jenkin benson
@jenkinwithouts
eng lit phd student - lofi musician - desultory poet, and person
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Going to be the first postmodern memoir. Non-chronological narrative, leaping back and forth through time to suggest experience as a single entity, not a timeline. One chapter devolves into recaping an episode of Gilligan’s Island and it’s actually a metaphor for Afghanistan
🚨 NEW: President @JoeBiden has reportedly sold his presidential memoir to Hachette for a $10 million advance, per Wall Street Journal. Not bad for a guy they said was “finished.” Congrats, 46.
this is how this guy's book starts
Whenever someone glazes Hideo Kojima, remember he once made a boss character that’s a lardass in a bomb disposal suit riding around on rollerblades and sipping wine from a wine glass with a straw. His name? Fat Man. “Genius”
“Unlike breakfast, lunch offers variety, but, in contrast to dinner, it tolerates repetition. I can measure my life in lunches.” From power lunches to liquid lunches, Lauren Collins argues for the underappreciated charms of the midday meal. nyer.cm/Xulox7Z
“Unlike breakfast, lunch offers variety, but, in contrast to dinner, it tolerates repetition. I can measure my life in lunches.” From power lunches to liquid lunches, Lauren Collins argues for the underappreciated charms of the midday meal. nyer.cm/Xulox7Z
Now on our website, new poetry from Alex Tretbar (@alex_tretbar). Read more of “Three ‘Fields’” here: chicagoreview.org/three-fields/
if you use this you should be mandated to restart your program. even if you've been a prof for like 30 years. back to coursework.
really fantastic stuff - defs give it a read
Check out our latest poem: “Pearled Daydreams Of What Happens After Violence Has No Impact” by Francis Keaton cultmag.net/blog-1/pearled…
The Ladybugs” by Hannah Burns published today. A brief, associative story detailing both the haziness and sharpness of memory and how those two manifestations interact with one another both to protect and harm you. Full story on the site now. cultmag.net/blog-1/thelady…
I guess it turns out all those Zoomers shaming people using AI because of its water usage and ecosystem damage were pretty much on the money!
New Work from PJ Lombardo from his upcoming collection, The Blue Cherub: highhorse.blog/2025/07/13/fou…
Boycott, by Spencer Storey Johnson published today. This story sketches out a world and psyche over saturated with content and an unrelenting need to be occupied by a voice other than your own in vivid fashion. Up on the site now. cultmag.net/blog-1/boycott…
Back at the ICE booth, a lone protester was at last present, asking a simple question. At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked the agent, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
Back at the ICE booth, a lone protester was at last present, asking a simple question. At the deportation officer recruiting table, he asked the agent, “Have you read Eichmann in Jerusalem?” nplusonemag.com/online-only/on…
lit academics have to stop calling their scholarship lit crit. lit crit is when you synopsize an indie novel and there's no peer review.
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I love the part in intro econ textbooks where they are like… what WE do is describe how the world really is rather than prescribing how it should be, and also our theories about how the world works don’t need to be demonstrated empirically 😌😌😌
It is remarkable how utterly we economists have failed to convince others that rent control is a bad policy. Our rhetoric has traditionally relied heavily on the logic of theory. I think we need to rely more on evidence.
Taika Waititi’s live action #Akira film is no longer happening Warner Bros has lost the rights (via @THR)
Taika Waititi’s live action #Akira film is no longer happening Warner Bros has lost the rights (via @THR)