“Press & Pull,” one of the best shows of the season, closes tomorrow at The James Gallery, CUNY. Go!!

I had a few things to say about the Secret Handshake's Trump-Epstein sculpture for The Boston Globe (in short, it's effective but also gross). Thanks to Julian E.J. Sorapuru for reporting on this.

Love the ending of this bio for Samia Halaby, a wonderful artist and activist: "When Samia is not busy traveling to international shows and speaking, she retreats to her TriBeCa studio where she enjoys being a recluse as if she’s in a cave or a lone sailor in a deep submarine."

Thanks, Cyan!! @powells.bsky.social

Here's my first piece for the Brooklyn Rail's Dance column: brooklynrail.org/2025/11/danc...

Essential reading. Also, great framing with Octavia Butler as source and inspiration.

People who use Amazon as a rental service and brag about it are 🤮. Just stop. You’re not hurting Amazon or Bezos at all.

Who will be the first to sue an AI company for defamation when a fake quote is attributed to them? Of course we could all sue for plagiarism, all us writers....

She should be alive today.

Tonight! My last book event (to date), where I'll be bringing it all back home with the great Carrie Moyer: huntercollegeartgalleries.org/events/2025/...

This is the first time that I feel like I’ve won—that we’ve won—in my couple of decades-plus of living in NYC. The smiles on the faces of parents and kids in queens this early morning says it all, leaving me no regrets about not attending that party last late night.

Down with the cowardly gerontocracy.

“As a visual artist, I want to live in the city I love and actually afford it instead of constantly feeling like I’m being priced out.” —Samhita Kamisetty

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

Election Day jitters? Join me tonight at ISCP in Brooklyn for a lively chat with artist Marianne Villiere.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

This news is slow to hit the US but very exciting. “The First Peoples' Assembly of Victoria - which negotiated the Treaty on behalf of Indigenous Victorians - welcomed the milestone with Co-Chair Ngarra Murray calling it a ‘historic moment for our people.’”

Happy Día De Muertos to all who celebrate💀

If Mamdani wins, it will demonstrate that progressive Democrats, running within the party, can win elections based on popular working-class reforms—that is, if they aren’t thwarted by their own party leadership.

So much sewage bubbling up from the streets of SoHo today. The ironies couldn’t be richer.

Thursday!

I think most media criticism--especially the who's in, who's out variety--is a luxury of either an at-least semi-functional democracy or those content to gossip over court politics. It's not the front line of struggle in terms of protest or journalism. We know what's what. Let's do the real work.

“Every once in a while, however, news of Death’s particular methods and attention to detail seizes our attention like the cougar does the clueless rabbit, and we suffer some serious confusion and fright.” —Joy Williams

I am so lucky to have a birthday this time of year in NY.

Not a great feeling to pitch a piece to a magazine and then see them assign it to another writer.

Huge thanks to @valentinadl.bsky.social for this sweet write up!

Bummed to miss tomorrow’s welcoming party at LaGuardia CC for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that my union is holding. Any PSC-CUNY members going? Can you snag me one of those cool buttons?

Happy birthday to the greatest, Ursula K. Le Guin

New Haven! Excited to be in conversation with the great Alex Fialho on Wednesday at Possible Futures!

Not sure I like this 🪧 as the protest emoji but am sure using it a lot today.

Sasha Wortzel's incredible love letter to the Everglades, RIVER OF GRASS, is screening at DCTV this month. Don't miss it! Also: a week from today, Oct 30, 7pm--come on out for Florida Ex-pats Night, a post-screening Q&A with Wortzel, Dominic Davis, and yours truly.

Tomorrow!

Take your daughter(s) to the WHM show @ Amant.

Managed to see many NYC gallery shows this week and did not take any photos! But here are my top 3: 1. @naylandblake.bsky.social @ Matthew Marks 2. Reggie Uluru @ D’Lan Contemporary 3. “Surreal America” @ Michael Rosenfeld

Editors, make note: we don't want to finish reading a review of a book only to find an advertisement for the same book on the next page!!

I cannot believe what we are subjected to, day after day.

JOB! The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is hiring an arts reporter: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/gannet...

Will you join us on 10/15 @versobooks.bsky.social? Hope so!

“When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money…” Loved this, and the entire paragraph that quote is taken from. @nplusonemag.com

I’m having a monarch weekend. There was this one yesterday in my community garden plot.

Tonight in Providence!

Tomorrow!

As usual Robin D.G. Kelly is spot on.

Wordpress is fine for newsletters, right? Anything I should know?

The names of most of these people are publicly identified and someone will leak everyone who attends. Can a graphic designer create a downloadable poster with all of the names and faces of these people under the title "BILLIONAIRES AGAINST NYC?" The posters can be put up across the city.

📣 This only happens once a year! 📣 The Yale Review is now open for general submissions through September 30. Send us your poems, stories, essays, and translations. For full guidelines and to submit: yalereview.org/about/submis...

Excited to check out "One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests" by D.W. Gibson after reading E. Tammy Kim's review in @nybooks.com. "As I read the book today, I’m more struck by the broad appeal, and hijacked potential, of the movement."

Congrats NYC public school parents! We made it to the first day of school. 😮‍💨

9/23, 7pm: Brookline Booksmith in Boston!

9/24, 7pm: RIFF RAFF bookstore in Providence!