Nash Jenkins
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Born
January 05, 1993
Member Since
July 2014
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/pnashjenkins
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Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
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2023
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7 editions
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| I first picked up The Corrections in 2013, when I was a very depressed and very lonely 20-year-old college junior studying abroad in India. I read it again seven years later, in the first summer of the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was finally writing my ...more | |
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| 4.5, I'd say. SNL's place as an American cultural institution is one of my weird and very pedestrian intellectual fascinations, so naturally I threw myself at this biography on publication day. It's a little uneven: it feels like 1974-1976 (i.e. the ...more | |
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Nash Jenkins
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| 4.5, I'd say. SNL's place as an American cultural institution is one of my weird and very pedestrian intellectual fascinations, so naturally I threw myself at this biography on publication day. It's a little uneven: it feels like 1974-1976 (i.e. the ...more | |
“There are moments like this when I allow myself to see the beauty I’d always foreclosed to myself. Part of me thinks that my ability to see it when I do is inseparable from the pain I feel, and when I think that, the pain suddenly isn’t so bad. The sun’s going to come up in the morning. I really don’t like myself a lot of the time, but sometimes I look back at the words I’ve written on my blog and elsewhere and I kind of smile at my own bullshit. I’ll grow up, and then I will come back to them again. It’s fine. I will be fine. There is a spastic firelight in everything. The trick is knowing where to find it.”
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
“If I had to parcel this project in the Trojan horse of, say, cultural sociology, I might say that it’s my attempt to comprehend the adolescent predisposition to mythology: how coveting the spell of others’ stories allows us to find faith in what our own might become, and keep going.”
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
“Sometimes, late at night, when I find myself clicking through photos of the alumni events I didn’t attend, I’ll pull out my old coffee-stained copy of Still Life with Woodpecker and blink at the last line: It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. And perhaps safer if it isn’t your own.”
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos
― Foster Dade Explores the Cosmos









































