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The Deer Out Here: Matt Morris in Conversation with Hea-Ream Lee
* The writer Matthew Morris was sitting at my kitchen table in Tucson, Arizona. He was in town to promote his new book of essays, The Tilli...
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"the longer I write, the more interested I am in riffing and being kind of spontaneous": Matthew Morris in conversation with Hea-Ream Lee:
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over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
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@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
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Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
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October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
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@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
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"the longer I write, the more interested I am in riffing and being kind of spontaneous": Matthew Morris in conversation with Hea-Ream Lee:
www.essaydaily.org/2025/09/the-...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/09/the-...
The Deer Out Here: Matt Morris in Conversation with Hea-Ream Lee
* The writer Matthew Morris was sitting at my kitchen table in Tucson, Arizona. He was in town to promote his new book of essays, The Tilli...
www.essaydaily.org
September 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"the longer I write, the more interested I am in riffing and being kind of spontaneous": Matthew Morris in conversation with Hea-Ream Lee:
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TUCSON ESSAY ALERT
"I’ve left nearly every person I’ve dated. I’m not just someone who leaves, but I am someone who feels compelled to leave. I feel it deep in my body." @beatroxel.bsky.social on leaving, returning, collecting, and The Free Table in Tucson:
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Bea Troxel, Song of Return
Song of Return Bea Troxel Holding a tiny wine cup inside of a drab, gray conference room inside of a convention center in the middle of Los ...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
TUCSON ESSAY ALERT
"I’ve left nearly every person I’ve dated. I’m not just someone who leaves, but I am someone who feels compelled to leave. I feel it deep in my body." @beatroxel.bsky.social on leaving, returning, collecting, and The Free Table in Tucson:
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Bea Troxel, Song of Return
Song of Return Bea Troxel Holding a tiny wine cup inside of a drab, gray conference room inside of a convention center in the middle of Los ...
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August 18, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"I’ve left nearly every person I’ve dated. I’m not just someone who leaves, but I am someone who feels compelled to leave. I feel it deep in my body." @beatroxel.bsky.social on leaving, returning, collecting, and The Free Table in Tucson:
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For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.
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Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation
The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...
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June 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.
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new @essaydaily.bsky.social piece from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social on Kincaid’s “Girl” and the flash essay www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sarah-fawn-montgomery-though-she-be-but.html?m=1
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
new @essaydaily.bsky.social piece from @sfmontgomery.bsky.social on Kincaid’s “Girl” and the flash essay www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sarah-fawn-montgomery-though-she-be-but.html?m=1
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Read @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social on her new flash collection ABBREVIATE and on flash CNF in general: "an essay does not have to be big in order to be expansive"
For @essaydaily.bsky.social I wrote about the power of flash as feminist reclamation, Jamaica Kincaid’s genre-blurring “Girl,” and writing my flash collection ABBREVIATE.
www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...
www.essaydaily.org/2025/06/sara...
Sarah Fawn Montgomery, Though She be but Little, She is Fierce: Flash Nonfiction as Feminist Reclamation
The essay is expansive. The essay meanders. To essay is to reflect, to wander, to search. The essay demands room to stretch and grow, the g...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Read @sfmontgomery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social on her new flash collection ABBREVIATE and on flash CNF in general: "an essay does not have to be big in order to be expansive"
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Submission opportunity for essayists (deadline 7/27): theseventhwave.org/announcement...
Our 2025 Community Anthologies are now open for submissions - Seventh Wave
Submit to one of our five 2025 Community Anthologies: On Separation, On Liminality, On Girlhood, On Collapse, and On Repetition.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Submission opportunity for essayists (deadline 7/27): theseventhwave.org/announcement...
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July 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...
Tucson Essay Club (@tucsonessayclub)
Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.
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July 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...
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Tucsonans consider signing up for the free or paid options with @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social to keep in touch? This is a great essay by Katherine Larson. Pick up her new book Wedding of the Foxes too now from @milkweededitions.bsky.social
An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...
Tucson Essay Club (@tucsonessayclub)
Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.
substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Tucsonans consider signing up for the free or paid options with @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social to keep in touch? This is a great essay by Katherine Larson. Pick up her new book Wedding of the Foxes too now from @milkweededitions.bsky.social
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"We want affirmation but dislike the people we become to get it. We doubt it when it’s real and clutch it closest when it’s fake." Just read this good essay by Thomas Dai in @yalereview.bsky.social from a couple years ago: yalereview.org/article/thom.... If you like this his first book just dropped!
February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"We want affirmation but dislike the people we become to get it. We doubt it when it’s real and clutch it closest when it’s fake." Just read this good essay by Thomas Dai in @yalereview.bsky.social from a couple years ago: yalereview.org/article/thom.... If you like this his first book just dropped!
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February 24, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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"there’s a typical narrative arc for a lot of grief books that I resisted and don’t believe in": @madnor.bsky.social and Matthew Morris in conversation at @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/01/this...
January 22, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"there’s a typical narrative arc for a lot of grief books that I resisted and don’t believe in": @madnor.bsky.social and Matthew Morris in conversation at @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/01/this...
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"I mean, besides the tedium of such a futile exercise, there's the inevitability of missing something or losing count and guessing or having to go back to the beginning and start again."
Love to see @pcmadden3.bsky.social at @essaydaily.bsky.social.
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Love to see @pcmadden3.bsky.social at @essaydaily.bsky.social.
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Dec 21: Patrick Madden, Enough (on tense, timing, recreation, evocation, and eternal happening)
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...
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December 22, 2024 at 12:34 PM
"I mean, besides the tedium of such a futile exercise, there's the inevitability of missing something or losing count and guessing or having to go back to the beginning and start again."
Love to see @pcmadden3.bsky.social at @essaydaily.bsky.social.
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Love to see @pcmadden3.bsky.social at @essaydaily.bsky.social.
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CATS
"Long before I met my first cat at 22, I knew I would not become a mother." Kyoko Mori in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, door 12/22: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 22: Kyoko Mori, The Voice: on Cats and Politics
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 23, 2024 at 9:09 PM
CATS
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My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 21: Patrick Madden, Enough (on tense, timing, recreation, evocation, and eternal happening)
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...
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December 23, 2024 at 7:08 AM
My newest essay, “Enough,” on @essaydaily.bsky.social’s Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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"The only response you hear is a distant groaning, a giant media machine rising slowly to full height…The pile purports to know the right answers about damn near every human question."
Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social:
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Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social:
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Dec 23: Lydia Paar, Plurinity
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December 23, 2024 at 3:55 PM
"The only response you hear is a distant groaning, a giant media machine rising slowly to full height…The pile purports to know the right answers about damn near every human question."
Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social:
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Lydia Paar, Dec 23 @essaydaily.bsky.social:
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"On this first visit to my country my children have a tiny window into my past and it’s about to close…. How then do I bring them in?" Noam Dorr, Dec 20 @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
December 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM
"On this first visit to my country my children have a tiny window into my past and it’s about to close…. How then do I bring them in?" Noam Dorr, Dec 20 @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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"the act of reading revives the things written, happens them again." Dec 21 is the traditional date for @pcmadden3.bsky.social to join the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar, and he delivers: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
December 21, 2024 at 3:59 PM
"the act of reading revives the things written, happens them again." Dec 21 is the traditional date for @pcmadden3.bsky.social to join the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar, and he delivers: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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Every time we open the front closet it's like a beacon goes up, alerting him that the opportunity to climb the slatted doors and trap himself at the top has arrived. He can't get down by himself, yet will bite those who attempt to help him.
December 21, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Every time we open the front closet it's like a beacon goes up, alerting him that the opportunity to climb the slatted doors and trap himself at the top has arrived. He can't get down by himself, yet will bite those who attempt to help him.
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I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
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Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
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“By the time our senses reach our brains, we’re already perceiving the past. So we’re left trying to reconcile our forward moving bodies with our backwards looking minds.”
🚨🚨🚨 @jasonsepac.bsky.social on ‘00s nostalgia for @essaydaily.bsky.social advent!!!!!!!! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
🚨🚨🚨 @jasonsepac.bsky.social on ‘00s nostalgia for @essaydaily.bsky.social advent!!!!!!!! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 19, 2024 at 2:10 PM
“By the time our senses reach our brains, we’re already perceiving the past. So we’re left trying to reconcile our forward moving bodies with our backwards looking minds.”
🚨🚨🚨 @jasonsepac.bsky.social on ‘00s nostalgia for @essaydaily.bsky.social advent!!!!!!!! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
🚨🚨🚨 @jasonsepac.bsky.social on ‘00s nostalgia for @essaydaily.bsky.social advent!!!!!!!! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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ruminations on safety signs, sugar eggs, and standees. Many thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for inviting me to the annual Advent Party. www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 18: Steven Church, Signs of Something Else (in conversation with Lia Purpura’s essay, “Sugar Eggs: a Reverie”)
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 18, 2024 at 2:54 PM
ruminations on safety signs, sugar eggs, and standees. Many thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for inviting me to the annual Advent Party. www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...