That was it. I had no idea what else to read. I paced the neighborhood, in Chicago by now, the baby in a backpack, the toddler in the stroller. Old women came up and chided me about the baby’s uncovered head. ~from "Dearth" by Angela Woodward AGNI Online

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bon appetit 🧑‍🍳

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“I projected a lot of symbolic value onto that tree, which grew despite adversity: The place was a superfund site.” @arielcourage.bsky.social explores America’s polluted urban ruins.

got to write a bad nature playlist 😇 largeheartedboy.com/2025/04/01/a...

also pubbed a short story in joyland yesterday :) joylandpublishing.com/fiction/half...

I liked this book by the way. On shelves today. Ppl should grab a copy.

Looking for a wickedly funny book about a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis who quits her job and takes off on a road trip to kill her father? Well, you are in luck because Bad Nature by @arielcourage.bsky.social is out today! www.islandbooks.com/book/9781250...

alissa nutting (!) reviewed my book (!!) in the nyt (!!!) :)))) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

forgot about this website for a bit but here is my book, it’s out 4/1 in the us and 4/16 in the uk!!!! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

madeleine watts and i are just two millennial ladies who wrote sad climate road-trip novels so this was an esp. fun interview thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

finally watched jonas mekas a couple weeks ago and ever since have been muttering ‘this must be…para-dise’ to myself in my worst lithuanian accent

that cruel kids table article is so ‘tell me you peaked in middle school without telling me you peaked in middle school’ coded

wish i felt schadenfreude but all i feel is sadenfreude ;(

nightwalk dir. by david lynch

hard to forgive hochul for fumbling congestion pricing but i’ll reconsider if she signs climate superfund+co2 fracking ban w/o amendments that fuck em up…get on it girl…!

at least libby’s back up to 10 book holds again. nature is healing etc etc

spoke with pw about how recent fiction is addressing climate change; i’m in good company here www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

mainly what separates bluesky from twitter is that i see way fewer viral suicide jokes on the daily

doing my part to help ny thru this drought by being too depressed to shower ;)

funny timing on this bc over the wknd my husband found an unopened pack of american spirits in the street…kismet! https://xraylitmag.com/visions-sins-ariel-courage/comics/

hardest part of being terminally online is having to feign delight and surprise at memes nononline friends send that have already been making the rounds for weeks/months

forgot this place existed for a bit but here is a comic of mine!

my secret talent is that i can still be socially intimidated by people whose writing i dont even like

once again thinking about the jewelencrusted tortoise from à rebours

had like five funny/weird encounters with strangers in nyc today after MONTHS of drought, am over the moon, i live for this

they should do open house NY but for regular people’s apartments

thinking mean thoughts about someone wearing a ‘be kind’ tshirt

one thing about olga ravn that i couldn’t fit in here is that she has a cool tumblr account lol https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-limits-of-agency-on-olga-ravns-my-work/

reading the iliad bc no one made me read it in school and “i can no longer garnish his bed” is such a raw line wtf

shamelessly x-posting my interview with ✨anna dorn✨ https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/writer-anna-dorn-on-changing-your-attitude-towards-your-work/

saw an ad for a chunky loafer and thought ‘it me’

i wanna be a cafe writer so bad but all i do is go and spend $8-12 on silly little beverages and eavesdrop

summer is all about reading bruno schulz at the beach

PUS

what’s the point of gatekeeping signups for this site if they’re letting furries in

1230 am lightly toasted in my kitchen looking at my cheese grater like ‘he came from nothing…he conquered everything’

the lack of a drafts folder is really wild to me. where else am i going to store all my little stupidities