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...

For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from @bolman.bsky.social on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

Watch @deerhoof.bsky.social's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUh...

Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters. @amypedulla.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast, @amypedulla.bsky.social reports. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (@chriskraus.bsky.social) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house, @parisreview.bsky.social poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (@mattbroaddus.bsky.social), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor Mónica de la Torre. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from @aaknopf.bsky.social, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we...

"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

“We were both frustrated about how climate art mostly just grieved. We wanted to locate agency and not just give in to sorrow.” @lav.io, @tega.bsky.social, and @shannonmattern.bsky.social talk pirate solutions to climate change. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

Another achingly beautiful piece on mothering against the "apocalypse," from @emilyraboteau.bsky.social. Among The Ruins via Broadcast of @pioneerwork.bsky.social. #climateweeknyc #heat #climatecrisis #Rome #NYC #trees pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) on shade’s fragile mercy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pr...

“Air-conditioning is not just a technology of personal comfort; it is also a technology of forgetting.” Jeff Goodell (@jeffgoodell.bsky.social) on the fraught luxury of cold air. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/je...

Heat won’t show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame. Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau.bsky.social) on raising kids and growing trees in the mouth of a lion. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

Lucy Sante (@luxante.bsky.social) shares an ode to the season that scorches: “It was all those cars, all those drugs, all that red meat, all that money it sucked up and vaporized. Summer only remembers luxury and rage.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/su...

I had the pleasure of speaking with @tega.bsky.social + @lav.io about their new exhibition — which engages with surveillance, data infrastructures, and climate — at @pioneerwork.bsky.social!

"How quickly a state of careless ease becomes one of mortal peril. Enter the future." @laurenmarkham.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Broadcast presents HEAT WEEK—a series of dispatches from a world on fire. Ft @luxante.bsky.social, @billmckibben.bsky.social, @emilyraboteau.bsky.social, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, @philipcball.bsky.social. @wellcometrust.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/se...