Brandon Taylor
Person on 4 sites
American novelist and critic, author of Real Life, The Late Americans and Minor Black Figures; writes the newsletter sweater weather on literature and culture.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
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1 channel on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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18 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A person can do something that frightens them without first overcoming their fear. (opens korrents.com)
“You don't have to overcome your fear in order to do things that are hard or which frighten you. You can do them scared.”
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The story we tell about a life is not the life itself; life exists only in the present moment. (opens korrents.com)
“The story of a life is not the life itself. Life is in the moment.”
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What makes fiction feel like fiction is a degree of contrivance and structure, not raw imitation of life's randomness. (opens korrents.com)
“I would argue that what makes fiction feel like fiction is a certain degree of contrivance.”
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A person can do something that frightens them without first overcoming their fear. (opens korrents.com)
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10 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Muji pens (opens rcmnd.app)
“It was around this time, in the summer of 2021, that I discovered the Muji pens. I discovered them as every minimalism fetishist discovers them perhaps.”
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Papermate InkJoy (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.”
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Tül pens (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite pens at the time were the Papermate InkJoy and the Tül pens I had stolen from lab before departing for my MFA in Iowa City.”
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Muji pens (opens rcmnd.app)