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Photo: Thomas DozolI’m texting with the Armenian/American writer Ani Tatintsyan. There’s been a list on a literary message board of hot Substack writers. She’s on it. Miraculously I’ve been listed too. I wonder if a male or female put me on. Then I realize, based on the wording, that it doesn’t necessarily mean hot in terms of appearance, but rather in terms of trends, of readership and interest. There was a heart next to my name, but hearts can be used to describe appreciation toward the writing, not necessarily a sexy thing. Everything is propaganda, some of it is just embarrassing, Phillips-Horst writes in our interview. By corollary I begin to think which I’d prefer, to be a hot dude, or a hot writer, an ugly hot writer. And the truth is I’m not sure. I love to write, it’s what I’ve devoted my life to, painfully. But who doesn’t want, more than anything in the world, to just be hot, admired in the immediate? Either way, it’s better than complete indifference, so for a moment or two...
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