Mitra Parineh @gempari
recently: @noreview (on syntax), @frensheFL (on Dior) / I write Pleasure & Other Worries, a lifestyle letter for literary readers & teach writing @USC pleasureandotherworries.substack.com Los Angeles Joined February 2009-
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I meant to look up Idaho but ended up typing Iran, though it's really the same: mullahs and other men, the aim to chain women in poverty, lack of provision, care...moral posturing that is all the way down the bitterest, brutalist cruelty. Don't hold doors for us—open the clinics.
Text your friends who live CD4! Tell them they're hot. Tell them they're interesting. Tell them to vote! Turnout is still very low and skewing Republican in LA.
Text your friends who live CD4! Tell them they're hot. Tell them they're interesting. Tell them to vote! Turnout is still very low and skewing Republican in LA.
Killing civilians—starved civilians—receiving aide? The inhumanity is so scorching it harms every one of us to witness it, hear of it, contemplate it, in any fashion support it. Stop. Ceasefire. Stop. Ceasefire. A thousand times, ceasefire.
we write and write; a spiritual act made academic on small prayers & marginalia— pleasureandotherworries.substack.com/p/marginalia
A gift for writers of all stripes to see themselves in, whatever falters or uplifts in their career have come—a whole life and its passage, time and art making, teaching and being...in case you haven't read her Nobel Bio, which I had not: nobelprize.org/prizes/literat…
In a world of quotations, the awe comes with whole passages, a thing un-summarizable—no advice, no reminders, no dings, no wisdom, no words to live by. Smart phone-rigged existence sends us reeling after wholeness, length, discursive meandering, turn dials, expanse.
My SIB (Secret Internet Behavior) is youtube videos of authors I adore; not every one has a great way of speaking—anyway, it's not their medium—but many do, and when they do, it just sends you.
The same collective who has called for the cancellation of so many works of fiction over the last many years are now outraged at Liz Gilbert who frankly seems like she has sat with her decision and feels good about it. I'll miss her voice. I'm uncomfortable with 1/
sometimes worth going back to listen to the kind genius that is Elizabeth Gilbert youtube.com/watch?v=0g7ARa…
Style is not salad dressing (ie for after-application), and other things from Martin Amis, but mostly laughter.
Drive from doctor’s appt in Studio City to dentist in Culver and just hold down the horn. If this city hasn’t felt like one united entity to you yet, the WGA strike can really bring it home.
How does anyone still live in Missouri? Can die from ectopic pregnancy (in fact, *must* begin to die to receive care). Can die from ringing a doorbell. What house of horrors is this place??
This is...this is someone's child. Their reason for getting up every day. The person they feed and clothe and look after before attending to themselves.
This is...this is someone's child. Their reason for getting up every day. The person they feed and clothe and look after before attending to themselves.
Why are some marriages happy and others wanting? As children grow, what happens to their tinier selves? Some people talk in the ticket line and some people watch the line move—which do you do? (it's my Pablo Neruda homage) pleasureandotherworries.substack.com/p/some-questio…
What if, instead of self-care, revenge
"My ghost speaks elegant Farsi without an accent and her understanding of language is much broader, richer than mine; she sees complexity in the world because names are given to so many things [...]"--@gempari in @NOReview 🌹neworleansreview.org/wrong-syntax/ #زن_زندگی_آزادی
I *felt* this description of visiting the country your parents are from
I *felt* this description of visiting the country your parents are from https://t.co/gjcZQGippf
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fair weather fiend @aquariussibling
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59K Followers 3K Following Your garbage mom; wrote AND I DO NOT FORGIVE YOU; HAPPY PEOPLE DON’T LIVE HERE ‘25; rep’d by @KentDWolf; I just want you to be happy, honey
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A lot of people who wouldn’t shut up about Iran a couple weeks ago have now magically shut up. #ToomajSalehi #FreeToomaj
Over the past several years I’ve watched life in California and New York grow closer together; the idea of NYC becoming earthquake terrain seems inevitable.
co-signing all of this, tg for her
This Kirsten Dunst press tour has given us some all-timers
I am begging the Hollywood powers-that-be to make an incredible biopic of John Donne starring Adam Driver
LA City Councilmember Nithya Raman, a smart and courageous advocate for tenants rights and housing homeless people, wins out over $1.3 million of efforts from landlords and police and firefight unions to defeat her. latimes.com/opinion/story/…
“They're seeing life being lost… in front of their eyes in the most dramatic fashion… This is about human survival.” @RESCUEorg calls the imminent famine in Gaza “a profound failure of humanity.” Here's my conversation with its CEO @DMiliband
Text your friends who live CD4! Tell them they're hot. Tell them they're interesting. Tell them to vote! Turnout is still very low and skewing Republican in LA.
Endorsement: The Times' recommendation for Los Angeles City Council District 4 (via @latimesopinion) latimes.com/opinion/story/…
i believe you wrote ‘chatGPT’ when you meant to write ‘moms’
umm...note to CNN...a "chaotic incident" is college kids storming a basketball court, not a massacre at a food line...
There’s an entire generation of media that got persuaded it had to translate its value into 2010s-style growth-business terms in order to be on the right side of the future. That’s increasingly looking like a lethally wrong turn.
“What I really believe is that there are no minor characters in life or in art. Even the gravediggers in Hamlet—you wonder what their names were.” —Jane Gardam buff.ly/3uVnVZv
The New York Times wrote a Haiku to avoid saying Israel massacres Palestinians that they’re deliberately starving in Gaza.
I would really like a ceasefire now, and for someone cool to get this job.
HIRING!!!! Want to come work with us at Pantheon/Schocken as the next editorial director of Schocken Books? Publisher of extraordinary Judaica since 1931. jobsearch.createyourowncareer.com/PRH_US/job/New…
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@TODAYshow You know how you can't freeze people or they'll die? That's the difference
so the Emmys was women in their 60s clarifying what IN THEIR PRIME means + dancing and singing with joie de vivre the rest of us can only dream of youtube.com/watch?v=tEZlQh…
I’m happy to have a couple of stories on this list, but even more I’m struck by how many of these pieces are large, involved, patient, literary in concern, and off the main path. When people with shiny smiles tell you nobody is interested in reading anymore—don’t believe them.
It’s that time of year again. Here’s our list of the 25 most popular @NewYorker stories of the year. The list comes with my usual short reflection. My theme this year: news fatigue. newyorker.com/culture/2023-i…
5/5 "Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying" by Noor Hindi: poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine…
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