I've been building a kind of little personal newspaper, and it just gave me this perfect article. “It’s just getting them out because they’re so little and squirmy. It just takes finesse.”

Monday Music is a massive haul: 22 songs, artists from around the world that you should have on your radar. Today? Seven Canadian artists: CG Tears Bodywash Bitch Stick Birds Of Prrrey Amelia Maxwell Annie Arnone def sera (I *think* they're from Montreal?) ...plus 16 more. Check it out here:

Open for submissions! Any length, and we're pretty open about genre. Fiction or Creative Nonfiction. Learn more here:

Mel Brooks on whether drumming taught him about comedy:

My monday music posts are for artists I think are great and fall below certain metrics to be on it (I reserve Mondays for super-unknown artists) It's always naturally landed around 10 +/-2 songs. Right now it's 22. That's TOO MANY GREAT SONGS TOO MANY

The Setlist on June 26: The weekly playlist. New, independent, under-the-radar. Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.

Proun's new record “Maybe Luck” embraces pain fearlessly, running towards heartbreak. It welcomes in grief, examining the ways it can teach and heal. More from Hannah:

Need to do some thanks to peeps showing my new single some love! (All excellent avenues for discovering new musical gems btw!) First up @turnandwork.com - thanks so much for posting about 'Avarice'! www.turnandwork.com/music-digest...

"I got a colonoscopy on Friday. If only that were the least pleasant experience of my last week." "Wife guy or not, saved or not, he’s still an asshole 304 pages later." Almost every line is quotable. Read the review of JD Vance's new memoir by @ginnyhogan.bsky.social.

NEW SHORT STORY: "A Life in the Day" by Luke Spiby Warren wakes to something like a scavenger hunt, but every clue leads deeper into his past. Read it here:

“…it feels like the world is ending, so I write a lot about doomsday.” A conversation with TULLE and a first listen to her new single “Skin On Skin”.

A fair amount of my professional background has been focused on predictive grammar systems for augmentative communication. No joke, there is a straight line from my love of drawing syntax trees in undergrad through my entire career. Maybe I can make them fun for other people too? Try it out!

Lehane’s collection of short stories (and one play) is the crime writer at the top of his craft: bleak, dark and brilliant. More here:

Joyce Carol Oates’s short story collection Sourland is a disturbing work about people damaged by grief, love and violence. It’s essential reading. Read Hannah's full review:

"I felt like someone was constantly peeling off my skin while I wasn't ready to face what's underneath." BROCKHOFF writes about her debut album Easy Peeler.

don’t listen to me listen to B

“Men, go off and fucking figure out why you’re starting this shit.” Alex from Mermaid Island discusses the band’s debut album with Hannah. Read the interview here:

The Monday Music Post: New, under-appreciated tracks from artists we love and a few we're just getting to know. Here's what's on today: the thing is... Townhouses @theklittens.bsky.social @bofbriz.bsky.social OH! Daisy Speedial Danxgerous The Dress Rose Cole Korda Korder Check it out:

Father’s Day viewing with the teenager. This is even better than I remember it:

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

I wrote about SpaceX. SpaceX the rocket company, SpaceX the suspicious financial instrument for Musk to create value out of thin air. SpaceX the meme. SpaceX as the 7-headed hydra at the end of capitalism. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

"they take you into the back and they show you the real cool most amazing records, the ones they danced to when they were creating the universe." A gorgeous reminder from @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social that we all create our own universes, in @turnandwork.com . #FlashInTheFeed

I’m reading CORONADO, the short story collection by Dennis Lehane. It’s almost upsettingly good. Look at this, this is from “Gone Down to Corpus”, it tells you everything you need to know about the story’s narrator in like 75 words:

The Setlist on Juneteenth: The weekly playlist. New, independent, under-the-radar. Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.

Halcyon is the debut album from Denver indie-rock band Pink Ranger, a frank and raw exploration of devastation. Maybe also the best record of the year. More here:

I'm really happy about this story, up at @turnandwork.com. It's about having background music in one's life and figuring out what to do about it. It's called "Let it Bleed," because we all need someone... www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/l...

Divers’ debut album is absurd and absurdly good: kitchen-sink indie rock with a contagious looseness. More here:

NEW FLASH FICTION by @hughbehmsteinberg.bsky.social LET IT BLEED: What plays in your mind during moments of silence? Read it here:

You should get the new chapbook by @thewritelifeliz.bsky.social. Need more convincing? I wrote a whole Shortlist about it, with links to lots of her work. Here:

It’s not perfect, but This is How You Remember It is (ahem) unforgettable and upsetting in the vein of the Netflix show Adolescence. More here:

New & Noted: quick hits on three recent releases you shouldn't miss. Today: trip hop from Trickpony, singer-songwriter Taylor Janzen, and indie pop from Kid Sistr Dig in:

Hadn’t heard of this until last night but when I saw the first set of artists I bought passes immediately.

"Just this once, he’d like to hit this child. That smirk on her face, just like her mother’s. But he’d never hit her. Never." Holy smokes, this story.

The Monday Music Post: New, under-appreciated tracks from artists we love and some we're just getting to know. Here's what's on today: Shock Corridor The Nightclubs Myra Lee Saturns Angel Fiona Hayes SCAM Steel Cut Oats The Scuttlers Caitlin Starr Check it out:

Look I’m sure Peter is a good person, but he’s a little bit lost. He’ll come around eventually.

Every time I lose a newsletter subscriber I can’t help but feel a little sad, like I let someone down. Peter, say it ain’t so! Why, Peter, why? Was it something I said? I’ll do better, come back! I need another subscriber to help me move on from Peter. Is that you?

I just set up a cool submission form for short stories. Help me celebrate! Submit your story! Test drive the new form here, DM me if you have any issues. www.turnandwork.com/story-submis...

The bookstore scene in Toronto is maybe as good as it was in 1997.

you gave up 4 runs in 4 innings to take the loss, maybe you should be less focused on quoting Genesis and more focused on Job and Numbers

Don’t listen to me listen to kelli

The Setlist on June 12 The weekly playlist. New, independent, under-the-radar. It's one of the slowest new music weeks of the year. NO MATTER: we have two different bands called Trophy Wife! Plus almost two hours of great new indie music. Listen on Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube.

The Shortlist is up! Three recent pieces at Turn & Work plus links to great flash fiction elsewhere. With Beetle Holloway @beetleholloway.bsky.social, Paul Radcliffe, and Laura O'Meara in @turnandwork.com Jacqueline Chou in @mrbullbull.bsky.social S.H. in @maudlinhouse.bsky.social (...1/2)

NEW FLASH FICTION: "Every night hundreds, maybe thousands, of women sank back into their pillows with Dale Baker’s voice in their ears..." Read Resonance, by Laura O'Meara:

Chuffed to have 2 stories published this week by 2 great Canadian publications. So, thank you Canada. But mainly thank you @turnandwork.com and @darkwinterlitmag.bsky.social for letting these nuggets out into the world. www.turnandwork.com/guest-post/a... www.darkwinterlit.com/post/the-art...

wanna hear the new single from Brooklyn's Trophy Wife? i have great news for you. There's a video too. Check it out:

Allegedly the banned-for-life list from the soon to shutter Parkview Tavern.

"...if I journey to the center of someone’s psyche and all I find there is a billboard for Pizza Hut, I’m turning around." This is excellent:

This is really, really, really thought-provoking. There's something to the idea that meeting someone over the internet means you don't have overlapping social circles, and what that implies as you build a relationship.

It might be discrediting to say I'm not a _huge_ Olga Tokarczuk fan. House of Day, House of Night is one of her earliest books, showing flashes of much of the work that follows it. Was it enough to get me on the wagon?

The new EP from the prolific UK spoken-word duo Dead Anyway is only nine minutes long. You can lose hours digging into the lyrics. (ask me how I know)