Isaac Yuen
@ekostories.bsky.social
✒️ Writer weaving human with the more-than-human.
🌍 Book: Utter, Earth, WVU Press 2024
🎶 Book: The Sound Atlas w/ Michaela Vieser, Reaktion Books 2025
🐫 Artwork: The Minimal Animal Project 🐋🦋🦑
🌱 Links to everything: linktr.ee/isaac_yuen
🌍 Book: Utter, Earth, WVU Press 2024
🎶 Book: The Sound Atlas w/ Michaela Vieser, Reaktion Books 2025
🐫 Artwork: The Minimal Animal Project 🐋🦋🦑
🌱 Links to everything: linktr.ee/isaac_yuen
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@ekostories.bsky.social
· Sep 4
‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.
Thanks to @seventydys.bsky.social for picking up our odd little book that took us on such unexpected adventures! 🙏🔊👂
"Virginia Woolf believed that style in writing all comes down to rhythm, that once you find it, there are no wrong words."
#shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting
#shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting
Rhythm
by Isaac Yuen | Beyond thought.
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September 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
"Virginia Woolf believed that style in writing all comes down to rhythm, that once you find it, there are no wrong words."
#shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting
#shortreads #creativenonfiction #flashprose #onwriting
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Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
September 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Your monthly reminder:
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.
The writer's ritual: @michaelavieser.bsky.social unboxes our author copies of The Sound Atlas, in full hardcover glory!
Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler
Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler
September 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
The writer's ritual: @michaelavieser.bsky.social unboxes our author copies of The Sound Atlas, in full hardcover glory!
Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler
Out now in the UK via @reaktionbooks.bsky.social and in Nov via @uchicagopress.bsky.social
#soundstories #deeplistening #armchairtraveler
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"What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"
"What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"
How One Snail Inspired Two Novels on Two Different Continents
What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, to…
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September 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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"What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"
"What do you do when you’re about to publish your debut novel and you discover another book—released eighteen months earlier—with the same title and a strikingly similar cover? And that its plot, too, features a last-of-its-kind snail?"
Thanks to Dr. Miranda Melcher for chatting with us about The Sound Atlas!
Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!
Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!
September 4, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thanks to Dr. Miranda Melcher for chatting with us about The Sound Atlas!
Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!
Listen here: newbooksnetwork.com/the-sound-at... or wherever you get your podcast!
Thanks to @seventydys.bsky.social for picking up our odd little book that took us on such unexpected adventures! 🙏🔊👂
‘The Sound Atlas: A Guide to Strange Sounds across Landscapes and Imagination’ by @michaelavieser.bsky.social & @ekostories.bsky.social, a wonderful book of 36 short essays on sound in place & imagination I commissioned for @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. Published this week.
September 4, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Thanks to @seventydys.bsky.social for picking up our odd little book that took us on such unexpected adventures! 🙏🔊👂
Happy for the honourable mention for my Italo Calvino inspired short story titled "Tales from Coral Country"! 🪸🪸🪸
The jury and organizers of the #writingcompetition “Tell the Untold!” would like to thank all of the participants and are especially thrilled to announce the #winners.
Congrats to Felix (short fiction), Vieser (creative nonfiction), and Fraillon (reflective essay) for their remarkable submissions.
Congrats to Felix (short fiction), Vieser (creative nonfiction), and Fraillon (reflective essay) for their remarkable submissions.
September 2, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy for the honourable mention for my Italo Calvino inspired short story titled "Tales from Coral Country"! 🪸🪸🪸
Next stop in The Sound Atlas: San Francisco, with detours in Baden-Baden, Germany, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, and Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts—all in an attempt to trace the history of the Aeolian harp, an ancient instrument that is played solely by the wind...
September 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Next stop in The Sound Atlas: San Francisco, with detours in Baden-Baden, Germany, the Aeolian Islands, Sicily, and Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts—all in an attempt to trace the history of the Aeolian harp, an ancient instrument that is played solely by the wind...
The first chapter & stop of The Sound Atlas is, believe it or not, New Jersey.
There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...
There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...
August 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The first chapter & stop of The Sound Atlas is, believe it or not, New Jersey.
There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...
There, in 1964, at the Holmdel Horn Antennae, began the saga of two radio astronomers accidentally tuning into a background radiation that originated from the Big Bang, changing the science of cosmology forever...
Thanks to Kyoichi Tsuzuki, renowned photojournalist and author of TOYKO STYLE & ROADSIDE JAPAN, for this heartfelt blurb for THE SOUND ATLAS, coming out next week!
Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3
#soundscape #soundstories #newbook
@michaelavieser.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3
#soundscape #soundstories #newbook
@michaelavieser.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Thanks to Kyoichi Tsuzuki, renowned photojournalist and author of TOYKO STYLE & ROADSIDE JAPAN, for this heartfelt blurb for THE SOUND ATLAS, coming out next week!
Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3
#soundscape #soundstories #newbook
@michaelavieser.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
Preorder your copy here: shorturl.at/kKNn3
#soundscape #soundstories #newbook
@michaelavieser.bsky.social
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is coming round again and the shortlist is stunning.
See the whole shortlist here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-... and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.
See the whole shortlist here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-... and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.
August 2, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is coming round again and the shortlist is stunning.
See the whole shortlist here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-... and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.
See the whole shortlist here: www.rmg.co.uk/whats-... and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.
Reposted by Isaac Yuen
Destabilize the system, cultivate your humanity, eschew narrow definitions of efficiency. Roam in a wildflower meadow for no reason. Give gifts with no expectation. Write an imperfect paragraph that no one else, let alone the grand fascimile machines, could write.
August 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Destabilize the system, cultivate your humanity, eschew narrow definitions of efficiency. Roam in a wildflower meadow for no reason. Give gifts with no expectation. Write an imperfect paragraph that no one else, let alone the grand fascimile machines, could write.
UK friends and readers, you can get 25% off the preorder of THE SOUND ATLAS at @waterstones.bsky.social using the code SUMMER25. Offer is exclusive to the Waterstones website & app and ends on 7/31:
Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou...
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶
Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou...
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶
July 30, 2025 at 7:54 PM
UK friends and readers, you can get 25% off the preorder of THE SOUND ATLAS at @waterstones.bsky.social using the code SUMMER25. Offer is exclusive to the Waterstones website & app and ends on 7/31:
Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou...
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶
Link at www.waterstones.com/book/the-sou...
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #WPreorder #soundatlas 🌏👂🎶
"Offering distance and difference in vantage, the post-post-apocalyptic allows the imaginary lens to recenter its focus on a freed moment in time, along with its sovereign, mutable future.”
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
“No Future” Lexicon: The Post-Post-Apocalyptic - Public Books
But what lies beyond the end of the world? Casting off the trappings accreted by the post-apocalyptic genre emerge stories of the post-post-apocalyptic.
www.publicbooks.org
July 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Offering distance and difference in vantage, the post-post-apocalyptic allows the imaginary lens to recenter its focus on a freed moment in time, along with its sovereign, mutable future.”
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
A new essay up at @publicbooks.bsky.social for a new series edited by @mw-m.bsky.social: shorturl.at/WdMDg
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Anxiety about the future is nothing new. As @mw-m.bsky.social writes, “Rejecting future’s seeming inevitability has defined thought and practice around the world, likely for the whole of human history.”
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
“No Future”: A Lexicon
If the future hasn’t changed in the past, how could it possibly change now?
www.publicbooks.org
July 22, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Anxiety about the future is nothing new. As @mw-m.bsky.social writes, “Rejecting future’s seeming inevitability has defined thought and practice around the world, likely for the whole of human history.”
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
Our new series “No Future”: A Lexicon, begins today:
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“I wanted to reposition a place that is so often seen as a periphery. For people living in the Arctic, these are their homelands, so of course for them the region is the center of the world, in the sense that it’s the place where your imagination operates from.”
Are Species Timeless?: Talking with Bathsheba Demuth About the Arctic
“There was an interdependence that was very clear in the animal relationships in the Arctic.”
www.publicbooks.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:55 PM
“I wanted to reposition a place that is so often seen as a periphery. For people living in the Arctic, these are their homelands, so of course for them the region is the center of the world, in the sense that it’s the place where your imagination operates from.”
Reposted by Isaac Yuen
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
June 18, 2025 at 3:01 PM
We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:
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For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...
A Bestiary of Loss
To mark Lost Species Day, images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories — from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker.
publicdomainreview.org
June 5, 2025 at 1:46 PM
For #WorldEnvironmentDay today, “A Bestiary of Loss” — images of 39 recently extinct animals and their stories, from the aurochs to the ivory-billed woodpecker: publicdomainreview.org/collection/e...
Reposted by Isaac Yuen
“I’ve been on this crusade against metaphor for years,” Yiyun Li tells Manjula Martin in this conversation. “I think metaphors are not helpful when you are writing about things that are very hard to tackle.”
For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.
For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.
Sometimes a Rose Is Just a Rose
A conversation about gardening, loss, and the end of metaphor
orionmagazine.org
May 25, 2025 at 12:20 PM
“I’ve been on this crusade against metaphor for years,” Yiyun Li tells Manjula Martin in this conversation. “I think metaphors are not helpful when you are writing about things that are very hard to tackle.”
For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.
For garden lovers, metaphor haters, and those learning to accept grief.
Reposted by Isaac Yuen
In Norway, herrings are losing their elders and their knowledge of migration routes. The solution? Change harvesting practices to encourage a population boom and help the fish recover their collective memory.
How These Fish Lost Their Memory
The unexpected consequences of harvesting old, wise fish
nautil.us
May 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
In Norway, herrings are losing their elders and their knowledge of migration routes. The solution? Change harvesting practices to encourage a population boom and help the fish recover their collective memory.
I share a memory from the cult-classic Earthbound as a videogame that showcases the magic of mushrooms in the latest issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social #mushrooms #fungi
What We’re Playing in 2025 - Orion Magazine
Games featuring the magic of mushrooms
orionmagazine.org
May 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I share a memory from the cult-classic Earthbound as a videogame that showcases the magic of mushrooms in the latest issue of @orionmagazine.bsky.social #mushrooms #fungi
Always nice to have a full list of birdcalls in Merlin within a minute. 🐦
May 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Always nice to have a full list of birdcalls in Merlin within a minute. 🐦
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A short review of a rich and fascinating new book from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social by @ekostories.bsky.social and Michaela Vieser
May 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A short review of a rich and fascinating new book from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social by @ekostories.bsky.social and Michaela Vieser
First proof for The Sound Atla I co-wrote with @michaelavieser.bsky.social is here! Final version is coming out this fall. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing it.
April 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
First proof for The Sound Atla I co-wrote with @michaelavieser.bsky.social is here! Final version is coming out this fall. Let me know if you are interested in reviewing it.
Reposted by Isaac Yuen
"I won't give up. I won't. I'll fight harder."
Dr. Jane always says what we need to hear. 💚 When she was asked how she keeps going, even when times are tough and the world feels bleak, she doubled down with her inspiring message. Watch this video for her answer.
📹: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Dr. Jane always says what we need to hear. 💚 When she was asked how she keeps going, even when times are tough and the world feels bleak, she doubled down with her inspiring message. Watch this video for her answer.
📹: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
April 26, 2025 at 1:54 PM
"I won't give up. I won't. I'll fight harder."
Dr. Jane always says what we need to hear. 💚 When she was asked how she keeps going, even when times are tough and the world feels bleak, she doubled down with her inspiring message. Watch this video for her answer.
📹: Queen Elizabeth Theatre
Dr. Jane always says what we need to hear. 💚 When she was asked how she keeps going, even when times are tough and the world feels bleak, she doubled down with her inspiring message. Watch this video for her answer.
📹: Queen Elizabeth Theatre