Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin is going to jail After failing once again to turn over documents in his ongoing divorce turning child support case, Louisville judge orders his arrest to serve 60 days in jail and pay a $500 fine

you can write any kind of sentence you want to. something simply bonkers, something precious and earnest, just real doozy of a sentence, if you feel like it.

Any friends also writing along with 1000 Words of Summer? I like to use this time to make space for sinking into craft and creativity as a mid-year reset, and subscribing to the newsletter supports a NoLa Scholastic Bookfair. Would love to hear about what y’all are working on.

I know we’re all working on healing our inner child, and my specific lane is doing stuff my 7th-grade self would think means I’ve made it, am the coolest possible adult, like buying tickets to see They Might Be Giants in Brooklyn.

me, to myself, every six months, in an extremely Bernie Sanders voice, "I am once again asking: is it time to learn Scrivener?"

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead Links to Over 20 Years of Online Fiction Publications

got super sick just in time for the long holiday weekend so I’m catching up on books people told me to read. Knocked out Kitamura’s INTIMACIES and Nolan’s ORDINARY HUMAN FAILINGS. What else have I been missing out on?

This whole thread!

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

Very much not looking forward to disagreeing about the South with people I agree with on almost everything this upcoming election season. Sigh.

hung out with a friend group tonight that includes A Snob, one of the kind you’ve met at least 5 times who insists on not remembering you or speaking to you even though everyone else knows you. There’s one in every group I’ve ever been part of and yet…We are in our 40s, how is this still happening

One of the best parts of writing is obsession, reading extensively around a story’s central concerns and/or philosophical/sociopolitical underpinnings, but the gearshift coming out of a project can be jarring. What do you mean I can read anything now, anything at all? Absolutely spoiled for choice!!

Red state protesters, y’all. I really need you to see them, and to see how deep, deep, deep this tradition goes. And the wealth, white supremacy and long histories of power marshaled against them.

message from a colleague: "it's bazaar" me (internally): god, I wish we were at a bazaar instead of here, on Slack, discussing this

my kingdom for a doctor who, when faced with “I already drink a few liters of water a day,” doesn’t respond with “well, we can’t rule out dehydration, since we don’t monitor your intake at home.” buddy, we actually can rule that out if you listen to and believe women

This hits different having just re-read STONE ARABIA

Hard to read major publications when the only article genres are like: - "Is this criminal thing that harms the world bad? We asked the guy doing it" - "Bigotry is warranted if I'm upset about life" - "Stop being poor so loud" and - "What Does It Mean: Debating horrible thing he said very clearly"

making some simple syrup and some pimento cheese, as is tradition on the first weekend in May

unsubscribing from every single obviously AI-written email I spot in my inbox is my new self-care routine

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

I simply can't spell "guard" and "guarantee". If anyone's got a little "u before a" memory trick for me, do please send it right along

in honor of National Poetry Month, I spent my Sunday looking at the Polish Rider, and anyway it’s in the Frick, which thank heavens you haven’t gone to yet so we can go together for the first time

Lincoln’s is honestly one of my favorite newsletters—a seriously solid mix of craft talk and industry info, and if these things interest you and you’re not reading it, consider that perhaps you should be?

The only thing sillier than pivoting to video is pivoting to AI

Also....... "THE" Dawn Staley.

Need something for your sanity/humanity? Get in, kids, we’re going to a Zoom reading about songs!

seriously, somebody stop us

South Carolina!

Going to the moon on the first day of national poetry month? Idk, seems like some kind of set up.

I don't mess with April Fool's Day because 12 years ago I had to call out of work because I was in the hospital because I sliced my leg open with my bathroom sink. So consider this instead your annual PSA not to sit on countertops, which can break.

You're not crying? Leonardo DiCaprio's 24-year-old girlfriend is watching "one of Leo's old movies" for the first time, sobbing over Jack's death, not realizing that 25 is the iceberg and she is the ship, and he will always be Rose on the door, and you're not crying? marchxness.com/sadnesschamp...

“The most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening, you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard—the discouragement that comes from seeing what you've done. This is all you could manage?” —James Salter

View from the very back row of a very small plane I got rebooked onto after much nonsense. Literature only, indeed.

I’m slowly but surely refinding and refollowing enough people I knew on Twitter that this app is starting to feel appropriately annoying, welcome back, internet of my youth, spring has sprung, etc etc

At an energy conference on Monday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, "The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over.” Hours later, one of America’s largest oil refineries exploded.

I'm not always homesick, but the mom who runs the corner store down the block, with whom I try valiantly to practice my Spanish, was tagging MoonPies on the countertop today

was just reading a profile of a writer with a forthcoming book and stumbled across a lettuce ad that said “delicious, fresh, and crispy!” and simply assumed it was a blurb

guy in the neighborhood was playing Love Hurts on his phone. great song, i said. he looked at me blankly. emmylou and gram parsons right? i said. he opened a translator app and gestured to speak into it. when my thing was translated his eyes lit up. country music! he said. country music, i said

This is an excellent piece that comments on the damage that GenAI causes. "I hate that I’m forced to make art, or to enjoy it, in an age where technology, industry, and individual choice conspire to undermine our trust in each other at every turn."

Landscape Features xkcd.com/3221/

Words I looked up in the dictionary today, which you're welcome to use as a writing prompt: barbershop, catlike, footbridge, woodsmoke, lunchtime, diacritic, déjà vu, heart rate, burnt, stationmaster, pine cone, judgment, fillet, catalog, bloodstained, son of a bitch, lightheaded #amediting

This is one of the saddest songs I know, the one I skip when my blood is already too close to the wrong side of my skin or skip to when I need to cry a specific feeling out of my system, and Melissa’s essay is an absolute banger. Vote Crows!

Sometimes I save a book I'm dying to read for when I think I'll need it. Yes, one can always re-read, but it's just not the same. I've almost read CREATION LAKE about 8 times, but I finally read it, and I'm so glad to have read it this week. If you've also been saving it, I hope your time comes soon

Can anyone recommend me a profile piece about... anyone, a musician, a politician, an athlete, a friend of someone famous that you read recently and liked? I'm racking my brains and mostly only remembering the ones we've rage-read for The Discourse

I'm a Wilco fan and knew whoever wrote about "Via Chicago" would do it proud, but Christopher Keller really delivered. I somehow missed the Tori Amos bus back in middle school, but Nanette Donohoe's take on "Winter" made this the best listen I've ever had to one of Amos's songs. Both worth the read!

Time is a flat circle, and so is my cat