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Fictional Characters, Ranked in Order of How Well They Use Their Stuff

There is joy in efficient resource usage, like how I tie together this monstrously long essay with the thinnest of critical through-lines.

Goals for When I'm Super Rich, Ranked By Artistic Inspiration

There’s more to it than Eyes Wide Shut. Let’s tell ourselves that.

The Following Classic Books Are White Nonsense

Even the ones that are good.

LiteratureWhat to Think About ArtSeptember 15, 2019Scaachi Koul, Goodreads, books, literature, Catcher in the Rye, Dickens, canon, Harold Bloom, Great Expectations, portnoy's complaint Comments

Borges, Stravinsky, and Badness in the Artistic Process

Music school wasn’t about how to make music good. That part was, perhaps wrongly, assumed. No, music school is where you figure out whether music should be good. And that’s where it starts to get bad.

Art Beloved Only By White Men Over 35, Ranked In Order of How Much It Should Be Despised By Right-Thinking Americans

White men, take heed: home-made charcuterie is ok, statutory rape is not. Pretty simple.

Culinary, Comedy, Film and TV, Literature, OtherWhat to Think About ArtJuly 24, 2019white people, charcuterie, woody allen, manhattan, ghostbusters, winston churchill, sailboats, cape cod, art Comment

Vin Diesel, the Holocaust, and the Confusing Moral Perspective of Art From 'Other' Cultures

After he sold Street Sharks, but before he appeared in a poster on my bathroom wall, Vin Diesel made a biopic about a hero mobster who rejects free legal advice from Peter Dinklage.

Literature, Film and TVWhat to Think About ArtJuly 13, 2019vin diesel, holocaust, art, morality, slumdog millionaire, find me guilty, homecoming, the odyssey, the reader, bernhard schlinkeComment

Mid-20th Century Great American Novels About White Men and Their Dicks, Ranked In Order of How Much of an Asshole I Became After Reading Them

White men in the mid-20th century wrote a lot of books about their dicks! That got published and celebrated! Today, those guys write for tv.

LiteratureWhat to Think About ArtJuly 6, 2019literature, vonnegut, heller, roth, portnoy's complaint, cheever, novels, dicks, penises, sex, asshole, mom Comment

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