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Cormac McCarthy and Augusta Britt Vanity Fair Vincenzo Barney article review by Siobhan Brier Aguilar

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret (Teenage) Muse

The following is the script of a YouTube video, transcribed. You can watch the original video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctgp2gyyON0  If you have comments for this blog post, you can use my Reddit page as a discussion forum: https://www.reddit.com/r/siobhanbrieraguilar/  Trigger Warnings Trigger warnings: grooming, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, parental and physical abuse. Intro I’m going to tell …

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Hannah and Daniel sand on their farm with their children

The True and Tragic Tale of Ballerina Farm and “Mama and Tata”

The following is the script of a YouTube video. If you would like to watch or listen to this in video format, you can do so by following this link. If not, then keep reading below. On July 20th 2024, The Sunday Times Magazine published a story called “Meet the queen of the ‘trad wives’ …

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Anna Marie Tendler shares an image of herself holding her book "Men Have Called her crazy"

What Anna Marie Tendler Did (Not) Say About John Mulaney

The following is the script for a YouTube video. To watch or listen to in video format, you can follow this link. If not, continue reading below. On March 5th, 2024, a visual artist named Anna Marie Tendler announced on Instagram that she would be publishing a memoir called “Men Have Called Her Crazy.” The …

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The sistine chappel hands but with AI

Review of “Confessions of a Viral AI Writer”

In 2021, Vauhini Vara published an essay called “Ghosts.” In “Ghosts,” she used an early model of ChatGPT to help her write a story about her older sister’s untimely death: something that, she admits, she was never really able to write about on her own. She writes an introduction, then she copies her conversation with …

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