A little sneak peek of our substack post going up tomorrow featuring photos by Tucsonan Steve Renzi of Downtown Tucson in the 1980s

I love richard siken and calling things essays even if the publishers says they are not (claudia rankine)

New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays! open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...

So maybe 14 years ago I spent several weeks in Lithuania & talked to many Lithuanians, several of whom told me a story I keep think about: during the Soviet era there was a sort of USSR Olympics, in which the different regions of the Soviet bloc would compete against each other. (1/4)

Which Robert Redford movie should I make my kid watch tonight? Sneakers, right? It's Sneakers.

My dad loved Robert Redford, especially in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. During my dad's last year, we watched it together, and I learned dad only remembered the first half of the film: for him, the movie ended not in death but in escape, via a shared leap of faith. If only, if only, if only.

oh dude I just made one for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social

An original Tucson essay by Dorian Rolston on teaching Peggy Shumaker's "Moving Water, Tucson": open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Good work @housleydave.bsky.social and @tmcallister.bsky.social

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I just found out that REFUSE TO BE DONE is going into its 8th printing! I've heard so many stories from writers whose projects have been helped along by this little yellow book over the past three years. Nothing makes me happier!

Come and join us on our new chat thread about the movie from last night, 1975's Dog Day Afternoon, for our Tucson Essay Movie Club members: substack.com/chat/5666207

Come join us and Manuel Muñoz tonight at Casa Video 8pm for Tucson Essay Movie Club, featuring 1975's Dog Day Afternoon. These events are primarily social, a writer introducing a movie that excites them with a brief essay, and we all watch it together.

Two new Tucson Essay Club stickers for you in the shop: tucsonessayclub.org/store/

Ran across Tucson and Casa Video in another Thomas Dai essay from Take My Name But Say It Slow

Featuring Thomas Dai's "A Borderlands Transect" in this week's substack: tucsonessayclub.substack.com/p/a-borderla...

⭐🐚 "you could be a cookie lying there, / photographed not on a beach but in a pastry case" From "Die-off Off Vancouver" by ASU English professor Sally Ball. Read the whole poem online or in the September print issue @thenation.com: ow.ly/ICsz50WHzVf #ASUHumanities

DAMN THIS ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF IS HITTING: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpMH...

Ever made or was given a mixtape? Check this project out.

Coming up on the Substack, a feature with @richard-siken.bsky.social and his new book of poems...or are some of them essays: I DO KNOW SOME THINGS from @coppercanyonpress.bsky.social. Book drops next week, so you will want to get your copy ordered NOW: antigonebooks.com/book/9781556...

New Substack post: Mixtape Manifesto 02 is all about the human voice. mixtapemanifesto.substack.com/p/vocal-music

Mixtape Manifesto — My Substack where I excavate old mixtapes, write about them, and re-create them as Spotify playlists: mixtapemanifesto.substack.com

TUCSON ESSAY ALERT

only one cat can possess The Box

Tucson friends! There's a public meeting tomorrow on the Project Blue proposal aka Amazon's attempt to drain our aquifer for a data center. It's 5-7pm at the Tucson Convention Center & everyone is welcome, please make a sign & bring everyone you know!

Weird moon/cloud combination last night

New post up for Club Members only on substack. The Aug 3 Social (6pm at Reilly Beer Garden after the Katherine Larson book release at Club Congress) is open to anyone. open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

An excerpt from MOTHER OF METHADONE by @melodyglenn.bsky.social and an interview with the author over at the Tucson Essay Club substack: tucsonessayclub.substack.com/p/mother-of-...

If you are working on your course calendar and want some suggested readings, we have plenty of ideas for you. Visit our River Teeth Revisited page (tinyurl.com/ye237kjn) and check out the PDF to inspire your teaching or accommodate your own writing.

There is still time to join me for one of my Essay Master Classes this summer! www.margosteines.com/classes

Per Leslie Jamison, reading @margosteines.bsky.social's writing is "journeying to the center of the earth, except the earth is a human body." Learn from Margo, @christinajcooke.bsky.social @porochista.bsky.social @sarahmanguso.bsky.social & Krys Malcom Belc in "Writing the Body." buff.ly/JOxfnwQ

An initiative launched last year by Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has now erased $429 million in medical debt for 352,000 Arizonans. Elections matter. www.abc15.com/news/state/m...

Hey Tucson essay-readers and Tucson essay-writers, what are some of your favorite essays in which Tucson shows up? We're starting to collect these in a collaborative doc (comments enabled): docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Happy #PubDay, @melodyglenn.bsky.social! 🩺 MOTHER OF METHODONE, the stories of 2 doctors battling the opioid epidemic half a century apart that reveal the origins of today’s public health crisis, is “a vital read.” — @drcarlerik.bsky.social buff.ly/x6QXIIm

Tucsonans consider signing up for the free or paid options with @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social to keep in touch? This is a great essay by Katherine Larson. Pick up her new book Wedding of the Foxes too now from @milkweededitions.bsky.social

An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...

Fine, @leahmensch.bsky.social: tucsonessayclub.org/product/i-to...

Submission opportunity for essayists (deadline 7/27): theseventhwave.org/announcement...

Very much appreciate the shout-out, Senator. I would also like to note that UofA’s Imaging Technology Laboratory was responsible for manufacturing almost half of the sensors for Rubin’s science camera. astro.arizona.edu/news/tiny-se...

Hey there, so I'm starting up a new project, Tucson Essay Club / @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social. We have a substack (our primary mode of publication). If you're connected to or curious about Tucson & literary nonfiction or just like clubs, come and join us: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

Quick reminder that if you want to put your name into the 2026 March Sadness 1990s Edition Lottery, do it in the next week. Here's the form to do so: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...