Curated.

I recently read through The New Yorker’s Fiction Issue. Reading Jonathan Franzen for the first time, I was completely taken by A Talent For Seeming. In 10,000 words, he took me back to the trailer park behind my house in college, full of stories, some dreams shattered, others resurrecting, many dead on arrival. A few more pages, and I was back at the Shattered Globe, a few feet from Alfieri as he trudged with the weighty voice of having knowledge but the sullenness of being unable to do anything with it. Both memories had registered deeper than I knew, and had surfaced thanks to Franzen.

So I looked up Crossroads on Goodreads
4.06 Rating

I read the second review
“OMG, too LOOOOOOONG!!!”

I went to B&N and found White Teeth with a buy one, get one half off sticker. No such sticker was on any Franzen novel. Didn’t stand a chance.

Kane Parsons! What a story! What grit! What originality! What talent and verve and luck and circumstance! Joy be to those who venture! I never watch horror films, but my god I must support this man. This boy! For the love of film and everything else.

Letterboxd 3.4 stars Hmmmm

The ratings. The feeds. The aggregated score and the algorithm. All people you’ve never met, never will meet, will never care to meet. Instead — text your boyfriend. Text your ex? Text your mom. Call your mom! Maybe she’ll confess to you that she doesn’t understand Miranda July’s spiel. Take her back to 924 Gilman. Ah, you remember — you’ve been meaning to watch Kajillionaire.

If you want to know if something is good — don’t open an app.

If you want to remember something you noted worthwhile — open your Curation.

Curated's home screen, browsing the library by how you want to feel

Browse by your mood, not by your feed.

Have your library organized by how you want to feel — curious, nostalgic, restless, or whatever else might be capturing you today.

The Curated library, organising films and television together

Everything, in one place.

Films, shows, books, music, podcasts, articles — even the things you mean to buy. Gathered on a single, beautiful shelf.

Saving an article to Curated from the iOS share sheet

Save from anywhere.

Share from any app on your phone. Curated catches it, files it where it belongs, and provides easy access to view it later.

Saving a MUJI product to a wishlist from the iOS share sheet

Build a wishlist worth keeping.

Easily share items from any store, site, and app to Curated to stay organized.

The Shop tab showing saved products from Lululemon and Uniqlo

One bag for every store.

Curated keeps a unified cart across all stores with no distractions, so you can prioritize what you really need.

No Ads. No Feeds. No Algorithms.

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