Mariah Kreutter

RT @schuy_ler: SCOOP: NYU Law has barred 31 pro-Palestine students from campus & demanded they renounce their right to protest in exchange…

Me navigating the crowded aisles of the west village Tashkent market: god it’s like you people have never even SEEN uzbek food before

This also happened to me

Alex Perez @Perez_Writes

I was told by an agent that if I lose 6 to 7 pounds of muscle it’ll be easier to sell my book. Too jacked right now apparently for the mainstream literary scene. Decisions, decisions.

Maybe I’ll get a PhD in English just to argue that Mrs Rochester deserved what she got

Best reason to go to an Ivy imo is if you’re a humanities-brained idiot savant with an obsessive hyperfixation on something useless like Ancient Greek amphorae styles or the short stories of Amy hempel and you want a 75% chance of getting a job someday instead of 0%

Tweet is going mildly viral but has a typo https://t.co/3zX7xBxsph

Boyfriend just said I look like a girl in a “garnier fructose” commercial

I do care about the plight of male novelists though. Mostly because if literary novels become too female-coded there’s a grave risk of the form losing its cultural prestige. Which would be bad for me personally. Chess not checkers

*plaudits I’ve had 2 wines

mariah @mariahkreutter

The thing about “ambitious” fiction is, you can’t just decide you’re going to write like Faulkner or Joyce and then receive audits for writing like Faulkner or Joyce. You have to actually be as good, sentence by sentence, as Faulkner or Joyce. Crucial step being skipped over

The next time a man tells me that literature is about sentences I’m going to nod solemnly and reply that sentences are actually about words

RT @basel_adra: This morning, one day after i came back from the Oscar’s a masked group of Israeli settlers stormed my neighbours home, ass…

an interesting fact about this statement is that it does not mention the name "mahmoud khalil" even once

RT @jangelooff: New: ICE agents also visited a second Palestinian student living in Columbia-owned housing over the weekend and attempted t…