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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

"We raise young performers up, call them prophets when they validate our worldview, then scan their work for inconsistencies and blast them because they don’t deploy the privileged vocabulary, expertise or nuance of a graduate student." -- Dan Charnas www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

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Opinion | Kendrick Lamar Can’t Save the World. Why Do We Expect Him To?

Now that he’s performing at the Super Bowl, it seems like he’s inherited a no-win situation for all the conflicted expectations that await him.

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

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Opinion | Kendrick Lamar Can’t Save the World. Why Do We Expect Him To? (Gift Article)

Now that he’s performing at the Super Bowl, it seems like he’s inherited a no-win situation for all the conflicted expectations that await him.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is a comprehensive list of what to do if you or someone you know lost their home to the fires in LA (or any disaster) written by post-disaster reconstruction expert Cameron Sinclair, who lost his house in the ongoing wildfires in LA. Sharing in case it's helpful. www.dezeen.com/2025/01/20/l...

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Practical advice for victims of the LA wildfires

Humanitarian architect and post-disaster reconstruction expert Cameron Sinclair, who lost his house in the ongoing wildfires in LA, shares practical advice for people in a similar position.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 02/01/2025

I don’t think people understand how devastating the end of net neutrality, and consumer protections around internet connectivity, are going to be. Imagine the situation where you pay for 4 or 5 different streaming services, each with different “exclusives” — but for the Internet itself.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Wrote about them here. "Driverless cars are often called autonomous vehicles – but driving isn’t an autonomous activity. It’s a co-operative social activity, in which part of the job of whoever’s behind the wheel is to communicate with others on the road." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Rebecca Solnit · In the Shadow of Silicon Valley: Losing San Francisco

I don’t know whether these billionaires know what a city is, but I do know that they have laid their hands on the city...

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

What’s the word for the kind of loneliness that’s a result of treating all relationships as transactional?

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Seneca Review @senecareview.bsky.social · 18/12/2023

SRB has some exciting news! Congratulations, Matthew Morris! Many thanks to @walterspot.bsky.social for judging!

Matthew Morris is the Winner of Seneca Review Books’ 2024 Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize for his manuscript F-cked Fable/Ghost Hand.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 11/10/2023

Teaching You’re the Woods Too, by Dennis James Sweeney just out from Essay Press. A vital lyric: imaginative, mournful, and verdant. 🌱🍁🌳

Cover of book featuring moss, trees, rocks, and flames.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

So many of these guys are the same guy.

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ActiveCultures @activecultures.bsky.social · 02/10/2023

Andrew Sterman of Philip Glass Ensemble is giving a workshop in The Art of Practicing at NYU Abu Dhabi. I’ll be sharing some of his teachings.

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Which of your fave journals & indie presses have made their way over to the other side? Boost them here?

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Omar Carreño, Relief 1, 1952

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

The way people think climate change is going to go in their favor.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 10/07/2023

What’s your favorite lyric essay? All grace afforded, as I know this is a tricky question.

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Stuart Davis, Visa, 1951

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MoMA Paintings and Sculpture @moma.bsky.social · 09/07/2023

Theo van Doesburg, Simultaneous Counter-Composition, 1929-30

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 07/07/2023

So much repair can be accomplished with a simple, sincere “I’m sorry,” especially to those one thinks they need not worry about saying it to.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

I like it here but think there is probably only a small window in which it will be good. That’s how everything tech seems nowadays.

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Wendy S. Walters @walterspot.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

This piece by Parul Sehgal is timely and likely controversial. I'm not opposed to storytelling, but its increasing alignment with sales/markets put us at risk for losing a broader understanding of what literature is and might do.

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The Tyranny of the Tale

We’re told that story will set us free. But what if a narrative frame is also a cage?

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