Tal Lavin
journalist, author, reads too much. haggard and unblest. newsletter:
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- baby's first novel hit 20,000 words today and ive mapped out the rest of the plot. ice sluts of the frozen north is going places (insane and florid places) (many horrible deaths) (our heroes survive and make love on a floe and the tundra)
- in which i answer the question, "what if an account of a disastrous polar expedition was the backdrop for passionate gay love between a truly unlikely pair"
- for more about the "Biblical case for border security" and about the political philosophy motivating religious zealots like Mike Johnson and what makes them see the world this way and seek power in it i spent 3 years writing a book about the movement he's part of bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
- getting stronk
- ps if u want a sense of why people seem so zealously to believe themselves to be pure, just, & right while carrying out acts of unimaginable cruelty, do i have a book for you bookshop.org/p/books/wild...
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- every chapter in this book (Journey to the Arctic by George Tyson) is a banger. aka "its not my fault the captain got poisoned and everyone was adrift on an ice floe for months guys! im just the navigator." --The Voracity of Shrimps.
- every single day as this wolfhound century progresses i think of this poem by osip mandelstam (who did not escape his own wolfhound century). но не волк я по крови своей (the translation is by peter france)
- death by preventable disease is an inevitable and even desired outcome of concentration camps. in every era of concentration camps people have died of typhus, which is a disease of privation and enforced crowding. this illness is intentionally inflicted
- Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...
- isaac chotiner murdered that man in cold blood and hes still walking around not knowing he bears a fatal wound
- can we all agree Q was madly in love with Jean-Luc Picard throughout all of TNG
