Since I just discovered this essay isn't available on the dark-mountain.net site anymore, I put it up on mine. It's one I'm particularly proud of: getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2026/01/26/t...

"He was carrying--" "Well she shouldn't have been--" "He was planning--" You're telling me this nation, currently ruled by decree and not legislation, now condones vigilante execution too? This year marks the 250th anniversary of the United States. But to hear you talk--America died at 249.

Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

We were doing great up to this post. Since then, just two sets sold. Booksellers, consider stocking a set. Customers will want one if they're going to take part in the great Pilgrimage read of 2026! readingpilgrimage.com

Also: getting rid of pennies as a currency will absolutely become a regressive tax. Your state's sales tax: Is it an even 5 or 10 percent? Because if it isn't, who's going to end up paying for rounding up? People with no phones or credit cards.

Extremely excited to start off the year with a conversation with Zahid Rafiq who wrote the best story collection I read in 2024, eleven remarkable stories set in modern day Kashmir. Audio📻🔥: tinhouse.com/podcast/zahi... @tinhouse.bsky.social

🎙️✨ On the latest episode of Between the Cover podcast, poet, novelist, and essayist Dionne Brand joins @davidnaimon.bsky.social to discuss her latest book of nonfiction Salvage: Readings from the Wreck. @fsgbooks.bsky.social 👂Listen! bit.ly/DionneBrandBTC

Flogging my newsletter! This month I wrote about Agnes Denes and gentrification, the commodification of wheat and real estate, and how the new Tinworks art space is be both problematic and energizing: getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/10/05/w...

When nothing matters, the small stuff counts.

Don't miss today's episode with Amitav Ghosh. We talk about the history of extractive colonial economies, how plants have agency within history, & about the geopolitical forces that led to the rise of realism within fiction, and at what cost. Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/amit... @amitav.bsky.social

"Screech Owl" by Ted Kooser #NationalPoetryMonth

Bears! Ponies! Donna Haraway! Come read my latest at Getting Dirty: getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/02/25/t...

Elk, subzero temperatures, and the problems of wrapping our brain around the anthropocene. (And since I fled Substack, I'd appreciate all the follows, subscribes, reposts or boosts I can get. Thanks!) getting-dirty-anthropocene.com/2024/01/22/t...

So excited to share this conversation with Kate Zambreno & Sofia Samatar who co-wrote "Tone" under a shared voice: "The Committee to Investigate the Atmosphere." What does collaboration tell us about tone, about selfhood, about writing itself? Audio tinhouse.com/podcast/kate...

Trying to get to 500 subscribers by the end of the year. Everything's free! (Tho you can pay if you'd like). If you can help a gal out on this infernal consumerist holiday by sharing, I'd really appreciate it. charlottefreeman.substack.com/p/a-shape-in...

I have a new post of an older essay up today at Substack: charlottefreeman.substack.com/p/blood-on-m...

Wordle 865 3/6 ⬛🟨⬛🟨⬛ ⬛🟩🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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Since there's no algorithm here, reposting: A substack about guilt and writing, grief and the Pacific ocean: charlottefreeman.substack.com/p/selfish

These are the writers I’ve read in the last six weeks: Antonio Di Benedetto Louise Penny Philip Pullman Ann Patchett Ian Rankin Helen DeWitt Rae Armantrout

Just moved in: Hi there! ... If you could share this and help us find our old (and hopefully some new) friends, we'd be very grateful.

A recent cartoon for New Scientist.

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Hey, doing a thing here, please help: repost if you know someone with long covid "like" if you have long covid

Wednesday's Child, Yiyun Li's new collection of stories, is threaded with grief yet radiant with some of the best writing I've read in ages. Don't miss it.