"Tabs" by Austin Adams is about now, like right now. He pins it in the way he pins lost causes and end of days elsewhere. The thread through all of it is work that somehow seems to know exactly what it's doing at any given moment, with all the tricks of fiction, words, flow, and shape.

Our Spring 2025 Issue is OUT NOW! Featuring incredible works of eco-writing and translation by emerging and established writers. Read now at the link in our bio!

“I read the news. Everyone does, one way or another, if you’re generous enough with those words. I knew once, something true. But it was a song, and it wasn’t catchy. Who can remember now how it goes?”

"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing." New story up today. yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

Be sure to check out this issue of @yourimpossiblevoice.com , which has pieces by two Dodge contributors and is guest edited by a third! @adamsorardor.bsky.social @ianmacclayn.bsky.social @alvinlu.bsky.social

I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear. yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

My friends say I’m totally / intellectually promiscuous which is the footnote to being / so empty that intellectual masturbation begins / to fail regularly. GLENN GOULD'S FAVORITE COLOR WAS 'BATTLESHIP GREY' by @alinaetc.bsky.social www.bruisermag.com/stefanescu_b...

I have a new story in this issue about attention, distraction, how rattled our thoughts are and how alienated we feel from the people around us. It's funny, I swear. yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

"Everyone looks so strange nowadays, or else they don’t, which is its own decision. One of them had had a kid, and it grew or it died. Something significant had happened, which we don’t say about the ferocious enigma of time’s simple passing." New story up today. yourimpossiblevoice.com/tabs/

It's here. Featuring new work from Vincenzo diella Malva, @molarawood.bsky.social, @kabusharekh.bsky.social, @ianmacclayn.bsky.social, Karen An-hwei Lee, @adamsorardor.bsky.social, @ericracher.bsky.social, Mary Burger, Jerry Thompson, Shawna Yang Ryan...

wrote about a genre of essay i really hate: the rich people who weaponize political fear to sell you a dream of european emigration no one but them can afford www.late-review.com/p/against-th...

Let's close ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY with another great book ✨Contributor @alinaetc.bsky.social book MY HERESIES was published by @sarabandebooks.bsky.social ! Find this poetry collection of the sacred and the familial here: buff.ly/zXPhjG6

Rainy Friday night, closing the bookstore by myself, listening to a forgotten slowcore band for whom I might be the top listener on earth. This is what it’s all about

...and reaching down into the water, he will eventually find, among the other crude elements, a seam hidden from his companions, and pulling on that, he will unravel the earth itself.

Harold Bloom: this exquisite tiramisu owes a rather obvious debt to Shakespeare

You know who always believed in your dreams? Freud.

Alina Stefanescu: "Daydreamers (@fictioncollective2.bsky.social) promises another journey with Alvin Lu, who has an extraordinary capacity to build worlds that unseat order and genre simultaneously. I look forward to being unseated, blurred, and bewildered by this one."

Still my favorite thing I’ve written, so I guess why the hell not share it again minorliteratures.com/2024/06/20/o...

Congratulations to the incomparable Stacey Levine, whose novel Mice 1961 was a finalist for this year's Pulitzer Prize! We were fortunate enough to publish an excerpt back in issue 27. Pick yourself up a copy today! bit.ly/4jMhUmI

Good piece, well worth rereading harpers.org/archive/2019...

Loved "Contributions to the Terror". One of the best books I’ve read this year is Austin's unpublished manuscript excerpted in @minorliteratures.bsky.social, below. (Another is Nathan Knapp’s Daybook. Not sure what they’re feeding those boys in Nashville.) minorliteratures.com/2024/09/17/c...

"They were told ‘this is a goddess,’ and they hated her, but for the most part, they just said ‘okay.’ And it isn’t as though this goddess appeared to them. No one had visions of her." If you haven't yet, or if you wish to again, read this masterful work from @adamsorardor.bsky.social

Have you been sentenced to die? If Judgement Day arrives by degrees, over decades, would you notice the incremental impacts of that verdict? What is Nature? I can picture the life of a cow, but the life of a plant? New story out today with @thedodgemag.bsky.social. www.thedodgemag.com/austinadams1

"$15,000?! Stephen King makes that for writing 'Boo!' on a cocktail napkin!"

Everything advertised to me on Instagram is either a $174 linen shirt from a brand founded six weeks ago or actual, injectable testosterone.

To quote Derrida, "I say contradictory things that are, we might say, in real tension; they are what construct me, make me live, and will make me die." I am so grateful to and for everyone who reads this book. 🖤

A therapist's LinkedIn page: Reduced key clients' emotional disturbance by an average of 54%

I’m going to wind up mortifyingly swagged out in indie press merch. A good literary citizen but a highly punchable one.

Us vs the AI cultists

including my bit on Hubert Gonnet ...

“Our projections show that by the year 2025, not only America, but the entire planet, will be under the protection and the dominion of this powerful alliance.”

New online @xraylitmag.bsky.social my short story ‘Wonder Meadow’. xraylitmag.com/wonder-meado...

In this new media landscape, it's important to find novel ways to monetize your work, which is why I'll be releasing remastered versions of my short stories.

Hate how commercial Walpurgisnacht is getting these days

Happy #PubDay to Alina Stefanescu’s MY HERESIES!! In these poems, @alinaetc.bsky.social probes the boundaries the sacred and the profane—a hauntological mapping of life, love, family, and womanhood. Get your copy at the link in our bio!

Time to compare heresies with @alinaetc.bsky.social

@nateknapp.bsky.social's excellent novel, Daybook, came out a year ago. If you haven't read it yet, read it now. nathanknapp.substack.com/p/daybooks-b...

This is really good.

The conceit of clarity as absence of admixture vs murkiness as presence of the world’s material is so rich in the context of conception and pregnancy. socratesonthebeach.com/will-wellman

Hi all! Today we're spotlighting "Indicator Species," a fiction piece written by @cpasko.bsky.social and featured in our Spring 2025 Issue, which is OUT NOW!

I can buy horse steroids on Instagram, but not one shop in Nashville sells The Sewanee Review.

Beginning to work again on a piece you set aside months ago feels like collaborating with a mostly sympathetic but sometimes confounding coauthor.

I think most people have a hard time believing that the USAID/PEPFAR cuts are as bad as they are bc it's impossible to stomach that policymakers would knowingly kill millions. But this is what is happening. PEPFAR supported antiretroviral therapy for 20.6 million people. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

I dove into John Trefry's nearly abstract novel Plats and resurfaced with a few things to say. sebald.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/t... Plats summons the reader to conjure up images and situations that can only be constructed in the mind, to use the infinite plasticity of our own imaginative processes.

This is the richness I crave. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49084/...

We have to build offline communities. No one will see this post bc Bluesky was DOA. Meanwhile, over on X, the timeline is a third AI death cultists, a third avowed white nationalists & a third self-described leftists who *hate* literature.

Today we're featuring "Waiting in the Woods," a fiction piece written by @sephmurtagh.bsky.social and featured in our Spring 2025 Issue, OUT NOW!

Two things, which may appear to be unrelated— but each has its April, so to speak— the first being Erik Satie’s “Vexations,” a composition that would influence John Cage . . . www.alinastefanescuwriter.com/blog/2025/4/...

"Would you still love me if I was a worm?" Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena