Justin Taylor
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Tom McAllister
1 day ago
I believe that I could easily assemble a crew to pull off a string of major bank robberies, a crew that would include no loose cannons, no turncoats, no mysterious strangers with secret agendas. Just professionals, no mistakes ever. I simply choose not to do it
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it’s Tyler TX, actually, but I get where Ray is coming from
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2 days ago
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Barrelhouse
4 days ago
On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy
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Here is the thing. The only thing
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11 days ago
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Willie Fitzgerald
19 days ago
they got it right when they named gerbils. little guys over there gerbin'
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had the pleasure of writing about this great strange bracing debut novel
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This Narrator Merits Your Attention. Just Don’t Trust Anything She Says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/books/review/aea-varfis-van-warmelo-attention-seeking-behavior.html
19 days ago
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The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler
23 days ago
For American Theatre I spoke to a whole mess of people in the new play world about what has and hasn't changed over the last two decades since the study Outrageous Fortune sought to comprehensively document the problems in the New Play sector (1/???):
www.americantheatre.org/2026/05/11/s...
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State of Play
Why the theatre industry’s new-play push hasn’t improved the playwrights’ lot.
https://www.americantheatre.org/2026/05/11/state-of-play/
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Tom McAllister
28 days ago
let the hackers have Canvas, it's fine. Everyone gets a B+
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i wrote a pretty good novel about this; out in paperback now
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about 1 month ago
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albums, poems, canyons
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hail disaster
A fire in the western world, you say?
https://my19thcentury.substack.com/p/hail-disaster
about 2 months ago
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cunty musgraves
about 2 months ago
a corned beef sandwich but the bread is latkes
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this is excellent, and so so so so bleak
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about 2 months ago
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two from this weekend at Treefort in Boise: Toody Cole & Her Band at Neurolux; Geese on the main stage
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2 months ago
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hard agree. im a fairweather callahan fan and have skipped the last several but i threw this on last night and found it warm and gorgeous and deeply moving
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3 months ago
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Ray Padgett
3 months ago
Hilarious that this is the image on the Black Rider Wikipedia page
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J. Robert Lennon
3 months ago
It’s a-I, predicate nominative mario
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Martyn
3 months ago
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Mark Athitakis
3 months ago
Grammarly's updated Expert Review lineup.
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Kristen Arnett
3 months ago
a wine tasting happens every time you drink it
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perfect answer, dont ask what the question was
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3 months ago
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clicked over to
@thesunmagazine.bsky.social
to see what's new and was happy to see a couple of David Berman poems from Actual Air newly reprinted. then humbled-thrilled-jarred to find myself quoted in the editor's introduction. David's "surreal clarity" yes. Always and forever
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Selected Poems
It all reminds me of that moment when you take off your sunglasses / after a long drive and realize it’s earlier / and lighter out than you had accounted for.
https://www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/603-selected-poems
3 months ago
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i wrote the album bio for this one! (
www.subpop.com/artists/iron...
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3 months ago
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Kevin Nguyen
3 months ago
we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago
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the Mountain Goats
3 months ago
I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY" I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND
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Helena Fitzgerald
3 months ago
if only those who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs knew that one day one might go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights
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Helena Fitzgerald
3 months ago
contemplating, awestruck, the centuries-long geometry of material and historical processes necessary to create the conditions for me to have just sent a text asking “want to go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights”
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Tobias Carroll
4 months ago
Really dug
@justintaylor.bsky.social
's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel.
www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
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A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
https://www.harvardreview.org/book-review/a-parish-chronicle/
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hot damn
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4 months ago
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Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist
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You are who eats you
I know thee not, chopped unc
https://my19thcentury.substack.com/p/you-are-who-eats-you
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Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist
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You are who eats you
I know thee not, chopped unc
https://my19thcentury.substack.com/p/you-are-who-eats-you
4 months ago
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wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review
www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
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A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
https://www.harvardreview.org/book-review/a-parish-chronicle/
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and i still am
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4 months ago
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have been listening to the grateful dead ALL DAY and i still am
4 months ago
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so stoked to see this story, drafted in my fall class at the Columbia MFA, now published at
@necessaryfiction.com
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Mike Dyson – Necessary Fiction
https://necessaryfiction.com/stories/mike-dyson/
4 months ago
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i used to make a version of "boy kibble" i called "idiot bachelor slurry." i wrote about it some years back when i was commissioned to contribute an essay to an anthology of writers writing about food. the essay was rejected for being too funny
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"democracy dies in darkness" wasn't a warning, it was a vow
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4 months ago
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Carolyn Kellogg
4 months ago
If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.
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scene from Hamnet where Shakespeare composes "To be or not to be" speech in real time but it's Lindsey Buckingham trying out "Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff"
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Lincoln Michel
4 months ago
Learn to ode.
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Lincoln Michel
4 months ago
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been asking @ Grok "Is this true?" ever since.
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wrote this a few years ago but it came up in conversation this morning and i gotta say i'm still very happy with it
my19thcentury.substack.com/p/standing-i...
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Standing in the Doorway
-> Craft Talk -> Jam -> Craft Talk -> Not Fade Away
http://my19thcentury.substack.com/p/standing-in-the-doorway
4 months ago
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still dont know what a tony dockpile is, not asking
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Anthony Domestico
5 months ago
New Reviewing the Contemporary Novel reading list, featuring
@tricialockwood.bsky.social
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@justintaylor.bsky.social
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@appletwigli.bsky.social
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what if i just listened to Spacemen 3 all day
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sarah jeong
5 months ago
can't stop thinking about how any bus driver can just kidnap a fuckton of people and the only reason it doesn't happen all the time is because what the fuck do you want to do with a busload of people
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ok listen the actual best Peggy-O is Penn State 5/6/80 but in all seriousness this is such a sweet way to close out a truly bleak week. and the song is gorgeous. kudos
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wrote about Katherine Dunn for
@nplusonemag.com
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and as a finalist for the National Book Award.
https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/you-are-who-eats-you/
5 months ago
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Penina Roth
5 months ago
Huge thanks to mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 Launch stars
@justintaylor.bsky.social
,
@knguyen.bsky.social
,
@ellomelissa.bsky.social
, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman & ❤️ to our amazing audience! And we were honored to kick off the paperback tour for Justin's incredible novel Reboot!
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sarah jeong
5 months ago
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be reborn. Now is the time of Will Stancils.
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