went down a music video history rabbit hole this month (who knew they made movie jukeboxes back in the '40s?!) abigailoswald.substack.com/p/a-larger-u...

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 🔎 abigailoswald.itch.io/follow-the-c...

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!

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.

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! itch.io/c/6615942/re...

🧵 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 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

"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

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

Art by Tony Stella

I'll never run out of good things to say about Elizabethtown ❤️ abigailoswald.substack.com/p/revisiting...

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)

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) abigailoswald.itch.io/begin-at-the...

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!

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...

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/

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

🎶 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

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

Slow Art Day is coming up this Saturday, April 11! I made a zine to guide you on an adventure at any art museum 💕 abigailoswald.itch.io/begin-at-the...

"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

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...

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...

if you find more fountain pens in video games that i missed, send them and i will paint them too ❤️

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."

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

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...

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-...

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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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...

New today on the site! Our new issue (Comedy Happy Place) begins, with @abigailoswald.bsky.social on Jennifer Coolidge and AUSTENLAND

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...

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!)

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

Hi I wrote you a love letter to Neutral Milk Hotel, Totoro, and partnership. marchxness.com#/1stround-le...

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

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...

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

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#/...

“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.

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!

"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#/...

If there was a write-in vote, this essay would get mine.

I'm totally teaching this to my high school Creative Writing students next year

"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!

“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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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#/...

WHAT?!?! This is amazing!!