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The Other Side of Being Kind - Reluctant Habits
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Being kind requires a bold willingness to perceive the most invisible and vulnerable souls as human beings. But our ability to connect with others and grasp grim realities has been compromised by the pandemic and the performative and self-serving vagaries of social media.
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The One Way to Hurt the MAGA Cult: Cut the Bastards Off - Reluctant Habits
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There is one guaranteed way to inflict a lot of damage to the MAGA Cult right now and it involves cutting the bastards off. Start doing it today. They don't deserve to break bread with you during the holidays.
on Nov 9
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Journal: Early Signs of Fascism in America - Reluctant Habits
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It has been two days since the election results and the early signs of conformity can be seen from every vantage point.
on Nov 8
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Journal: A Nation Without Accountability - Reluctant Habits
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In this journal entry, I contemplate a future nation without accountability and how this will radically alter everything we have known American life to be.
on Nov 8
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America is Dead, But We Are Not - Reluctant Habits
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The United States of America, as we have known it, is now dead. Here is what we must do to survive.
on Nov 6
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Garth Greenwell’s Small Brain - Reluctant Habits
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Garth Greenwell's third novel is easily among the worst books of 2024. It is badly written, indulgent, and has nothing meaningful to say about the human condition. This longass essay is an attempt to reckon with the woefully mediocre novelist who continues to be falsely praised.
on Sep 22
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Thou Art Mortal - Reluctant Habits
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Some considerations of aging, mortality, and grief.
on Aug 31
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The Fleeting Horrors of Getting Robbed - Reluctant Habits
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I was robbed in New Orleans on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday. And while the experience has unleashed horrors, it has also reaffirmed just how strong I am.
on Aug 8
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NBC News's Peter Alexander continues to demonstrate that he is a mediocre man of the Chuck Todd school, more committed to unfounded gossip than substantial journalism.
on Jul 12
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Ritchie Torres, AIPAC’s Most Dutiful Rentboy - Reluctant Habits
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Flush with AIPAC money, the corrupt Representative of the poorest congressional district in the United States cares more about Israel than his own constituents, which he now regularly belittles and insults by twisting objective reality and blocking them on X.
on Jun 26
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The Bat Segundo Show: Roger Corman - Reluctant Habits
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In this lively 30 minute radio interview, we talk with legendary filmmaker Roger Corman about cost-cutting measures, Occupy Wall Street, whether socially conscious movies can be profitable, and the pros and cons of exploitation filmmaking.
on May 12
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Mastodon may seem like a cozy and thoughtful alternative to toxic wastelands like X and BlueSky, but some of the instance admins -- such as Universodon's Ryan Wild -- are recruiting alt-right moderators and practicing covert censorship of progressive political viewpoints.
on May 11
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The Bat Segundo Show was a long-running cultural radio program devoted to quirky and very thorough long-form interviews with contemporary authors, idiosyncratic thinkers, and other assorted artists. Guests included David Lynch, Octavia Butler, John Waters, John Updike, Stephen Fry, Marilynne...
on May 2
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The Bat Segundo Show: Paul Auster - Reluctant Habits
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Paul Auster appeared on The Bat Segundo Show #231. Auster is most recently the author of Man in the Dark. Condition of Mr. Segundo: Opening himself up to explanation. Author: Paul Auster Subjects Discussed: Starting a novel from a title, the advance titles contained within The Book of Illusions,...
on May 1
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Nebraska State Senator Steve Halloran needs to resign or be removed from office for crossing the line and inserting a fellow colleague's name into a book passage to perpetuate a rape fantasy.
on Mar 19
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The Gnostic Gospels (Modern Library Nonfiction #72) - Reluctant Habits
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As America is plunged further into a theocratic nightmare, Elaine Pagels's excellent volume on the Gonstics is a useful guide for how an entirely implausible interpretation of the Resurrection became the guiding light for zealots and how those who asked reasonable questions were scrubbed out of...
on Mar 16
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The Moviegoer (Modern Library #60) - Reluctant Habits
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Walker Percy's masterpiece is not only a fine exemplar of the Catholic novel's contradictions about existence, but it is also a wry examination of life choices that are often irreconcilable with the very reason for existing!
on Mar 9
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Ryan Walters: Oklahoma Czar of Hate, Intolerance, and Transphobia - Reluctant Habits
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A bright and precocious 16-year-old nonbinary girl died in Ossawo, Oklahoma. This didn't need to happen. And this would not have happened if bigots like State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters had never held office.
on Mar 1
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Ryan Walters: Oklahoma Czar of Hate, Intolerance, and Transphobia - Reluctant Habits
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A bright and precocious 16-year-old nonbinary girl died in Ossawo, Oklahoma. This didn't need to happen. And this would not have happened if bigots like State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters had never held office.
on Mar 1
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Tell Them While They’re Still Around - Reluctant Habits
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We often forget that those who we love are not immortal. But it's important to remind our loved ones how much they mean to us.
on Feb 18
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The Modern Library Reading Challenge - Reluctant Habits
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Introducing one of the most ridiculously ambitious reading challenges: a quest to read all of the Modern Library Top 100.
on Feb 16
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People with Mental Disabilities Are Not Your Online Playthings - Reluctant Habits
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Talented writers are often exploited by media outlets, often at the expense of their own mental health. This practice needs to stop. We need empathy and understanding, not exploitation.
on Feb 15
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Death Comes for the Archbishop (Modern Library #61) - Reluctant Habits
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In addition to being a largely humorless and incredibly overrated writer, Willa Cather was a supercilious white supremacist reveling in racist stereotypes and a corn-pone practitioner of the worst kind. There is no way that I can defend her work in 2024.
on Feb 11
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From Here to Eternity (Modern Library #62) - Reluctant Habits
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James Jones's peacetime masterpiece reminds us why it's important to stick up for the truth-tellers in literature, particularly the novelists who are openly confronting the problems that so many others refuse to scratch at.
on Feb 6
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The Wapshot Chronicle (Modern Library #63) - Reluctant Habits
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The great John Cheever is justly celebrated as a short story master, but his novels are often overlooked, disregarded, or ignored. But the sheer weirdness, contradictions, and interesting structural choices make a great case for Wapshot as an enduring literary classic.
on Feb 6
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Blake Bailey, Casual Misogynist and Eager Rube - Reluctant Habits
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Blake Bailey was once a marvelous biographer. But his new volume on Philip Roth is so drenched in casual misogyny, along with the insalubrious scenario of Bailey himself being willfully manipulated by Roth, that it's impossible to take him seriously ever again. Make no mistake. He is a corporate...
on Feb 5
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Why We Can’t Wait (Modern Library Nonfiction #78) - Reluctant Habits
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Martin Luther King's deeply inspiring book provides as much hope in combating social ills in 2019 as it did when it was published in 1964. It reminds us of the beauty of nonviolent direct action, as well as our essential duty to stand up for moral justice and to not accept compromise or delay in...
on Jan 22
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The Abecedarian Diaries of Edward Champion - Reluctant Habits
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It was going to be one of my greatest passion projects, but Sheila Heti swooped in and claimed it as her own! To set the record straight, I have revealed the 100% true origin story of The Alphabet Diaries!
on Jan 21
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James Joyce (Modern Library Nonfiction #73) - Reluctant Habits
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Richard Ellmann's book on James Joyce may be the greatest literary biography of all time, but will we ever truly know the full mystique behind the great Irish bard?
on Dec 22
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The Modern Library Nonfiction Challenge - Reluctant Habits
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While our faithful reading adventurer remains stalled on FINNEGANS WAKE on the original Modern Library Reading Challenge, he has decided to start a second challenge. Behold! A new Modern Library Reading Challenge! The top 100 nonfiction books of the 20th century!
on Dec 20
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One of the most evil men in America -- a man responsible for millions of deaths -- has finally dropped dead, expiring at the criminally unceremonious age of one hundred.
on Nov 30
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One of the most evil men in America -- a man responsible for millions of deaths -- has finally drop dead, expiring at the criminally unceremonious age of one hundred.
on Nov 30
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For All Mankind is the Best Show on Television — Why Aren’t You Watching It? - Reluctant Habits
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For All Mankind has been criminally overlooked by audiences and the media. It's time for you folks to get on the bandwagon. This show is too brilliant to be ignored.
on Oct 8, 2023
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The Catcher in the Rye (Modern Library #64) - Reluctant Habits
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As a teenager, I loved Salinger's classic. But I can't get behind it as a middle-aged man. I don't hate Salinger. What is it about Holden Caulfield that rubs me the wrong way?
on Oct 2, 2023