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no one told me about proust
on poptimism and literary snobs ✦ and why taste is cultivated through love, not education
May 31
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Celine Nguyen
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in defense of san francisco's art scene
it's actually very easy to solve alienation, anomie, and the loneliness epidemic…just fund the arts more (and go to events more) ✦
May 13
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Celine Nguyen
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March 2025
everything i read in february 2025
3 novels and 2 films on love, despair, and loss ✦ and how to read Hannah Arendt for the first time
Mar 11
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in february 2025
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February 2025
everything i read in january 2025
4 books on religion, health, work, art ✦
Feb 8
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in january 2025
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January 2025
how to begin
on copying, technique and taste ✦ plus 6 close readings of great essay intros
Jan 26
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Celine Nguyen
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how to begin
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December 2024
best books of 2024
including novels, nonfiction, short stories and essays ✦✧
Dec 30, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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in praise of writing on the internet
one year, 34 posts, and 8,000 subscribers later ✦✧
Dec 9, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in november 2024
a bad reading month and a good film-watching month ✦ feat. anime classics, Vietnamese & Iranian slow cinema, and Sean Baker's Anora
Dec 1, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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everything i read in november 2024
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November 2024
don't deceive yourself
on delusional fantasies and self-respect ✦ feat. Elsa Morante, Didion, Flaubert and Tolstoy
Nov 15, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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don't deceive yourself
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everything i read in october 2024
the case for reading Flaubert, going to raves, emailing your crush, and losing control
Nov 1, 2024
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everything i read in october 2024
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October 2024
the divine discontent
perfection is impossible, but I'm chasing it anyway ✦ plus Flaubert, Proust, and that one Ira Glass quote
Oct 27, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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seeing like a simulation
my LARB essay on SimCity, software criticism, and utopian urbanism ✦
Oct 9, 2024
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Celine Nguyen
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