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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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Reading this slim but substantial collection. I had read the title essay and a couple of others over the years, but some are new to me. The one on Virginia Woolf and criticism is amazing.
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In this week's #longreads #Top5:
—After the flood (Texas Monthly )
—Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
—Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
—When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
—Many, many miles (Texas Highways) -
In this week's #longreads #Top5:
—After the flood (Texas Monthly )
—Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
—Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
—When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
—Many, many miles (Texas Highways) -
In this week's #longreads #Top5:
—After the flood (Texas Monthly )
—Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
—Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
—When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
—Many, many miles (Texas Highways) -
In this week's #longreads #Top5:
—After the flood (Texas Monthly )
—Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
—Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
—When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
—Many, many miles (Texas Highways) -
In this week's #longreads #Top5:
—After the flood (Texas Monthly )
—Twisted roles (The San Francisco Chronicle)
—Drawn to the emptiness (The Offing)
—When the rice fails (The New Yorker )
—Many, many miles (Texas Highways) -
#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st May. What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
I set targets for myself all the time. A project I am working on is to write down a lot of events that have happened over my lifetime. I have a #minimum #goal of #writing at least three pages every day, with a more realistic goal of finishing whatever event / topic I have chosen for that day.
I also have recently started working writing #essays. These are first #drafts being #written in long form. For this project I have a 5-7 page per day goal. The idea being that I can hopefully complete a draft every 3–5 days.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st May. What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
I set targets for myself all the time. A project I am working on is to write down a lot of events that have happened over my lifetime. I have a #minimum #goal of #writing at least three pages every day, with a more realistic goal of finishing whatever event / topic I have chosen for that day.
I also have recently started working writing #essays. These are first #drafts being #written in long form. For this project I have a 5-7 page per day goal. The idea being that I can hopefully complete a draft every 3–5 days.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st May. What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
I set targets for myself all the time. A project I am working on is to write down a lot of events that have happened over my lifetime. I have a #minimum #goal of #writing at least three pages every day, with a more realistic goal of finishing whatever event / topic I have chosen for that day.
I also have recently started working writing #essays. These are first #drafts being #written in long form. For this project I have a 5-7 page per day goal. The idea being that I can hopefully complete a draft every 3–5 days.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st May. What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
I set targets for myself all the time. A project I am working on is to write down a lot of events that have happened over my lifetime. I have a #minimum #goal of #writing at least three pages every day, with a more realistic goal of finishing whatever event / topic I have chosen for that day.
I also have recently started working writing #essays. These are first #drafts being #written in long form. For this project I have a 5-7 page per day goal. The idea being that I can hopefully complete a draft every 3–5 days.
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#WritersCoffeeClub – 21st May. What targets do you set for yourself? To what frequency?
I set targets for myself all the time. A project I am working on is to write down a lot of events that have happened over my lifetime. I have a #minimum #goal of #writing at least three pages every day, with a more realistic goal of finishing whatever event / topic I have chosen for that day.
I also have recently started working writing #essays. These are first #drafts being #written in long form. For this project I have a 5-7 page per day goal. The idea being that I can hopefully complete a draft every 3–5 days.
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If anyone is interested in my stance on #income #inequality:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jemconstructs/p/income-inequality-free?r=88wj63&utm_medium=ios
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If anyone is interested in my stance on #income #inequality:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jemconstructs/p/income-inequality-free?r=88wj63&utm_medium=ios
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If anyone is interested in my stance on #income #inequality:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jemconstructs/p/income-inequality-free?r=88wj63&utm_medium=ios
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If anyone is interested in my stance on #income #inequality:
https://open.substack.com/pub/jemconstructs/p/income-inequality-free?r=88wj63&utm_medium=ios
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Book Review: King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory is a fierce and foundational text of modern feminism, a Molotov cocktail in book form. Part memoir, part punk manifesto, it is a raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal exploration of gender, power, and sexuality in our modern world.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Genre: Non-fiction, Memoir, Essays, Feminism
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK, 2020), The Feminist Press (US, 2010)
Review in one word: Joyful
Originally published in French in 2006, this classic feminist work is now available in English. Despentes is a punk iconoclast, rebel writer and confrontational filmmaker. Arguably her most famous book is her first novel Baise-Moi, was later adapted for the screen. She is the author of more than fifteen works, including the acclaimed Vernon Subutex trilogy. Always seeing life from the outskirts, Despentes draws from her own experience as a former sex worker and rape survivor for her scathing and excoriating analysis of surviving in a world mired in misogyny and misandry.
Far from being depressing in nature, this book is irreverant, hillarious and cheeky in its analysis of our world.
There’s a whole range of taboos that are exploded in this book. As she states in the explosive opening, “from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh”.
The essays in this book are provocative, explosive and generous in their philosophical reach and insight. Despentes examines concepts of rape, prostitution, pornography and the myth of the ideal woman. She strongly rejects victimhood and refuses to apologise or explain her reasons for doing anything she has done.
The book shows its age in the discussion about the ultimate waif-like beauty of the 90’s – Kate Moss. Despentes joyfully aligns herself not with the unreachable ideal of Kate Moss but instead with the mythological monster – King Kong who is beyond male and beyond female. He is a potent symbol of polymorphic sexuality and raw power before he is captured and destroyed by society.
The overarching themes are of railing against oppressive forces of sexual and societal control in our world are refreshing and interesting. I particularly enjoyed the ethos so closely intertwined with rebelious culture, art and music which showed in her amazing Vernon Subutex series. Despentes argues for a “new punk feminism” that embraces and loves what society deems monstrous or unacceptable in women and any one else who feels marginalised.
She challenges the binary thinking that pits “good” women against “bad” ones, virgins against whores, and victims against aggressors. Her style is blistering, direct, and brutally honest, characterised by precisely phrased rage and a refusal to soften her message for the comfort of the reader.
Despentes’ tone is provocative, warm and unapologetic. King Kong Theory is an essential work that rejects polite discourse in favour of a raw truth about sex and power that is as uncomfortable, liberating and joyful. I cannot tell you how much this book means to me, it is foundational, liberating and life-changing in every way.
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Book Review: King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory is a fierce and foundational text of modern feminism, a Molotov cocktail in book form. Part memoir, part punk manifesto, it is a raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal exploration of gender, power, and sexuality in our modern world.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Genre: Non-fiction, Memoir, Essays, Feminism
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK, 2020), The Feminist Press (US, 2010)
Review in one word: Joyful
Originally published in French in 2006, this classic feminist work is now available in English. Despentes is a punk iconoclast, rebel writer and confrontational filmmaker. Arguably her most famous book is her first novel Baise-Moi, was later adapted for the screen. She is the author of more than fifteen works, including the acclaimed Vernon Subutex trilogy. Always seeing life from the outskirts, Despentes draws from her own experience as a former sex worker and rape survivor for her scathing and excoriating analysis of surviving in a world mired in misogyny and misandry.
Far from being depressing in nature, this book is irreverant, hillarious and cheeky in its analysis of our world.
There’s a whole range of taboos that are exploded in this book. As she states in the explosive opening, “from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh”.
The essays in this book are provocative, explosive and generous in their philosophical reach and insight. Despentes examines concepts of rape, prostitution, pornography and the myth of the ideal woman. She strongly rejects victimhood and refuses to apologise or explain her reasons for doing anything she has done.
The book shows its age in the discussion about the ultimate waif-like beauty of the 90’s – Kate Moss. Despentes joyfully aligns herself not with the unreachable ideal of Kate Moss but instead with the mythological monster – King Kong who is beyond male and beyond female. He is a potent symbol of polymorphic sexuality and raw power before he is captured and destroyed by society.
The overarching themes are of railing against oppressive forces of sexual and societal control in our world are refreshing and interesting. I particularly enjoyed the ethos so closely intertwined with rebelious culture, art and music which showed in her amazing Vernon Subutex series. Despentes argues for a “new punk feminism” that embraces and loves what society deems monstrous or unacceptable in women and any one else who feels marginalised.
She challenges the binary thinking that pits “good” women against “bad” ones, virgins against whores, and victims against aggressors. Her style is blistering, direct, and brutally honest, characterised by precisely phrased rage and a refusal to soften her message for the comfort of the reader.
Despentes’ tone is provocative, warm and unapologetic. King Kong Theory is an essential work that rejects polite discourse in favour of a raw truth about sex and power that is as uncomfortable, liberating and joyful. I cannot tell you how much this book means to me, it is foundational, liberating and life-changing in every way.
Content Catnip
Follow me on Mastodon Watch my videos Donate to my Ko Fi #book #BookReview #BookReviews #bookTag #BookReview #books #essays #feminism #feminist #French #gender #History #manifesto #memoir #nonFiction #Philosophy #power #punk #sexuality #storytelling #VirginieDespentes #VirginieDespentes -
Book Review: King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes
Virginie Despentes’ King Kong Theory is a fierce and foundational text of modern feminism, a Molotov cocktail in book form. Part memoir, part punk manifesto, it is a raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal exploration of gender, power, and sexuality in our modern world.
Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Genre: Non-fiction, Memoir, Essays, Feminism
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions (UK, 2020), The Feminist Press (US, 2010)
Review in one word: Joyful
Originally published in French in 2006, this classic feminist work is now available in English. Despentes is a punk iconoclast, rebel writer and confrontational filmmaker. Arguably her most famous book is her first novel Baise-Moi, was later adapted for the screen. She is the author of more than fifteen works, including the acclaimed Vernon Subutex trilogy. Always seeing life from the outskirts, Despentes draws from her own experience as a former sex worker and rape survivor for her scathing and excoriating analysis of surviving in a world mired in misogyny and misandry.
Far from being depressing in nature, this book is irreverant, hillarious and cheeky in its analysis of our world.
There’s a whole range of taboos that are exploded in this book. As she states in the explosive opening, “from the realms of the ugly, for the ugly, the old, the bull dykes, the frigid, the unfucked, the unfuckable, the hysterics, the freaks, all those excluded from the great meat market of female flesh”.
The essays in this book are provocative, explosive and generous in their philosophical reach and insight. Despentes examines concepts of rape, prostitution, pornography and the myth of the ideal woman. She strongly rejects victimhood and refuses to apologise or explain her reasons for doing anything she has done.
The book shows its age in the discussion about the ultimate waif-like beauty of the 90’s – Kate Moss. Despentes joyfully aligns herself not with the unreachable ideal of Kate Moss but instead with the mythological monster – King Kong who is beyond male and beyond female. He is a potent symbol of polymorphic sexuality and raw power before he is captured and destroyed by society.
The overarching themes are of railing against oppressive forces of sexual and societal control in our world are refreshing and interesting. I particularly enjoyed the ethos so closely intertwined with rebelious culture, art and music which showed in her amazing Vernon Subutex series. Despentes argues for a “new punk feminism” that embraces and loves what society deems monstrous or unacceptable in women and any one else who feels marginalised.
She challenges the binary thinking that pits “good” women against “bad” ones, virgins against whores, and victims against aggressors. Her style is blistering, direct, and brutally honest, characterised by precisely phrased rage and a refusal to soften her message for the comfort of the reader.
Despentes’ tone is provocative, warm and unapologetic. King Kong Theory is an essential work that rejects polite discourse in favour of a raw truth about sex and power that is as uncomfortable, liberating and joyful. I cannot tell you how much this book means to me, it is foundational, liberating and life-changing in every way.
Content Catnip
Follow me on Mastodon Watch my videos Donate to my Ko Fi #book #BookReview #BookReviews #bookTag #BookReview #books #essays #feminism #feminist #French #gender #History #manifesto #memoir #nonFiction #Philosophy #power #punk #sexuality #storytelling #VirginieDespentes #VirginieDespentes -
https://www.europesays.com/uk/960820/ Duplex Printer Market in the United States | Report – IndexBox #AutomaticDuplexingMechanism #ConsumerGoodsMarketReport #DocumentPrinting(reports #DuplexPrinter #essays #Forecast #HomeOfficeCorrespondence #Inkjet(thermal #Laser(LED #MarketAnalysis #Mobile/cloudPrintingConnectivity #piezoelectric) #SchoolProjectsAndAssignments #SmallBusinessMarketingMaterials #traditional #UnitedStates #us #USA
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The Stakes Have Never Been Higher for Drake
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The Stakes Have Never Been Higher for Drake
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If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?
A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.
(pls share)
#PlatformAdvice #essays -
If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?
A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.
(pls share)
#PlatformAdvice #essays -
If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?
A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.
(pls share)
#PlatformAdvice #essays -
If I want to browse articles, essays and thought pieces on various topics, ideally in one place, what's a good alternative to Substack?
A lot of people publish there but I don't agree with their opinion on censorship and protection of audiences.
(pls share)
#PlatformAdvice #essays -
The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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The Self
A bicycle isn't its wheels. It isn't the frame, the chain, the person pedaling, or the road. Take any one away and you don't have a broken bicycle but something that was never a bicycle to begin with. We point at things and say that's 'it'. That's the self. That's what's real. But every time you reach for the thing itself, you find it's made entirely of other things, which are made of other things and somewhere in that regression you either panic or you start to find it funny. The self […]https://ridiculousbharath.wordpress.com/2026/05/12/the-self/
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Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. https://www.amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire
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Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. https://www.amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire
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Delighted to announce my first collection essays, about life in southern New Hampshire, through Bauhan Publishing. Thank you for reading. It’s the best thing we can to do for ourselves these days. https://www.amazon.com/author/jarviscoffin #writing #essays #newhampshire
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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"I was certain secret doors existed in real life, and spent a lot of time looking for them." Today, Longreads has an excerpt from "Make Believe" by Mac Barnett, the US National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. Don't miss it! https://longreads.com/2026/05/05/mac-barnett-childrens-books-make-believe/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social #literature #books #reading #libraries #essays #picturebooks #kids #adults #longreads
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@ratika Could depend on how you write them. I'm writing nearly only non-fiction. #Essays or #features can be a medium of telling stories, of getting a 'painting' of your ideas. There's 'narrative non-fiction', often used e.g. in #natureWriting. A great writer like Robert McFarlane writes fascinating stuff about the Underworlds or rivers, you can't stop reading, it's positive. But you become aware of the problems and people trying to find solutions. It's the storytelling that helps.