I really liked this book. I read it in a few days and have thought about it a lot since.

A week from tonight—Monday, 5/5, 7 pm SPACE @spacegallery.bsky.social 538 Congress Portland ME @johncotter.bsky.social & Shanna Compton, The Color of Sound We’ll be reading/talking about hearing & visualizing sound. John’s got a new story & I’ve got a fresh slideshow. Copies of our books too too.

Corporations are people. AIs are people. The only thing that isn’t people is people.

My autistic kid is a better, kinder, braver person than that entitled asshole could dream of being and I hope she gets to tell him that in person some day.

Bright news for New England, & for me: @shannacompton.bsky.social will be sharing & going over her fascinating & timely new collages, & her strange encounters with the sounds of the world, on May 5th at SPACE. I'll be there too, with a new story about sounds and shadow: space538.org/category/eve...

Indiana! iuwc.indiana.edu/conference/r...

Philip Larkin COMING On longer evenings, Light, chill and yellow, Bathes the serene Foreheads of houses. A thrush sings, Laurel-surrounded In the deep bare garden, Its fresh-peeled voice Astonishing the brickwork. It will be spring soon, It will be spring soon – And I, whose childhood 1/

This is what war is. And it's one of the many reasons why I have no patience for the warlike, the war-makers, the war-profiteers. Never believe kings and presidents when they say they're planning a swift, calculated incursion. Humanity does not have the power to do war well.

the anti-abortion movement is a very complex web of lies invented by right-wing Christians who felt bad about taking the wrong side in the Civil Rights movement and needed to invent a class of imaginary oppressed people they could side with in a way that would reify their frothing misogyny

My book IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE is now available for pre-order. I wrote a short essay for every year of my life so far. Elisa Gabbert says: "This book is so funny and honest" Hanif Abdurraqib calls it "A beautiful portrait of a slow and tender passage of time." rosemetalpress.com/books/it-all...

This begins tomorrow night, friends. There are still spots available!

It’s paperback day for THE POSSIBILITY OF LIFE! On insta I’m giving away a signed copy, a bonus signed Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024, and a beautifully deranged doodle by my favorite ig book buddy www.instagram.com/p/DHD56rBgGK...

An upcoming zoom course with contributor @johncotter.bsky.social

if you're looking for a writing class to connect to, this one is gonna be great

Kind of an interesting example from this 2001 profile of Peter Thiel

A narratively satisfying set of tunes to play at your next session: Whiskey in the Basement / Whiskey in the Jar / Whiskey In A Pint Glass / The Charms Of Whisky / The Humours of Whiskey / Whiskey Makes You A Lunatic / Whiskey, You're the Devil / Farewell to Whiskey / Whiskey Before Breakfast

Happy to see SONG SO WILD AND BLUE walk with these 25 other books out today! lithub.com/omar-el-akka...

Frank Lima

don’t wanna be a raccoon in a raccoon graveyard

You have more power and wealth than anyone has ever dreamed. You can do literally anything in the world that you want. How do you spend your holidays?

I want to throw winter across the landscape

Same, I don't even secretly like them, not ironically, not passively, not self-deceivingly. I halfway feel like everyone's putting me on, really

Amazing work from the NYT on the “wrinkle” of ethnic cleaning. No notes, guys, why change?

Probably it was just that one racist guy, the others I'm sure are fine

Great thread. Work that wallows in the imitative fallacy can be an easy way to take a half step out of mass-slop culture & into critique, but you can't get mired there, you have to take the next step.

Borat voice

Preorder this marvelous book & have something (one thing) to look forward to in the months ahead!

Signing back into Bluesky to repost this but it so perfectly articulates my own suspicions about this stuff

Happy New Year! I won't be checking Bluesky until after January. If you want me again look for me in this Necessary Fiction story from 2024: necessaryfiction.com/stories/poet...

I feel about average.

Dear friends and family,

Babe, are you okay? You haven’t written back about your Thomasville Furniture Joelle Ergonomic Fabric/Metal Desk Chair, Blue/G...

"I lived you say to no one in particular, the key deep in your pocket they’ll never find, yr hand closing round it— " The new Jorie Graham poem's as wrenching & gorgeous as you would expect

Do we need "urgent"? Does one see lackadaisical manhunts? "Manhunt, nbd, Underway", "Mid Manhunt"

Do it now. Do this now.

Sneak peek of the front cover of @tmcallister.bsky.social's essay collection IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE: 42 Years in 42 Essays, releasing in MAY 2025: rosemetalpress.com/sneak-peek-o...

Print culture has one trick left

I’ll be the judge of that, thanks

it me

Franz Wright

another year another spat about if The Doors is a Thanksgiving movie

A Christmas card that says "we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty," when you open it

Just a moment of self-promotion because this kind of meant a lot to me: my book JULIA won the last-ever Kitschies award for best SF novel of the year. www.thebookseller.com/news/the-kit...