hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat. Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series! More coming soon... @uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals

Two vibrant books release today! -One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters -Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social #NewBooks

In this comic interview Coco Picard speaks with Emily Everett about her debut novel “All That Life Can Afford,” the test prep industry as a microcosm for how the world works, and how class structure determines accessibility in the UK. buff.ly/Xe3U5a4

In this comic interview Coco Picard (@cocolarolo.bsky.social) speaks with Ibtisam Azem about her novel "The Book of Disappearance," and what it means to write against disappearance. buff.ly/iS67LXq

And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end

Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/

New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast

Libraries as radical sites of private/anti-AI research

Yesterdays note to self

against artificial intelligentsia

Late night comics brought me back to a playlist I made for a friend open.spotify.com/playlist/32h...

1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.

As Trump takes office, Chicago Public Schools tries to reassure parents it will keep immigrant & LGBTQ students safe. www.cps.edu/services-and...

Bots paint pastoral kinkaid knock offs to prove they aren’t bots

Support the LA Artists relief fund www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...

I have this book and can confirm both weird and wonderful.

"Message to the performers: Do not try to carry this play forward. Let it creep slowly over the stage with no help, with no end in view." - Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant

If NYE fashion says anything about 2025, dog sweaters are IN.

Preschool breakout group

Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.

Sound of Music remake by Sofia Coppola

The PR dept for the brussels sprouts industry goes wild!

Colors sing in the rain.

Shout out to the first grade dad in Facebook glasses bearing witness to archived absurdities of my long fallow account during school drop off.

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My brother’s cat has been lounging casually in his Christmas tree and I’m obsessed 😂

When I finish a novel I doubt I will write another only to find myself unexpectedly beginning again weeks or months later, always by surprise, like boo! Gotcha. Anyway, today I started another novel.

“tsunami warning passed + I’m recommended to download the “My Shake” App” which sounds like a very bad with many scare quotes poem.

Personal abject mess as a form of rebellion in the age of AI aspiration

snack or hat? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

The site itself explores how plants serve as conceptual models for organizing information. One can explore the collection using an arboreal (hierarchical and branching), a rhizomatic (horizonal and linked) or a bryophytic (flat ontology) navigation structure.

In “Scaffolding,” Lauren Elkin ( @laurenelkin.bsky.social ) explores a shifting, lived ethics of the body and desire. (interview by @cocolarolo.bsky.social )

Read an excerpt from THE CASTLE by @snrogoff.bsky.social - use code FC250 for 50% off until Dec. 31st only ! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...

They will halt on January 20, 2025 when Trump takes office, noting the “threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk…”

This is exactly why, I argue, we need to stop talking about the need to "reduce emissions" and start talking about the need to "phase out fossil fuels." www.wired.com/story/fossil...

mix tape/mood board for my as yet unpublished novel open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZT...

Ok rando-radio station Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue followed by the excerpted Star Wars soundtrack is a little much day after thanksgiving

Authors Against Book Bans has posted an open letter demanding that publishers prepare for 2025 by protecting authors and the freedom to read.

postdoc position at Cornell for work on on Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and/or Palestine/Israel. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29312

dangerous imbecility flocks to power

New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast

while writing Exhibit, I also kept a process journal, writing notes to myself & maybe to the novel about the attendant thoughts, feelings, terrors, joys, anxieties & now it’s out!, thank you to @bombmag.bsky.social for publishing this 🖤

The POV of this puzzle

“smell of an old school pencil case”

"This border is rotten meat, a hallucination, a wavering line a stupid idea. Can't we blink and it'll be gone?" - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bodymap

New comics-based interview with #vanessagerman about her solo show is now live! chicagoreader.com/visual-arts-...

An excerpt from a larger book project I've been working on is up on @elsewherejournal.bsky.social (welcome to @bsky.app Elsewhere!) This piece is from a sliver of time @sypgrant.bsky.social and I spent in Wyoming and Montana on a residency moon. www.elsewhere-journal.com/twilight-pos...