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Suey Park: Images

This document is a collection of images referenced in “Suey Park and the Afterlife of Twitter.”  It will be constantly updated with more as the series progresses. 

All images are screencaps from public Instagram and Twitter accounts.

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Patty Duke and the Reservoir of Invented Memory

For me, there’s a link between the brute reality of Tamas (as I recall it, and there is some irony in that) and the sugary puffiness of Patty Duke: the connective tissue between what we imagine, what we know, what we wish we knew, and what we would like to imagine.

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Hail, The Coens!

It was vivid in its recreation of period interiors, and yet those were what felt distracting: there was too much attention paid to giving attention to detail.  

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Film, Art, Television, and Media On Books and Publishing

Room: From Novel to Film

Call me a classicist, but years of reading novels tells me when something is off.

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All Those Mad, Mag Feels

Excerpt: Even as a kid, I loved that first, heady rush of anticipation I experienced with every one of them.  

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Mr. Holmes and The Case of the Aging Sleuth

In Mr. Holmes, we are prompted to ask: What happens to old people who are alone?  To be specific, what happens to people whose solitude comes about because the gifts they have or the wounds they bear make it difficult for them to inhabit the world as others might?  

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Oscars: Diversity Is Not the Problem

The Academy operates like a corporation, and like every corporation it will work hard to maintain its facade of diversity.  

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Twitter Trials: Why I Am Writing about Suey Park

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Matt Damon and the Case against Coming Out

It’s not that queerness has to be resisted or kept a mystery, but that heterosexuality is always a work in progress.

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It’s Fiorina and Clinton, not Carly and Hillary

Excerpt: Naming is power, and how the press names and refers to candidates has everything to do with what values it assigns to them.