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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · Nov 14

resurrecting my career in Posting as a sort of reverse redemption arc... will i regret this? only time will tell

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Minmax MacAllister @chunkyle.bsky.social · 1d

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

i also don't think you're a dumb person! and i think it's completely reasonable to acknowledge that older books can be tough going. if you love language and want to dig into that type of challenge, great! if you don't, no big deal! no need to fake enthusiasm OR disavow "classics" entirely

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

not always, but often!

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

this explains why good tweets are poetry

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

anyway these literary takes are pretty hinged. my real unhinged literary take is that as many people lie about their reading habits and tastes as they do about their sexual habits and tastes, in part because both reading and sex are attributed a moral dimension by society writ large

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

telling a story is different from describing, with the most special words you can muster, a movie you are watching in your imagination. that difference rests primarily in whether there is enough substance or purpose in the imagined scene to interest other people

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

forever thinking of the elif batuman n+1 essay where she digs into two best american short stories collections and literally has to say, in the essay, that the purpose of the short story form is to tell a short story—"this sounds trivial, but isn’t"

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

american literature has been squirming under the thumb of the CIA-influenced iowa-style workshop for almost 100 years, and between this and the trend towards corporate "professionalization" in all fields, we have developed an intractably antisocial culture of storytelling

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

dreamed about a cat with the face of a barn owl, like the reverse centaur version of ursula k le guin's CATWINGS

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

counterpoint: explain malcolm gladwell.

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 1d

perfect opportunity for the left to swoop in and fill the void with HoliDSAzle

taylr @taylordahlin.com · 1d

can't wait for holidazzle by the uptown association, sponsored by small business the UPS store in uptown

www.startribune.com/downtown-min...

Minneapolis Downtown Council pulls plug on Holidazzle and Aquatennial, seeks new organizer

After years of inconsistent funding, the business group is hoping others will continue or reimagine the city’s signature events as the area keeps working on its post-pandemic rebound.

www.startribune.com

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Boneshaker Books @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social · 1d

We're within $500 of hitting our goal! Who's going to put us over the top?

Help Boneshaker Move to Our New Home!

After fourteen years in our current space, we have made the decision that it’s time for Boneshaker Books to move. While we treasure the time we've spent in Seward, and will miss existing as a communit...

www.zeffy.com

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 2d

"is there some kind of david foster wallace equivalent to bloomsday i don't know about?" -me, an idiot, reading your post

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 3d

maybe it's finally time to rewatch REDS (1981)

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 3d

not diane keaton!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh man

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 4d

not if it's never been published!

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 4d

oh my god

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Ian @mplsnightmayor.bsky.social · 4d

It took me 5000 words, and Grok just... tweeted it out.
racketmn.com/whats-the-de...

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 5d

time for @boneshakerbooks.bsky.social to diversify our inventory?

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 5d

thank you for making this joke so i didn't have to keep workshopping it

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 5d

reject modernity (therapy) embrace tradition (bone rituals)

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 5d

crazy stuff to be coming from the CEO of the world's first international corporation

Lucius Fox In The Box @carnegro.bsky.social · 6d

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows
"exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation,"
with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty."

Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down."

The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote.

Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 5d

maybe they're just decentralizing the bone pile as a means of creating greater autonomy in the ritual

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corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 6d

sat for thirty minutes at a bus stop today (waiting for a bus that's supposed to run every 15 minutes) next to a parked black van that had emblazoned on its hood in bright white all-caps the sentence I CAN DO IT ALL IN THIS LIFETIME. i mean, maybe if the bus ever gets here!!! get lost jenny holzer

corbin dewitt @corbindewitt.bsky.social · 9d

i weep!!!!!!!