My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar

Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

We are The Beef Review, a journal of literary feuds. We want your anger, grievances, pet peeves, your drama. Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too. We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩

One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.

When the community was fighting project blue in Tucson, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be from a post industrial city, whose population continues to suffer the devastating environmental, health, and safety effects of decades of industrialization and corporate greed. It breaks my heart.

Tucson friends! There's a public meeting tomorrow on the Project Blue proposal aka Amazon's attempt to drain our aquifer for a data center. It's 5-7pm at the Tucson Convention Center & everyone is welcome, please make a sign & bring everyone you know!

I started a free newsletter about KATE BRAVERMAN and my book project. Subscribe if you dare. ❤️

It will be about Kate Braverman like everything else gear up

An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...

Damn straight

Fine, @leahmensch.bsky.social: tucsonessayclub.org/product/i-to...

The latest issue of The Kenyon Review is here! It is brimming with beauty and brilliance and includes “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest judged by Idra Novey. kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...

Before this I was mostly kidding about recreating the great schism but now I am 100% serious. Who is in, I have ideas

I feel like most people don’t realize how much small art museums rely on funding like NEA grants for archival preservation resources (I definitely didn’t until a few years ago) — but the Trump admin does realize, and that’s the point. To attack anything that records and humanizes (and might oppose)

Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...

A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...

"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead." On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...

Artificial intelligence? Baby I no longer believe humans have intelligence.

Admiration for this reader of Charles Baxter's FIRST LIGHT, likely a physicist (like the protagonist) or an engineer, given their zeal for perfectly straight lines, who marked the hell out of this book, but then sold it? Maybe they died is more likely. Tx to @leahmensch.bsky.social for the find.

"Everything Requires an Explanation," a new Tiny Cabinet by @leahmensch.bsky.social up on, you guessed it, the queen Kate Braverman, on the occasion of her 75th birthday

Also up in the new @hungermtn.bsky.social it's a long story, "Storm Call", actually one of my favorites in a while: hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunge...

Big congrats to MFA faculty Bojan Louis, who just received a USA Fellowship: www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/boja...

I had a psych hospitalization in 2021! This is not my favorite about me fact to share for obvious reasons. It was voluntary, and my only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. The people inside—not the system—saved my silly life. I wrote this for them—and you. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

I spoke with NPR/Las Cruces (KRWG-fm) reporter @scottbrocato.bsky.social ahead of my reading tomorrow at NMSU. A tinely chat, check it out: www.krwg.org/krwg-news/20...

Items Found Outside the Fence at the School Yard, a Tiny Cabinet by @beatroxel.bsky.social : the.tinycabi.net/2025/01/item...

"The only response you hear is a distant groaning, a giant media machine rising slowly to full height…The pile purports to know the right answers about damn near every human question." Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

So far my favorite one from my RateMyProfs

"Kittens are little, kind of clumsy, and generally trusting. Due to those traits, kittens cuddles are reliable and easy to get." Pinch hitting today in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar is Athena C. Monson on the Cat Cuddle Spectrum: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

An Advent calendar, but essays

"The origins of my obsession with Braverman, my desire to find her manuscript, exist at once rather than separately." Dec 7 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar it's @leahmensch.bsky.social on their one true subject, Kate Braverman: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

I wrote about trying to find the original Lithium for Medea manuscript for @essaydaily.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

"Something about being somebody else imparts into me a will to live. Paradoxically, when I roll a die, I want to live." Dec 5 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social is @geramee.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...

DEC 7. ADVENT. MENSCH. BRAVERMAN.