You did a remarkable thing. You saw an impish kid running away from his dad and understood there was something more at play. Most people wouldn’t have given the situation a second thought… but you did, and you too…
Who said avant-garde is dead? Dennis Cooper’s favorite fiction, poetry, nonfiction, music, film, art, and internet stuff of 2021.
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Sam Kahn: As modern and contemporary art has moved away from shock, a “potentially very different aesthetic” is coming into focus.
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Hillbilly Elegy’s J.D. Vance purports to be a “common good” conservative while cosplaying Donald Trump Jr. online.
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A slow drive (with horrible music) through redwood trees on Howland Hill Road, as found in this list of things to do in Northern California.
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“The idea isn’t to drop out of civilization. It’s about finding a middle ground between a really frantic, wasteful way of living and, you know, Death Valley… As someone who has given my life to this pl…
Uganda reopens schools after the world’s longest pandemic-prompted shutdown—but many students, teachers, and schools won’t return.
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In case you missed last week’s Reddit post from a student in a New York City public school that’s grappling with Omicron:
I tested positive for COVID on December the 14th. At the time there were a total of 6 cases. By the end of break this number was up to 36. By January the 3rd (when we returned from break) the numbers were up to 100 (as listed on the school Google Sheet). Today there are 226. This is around 10% of my school.
Here’s an interview with updates:
In ninth grade, I was on Zoom the entire year. This year, I’d say that other than wearing masks, before this past week, COVID almost felt unnoticeable. Even wearing masks feels normal at this point. You do a health screening every day. When you enter school, you have to show that you haven’t had COVID. But other than that, it felt—nobody ever got COVID. Maybe once a month one student got COVID. But now it’s been a big, big deal.