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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Walt Whitman, 1846. Happy Opening Day.

Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

My favorite part of Matsumoto's work is its singularity. I think it's rare for filmmakers to develop an entirely new visual language, which he did. "It's not for you that this rain falls."

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Do you guys think Bantam Books would honor this coupon? It’s only been expired 50 years.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Finally reading (struggling?) through Gravity’s Rainbow. This weird thing happens to me with Pynchon— it seems I barely get what’s going on, yet the passages are seared in my mind for days after reading. It sticks to the subconscious in a way that I haven’t experienced with any other writer.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Dostoevsky— there’s beauty in simply existing.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Reading The Brothers Karamazov for the first time.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Russell’s recommendation of the day.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Satantango is a nihilistic masterpiece that tackles the existential question and the search for purpose in the face of hopelessness. Like if 1984 was a good book. Adorned with biblical passages about sunsets and rain and mud and spider webs, it’s Faulknerian in nature. A must-read.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I made sure to eat good while home for Thanksgiving. I love Detroit.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Maryland’s Eastern Shore is a little pocket of the country where, sometimes, life doesn’t seem analogous to the trends of the rest of the nation. 2024 waterfowl festival in Easton.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relation-ship, an axis of innumerable relationships. One literature differs from another, prior or posterior, less because of the text than because of the way in which it is read…” - Borges on literature & why it’s more than just the correct syntax of words.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Friday afternoons on the Patapsco.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Got a really cool 1949 edition of Dostoyevsky’s “The Gambler” today from the library.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

I’ve been having a wonderful autumn.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

I just finished what I now consider Cormac McCarthy’s magnum opus. Not sure why this one doesn’t get as much love as Blood Meridian or The Road. Stunningly bleak and beautiful and transcendental. Late-20th century hybrid of William Faulkner and Walt Whitman.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Former White House Counsel Len Garment on Richard Nixon, and presidents as a whole.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

I wrote a bit about Breezewood— the dumbest highway interchange I’ve come across— and why I still appreciate it. Subscribe so I can keep writing: draper.substack.com/p/on-the-bre...

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

Despite a name that belongs in the Bad Vibes rafters, Dulles Airport in DC is stunningly beautiful. My first time here since childhood. Eero Saarinen was really in his bag for this one— a true monument to modernism and the future.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

An excerpt from “Poem while on Hold with NBA League Pass Customer Support” by Andrew Weatherhead:

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 26/10/2023

Don’t have a reason to share this other than the simple fact that I love it.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Excerpt from Vladimir Nabokov’s first novel, “Mary”, when he was living in Germany in the 1920s. A little less textured than his later work, it’s cool to see a young writer understand their signature style. He was about my age (26) when this book was finished.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Why did the Arizona Diamondbacks ever change their iconography? The turquoise and purple pinstripe vest jerseys were iconic and unique, and now their jerseys look like boring Create-a-Team uniforms.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

“things whose perishing had been arrested by their power to make her love them” Denis Johnson’s swift and direct style is so beautiful to me.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Some good food I’ve been eating lately.

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Jameson Draper @jamdraper.bsky.social · 19/09/2023

For my first Bluesky post I would like to introduce my son

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