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tsundoku.
On the antilibrary, life's finitude, and preservation.
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Yashvardhan Jain
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Benjamín Labatut's fiction and the insanity of scientific rationality
On Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC, his thoughts on writing and fiction, and humanity tiktok-ing its way to annihilation
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Yashvardhan Jain
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All The Lives We Cannot Live
On happiness, choice, and the liberating meaninglessness of our finite lives
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Yashvardhan Jain
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The desire to quit reading and writing in the technological age.
Or, David Foster Wallace asks, "Why are we watching so much shit?"
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Yashvardhan Jain
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Fyodor and the Foxhole
Or, the search for meaning in a meaningless life.
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Yashvardhan Jain
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I could write my Magnum Opus but I simply go to bed
Or, my struggles with choosing my creative self.
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Yashvardhan Jain
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What we lose when AI creates art
Or, it's not art if it is made by AI.
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Yashvardhan Jain
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Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. What does it mean then for an artist to fail?
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Yashvardhan Jain
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On Running, Writing, and Life: Some Advice from Haruki Murakami
Exerting yourself to the fullest within your individual limits: that’s the essence of running, and a metaphor for life — and for me, for writing as…
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Yashvardhan Jain
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