Aidan Ryan
@aidanmryan.substack.com
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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...
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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.
Latest on Lo Fi: Tyler and I talk art heists, agent fiascos, pro wrestling, and the partnerships of artists. Check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/1RiP...
Aidan Ryan - I Am Here You Are Not I Love You
Lo Fi Lit · Episode
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June 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Latest on Lo Fi: Tyler and I talk art heists, agent fiascos, pro wrestling, and the partnerships of artists. Check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/1RiP...
"Mostly it’s morning, Wednesday,
and my loneliness older, the elegy
oh going read it and weep!"
Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror
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and my loneliness older, the elegy
oh going read it and weep!"
Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror
www.littlemirrormag.com/rachelle-toa...
Rachelle Toarmino, Wednesday — Little Mirror
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June 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Mostly it’s morning, Wednesday,
and my loneliness older, the elegy
oh going read it and weep!"
Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror
www.littlemirrormag.com/rachelle-toa...
and my loneliness older, the elegy
oh going read it and weep!"
Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror
www.littlemirrormag.com/rachelle-toa...
My book is one month old today. Here's a roundup of all the reviews, reflections, and conversations so far - and a look at the rest of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
If You Missed It ...
Roundup from a month of reviews, interviews, and events
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June 16, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My book is one month old today. Here's a roundup of all the reviews, reflections, and conversations so far - and a look at the rest of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
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"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
writinguniversity.org
June 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
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@aidanmryan.substack.com examines the benefits and challenges of applying a fiction writing background to the art of biography.
Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record
Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…
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June 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
@aidanmryan.substack.com examines the benefits and challenges of applying a fiction writing background to the art of biography.
Early in my attempt to write this book, I realized that my sources disagreed on how Andy and Cindy had met. Navigating contradictions and gaps in the record required me to rely on tools I'd learned to use earlier in fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/novelists-no...
Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record
Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…
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June 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Early in my attempt to write this book, I realized that my sources disagreed on how Andy and Cindy had met. Navigating contradictions and gaps in the record required me to rely on tools I'd learned to use earlier in fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/novelists-no...
I did 5 Qs with @writinguiowa.bsky.social - read it here: writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
writinguniversity.org
June 2, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I did 5 Qs with @writinguiowa.bsky.social - read it here: writinguniversity.org/news-archive...