Stuart Ross
@myskypager.bsky.social
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Author of The Hotel Egypt and Jenny in Corona
https://linktr.ee/myskypager
I have a new piece in TNR on Melanie Anagnosâ *Nightswimming* which you should check out after reading my piece.
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The Good Cop Problem: On Melanie Anagnos' Nightswimming - The Metropolitan Review
âTwo of the big knocks against crime fiction,â according to writer Sam Wiebe, â[are] that it glamorizes the police and fetishizes female victims.â These are fair knocks, but also the very pitfalls tha...
https://metropolitanreview.com/the-good-cop-problem/
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Happy one year anniversary to The Hotel Egypt! Buy it here or anywhere, or DM for a copy.
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The Hotel Egypt
https://www.spuytenduyvil.net/The-Hotel-Egypt.html
2 months ago
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Keith Gessen says the same in âMoney (2014)â from MFA vs: NYC: âIn fact what I most wanted was to be told, by a writer, that I was myself a writer, that I had it.â
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5 months ago
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I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!
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5 months ago
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When you're such a bad-ass writer Anna K. and Sabbath server as "soothing reminders"
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New writing:
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Baseball, Autofiction, and the American Psyche
A Cubs game, a podcast, and a Fourth of July riff on art, satire, Exodus, and the rituals that make (and unmake) American life.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-167444955
5 months ago
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New writing in da stacks
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âThe only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.â â Henry Miller
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Mountainhead proves Succession wasn't that good.
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The most terrifying part of scrolling is getting to the untranslatable Japanese word we need in English.
5 months ago
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The Trump administration makes no sense unless we're in the streets.
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lauren
6 months ago
if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"
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So weird to me ppl pretend it takes two years for a book to come out when you could just post the PDF to a dropbox and be like, here's my book.
6 months ago
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The Lucy Dacus to Cranberries cafe background noise transition. Makes me want to listen to their child, Julie Doiron.
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Robert Graettinger composed in poverty and seclusion and was soon forgotten after he died in 1957. Aspects of his worksâ internal struggles would preoccupy Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane.
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Incident In Jazz
Robert F. Graettinger, Ebony Band Amsterdam, Gunther Schuller · City Of Glass · Song · 2006
https://open.spotify.com/track/14BeJCkPal1M1kPMO7JzAP?si=DZg-0hRzTteJcY3NCYexzA
6 months ago
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Youâve been in the house too long she said, so I naturally placed a Starbucks mobile order for an Impossible sandwich without cheese.
6 months ago
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People would be more interesting if they werenât always trying to get so much âquality sleep.â I wish I had more hair on my calves. I take the arrival of a cat on my lap as a sign of humility. I wish Juan Soto were still on the Bombers.
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Race Book (125p-108k)
People would be more interesting...
https://pebbleculture.substack.com/p/race-book-125p-108k
6 months ago
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New fiction, "Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)" on something I've always wonder about: when movie stars fly to Indiana for playoff games, what happens to them in Indiana?
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Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)
She was at a gas station, filling up a jug for the tractor.
https://substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/pebbleculture-substack-com-p-ambivalence-indiana-french-lick.html
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If Dave Eggers blurbed a book I know itâs probably good and I know Iâm probably not going to read it.
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Itâs weird that New Yorkers sit in FDR traffic staring at a gray river and Chicagoans sit in LSD traffic staring at the cerulean blur of Lake Michigan.
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Tik-Tok is the most desperate app in the app store.
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DarkSkies
6 months ago
âBut I couldnât help wishing its author took more risks. âGreat writers of fiction,â Arnold Bennett tells us, âare by the mysterious nature of their art ordained to be amateurs.â The author of The Sleepers is many things, but an amateur isnât one of them.â Great review by a great writer!
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Alice Notley, Bolinas, California, 1971.
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âRight wing literature, amirite?â content is the Banana Republic Factory Outlet Henley of our time.
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Everyone has read everything. The craft question becomes, can you write about everything that you have read.
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"Shoefly girls, you gotta work for it Emo kids, you don't tip for shit Grad school groupies, you can wait another year 'Cause it's bad when you go, but it's not as bad as when you're here." The Eames Era - "Dear Gabby" (2007)
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Dear Gabby
YouTube video by The Eames Era - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rYZL5kIXw
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Alice Notley (1945-2025) on poetry.
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More writing on The Sleepers. You won't want to miss this. A piece a little bit more vulnerable than I usually am.
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New York Groove (37+1)
The Sleepers: Insomnia edition
https://pebbleculture.substack.com/p/new-york-groove-37and1
6 months ago
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Those of us forever changed by the non-internet-novel second half of Patricia Lockwoodâs *No One Is Talking About This* reach booming levels of sympathy for the families in stories like this.
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Georgia Abortion Ban Forces Family to Keep Pregnant, Brain-Dead Woman on Life Support
A 30-year-old Black woman in Georgia has been kept on life support for three months against her familyâs wishes because of the stateâs âfetal heartbeatâ anti-abortion law. Adriana Smith was declared l...
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/5/27/adriana_smith_georgia_fetal_heartbeat
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Grimes/DeJohnette/Henderson/Tyner's "In N' Out" Live at Slugs, once located on E. 3rd St between B & C, in '66. Equal to anything unsurpassed.
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In âN Out (Live)
YouTube video by McCoy Tyner - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1XhXiUCcZg
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Write what you know's older, wiser cousin, "don't write what you don't know."
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At The Metropolitan Review I reviewed Matthew Gasda's new novel, The Sleepers. Thanks to Ross Barkan & company for siring TMR, one of the more exciting places for new writing on the web right now.
www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-new-yo...
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New York Groove
On Matthew Gasda's 'The Sleepers'
https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-new-york-groove
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Every time I see an old punk on a computer I wonder if heâs typing a Facebook post on whatâs punk and whatâs not.
6 months ago
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Feel like there should be an outdoor pant called The Geoff Dyer.
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When you live in a weekend tourism hood there's something baller about lugging a 9=36 package of toilet paper through its busiest streets.
6 months ago
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The revolution will not be brought you by THC-infused drinks.
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Array in Brown, Dan Phillips Trio. Killer.
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Array In Brown, by Dan Phillips Trio
13 track album
https://danphillips1.bandcamp.com/album/array-in-brown
6 months ago
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First issue release party for the pub at Dovetail this Sunday.
www.dovetailbrewery.com/events-and-t...
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Mike Reed/Jim Elkington/Hunter Diamond at Hungry Brain last night spitting some Ayleresque joy.
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Deborah Shapiro (
@bside-editions.bsky.social
) in conversation with Matthew Specktor (
@specktor.bsky.social
) at Exile in Bookville last night. Lovely! Specktor: "There are no minor characters."
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Reading this Sunday!
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7 months ago
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Reading this Sunday!
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Simone Muench
7 months ago
Join Kenyatta Rogers and me at Hungry Brain in April to see
@carrieetter.bsky.social
,
@myskypager.bsky.social
, and
@christyprahl.bsky.social
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Some Benzedrine-fueled content on my trip to SoCal and my one day at
#AWP25
. (Wish Iâd actually had some Benzedrine, but Blue Bottle coffee is excellent.) Enjoy!
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AWP UNDEAD BLOG
11:10AM The cab drops me off at the dead-end of Chick Hearn Ct. and Georgia St.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-160330682
8 months ago
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DarkSkies
7 months ago
My book, THE DELEGATION, is out today. Everyone shows the cover, and Iâll show you that, but the first page will tell you whether you want to read the thing or not.
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Me and my friends, we miss dodecaphony most of all.
8 months ago
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Some Benzedrine-fueled content on my trip to SoCal and my one day at
#AWP25
. (Wish Iâd actually had some Benzedrine, but Blue Bottle coffee is excellent.) Enjoy!
substack.com/home/post/p-...
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AWP UNDEAD BLOG
11:10AM The cab drops me off at the dead-end of Chick Hearn Ct. and Georgia St.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-160330682
8 months ago
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It's time
8 months ago
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Isn't it kinda weird how this is just a bullet in a stock briefing now.
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