Aidan Ryan
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i am here you are not i love you | writing, film, etc. | linktr.ee/Aidanryan
The Orwell quote we've all remembered slightly misses what's going on with MAGA shitposters right now. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
The problem with that Orwell quote
The Millers don't need to convince YOU that 2 + 2 = 5
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January 27, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The Orwell quote we've all remembered slightly misses what's going on with MAGA shitposters right now. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
People asking me for an audiobook. I can't do that myself (but would gladly work with a publisher). Here's a teaser: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/11-america...
11. Americans Abroad
An audiobook teaser
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January 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
People asking me for an audiobook. I can't do that myself (but would gladly work with a publisher). Here's a teaser: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/11-america...
Recognizing MAGA as a revolution might help the rest of us discern a counterrevolutionary path forward. Thoughts on Iran and Minneapolis, from London and Paris: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
The Case for a Counterrevolution
Thoughts on Minneapolis and Tehran by way of London and Paris
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January 15, 2026 at 2:01 PM
Recognizing MAGA as a revolution might help the rest of us discern a counterrevolutionary path forward. Thoughts on Iran and Minneapolis, from London and Paris: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
EURO TOUR aidanmryan.substack.com/p/euro-tour-26
Euro Tour '26
Coming in hot to London, Paris, Berlin, and Dortmund
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January 6, 2026 at 9:45 PM
EURO TOUR aidanmryan.substack.com/p/euro-tour-26
Absolutely loving the emergence of Blindboy's new interest in radio voice, documentary cadences, town criers, jazz poetry, early vinyl, and how these inheritances play out in podcast production. open.spotify.com/episode/5ZI3...
The medieval origins of 2fm Radio DJ voice
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December 15, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Absolutely loving the emergence of Blindboy's new interest in radio voice, documentary cadences, town criers, jazz poetry, early vinyl, and how these inheritances play out in podcast production. open.spotify.com/episode/5ZI3...
Joined Rachelle on The Desire Question - hear us on desire in art, intimacy + privacy + audience, balancing each other's priorities, and more - across Hell Yeah, I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, and our lives. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
You can have it ft. Rachelle Toarmino and Aidan Ryan
Podcast Episode · The Desire Question · 12/02/2025 · 35m
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December 3, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Joined Rachelle on The Desire Question - hear us on desire in art, intimacy + privacy + audience, balancing each other's priorities, and more - across Hell Yeah, I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, and our lives. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
Coming to the PNW--Friday in Seattle and Saturday in Portland.
December 1, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Coming to the PNW--Friday in Seattle and Saturday in Portland.
Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification and hanging out in NYC on election night got me thinking about why so many things are incentivized to suck -- and what we might do to change them.
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Enshittification and its Incentives
How our economy is built to suck, and what we might be able to do about it
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November 19, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification and hanging out in NYC on election night got me thinking about why so many things are incentivized to suck -- and what we might do to change them.
open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
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The Buffalo History Museum asked me to write an episode for their excellent podcast on the local spiritualist and lawyer Edward C. Randall. He believed the dead have never died. Check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Buffalo History Museum Podcast
History Podcast · Updated Monthly · The Buffalo History Museum Podcast is the premier source for Western New York history. Each episode, we tell a story of the people and events that have shaped our r...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Buffalo History Museum asked me to write an episode for their excellent podcast on the local spiritualist and lawyer Edward C. Randall. He believed the dead have never died. Check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
I'm back at it! If you enjoyed the last episode about Buffalo's Ezra Pound, check out this bonus episode with musings, corrections, and extended cuts from my conversation with Pound scholars Josh Kotin and Bob Spoo. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/09-bonus-e...
09. BONUS EPISODE - "I cannot make it cohere": More on Ezra Pound
Poems of incarceration, poems of the commons, antisemitism, Sherri Martinelli, apologies to Ed Sanders, Cutty Sark, revisions, Bill Bird, and accidental coherence
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October 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I'm back at it! If you enjoyed the last episode about Buffalo's Ezra Pound, check out this bonus episode with musings, corrections, and extended cuts from my conversation with Pound scholars Josh Kotin and Bob Spoo. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/09-bonus-e...
New episode up now. I set out to understand how and why Ezra Pound's final published poem ended up in an obscure magazine in Buffalo. The whole story was bigger and weirder than I could have imagined. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
October 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
New episode up now. I set out to understand how and why Ezra Pound's final published poem ended up in an obscure magazine in Buffalo. The whole story was bigger and weirder than I could have imagined. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
Massive investigation dropping Monday. Subscribers get an early look. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
October 17, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Massive investigation dropping Monday. Subscribers get an early look. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
Rachelle Toarmino by Lucy K Shaw: zonamotel.substack.com/p/profile-he...
PROFILE: Hell Yeah for Rachelle Toarmino
Lucy K Shaw travels to Buffalo, NY to write about the pregnant, Peach Mag superstar
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October 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Rachelle Toarmino by Lucy K Shaw: zonamotel.substack.com/p/profile-he...
Jon Cone reviews Franz Wright's At His Desk In The Past in Rain Taxi: raintaxi.com/at-his-desk-...
At His Desk in the Past
This new chapbook offers readers one more chance to enjoy the pure devotion Franz Wright had for poetry and to witness the craft as he practiced it in his final years. Reviewed by Jon Cone
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October 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Jon Cone reviews Franz Wright's At His Desk In The Past in Rain Taxi: raintaxi.com/at-his-desk-...
If you missed last month's live panel discussion in Cleveland featuring Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, Zach Savich, and me ... listen! aidanmryan.substack.com/p/07-i-am-he...
07. I Am Here ... with Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, and Zach Savich
Going Beyond Research at the Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference, Sept. 2025
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October 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
If you missed last month's live panel discussion in Cleveland featuring Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, Zach Savich, and me ... listen! aidanmryan.substack.com/p/07-i-am-he...
Gearing up for Cleveland, Sept. 13, where I'll speak with Zach Savich, Caryl Pagel, and Madeline McDonnell about research and the collision of creative and critical practices.
August 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Gearing up for Cleveland, Sept. 13, where I'll speak with Zach Savich, Caryl Pagel, and Madeline McDonnell about research and the collision of creative and critical practices.
Why did some of Ezra Pound's final cantos first appear in print in Buffalo (a full year BEFORE the unauthorized Ed Sanders Fuck You Press publication)? Why did this happen twice, in TWO of Buffalo's little magazines? I'll be trying to sort this out on my Substack in the weeks ahead. Follow along.
August 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Why did some of Ezra Pound's final cantos first appear in print in Buffalo (a full year BEFORE the unauthorized Ed Sanders Fuck You Press publication)? Why did this happen twice, in TWO of Buffalo's little magazines? I'll be trying to sort this out on my Substack in the weeks ahead. Follow along.
Deeply grateful for this review from John Haber, who launched the first website for art criticism and history right around the time Cindy gave up her studio. Here he gives her some of the context she was missing then, comparing her work to Arshile Gorky.
www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
Haber's Art Reviews: "I Am Here You Are Not I Love You," Andrew Topolski, and Cindy Suffoletto
Review by John Haber of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You by Aidan Ryan about Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto
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August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Deeply grateful for this review from John Haber, who launched the first website for art criticism and history right around the time Cindy gave up her studio. Here he gives her some of the context she was missing then, comparing her work to Arshile Gorky.
www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
Listen to James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on the life and poetry of Frank Stanford - recorded live in Buffalo, NY. open.spotify.com/episode/5FOW...
06. "When the rest of you / Were being children ..."
Organizing Isolation: The Podcast · Episode
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August 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Listen to James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on the life and poetry of Frank Stanford - recorded live in Buffalo, NY. open.spotify.com/episode/5FOW...
Buffalo: DO NOT MISS the reading and conversation with James McWilliams and Leo Lensing this Saturday, 7pm at Fitz Books: The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford. This kind of thing doesn't come through our town often.
August 1, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Buffalo: DO NOT MISS the reading and conversation with James McWilliams and Leo Lensing this Saturday, 7pm at Fitz Books: The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford. This kind of thing doesn't come through our town often.
This Tennessee audience got me to dish on Buffalo's numberless failings, how to keep making art (without fame or fortune) into your 80s, and the loneliness of eulogies. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/05-i-am-he...
.05 I Am Here ... on the Mountain
A visit to the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly
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July 27, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This Tennessee audience got me to dish on Buffalo's numberless failings, how to keep making art (without fame or fortune) into your 80s, and the loneliness of eulogies. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/05-i-am-he...
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
Buffalo, this Saturday July 26th 7:30 EST!
In a silo!
In a silo!
July 21, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Buffalo, this Saturday July 26th 7:30 EST!
In a silo!
In a silo!
Check out the expanded second edition of Leo Lensing's Subiaco's Unofficial Poet Laureate: A Memoir of Frank Stanford in High School www.foundlingspress.com/books-and-me...
July 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Check out the expanded second edition of Leo Lensing's Subiaco's Unofficial Poet Laureate: A Memoir of Frank Stanford in High School www.foundlingspress.com/books-and-me...
New writing in Traffic East. First, a profile of the master blacksmith Andrew Chambers: www.trafficeast.com/inside-the-a...
Arc Iron — Aidan Ryan — Traffic East
Aidan Ryan on the life and work of Buffalo, New York blacksmith Andrew Chambers.
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July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New writing in Traffic East. First, a profile of the master blacksmith Andrew Chambers: www.trafficeast.com/inside-the-a...
Don't miss this upcoming conversation in Buffalo -- James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on their new scholarship around the poet (and Leo's high school friend) Frank Stanford.
July 9, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Don't miss this upcoming conversation in Buffalo -- James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on their new scholarship around the poet (and Leo's high school friend) Frank Stanford.