“Just to be present with art is to completely reshuffle your cards.” —Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

Wrote an essay on the modest optimistic practices of writing and reading and showing up and standing with during these dark times for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance (while also slipping in some lines from Nazim Hikmet, Lydia Davis, and colleagues and coworkers).

My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.

I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'll be in conversation on the art of editing—and sharing a closer look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos" in @mcsweeneys.net—with Austin Nguyen at @kayapress.bsky.social TODAY at 3 ET/12 PT: kaya.com/2025/03/firs...

Every day I learn about a new comic book villain of a man who has been endowed with staggering and unchecked power.

A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024): jamesyeh.substack.com/p/without-mo...

Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible. Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period. techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

Two thousand words, if one is so inclined, on this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, James, by the incomparable Percival Everett for @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/perc...

Percival Everett!

My own gumption consists, at the moment, of mere reposting.

Fun to see the muskrat discover what a thousand newspaper stories have proclaimed for at least eight years: the leaden density of the jello salad between the ears of the fearless leader. (Epstein said DJT's semi-illiterate.) (But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)

Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it. For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies." Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/1883...