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detective investigating life | Lost/Found editor at Split/Lip Press | abigailwashere.com/links
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I'm so excited to share my zines online for the first time! ☺️ four new zines to inspire creativity and everyday adventures, all available for immediate download on Itch at a name-your-price option:
abigailoswald.itch.io
more details about each one in the thread!
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went down a music video history rabbit hole this month (who knew they made movie jukeboxes back in the '40s?!)
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A Larger Universe
Turns out I had a favorite music video director all along
https://abigailoswald.substack.com/p/a-larger-universe
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excited to share my zine, FOLLOW THE CLUES, as part of
@creativemornings.bsky.social
Release Day, a collective deadline shared by a community of creatives worldwide! FOLLOW THE CLUES is a tool for honing curiosity + building a personal practice in noticing 🔎
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k y'all, gonna be doubling down on art because it truly feels like the only path forward! gonna use this space to yell as loud as I can about the books and films and art that bring me joy! if that sounds good to you then you're invited! let's do this!
about 1 year ago
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Cait_onthe_luce
17 days ago
Yesterday's excellent galley mail Notes on Postcards by Jennifer Croft! The interior will be in color and features postcards with short notes. Out in November from
@catapultbooks.bsky.social
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just added some fun stuff to my recommendations collection on
@itch.io
, including a meditation on deep reading, a found poetry game, a zine that inspired me while creating my own zines last year, and a catch-a-poem game!
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Recommendations - Collection by abigail oswald
A collection by abigail oswald
https://itch.io/c/6615942/recommendations
15 days ago
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Internet Archive
19 days ago
🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow (
@neglectedbooks.com
) explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the
#InternetArchive
🔗
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
19 days ago
"There’s a lyrical, almost musical side to cinema that speaks very profoundly to each of us. That’s why we can see the same movie, and you hate it and I love it. It’s the same movie, it’s our soul that is different." - Guillermo del Toro
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Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro is perhaps best known as a builder of worlds—his films grow from the sketchbooks that he fills with ideas for fantastical creatures and places.
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/02/15/death-is-the-curator-an-interview-with-guillermo-del-toro/
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a communal creative deadline is such a fun idea! just committed to releasing a creative project on May 29 along w/ a bunch of other folks worldwide + thought to share here too if anyone needs a little accountability + community this month 😊 I'll be working on a zine!
creativemornings.com/releaseday
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Release Day | CreativeMornings ✕ Creative Quests ✕ Adobe
CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Join us at one of our free monthly events around the world or watch the talks online!
https://creativemornings.com/releaseday
24 days ago
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
27 days ago
Art by Tony Stella
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I'll never run out of good things to say about Elizabethtown ❤️
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/revisiting...
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27 days ago
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CineCalendar
about 1 month ago
May 1st 1994 - After getting dumped by May, He Qiwu buys a tin of pineapple with an expiration date of 1 May for a whole month, because May enjoyed pineapples. 📽️📅 Chungking Express (1994)
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hello world! I've been a bit quieter here lately, but wanted to share this piece I wrote about Ellen Arnstein, a really wonderful artist/poet/human being who changed my life in the brief time that I knew her... (1/4)
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about 1 month ago
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Libro.fm
about 1 month ago
Our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale starts...NOW! Stock up on audiobooks, save $$, and feel good knowing that every audiobook you buy directly supports your indie bookshop ⏬ Also - share pics of your cart/what you grab in the thread! We love seeing what you're excited about!
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Austin Kleon
about 2 months ago
I made a batch of posters, zines, and a mixtape for people who pre-order DON’T CALL IT ART
austinkleon.com/2026/04/10/p...
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
about 2 months ago
So... this takes a whole lot longer to climb out of than you might imagine. We've managed to keep things going for the time being—thanks to so many of you!—but we're definitely not out of the woods yet. Every subscription helps! Less than $2.50/month!
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/subscribe/
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Jess Zimmerman
about 2 months ago
I agree 100% with Maris here, I don’t feel a personal connection to many imprints but I really believed in what Sean and his team were doing at MCD and this feels like a repudiation of a lot of the parts of publishing I care about
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Internet Archive
about 2 months ago
🎶 The
#PublicSongProject
is back for 2026! WNYC invites everyone to create songs inspired by the
#publicdomain
. Remix, reinterpret, or reimagine & be heard on
@wnyc.org
& the
#InternetArchive
. 📅 Submit by May 10 📝 Submission form, rules & more info ⤵️
www.wnyc.org/story/2026-p...
#publicradio
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Paranoid Tree Press
2 months ago
Calling all Minnesota-based writers! We're creating a chapbook of art and writing in response to the illegal ICE occupation of our state. Send us your poems, stories and essays under 400 words — by April 30. Submit & more info:
bit.ly/MN-pride-zine
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Slow Art Day is coming up this Saturday, April 11! I made a zine to guide you on an adventure at any art museum 💕
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about 2 months ago
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Split Lip Magazine
2 months ago
"When it feels like the world is falling apart, Jennifer Coolidge, I have my movies." Contributor
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
’s latest Viewfinder column for Bright Wall/Dark Room explores one of her favorite comedies in epistolary form! 🤩 Check it out: 🤩
buff.ly/dDeRYXY
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Split/Lip Press
2 months ago
Happy Publication Day to the Official
@marchxness.bsky.social
Selection Committee,
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
and
@meganc.bsky.social
, and the long awaited, never duplicated HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY!!!
www.splitlippress.com/product-page...
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wrote about Tom Noonan (RIP) and Early Edition, a favorite '90s TV show about a guy who gets tomorrow's newspaper today
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/the-future...
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The Future News
What if you knew, beyond a doubt, what was gonna happen tomorrow?
https://abigailoswald.substack.com/p/the-future-news
2 months ago
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Nicole Carpenter
2 months ago
if you find more fountain pens in video games that i missed, send them and i will paint them too ❤️
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Martin Seay
2 months ago
I'm really digging
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
's interactive
@marchxness.bsky.social
essay on the litany of PJ’s "Wishlist" & the emotional terrain of wishes: "In wishing, we recognize the flimsiness of the present. In art we do this, too."
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Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
https://marchxness.com/the-essays#/madliboflonging/
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Letterboxd
2 months ago
On this day 25 years ago, Cameron Crowe won the Best Original Screenplay for Almost Famous. Today, he reads your Letterboxd reviews for the film 👀 Watch the full video:
boxd.it/fF4
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Brianna Ashby
2 months ago
25 prints of The King of Monsters are now available for pre-order in the shop! (If those 25 sell out, I'll bump that up, otherwise, when you're leading your guests through a tour of your art collection, pipe in hand, you can tell them it's *limited edition*.)
www.brianna-ashby.com/new-products...
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Lincoln Michel
2 months ago
I talked to Julia Ringo and Naomi Huffman of the very cool small press HAGFISH that focuses on literary resurrections of underread women authors.
countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-...
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Interview: How Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo Run Hagfish
The editors and co-publishers on literary resurrections, running a hybrid press, and being “nimble and imaginative” as a small publisher.
https://countercraft.substack.com/p/interview-how-naomi-huffman-and-julia
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Eric Marchen
2 months ago
Thank you, Marcus Medford-Kerr, for writing this engaging and thoughtful CBC article, which includes quotes from yours truly. Now let’s all go to the movies!
www.cbc.ca/radio/thecur...
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The magic of going to the theatre isn’t about the movie. It’s about watching it with strangers | CBC Radio
Movie theatre attendance hasn’t recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruption and the rise of streaming services. But film enthusiasts say you lose some of that movie magic when you skip the share...
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/movie-theatre-magic-watching-with-strangers-9.7133379
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Justin McElroy
2 months ago
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Ben Railton
3 months ago
Before the Oscars, I’m nominating myself for Best Supporting Scholar with my 267th
#ScholarSunday
thread of great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & the winner will be … all of us! 🗃️
blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...
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#ScholarSunday Thread 267 (3/15/26) – Black and White and Read All Over
Before tonight’s Oscars, I’d like to nominate myself for Best Supporting Scholar with my 267th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing, podcasts, new & forthcoming books from the past ...
https://blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunday-thread-267-3-15-26/
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
3 months ago
New today on the site! Our new issue (Comedy Happy Place) begins, with
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
on Jennifer Coolidge and AUSTENLAND
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Dear Jennifer Coolidge | Austenland (2013)
Rewatching Jennifer Coolidge in Austenland feels like the emotional opposite of doomscrolling, a turn toward comfort rather than brand-new bad news.
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/03/11/austenland-dear-jennifer-coolidge/
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Jennifer Coolidge has become something of a patron saint for me amid all the recent horrors, so this month I wrote about AUSTENLAND for
@brightwalldarkroom.com
: an underseen comedy gem that deserves cult classic status ❤️
www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/03/11/a...
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Dear Jennifer Coolidge | Austenland (2013)
Rewatching Jennifer Coolidge in Austenland feels like the emotional opposite of doomscrolling, a turn toward comfort rather than brand-new bad news.
https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2026/03/11/austenland-dear-jennifer-coolidge/
3 months ago
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Erin Langner
3 months ago
My essay on all of the SERIOUS sadness bound up in Mariah Carey’s “Without You,” now live! Vote vote! Special thanks to the
#lambs
who put together a truly impressive magazine archive (covers included w. essay!)
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Split/Lip Press
3 months ago
Not going to AWP? Now through Sunday March 8, use code NOAWPFORME at our website for free shipping! Wait wait, it gets even better: our backlist full-lengths are on sale for $15, backlist chaps are $10. Same prices as the bookfair!!! Discount shows in the cart, so LOAD 'ER UP!
splitlippress.com
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Aaron Wolfson
3 months ago
Hi I wrote you a love letter to Neutral Milk Hotel, Totoro, and partnership.
marchxness.com#/1stround-le...
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Aaron Burch
3 months ago
avoided lots of other work and wrote up my weekly short story reading log + a blog post thinking about
@thelincoln.bsky.social
's punk rock mindset &
@summerbrennan.bsky.social
's book review supplement &
@miriamgershow.bsky.social
's 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 & just making/doing things
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“If you build it, they... might not come, but at least you did something” (+ 2026 reading log, week 8)
Melissa Lozada-Oliva, Camille Bordas, John Updike, Samantha Schweblin, Curtis Dawkins...
https://aaronburch.substack.com/p/if-you-build-it-they-might-not-come
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man, what a month! some notes from me on writing to make sense of it all, with shoutouts to Roswell and First Reformed
abigailoswald.substack.com/p/dear-diary...
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Dear Diary, I Died Today
On journaling in pop culture + writing to make sense
https://abigailoswald.substack.com/p/dear-diary-i-died-today
3 months ago
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Split/Lip Press
3 months ago
Just about one month until publication day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
and
@meganc.bsky.social
, and to celebrate the upcoming Xness tournament (starts on 3/1), we’re shipping preorders today! Order yours:
splitlippress.com
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Kristine Langley Mahler
3 months ago
It took me too long to get to the last couple of
@marchxness.bsky.social
extracurriculars, but WOW, if you haven't read
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
's essay on Pearl Jam, let me just link you up right now. Obsessed with the form. OBSESSEDDDDD
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
https://marchxness.com/the-essays#/madliboflonging/
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Orion Magazine
3 months ago
“Symbols are defined by how we use them. Their power lies in how our imaginations interface with their construction, in what parts of ourselves we’re able to pour into the scaffolding they provide.” Gyasi Hall on queer iconography and the man, the moth, the legend.
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Flight of the Mothman - Orion Magazine
Reflections on survival and queer iconography
https://orionmagazine.org/article/flight-of-the-mothman-queer-icons/
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Kristine Langley Mahler
3 months ago
We’ve entered TQT Bonus Round: I made a 16pg zine, using Chapter 8 from the Seventeen Book of Etiquette and my old Seventeen mags, and they’ll be available as a FREE GIFT WITH PURCHASE, exclusively at my reading events this spring. Buy a copy of Teen Queen Training onsite, get a free zine!
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Kathleen Rooney
3 months ago
"A wish is a genre all its own—a form with infinite variations, a fill-in-the-blank left incomplete without desire." I love what
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
's
@marchxness.bsky.social
essay does with form!
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Essays — March Sadness 90s Edition
https://marchxness.com/the-essays#/madliboflonging/
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Cheryl Graham
3 months ago
If there was a write-in vote, this essay would get mine.
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Melissa Fite Johnson
3 months ago
I'm totally teaching this to my high school Creative Writing students next year
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Aaron Wolfson
3 months ago
"When you commemorate a person in your art, you’re creating a way for yourself to return to them." So much fun; made me want to participate in every essay I read!
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Bright Wall/Dark Room
3 months ago
“I’ve gotten interested in these very little, subtle things you usually don’t see in movies, very quiet, tiny, little moments that you see in life and which are very difficult to put into a movie. I watch people a lot and look for those moments.” - Tom Noonan, R.I.P.
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Kate Erbland
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Letterboxd
4 months ago
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March Sadness 90s Edition
4 months ago
For Extracurricular Friday we bring you
@abigailoswald.bsky.social
's Mad Lib of Longing (on Pearl Jam's "Wishlist")! Read it on the substack or the website:
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
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Allison Renner
4 months ago
WHAT?!?! This is amazing!!
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