Jennifer Kabat
@jenkabat.bsky.social
Nightshining + The Eighth Moon (Milkweed Eds 2024 + 2025). Upstater. Art writer. Essayist. Rural rabble-rouser. Socialist. Member Margaretville VFD.
I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me.
"Tillman’s ideas slip between each other in a playful way that I wish I could emulate. Words repeat and double back, reinforcing and undermining each other." Jennifer Kabat on Lynne Tillman and “Thrilled to Death.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-of-language-comes-nothing-and-everything/
August 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me.
Daniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social
San Francisco! Believer contributor @jenkabat.bsky.social and Editor Daniel Gumbiner will be at @booksmith.bsky.social on August 19 to celebrate the release of Jennifer's new book, "Nightshining." Register for the event here:
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Booksmith presents: Jennifer Kabat with Daniel Gumbiner / Nightshining | Passage - Your event. Your fans. Your mobile box office.
The Booksmith is excited to welcome Jennifer Kabat and Daniel Gumbiner to the shop to celebrate the release of Nightshining on August 19th at 7pm. Join us!About the bookA propulsive, layered examinati...
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August 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Daniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social
🙏🙏🙏 @tissetakagi.bsky.social from the side of the mountain I live on!
This @jenkabat.bsky.social essay on MY SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN—one of the great wilderness novels—made me so happy today
My Side of the Mountain - Orion Magazine
On Jean Craighead George’s most famous book, Walden’s legacy, and the dream of togetherness
orionmagazine.org
August 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
🙏🙏🙏 @tissetakagi.bsky.social from the side of the mountain I live on!
To which I add one of the rabbits rabbiting about today in the heatwave in our shit-show world. (Also rank Mamdani No. 1 and please don't rank Cuomo)...
June 24, 2025 at 2:01 PM
To which I add one of the rabbits rabbiting about today in the heatwave in our shit-show world. (Also rank Mamdani No. 1 and please don't rank Cuomo)...
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Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat.bsky.social) discusses “Nightshining,” the second in her diptych of memoirs, how her idea of community evolved while writing the book, and the relationship between our varied experiences of time and historical progress. (@summerjhart)
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Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature
The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers
electricliterature.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat.bsky.social) discusses “Nightshining,” the second in her diptych of memoirs, how her idea of community evolved while writing the book, and the relationship between our varied experiences of time and historical progress. (@summerjhart)
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"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? "
— @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
— @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
BOMB Magazine | Jennifer Kabat by Laura Marris
The essayist examines the roots of American socialism and the environmental history of man-made climate change in rural New York.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:27 PM
"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? "
— @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
— @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.
@milkweededitions.bsky.social
(Also in this issue of BOMB: Ocean Vuong interviewed by Bjork, new work by Catherine Lacey and Ed Park-- eg the issue is amazing and I feel lucky to be in its pages.... )
Memoirist @jenkabat.bsky.social discusses the history of socialism in New York and her stunning literary diptych from @milkweededitions.bsky.social, THE EIGHTH MOON and NIGHTSHINING, with Laura Marris.
BOMB Magazine | Jennifer Kabat by Laura Marris
The essayist examines the roots of American socialism and the environmental history of man-made climate change in rural New York.
bombmagazine.org
June 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
(Also in this issue of BOMB: Ocean Vuong interviewed by Bjork, new work by Catherine Lacey and Ed Park-- eg the issue is amazing and I feel lucky to be in its pages.... )
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Every other week, we shout out writers & their recent lit mag publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...
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Saturday Shout-Out ~ May 31, 2025
Share your recently published work with the WRJ community
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June 2, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Every other week, we shout out writers & their recent lit mag publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...
@deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social
@deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social
"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social
“Kabat muses on the sense that narrative, at least in its more traditional forms, is unable to faithfully fully render the truth she seeks to explore.”
Excerpt from review of @jenkabat.bsky.social's Nightshining, new from Milkweed Editions.
Read the full review:
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#writingcommunity
Excerpt from review of @jenkabat.bsky.social's Nightshining, new from Milkweed Editions.
Read the full review:
buff.ly/yAKSoxc
#writingcommunity
May 9, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social
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State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman Micah Lasher hope to give Musk a taste of his own medicine, scrutinizing his sweetheart deal in Buffalo: identifying “‘waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.’” And seeing whether Tesla is living up to its commitments.
N.Y. Lawmakers Fight Trump With a Proposal Targeting Elon Musk
A bill would authorize an audit of a state deal allowing Tesla to lease a factory site near Buffalo for $1 a year, and would create a way for the state to claw back subsidies.
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April 2, 2025 at 10:37 AM
State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman Micah Lasher hope to give Musk a taste of his own medicine, scrutinizing his sweetheart deal in Buffalo: identifying “‘waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.’” And seeing whether Tesla is living up to its commitments.
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Clint Smith watches the destruction of the Black Lives Mural near the White House. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
March 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Clint Smith watches the destruction of the Black Lives Mural near the White House. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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“Only in 1799, more than a century and a half after the first enslaved person arrived in New York, did the state pass an act ‘for the gradual abolition of slavery,’ meaning it remained a slave state well into the nineteenth century.” —Nell Irvin Painter
‘This Land Is Yours’ | Nell Irvin Painter
Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.
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March 13, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Only in 1799, more than a century and a half after the first enslaved person arrived in New York, did the state pass an act ‘for the gradual abolition of slavery,’ meaning it remained a slave state well into the nineteenth century.” —Nell Irvin Painter
Small reminder: North America's largest rodents are waving the red flag. My epistolary response and support for my beaver-fever heroes🦫🦫✊: Beavers Are Socialist | New York Review of Architecture nyra.nyc/articles/bea...
Beavers Are Socialist
The New York Review of Architecture reviews architecture, in New York.
nyra.nyc
March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Small reminder: North America's largest rodents are waving the red flag. My epistolary response and support for my beaver-fever heroes🦫🦫✊: Beavers Are Socialist | New York Review of Architecture nyra.nyc/articles/bea...
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Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say
Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.
zeteo.com
March 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...
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A few reported salaries:
- Kyle Schutt: $195,200
- Jeremy Lewin: $167,000
- Kyle Schutt: $195,200
- Jeremy Lewin: $167,000
March 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A few reported salaries:
- Kyle Schutt: $195,200
- Jeremy Lewin: $167,000
- Kyle Schutt: $195,200
- Jeremy Lewin: $167,000
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We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee.
Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.
Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.
March 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM
We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee.
Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.
Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.
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The prehistory of AIDS: “Like a number of his Black LGBTQ peers, Hemphill began publishing & performing his work as more spaces…opened up & welcomed these artists’ visions & voices. For a moment, a flowering of Black LGBTQ literary & artistic production was visible to anyone paying attention.”
John Keene traces the life and work of Essex Hemphill, an early poetic chronicler of Black queer experience.
John Keene on the Life and Literary Legacy of Essex Hemphill an Early Poetic Chronicler of Black Queer Life
Throughout Essex Hemphill’s poetry, what we registered was his attentiveness to craft as well as statement, to the possibilities of performance, of form, of the line, and to the expressive content,…
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March 9, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The prehistory of AIDS: “Like a number of his Black LGBTQ peers, Hemphill began publishing & performing his work as more spaces…opened up & welcomed these artists’ visions & voices. For a moment, a flowering of Black LGBTQ literary & artistic production was visible to anyone paying attention.”
Just found the telegram my parents sent the White House and Justice Dept after this: “ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO PROTECT THESE PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO ASK ONLY WHAT MOST OF US TAKE FOR GRANTED.”
Selma's Bloody Sunday... was
60 years ago today
60.
Not 100
Not 200
Not 400
But 60 years ago today
60 years ago today
60.
Not 100
Not 200
Not 400
But 60 years ago today
March 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Just found the telegram my parents sent the White House and Justice Dept after this: “ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO PROTECT THESE PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO ASK ONLY WHAT MOST OF US TAKE FOR GRANTED.”
"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.
March 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.