“When I look at a map of Killington’s intricate trails and lifts, it seems like the mountain is so entwined with its infrastructure that it’s more like a cybernetic organism than a blank slate.” —from “How to Snow a Mountain,” by @elvia-wilk.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/how-to-snow-...

Our third most read article of the year was @elvia-wilk.bsky.social's missive on the crisis of artificial light nyra.nyc/articles/the...

if u are in the mood to read about how we are extincting the night sky (and also about insomnia, the surveillance state, and Birds) ........ may I recommend this @elvia-wilk.bsky.social essay nyra.nyc/articles/the...

“Recently I decided to find out in practical terms how a mountain is made. How the illusion is maintained and the sublime is simulated.” —from “How to Snow a Mountain,” by @elvia-wilk.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/how-to-snow-...

“The sublime is manufactured, which, to me, makes it even more sublime. I’m fascinated by just how unnatural that pristine nature is.” —from “How to Snow a Mountain,” by @elvia-wilk.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/how-to-snow-...

Could not help myself & went long on the new Jorgos. Bugonia wants to be Picnic at Hanging Rock !! Change my mind elviawilk.substack.com/p/bugonia-wo...

I wrote about my collaboration (friendship) with the (visionary) artist Jenna Sutela. An ode to her ideas, our ideas, what it means to be a writer who works in the same room as the artist. We write each other. artlab-qa.netlify.app/editorial/th...

wrote abt fake snow

“The rule about Berlin,” writes novelist Elvia Wilk, “is that you always got there too late.” The same logic, it seems, applies to the city that is Contemporary Art. — JEPPE UGELVIG 😘 spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...

My approach to THE CRAFT of writing at end of world elviawilk.substack.com/p/last-survi...

For the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about incorporating myself as ELVIA INC, believing that the only way to keep being a writer was to become a corporation—but instead I crashed my car, got dommed by Hobbes' Leviathan, and was ransomed by the IRS. clereviewofbooks.com/elvia-incorp...

On Peter Hujar's Day, on Bouchra, on good AI art (it exists), on everything you should see in NYC elviawilk.substack.com/p/a-barrage-...

elviawilk.substack.com/p/a-barrage-... Linda Rosenkrantz!!!!

“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...

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.