Poor minds / Rich memories
Today: Zach Rabiroff, a writer on books, comics, and culture living in Brooklyn, New York; and Harry Siegel, Senior Editor at THE CITY and co-host of FAQ NYC podcast, and Public Scholar at the Moynihan Center at City College.
Issue No. 445
Musk and Epstein in Hell
Zach Rabiroff
Time Warp, Again (1976-1994)
Harry Siegel
HYDRANYM No. 25
The Editors
Musk and Epstein in Hell
by Zach Rabiroff
This modern world of ours moves quickly. We have advanced perhaps three Nixons’ worth of political news cycles in the space elapsed so far this week, and by the time this short squib reaches your inbox there is a greater than even chance the U.S. will be at war with Venezuela. So it is all the more imperative that we find a moment of calm in our day to reflect on the fact that for roughly 48 hours, National Book Award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates publicly mauled and devoured Elon Musk.
It was, for Oates, a small killing. JCO is a remarkable creature: a literary author who, having shed her former skin as a regular contributor to the New Yorker, found her true calling in her eighth decade of life as the most extraordinary shitposter who has ever lived. She is a born predator: she quote-tweets, she annihilates, and she moves on. She kills without malice or anger, but only because it is her nature, like the lion sweeping down the savannah upon the doomed gazelle in her path. She is the most savage trash talker since Gore Vidal. She awes me.
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