n+1 personals

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n+personals is a pet project of n+1 interns for all the sad young literary people in the world who still haven’t found their +1 (melancholia and relative youth are in fact optional, but if you haven't read Middlemarch/back issues of Harper's/JR we suggest looking elsewhere).

We see this site as filling a dearth in the personals market for charming intellectuals—because, you know, we’re all still a little too young for the nyrb and a little too sane for the lrb. Quite simply, we’ve come to realize we all want the same things: to curl up in bed and watch Woody Allen movies, to have a silent companion at hungover brunches, to be saved from drunken conversations about Žižek… We want these things for ourselves, and we want them for you.

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  • August 31, 2011 10:21 am

    THE GIRL WHO WASTES HER TIME DETECTING EMOTIONAL NUANCE IN ARROGANT INTELLECTUALS

    I dislike literary or artistic emphasis on irony. I am tired of gratuitous nude photography in museums. I totally disagree that sincerity is the death of writing. Despite the tone of this post I am not relentlessly negative. I love the Conservatory Gardens. I really love my grandparents. I love the sanctioned voyeurism of the High Line. I have no opinion about Brooklyn. I just rewatched Some Like it Hot and it’s the fucking bomb. I have zero eye for visual detail, but I am pretty good at detecting emotional nuance. I am not quirky. I don’t think gender is a socially-constructed category. And, in the spirit of full disclosure, I have limited patience for long-form journalism.

    I am usually attracted to arrogant and aggressively contrarian intellectuals, but am working on it. I like to drink, heavily, but am working on it. I am looking for a guy who can eat lunch alone without needing to check his phone.

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