“In Lippens’s books, the messiness of life is stylized, or sharpened into sensibility.” @lindsaylerman.bsky.social interviews @natelippens.bsky.social about his new novel RIPCORD @semiotexte.bsky.social , friendship, gatekeeping & more…🌀 southwestreview.com/a-porous-exc...

Is there really such a thing as refined cruelty tho?

y'all @lindsaylerman.bsky.social's interview with Sarah LaBrie in @thecreativeindependent.com is so good 😭 made me want to write! thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Listen to episode 4: Scaffolding, Dionysus, & Mental Bonfires w/ Lindsay Lerman! tinyurl.com/CWS01E04 @lindsaylerman.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social

The secret is that other writers aren't competition; they're peers, colleagues and friends. Someone who reads me is going to read other writers as well; the entire publishing economy is "yes, and." Therefore it does me no harm, and much good, to support other writers and to wish them well.

golden hour

RED FLAGS Eight stream of consciousness stories from the points of view of people actively dying, inspired by the woman who was run down and dragged at the intersection outside my apartment. Plus three out-of-print chapbooks. (House of Vlad, 2024) “Elsby at her most devastating.” -David Simmons

it’s always fascinating to see who you’re next to

the way self-declared left-leaning people tell on themselves with “now is not the time for art”

I think I’m here

mom can you pick me up, someone told me with a straight face that a daily meditation practice is cultural appropriation and immoral

if you exist a little too much in the physical world to really kill it on social media (or you can’t buy your way in), the only strategy is to make things so beautiful that they slowly but surely break into the virtual world. it works

and this is *with* them running nonstop ads - honestly a v powerful reminder that money can’t buy everything

Excited to announce my new novel is up for pre-order from @whiskeytit.bsky.social Very thankful and lucky to receive these blurbs from @charleneelsby.bsky.social David Leo Rice and @lindsaylerman.bsky.social

“It turns out I just love writing and I just love life. I love the impossible challenge of it, of finding beauty in the horror.” 🥀 Lindsay Lerman @lindsaylerman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lindsayl...

god bless the german tradition of drinking in very relaxed ways in very beautiful parks

writing view for the summer

witches everywhere in berlin’s alte nationalgalerie

shadow self/ie

I recommend systematically and relentlessly confronting every single way you’ve sold yourself short over the course of your life

Reading Joubert maxims because I lack the attention for anything else and because, frankly, some of them are perfect:

imported from the gram

last year i learned that doing it on hard mode is fine, maybe even good, if it means you can live with yourself

don’t sleep with people who don’t bow to the mystery of the universe (it won’t be any good anyway)

kinda think instagram should go next

I remember dad telling me about how he was in Paris when Jim Morrison died and how all the Americans kinda stumbled out into the streets together, processing. Is this like that?