Jack Denton

@jackwdenton

Epistemologist @NYmag
Writing: @Pitchfork, @Harpers, @nprmusic, @RollingStone, @PacificStand (rip), @VICE, @Outline, @thefader, @MotherJones, @nytimes

clippings.me/jackwdenton Joined September 2015

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Jack Denton @jackwdenton Oct 22

I spent time with Nirosta Steel during a very interesting moment in his life

New York Magazine Verified account @NYMag Oct 22

He dated Allen Ginsberg, partied with Steve Rubell, and somehow has one of the buzziest albums of 2026. It only gets stranger from there. vulture.com/article/can-ni…
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton 23h

really bizarre and self-defeating choice for the kind of writing they publish. this jo ann beard essay in particular works so artfully to delay the reveal of the shooting until deep into the second half of the piece

El Norte Recuerda @Vanessid 2d

What the fuck, @NewYorker?

I was looking this essay up to teach it and ... why? Did you not already have a summary from 1996?? What are students supposed to think of this? That's it's okay to scrape, summarize, and get the main takeaway of a piece of writing without consent??

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Jack Denton @jackwdenton 23h

among the best quotes anyone's ever gotten. an interview i feel moved to reread at least once a year, often more

Joshua Minsoo Kim @misterminsoo 1d

Mark Fisher’s greatest legacy is of course his interview with Burial in The Wire where Burial says this

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Jack Denton @jackwdenton 3d

I've been mystified by the discourse around this, along with a lot of AI writing "tells." The conceptual expansion underlying the construction is a normal communicative aim

Max Read @readmaxread 3d

as a longtime and irredeemable user of such constructions I wonder if they've really increased or if they've just become way more noticeable
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Jack Denton @jackwdenton Oct 31

I’m partial to Patricia Lockwood’s perspective on that line
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/…

Kevin T. Dugan @KevinTDugan Oct 31

@jackwdenton The second rabbit book is awful, but three and four are unbelievably good. DFW’s quip doesn’t really hold up imo
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