A Montana moment captured from "In the Loyal Mountains," a collection of fiction
bigskyjournal.com
April 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Fires by Rick Bass. A sweet, down-to-earth story about the renewal of someone’s outlook on romantic relationships through one which doesn’t last. A delight to read.
bigskyjournal.com/fires1/
bigskyjournal.com/fires1/
“The Distance of the Moon” by Italo Calvino is great if you want a horny creation myth about sailors harvesting moon milk.
irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvin...
irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvin...
irenebrination.typepad.com
April 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“The Distance of the Moon” by Italo Calvino is great if you want a horny creation myth about sailors harvesting moon milk.
irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvin...
irenebrination.typepad.com/files/calvin...
It’s hard to get a sense of the size of the crowd from these pictures, nonetheless, the Hands Off protest in Greensboro was much larger than I thought it’d be.
April 5, 2025 at 10:57 PM
It’s hard to get a sense of the size of the crowd from these pictures, nonetheless, the Hands Off protest in Greensboro was much larger than I thought it’d be.
Victory Lap by George Saunders. Its disorienting syntax, amorphous tone and disturbing subject matter makes it stand out from other short stories I’ve read.
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ellia.org
March 25, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Victory Lap by George Saunders. Its disorienting syntax, amorphous tone and disturbing subject matter makes it stand out from other short stories I’ve read.
ellia.org/wp-content/u...
ellia.org/wp-content/u...
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Got to see Andrew Wyeth exhibit today. While his control and technique with watercolor and tempura is insane, I think his portraiture ability is underrated.
March 22, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Got to see Andrew Wyeth exhibit today. While his control and technique with watercolor and tempura is insane, I think his portraiture ability is underrated.
Highly recommend going to the Wyeth exhibit at Reynolda House. Many pieces have stuck in my brain and the whole experience genuinely moved me. The four below are really elevated by their context within the exhibit.
March 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Highly recommend going to the Wyeth exhibit at Reynolda House. Many pieces have stuck in my brain and the whole experience genuinely moved me. The four below are really elevated by their context within the exhibit.
Patricia Highsmith’s “Where The Door Is Always Open And The Welcome Mat Is Out” made me really stressed out and anxious. Good 👍
March 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Patricia Highsmith’s “Where The Door Is Always Open And The Welcome Mat Is Out” made me really stressed out and anxious. Good 👍
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A theater screened the Oscar-winning documentary NO OTHER LAND, so...the Miami Beach mayor is ending the theater's lease.
Free speech warriors, where you at? Bari Weiss and the Free Press? Anyone?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Free speech warriors, where you at? Bari Weiss and the Free Press? Anyone?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Miami Beach mayor moves to end O Cinema lease after screening of Israeli-Palestinian film
Meiner is introducing city legislation that seeks to terminate the lease agreement with the cinema, which rents space from the city.
www.miamiherald.com
March 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
A theater screened the Oscar-winning documentary NO OTHER LAND, so...the Miami Beach mayor is ending the theater's lease.
Free speech warriors, where you at? Bari Weiss and the Free Press? Anyone?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
Free speech warriors, where you at? Bari Weiss and the Free Press? Anyone?
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...
“For a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
a close up of a pair of sunglasses on a yellow object .
ALT: a close up of a pair of sunglasses on a yellow object .
media.tenor.com
March 6, 2025 at 10:53 PM
“For a whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.”
This chapter in Adorno and Horkheimer’s The Culture Industry articulates feelings I’ve had way better than I ever could, and makes me think about things I’ve never considered. It’s pretty much all you could ask for in a political theory piece. sites.evergreen.edu/arunchandra/...
sites.evergreen.edu
March 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
This chapter in Adorno and Horkheimer’s The Culture Industry articulates feelings I’ve had way better than I ever could, and makes me think about things I’ve never considered. It’s pretty much all you could ask for in a political theory piece. sites.evergreen.edu/arunchandra/...
Making Moby Dick memes that only I think are funny
March 1, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Making Moby Dick memes that only I think are funny
Nah why does he look like that
February 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Nah why does he look like that
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here's the Bunny With Tinnitus (graphite on vellum 2x3
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inches)
February 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
here's the Bunny With Tinnitus (graphite on vellum 2x3
inches)
inches)
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Now playing at A/perture cinemas in Winston-Salem
Wanna learn about this one? Check out EoM Contributor @andrewjeisenman.bsky.social’s fantastic and comprehensive review.
elementsofmadness.com/2025/02/05/n...
elementsofmadness.com/2025/02/05/n...
February 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Now playing at A/perture cinemas in Winston-Salem
Just finished the Hellbound Heart and the scariest aspect is how Frank’s “torture,” while terrifying to comprehend, is only the dream he has before the real torture begins. And even then, it is the cenobites trying to give him a pleasurable experience.
February 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Just finished the Hellbound Heart and the scariest aspect is how Frank’s “torture,” while terrifying to comprehend, is only the dream he has before the real torture begins. And even then, it is the cenobites trying to give him a pleasurable experience.