“Law enforcement needed lamps. Nightshift workers needed lamps. Malls needed lamps. Emergency services needed lamps. Moralists needed the metaphor of lamps.” @elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp in NYRA no. 46/47. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

@elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp. nyra.nyc/articles/the...

reviving your skeleton of a novel... indefinitely moving apartments... writing fiction and criticism at the same time elviawilk.substack.com/p/resuscitat...

I went ahead and wrote this important listicle elviawilk.substack.com/p/the-pastas...

“I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over," Mamdani told the crowd. "As my father told me years ago, when the right wins power, the left writes a great book. Those days are over too." hellgatenyc.com/new-morning-...

We’re raising funds for my dear friend Bill, who’s just been suddenly paroled from the notoriously awful Midstate prison in upstate NY and is now in a shelter trying to get his life started again. Please give if you can! chuffed.org/project/1312...

Lucky and grateful to be FELLOWED to write about scriptwriting in art artlab.hyundai.com/project/2025...

In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened.

For when it's time to lie down and be sick elviawilk.substack.com/p/rebecca

I’m taking on one (1) more new editing project this spring! Write me if you have a BOOK, ESSAY, IDEA, or GENERAL MALAISE and need help. ✼　 ҉ 　✼ I do Big 5s, art books, dissertations, your unfinished novel, or that hybrid-fragment-thing you can’t place. DM for creds.

learning Italian, wearing turtlenecks, la dolce vita, and knowing when to commit elviawilk.substack.com/p/eat-pray-c...

babe what's wrong you've barely touched your holistic pizza that represents ancestral healing

a trojan horse of a post about medici interiors elviawilk.substack.com/p/decorate-y...

my first big story for WIRED is about the inconceivable, uncomputable complexity of the simplest organisms on Earth 🪱

love to google translate an article w my name in it! great article tbh

Incredible review of the new book Finance Aesthetics by my Andreas www.e-flux.com/notes/661679...

I DID write on Imhof, plus about why I would do that, amid the police state no less. Then: what do the Love is Blind dumps this season say about a nation divided? KEEP SCROLLING for book recs incl. my writing group’s BUMPER CROP of releases. There’s a DOOM for everyone ❤️‍🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

I wrote my first book when I was 21. It was about an "outsider art" road trip across the US south. It’s wild to read your young self and find her interesting?! I channeled her in this pretty long essay about outsider art and made it Timely and Relevant! open.substack.com/pub/elviawil...

“The Wild Robot” is a heartwarming but heavy-handed fable about the primacy of human values, Elvia Wilk writes:

“A great deal of interesting recent art seems content simply to mimic the nullity of meaning produced by mass media and mechanical reproduction, confronting the same hypothetical spectator who hasn’t yet heard the bad news.” —Gary Indiana (1950–2024)

I thought so hard in the 2010s about the possibility of even the weather news becoming a rumor because there were no definitive sources left - it's a subplot of my first book - but I didn't feel that gnarly gooey "it's happening" until now

There’s too much news to track, but today is the day to follow what’s happening in NY prisons. Something to sign: p2a.co/LmdrvPI

The privatization of hope is not simply a matter of focusing energy and attention on oneself and one’s family. It is the withdrawal of personal expectation from the wider world, the rejection of even a possible democratic solidarity on behalf of a collective life encompassing and fit for all.

"Assembling in front of the store as the doors opened, protestors unfurled a banner that read ‘CHINGA LA MIGRA: DON’T BE A LOSER NARC BITCH!’ One person who arrived specifically for the hiring event...remarked to the crowd, “y'all did your job, they're not coming.” itsgoingdown.org/anti-ice-act...

The Black Death is on the way? Pull out the local shroud. open.substack.com/pub/elviawil...

Hello World Welcome To My Blog elviawilk.substack.com

It's almost impossible to exaggerate www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I spoke with Kristin Ross about her recent book "The Commune Form," and about the joy and pleasure of building non-accumulative forms of life. May a million communes bloom www.e-flux.com/journal/151/...

"I was seeing something that would only make sense later – I mean, something that only later would profoundly not make sense. Only later would I understand: what seems like a lack of meaning – that’s the meaning." – Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

"I was looking for a new life. I wanted to be as stupid as kissing, as dirty as a servant, as ripe as a blown-open diary, and I was." – Lisa Robertson, The Baudelaire Fractal

Bring back shame please and thank you

“So when context becomes the new content CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind. And after? What would postcontextual Poetry even look like?” — @ryanruby.bsky.social www.thedriftmag.com/context-coll...

Can't stop thinking about Soundtrack to a Coup D'etat, it solves so many problems of form in a way I've never seen before, creating a rhythm structure that is punctured or dashed at exactly the right moments, to tell a story it turns out I didn't know at all

"Modern man…ceaselessly ‘remembers,’ chewing over the matter of his existence, the accumulated monuments of his history, empirical data, scientific facts – without ever corporealizing them or putting them into the service of life." - Lee Scrivner, Becoming Insomniac

BURN OUT by Hannah Proctor is the most meaningful book I've read in a long while that's helping me distinguish between a literature of hopelessness and just... hopeless literature www.versobooks.com/products/970...