Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
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Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
· Mar 31
The Aurelie 30 Returns for April 2025
Back in the Game for 2025
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Hey there, so I do this thing every April in honor of my friend Aurelie Sheehan called #theaurelie30, which just entails starting a new piece of writing each day in April. Care to join me? Details at the substack: open.substack.com/pub/aurelie3...
I will be reading some old school bangers like "Fuckin' Crabs 2", "Masters of Time But Not Masters of Pants" and "Tiger with the Face of a Man"
Who wore it better? Find out tonight at the Double Negative Evening of Ekphrasis featuring new books by Mike Powell and @danadiehl.bsky.social. 6:30pm at Wave Archive!
January 23, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I will be reading some old school bangers like "Fuckin' Crabs 2", "Masters of Time But Not Masters of Pants" and "Tiger with the Face of a Man"
Who wore it better? Find out tonight at the Double Negative Evening of Ekphrasis featuring new books by Mike Powell and @danadiehl.bsky.social. 6:30pm at Wave Archive!
January 23, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Who wore it better? Find out tonight at the Double Negative Evening of Ekphrasis featuring new books by Mike Powell and @danadiehl.bsky.social. 6:30pm at Wave Archive!
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Sweet lit events coming up: John Haskell 2/5 & @lydiapaar.bsky.social introducing her favorite X Files at Tucson Essay Movie Club 1/25. Plus @danadiehl.bsky.social, Mike Powell, and @angermonsoon.bsky.social doing stuff for Ekphrasis Night Fri. Details: tucsonessayclub.substack.com/p/upcoming-b...
January 18, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Sweet lit events coming up: John Haskell 2/5 & @lydiapaar.bsky.social introducing her favorite X Files at Tucson Essay Movie Club 1/25. Plus @danadiehl.bsky.social, Mike Powell, and @angermonsoon.bsky.social doing stuff for Ekphrasis Night Fri. Details: tucsonessayclub.substack.com/p/upcoming-b...
Really enjoyed this @jasondiamond.bsky.social piece on collecting the Vintage Contemporaries: longreads.com/2017/10/20/j...
Judging Books By Their Covers - Longreads
Jason Diamond analyzes his obsession with Vintage Contemporaries paperbacks from the 80s.
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January 16, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Really enjoyed this @jasondiamond.bsky.social piece on collecting the Vintage Contemporaries: longreads.com/2017/10/20/j...
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SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
October 26, 2025 at 8:57 PM
SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos?
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
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Just 7 weeks till March Sadness starts, y'all! To get pumped, I wrote a piece for @marchxness.bsky.social about history, epistolary narratives & "Tell Mary," the saddest song you've probably never heard:
"I understood that much of the required Texas history curriculum I’d been subjected to in seventh grade consisted of outright bullshit; I also understood that bullshit itself played an important role in the state’s culture" @martinseay.bsky.social on Michael Fracasso:
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
January 10, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Just 7 weeks till March Sadness starts, y'all! To get pumped, I wrote a piece for @marchxness.bsky.social about history, epistolary narratives & "Tell Mary," the saddest song you've probably never heard:
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The cool new thing in Tucson recently has been these reading-together and writing-together events at the neighborhood bar...
Details on tonight's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social club member write-together / social hour on the substack. Meet at Slow Body at 6:30 for writing, 7:30 for social: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
Write Together / Social Tonight!
Congregating at Slow Body Brewing at 6:30-8:30 Thurs 1/8/26
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January 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
The cool new thing in Tucson recently has been these reading-together and writing-together events at the neighborhood bar...
Details on tonight's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social club member write-together / social hour on the substack. Meet at Slow Body at 6:30 for writing, 7:30 for social: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
Write Together / Social Tonight!
Congregating at Slow Body Brewing at 6:30-8:30 Thurs 1/8/26
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January 8, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Details on tonight's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social club member write-together / social hour on the substack. Meet at Slow Body at 6:30 for writing, 7:30 for social: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
YES
January 5, 2026 at 12:52 PM
YES
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man on the radio: I would fuck up an Arby's right now. Here's Bush with "Machinehead"
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
man on the radio: I would fuck up an Arby's right now. Here's Bush with "Machinehead"
alt texts ftw again
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
alt texts ftw again
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Quick update that we will be INSIDE tonight in the Reilly Beer Garden, not outside/upstairs
Tucson folks take note of @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2 tomorrow night featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss. 6pm Reilly rooftop bar. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
January Essay Club Events
Starting tomorrow with Work Talks 2
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January 2, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Quick update that we will be INSIDE tonight in the Reilly Beer Garden, not outside/upstairs
Tucson folks take note of @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2 tomorrow night featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss. 6pm Reilly rooftop bar. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
January Essay Club Events
Starting tomorrow with Work Talks 2
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January 2, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Tucson folks take note of @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2 tomorrow night featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss. 6pm Reilly rooftop bar. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
"How do you acknowledge a corrupted history and still have pity on the people who carry that history in our bodies?" —John Haskell on BLOW-UP (1966), in the new @essaydaily.bsky.social Media Club series:
www.essaydaily.org/2026/01/john...
www.essaydaily.org/2026/01/john...
John Haskell, Blow Me Away
This essay is in our Media Club series, an ongoing series of essays on visual media. More details here . * Blow Me Away John Haskell (This e...
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January 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
"How do you acknowledge a corrupted history and still have pity on the people who carry that history in our bodies?" —John Haskell on BLOW-UP (1966), in the new @essaydaily.bsky.social Media Club series:
www.essaydaily.org/2026/01/john...
www.essaydaily.org/2026/01/john...
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Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social
"I don't know what she was to me. A friend? Yeah. But a bad one. A girlfriend? That'd be a helpful way to think about it, were it true. But it wasn't." Ok let's go! It's @brianasalmons.bsky.social on Red House Painters's "All Mixed Up" & more: marchxness.com/the-essays#/...
December 31, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Learn more than you wanted, in my new extracurricular essay at @marchxness.bsky.social
Join @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2, FRI JAN 2 6pm at Reilly Rooftop. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
Work Talks 2 / Jan 2 6pm Reilly Rooftop
Archives, Swamps, Sarajevo / Deming, Norris, Bliss
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December 27, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Join @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2, FRI JAN 2 6pm at Reilly Rooftop. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
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1.2.26 WORK TALKS 2 6PM Reilly Beer Garden Rooftop featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss on Swamps, Sarajevo, and Archives
December 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
1.2.26 WORK TALKS 2 6PM Reilly Beer Garden Rooftop featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss on Swamps, Sarajevo, and Archives
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My cat (with a troll doll) doing her best Krampus cat. Merry Christmas Eve!
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
My cat (with a troll doll) doing her best Krampus cat. Merry Christmas Eve!
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Merry Christmas bsky!
December 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Merry Christmas bsky!
With Will's great 12/25 essay on Pentiment the 2025 Advent Calendar concludes. We will continue to publish essays on visual media (games, TV, film, art) into 2026, so pitch us if you want to write one: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
The Essay Daily Advent Calendar
* Every year, Essay Daily publishes an Advent Calendar, which brings you a new essay each day during Advent. Some years these essays are th...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
With Will's great 12/25 essay on Pentiment the 2025 Advent Calendar concludes. We will continue to publish essays on visual media (games, TV, film, art) into 2026, so pitch us if you want to write one: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
How it started / how it's going / looks like we're gonna need a bigger goat
December 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
How it started / how it's going / looks like we're gonna need a bigger goat
"dive into the pages of Pentiment, a remarkable game with unparalleled poly-vocal poly-textual poly-textural poly-typographic depictions of the relationship between religion and daily human life." @wjaslattery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social:
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
December 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"dive into the pages of Pentiment, a remarkable game with unparalleled poly-vocal poly-textual poly-textural poly-typographic depictions of the relationship between religion and daily human life." @wjaslattery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social:
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
"Memory is an image rendered by electricity and seen by the heart alone. The cosmology of FFVII states the planet itself has memory. All living things die, and their spirits return..." @geramee.bsky.social in a moving Final Fantasy VII advent essay today:
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
December 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
"Memory is an image rendered by electricity and seen by the heart alone. The cosmology of FFVII states the planet itself has memory. All living things die, and their spirits return..." @geramee.bsky.social in a moving Final Fantasy VII advent essay today:
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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“Through our displays we are also saying no to taste and restraint, & yes to erections and spectacle. We are saying no to self-control and decorum, & yes to demonstration. These are the ways in which, we say, we are not bound. The longer I live in this neighborhood, the more I’m starting to get it.”
Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...
My Monument - Creative Nonfiction
Surrounded by his neighbors’ maximalist holiday displays—104 inflatable Christmas decorations in all, with not a repetition among them—Ander Monson ponders the history of spectacle and considers the m...
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December 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Through our displays we are also saying no to taste and restraint, & yes to erections and spectacle. We are saying no to self-control and decorum, & yes to demonstration. These are the ways in which, we say, we are not bound. The longer I live in this neighborhood, the more I’m starting to get it.”
Misremembering a Christmas Short Story by Stacey Richter: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
Misremembering a Christmas Short Story by Stacey Richter
I mean this isn't a story BY Stacey Richter; it's ABOUT a story by Stacey Richter
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December 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Misremembering a Christmas Short Story by Stacey Richter: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...