Kenneth Dillon
Writer from New York | The Baffler, The Drift, LARB, Publishers Weekly, and you: kennethaverydillon at gmail dot com
- likely name for a whiskey distiller to have
- Thrilled to be in the 150th issue of @thebeliever.net with a review of Harris Lahti’s debut novel FORECLOSURE GOTHIC (link below)
- Many thanks to Ginger for the opportunity and thoughtful edits!
- My first for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social (!) is a review of this year's Long Play festival, which featured, among many great and bizarre performances, 100 tubas descending on the Fort Greene Park farmers market. (Link below.)
- White smoke! Conclave over! Introducing the new VAN! 💨 Is Europe experiencing "Ring" fatigue? 💨 100 tubas at Long Play Festival 💨 Can a real scene compete with an idealized screen? 💨 Austin Wulliman’s string quartet creations 💨 Dispatch from the Frick reopening van-magazine.com/mag/wagner-r...
- (🤫 don't let the paywall hear us but DM if you need a pdf)
- Yeats, reply guy, defending OP:
- “Against the inclination toward easy explanation, black and white moral judgment, or, worse, the self-indulgent retreat to cynicism…we must embrace the hard work of explaining and interpreting atrocity.” open.substack.com/pub/placehol...
- excited for this one
- Against the advice of my golem I wrote a quick newsletter on the Mamdani campaign
- I love political memorabilia
- Arthur Danto, on the meaning of a book’s title
- despite this very nice letter the municipal guild of butchers was unable to convince Dvořák to put his talents to good use
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- relieved to hear that David Lynch’s last words were “I’ll see you again in 25 years”
