Tonight we'll launch A WORLD APPEARS by @michaelpollan.bsky.social with a live conversation between Pollan and @jannalevinastro.bsky.social. Tickets are sold out, but paid subscribers can join the livestream on Substack. Subscribe now for access! pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/subscribe

We think you’ll love Broadcast—the annual print mag from @pioneerwork.bsky.social—so we’re including a complimentary issue with all Believer subscriptions through the end of the month. See details here: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

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Roses wilt. Great magazines don’t. This February, we’re teaming up with our beloveds at @mcsweeneys.net for a special bundle. Subscribe to @thebeliever.net and get a free issue of Broadcast for one low price. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

Physics says all things move toward entropy. Yet the cosmos teems with order—life, language, art. In Time’s Second Arrow from @wwnorton.com, Michael Wong (@miquai.bsky.social) & Robert Hazen ask: What if there’s a second arrow of time? pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ti...

Is death and decay our only option? In Time’s Second Arrow—out now from @wwnorton.com—Michael Wong (@miquai.bsky.social) and Robert Hazen overturn 150 years of established science to propose a new vision of our universe. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ti...

The genome isn't a blueprint. But what is it? I originally imagined this as a reported feature on metaphors of the genome, but it ended up being an essay. And at the end I share the metaphor I personally ended up landing on. If you want to tell me why it is wrong, you'll need to read the story ;)🧪

“If a single animal can have several different genomes at once, which one is the blueprint? This may not even be the right question to ask...” Intriguing jumping-off point for a superb piece on why our favourite metaphors fail to capture biology; @elisecutts.bsky.social in @pioneerwork.bsky.social 🧪

Through the rest of February, all subscriptions to The Believer include the latest issue of @pioneerwork.bsky.social, featuring Miranda July, Catherine Lacey, Marcus J. Moore, Chris Kraus, and more. Get yours here: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

Renew your commitment to independent literary journalism. This month only, sign up for a year of The Believer and get the latest issue of @pioneerwork.bsky.social Broadcast absolutely free. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

Life isn’t constructed along pre-drawn plans. It grows. For PW Broadcast, @elisecutts.bsky.social writes on the myth of the genetic blueprint. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge...

Finally, a relationship that won’t break your heart: This February, we’re teaming up with our beloveds at @thebeliever.net for a special Valentine’s bundle. Get a year of The Believer and a free issue of Broadcast for one low price. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

“Chop off a Hydra’s head, and you’ll have two new animals instead of one dead one.” @elisecutts.bsky.social on immortal freshwater polyps, and what they reveal about where complexity comes from. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ge...

Confirming widespread rumors, we’re going public with our Valentine’s dalliance with @pioneerwork.bsky.social—and yes, there’s a lovable bundle involved. Get a year of The Believer plus a free issue of Broadcast for one low price, now through February. store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...

Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso.bsky.social) on the Brooklyn boyhood of @sanders.senate.gov and the Manhattan storefront that first drew him to the Green Mountains. An exclusive excerpt from BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON, out now from @aaknopf.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/da...

Julian Brave NoiseCat and Sky Hopinka on coyote legends, family memories, and the history that unites them: “I was always interested in trying to figure out the broader story of native people as I tried to figure myself out, and vice versa.” @aaknopf.bsky.social youtu.be/Ymk1J3-TlpU

What day isn’t a headlock? In celebration of the U.S. release of POOR by Caleb Femi, PW Broadcast is proud to share some poems from the book. @fsgbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/po...

What is consciousness, who has it, and why? Join us and @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social for the launch of @michaelpollan.bsky.social's A WORLD APPEARS on February 24—featuring a conversation with Pollan and @jannalevinastro.bsky.social on nature’s greatest mysteries. pioneerworks.org/programs/mic...

Some poems on lost friends, trap legends, and Peckham boyhood from Caleb Femi's POOR, out now in the U.S. thanks to @fsgbooks.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/po...

"We have already ceded our rockets and space stations to men with messiah complexes—and our wombs may be next." Darshana Narayanan for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...

Humanity has entered a new era of space exploration. This time, we don’t just want to visit, we want to stay. In Broadcast’s latest print issue, Darshana Narayanan confronts the future of our species—and how off-Earth conditions would reshape evolution itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...

Elon Musk dreams of Mars. Jeff Bezos imagines space-station cities. But before we colonize the great beyond, we need to ask: Can pregnancies even develop without Earth’s gravity? And if so, how might those unique conditions change us? pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ba...

Do only the dead know Brooklyn? Broadcast co-editor-in-chief Joshua Jelly-Schapiro writes on the ghosts of Pioneer Works past, and the cosmic, Caribbean history of Red Hook. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/on...

The historic denizens of Red Hook, Brooklyn, have included mobsters, smugglers, and others good at keeping secrets. But the ghosts of Pioneer Works have stories to tell, if you know where to dig. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/on...

"The freeways of Los Angeles lace the city together, and driving over (and under) some of the giant interchanges can feel almost like a divine hallucination. The engineering is so extreme that the typical response is one of marvel: How the fuck could anyone build anything so absurd?"

From menopause as modern epic to hot flashes of summer rage, reality’s secret matrix, death poems from Eileen Myles, and @garthgreenwell.bsky.social's Kentucky boyhood—read our favorite pieces of the year now. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Writing this piece was a crash course in the history and promise of FMV games, and really informed my approach to writing @blippo.plus. It’s online here, if that interests you: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/in...

My @pioneerwork.bsky.social piece on the history of interactive cinema gets the full print treatment in this glorious third issue of Broadcast, which is consistently an all-killer, no filler publication!

Do LLMs really understand? To cut through the noise around AI, we brought in two experts shaping the field: @yann-lecun.bsky.social and Adam Brown. Watch them in conversation with @jannalevinastro.bsky.social about the true intelligence of artificial minds. youtu.be/ykfQD1_WPBQ?...

BROADCAST ISSUE 03 is available now! Order online or buy it irl this weekend at Press Play. Ft essays by @catherinelacey.bsky.social and Jamieson Webster, poetry by Eileen Myles, Brandon Kilbourne, and Ariana Reines, fiction by Chris Kraus, and so much more. store.pioneerworks.org/products/bro...

Might 8 ½, The Inferno, and Don Quixote all be menopause stories? Now on Broadcast, Elif Batuman and Miranda July talk ALL FOURS, love-plot fatigue, and the freedom of wanting more. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ci...

Elif Batuman and Miranda July on menopause, the Bhagavad Gita, and the midlife inferno at the heart of ALL FOURS. We’re delighted to share their conversation from paperback launch of ALL FOURS, co-presented with McNally Jackson Books. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ci...

Gifts for your situationship, tenants who have stopped asking nicely, and the chronically online—get it all at Press Play 2025 next Saturday and Sunday (Dec 13–14). pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/the-press-...

“We get along so great / but you throw away what I’d keep forever” A poem from Rosie Stockton on cancelled futures, slow gravity, and the most daily feeling. Excerpted from Fuel (@nightboat_books). pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ro...

The gift guide for f*ckboys, name-droppers, and “see-you-in-court” tenants. Buy everything at PRESS PLAY 2025 next weekend! Ft titles by Whitney Mallett, Swamp Dogg, Triple Canopy, Danielle Chelosky, and so much more. pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/the-press-...

Join Draw Down at the 2025 edition of Press Play at @pioneerwork.bsky.social in Brooklyn. This sixth year of the fair will feature over 130 exhibitors, December 13 and December 14 + music, art, workshops, and more! Tickets are $10 for Saturday. Sunday is free. ❤ pioneerworks.org/programs/pre...

“I tore the page out of the magazine and taped it above my living room doorway, so I would have to face it every day while writing about the past.” Heather McCalden on Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles freeways, and the winding truth of the Internet. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/13...

“Linearity does not exist on the Internet, just as it does not exist in the coral-like vessels of our brains.” Heather McCalden on Peggy Olsen, postcards, loneliness, and THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSE (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social). pioneerworks.org/broadcast/13...

Maggie Nelson on dreams, anxiety, and the meeting of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift. “To choose that opportunity to denigrate what so many people are into—You want collectivization? Work with it.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

Move over, Julia Child. Bring a little soul to your Thanksgiving table with @TheSwampDogg's IF YOU CAN KILL IT I CAN COOK IT, out from Pioneer Works Press. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sw...

“Every age has its search for healers.” Maggie Nelson on shame blankets, compatible perversities, and what heteropessimism misses. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

“Perversities can be compatible, but then perversities are not static. We all change.” Maggie Nelson talks with Broadcast editor Lucy McKeon about love, sex, care, and The Argonauts, 10 years later. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

“People assumed I wanted money, fame, to meet Madonna. They could not comprehend a different sense of desire.” Last year, Laura Albert spoke to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club about trauma, truth, and phone sex at Press Play. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...

Labia piercings, phone sex pseudonyms, and the generative power of disassociation: Last Press Play, we got Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club to interview the legendary Laura Albert. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...

“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion." @bolman.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/when-baseb...

Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (@bolman.bsky.social) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...