While I was a student at Bennington College I was a member of a secret society called The Disciples of Paula Jean. I have not spoken publicly about it before now. This is not the kind of thing I usually post about, but it’s something I feel like I need to share rn. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

Sirens… not bad for a show that “looks like that”

In case you missed I just posted a two-part hybrid “review” of @catherinelacey.bsky.social’s The Möbius Book on Substack, here’s part one: open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as “a lost treasure of a time when capitalism had so much slack in it that there was no pressing need to stop your mind from wandering”

The “Internet Novel” was created in a lab and I worked there open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

Joey Tribbiani IS brat

For anyone who missed it in every other platform: I spent years chasing the Pavements story to write this insane hybrid-genre essay about it for @nplusonemag.com, thanks Mark Ibold Alex Ross Perry Angela Trimbur and, of course, Pavement www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

“How does ‘Slanted! Enchanted!’ exemplify the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk?” @spiccarella.bsky.social on Pavement and “Pavements”: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

ICYMI after resisting for years for various reasons I've finally caved and started a newsletter, it's called Grey Fiction and the first post describes in a hopefully intelligible way what that means, I'm planning to publish once a week and would love for you to subscribe substack.com/inbox/post/1...

They’re frying my ass on Raymond Carver stan twitter

They’re frying my ass on Ocean Vuong stan twitter

Man Ocean Vuong fans can be a vicious bunch

I could have had class… I could have been an email

Bluesky the everything else app

Crosspost from Twitter: would you or anyone you know be interested in submitting to a zine/anthology/symposium with the theme “New Writing on De-evolution”? If so please like reply DM etc. thank you I love you

I know the correct ranking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies. But I’m not telling

Published June 1978 in "The Village Voice," the David Johansen piece “Kid Patriarch Makes His Move” is just about as close as I’ve ever come to writing one of those formulaic staples of arts journalism, a celebrity profile. robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...

For anyone in this unique audience who might be looking or tapped in: I’m looking for editorial or content production work. I have 10+ years’ experience across various industries including tech, healthcare, and media. Happy to share samples docs etc. Let me know!

Brodernism—stupid word. But there’s always been something embarrassing about the way critics fawn over these doorstoppers. That said, without all the far-flung world lit in translation the culture would be in a sorry state. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...

This happened to me too

This is the best club I’ve ever been a part of. go.bsky.app/Fncfb1h

Someone QT’d saying Bluesky needs this energy so here you go

New Whistler’s Motherfucker track in memory of David Lynch, rest well king whistlersmotherfucker.bandcamp.com/track/in-mou...

Happy new year

lfg

Remade Weezer’s Blue Album as a Xmas album, happy holidays babyjeezer.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...

All are welcome but be prepared to prove ancestry go.bsky.app/Fncfb1h

Say what you will about Bluesky but where else is McKenzie Wark posting The World/Inferno Friendship Society

This was up there www.bookforum.com/print/3102/a...

In 2020 @nplusonemag.com let me write 3k words about professional skateboarder Mark Suciu and the formal evolution of the skate video… still kind of hard to believe www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

I am available to participate in any public conversation about Infinite Jest, the unabomber, and contemporary Italian American identity formation

Every year the app tells me I listen to Pavement a lot. This year was no different.

In 2019 I went deep on aliens and 78s with Hari Kunzru for @believermag.bsky.social. The interview is 6k words but could have been 3x as long. www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

Btw I need readers for a story rn but fair warning to any zoomers there is a sex scene… inquire within

In 2019 I went deep on aliens and 78s with Hari Kunzru for @believermag.bsky.social. The interview is 6k words but could have been 3x as long. www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

At the risk of getting my ass kicked can anyone who follows me recommend any poststructuralist writing on phonetics

Vineland by Pynchon… recommended by my editor

My version of this is I ask someone what their favorite movie is and then I ask them if you had to watch one right now would you rather watch that movie or Men In Black? Works every time

I wrote this story before the pandemic, then by the time it was published it was more topical than I had planned. It’s about flat earthers huffing cleaning fluid. heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/08/10/p...

Friend who is not an obsessive bibliophile asked to read my Baffler piece… wondering how they will respond to this

I wrote this story before the pandemic, then by the time it was published it was more topical than I had planned. It’s about flat earthers huffing cleaning fluid. heavyfeatherreview.org/2020/08/10/p...

New Rachel Kushner earlier this year and new Sergio de la Pava just last week… last time they both had books out the same year I reviewed both for @nplusonemag.bsky.social www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

This piece has just been updated to credit Ottilie’s astonishing work in translating Herscht 07769… as good a reason as any to read or reread it today

Starting tomorrow I’m going to start pumping this space with content. App in its infancy, no defining affect or ethos, so basically I’m thinking I have total creative carte blanche.

The postwar novel recontextualized, defamiliarized, and reimagined the traditional novel. Now that metafiction is itself a relic of the past, @spiccarella.bsky.social takes stock of two new novels that plumb its afterlife.

Since supposedly I should start posting here now… thanks to @thebaffler.com for the chance to write this essay about the new Blake Butler and Laszlo Krasznahorkai novels and “postmodernism” thebaffler.com/latest/ghost...