A. Jay Adler
@ajayadler.bsky.social
Writer. Roper of stars. Professor of English. New York and Los Angeles. #Essays, #poetry, #fiction, #creative nonfiction, #memoir, cultural commentary. Poetry collection *Waiting for Word*. Substacks: Homo Vitruvius & American Samizdat. ajayadler.com
How could it have happened at all? How could it have happened so fast? Who are these Americans? What was that country?
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November 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
How could it have happened at all? How could it have happened so fast? Who are these Americans? What was that country?
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For your children and grandchildren and theirs to come. For yourselves.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
October 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
For your children and grandchildren and theirs to come. For yourselves.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
If we don’t want to live on our knees in fear, let’s rise to our feet, in fierce pride, and stand this Saturday.
Let’s rescue for these generations of living Americans a name of which we can be proud.
This language incites violence and terrorism.
September 25, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This language incites violence and terrorism.
So in other words, Judge is only the second player in major league history, after Babe Ruth himself, to hit over 50 home runs four separate times.
September 25, 2025 at 4:23 AM
So in other words, Judge is only the second player in major league history, after Babe Ruth himself, to hit over 50 home runs four separate times.
This isn't socialism. It's a form of corporatism -- fascist corporatism.
August 25, 2025 at 4:03 PM
This isn't socialism. It's a form of corporatism -- fascist corporatism.
I had to write "Impolitic Manifesto" in 2019, after "only" 4 years of Trump. Now it's 10 years, and you see the news everyday. I had to publish it again. #poetry #politics #America #Trump
"what, taken outright, might be earned, might be squandered..."
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"what, taken outright, might be earned, might be squandered..."
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July 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I had to write "Impolitic Manifesto" in 2019, after "only" 4 years of Trump. Now it's 10 years, and you see the news everyday. I had to publish it again. #poetry #politics #America #Trump
"what, taken outright, might be earned, might be squandered..."
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"what, taken outright, might be earned, might be squandered..."
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Try as we may or try not to, we're implicated in the life of our times. Then and now, we search, as does David, for love and connection, and we are judged, as is David, by colleagues and friends, by our children, and by history.
#creativewriting #democracy
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#creativewriting #democracy
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July 19, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Try as we may or try not to, we're implicated in the life of our times. Then and now, we search, as does David, for love and connection, and we are judged, as is David, by colleagues and friends, by our children, and by history.
#creativewriting #democracy
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#creativewriting #democracy
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100 thousand people. What we need in D.C., and more, to oppose the Trump Masked Abduction Program.
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
June 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
100 thousand people. What we need in D.C., and more, to oppose the Trump Masked Abduction Program.
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Orban’s Ban www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
"What are you willing to do to make the world new?"
What We Were Thinking Of, part 4
#writers #plays #theater #America
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What We Were Thinking Of, part 4
#writers #plays #theater #America
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June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"What are you willing to do to make the world new?"
What We Were Thinking Of, part 4
#writers #plays #theater #America
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What We Were Thinking Of, part 4
#writers #plays #theater #America
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WHAT WE WERE THINKING OF
"In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of"
#writers #writing #drama #theater
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"In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of"
#writers #writing #drama #theater
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June 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
WHAT WE WERE THINKING OF
"In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of"
#writers #writing #drama #theater
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"In all the places we were hiding love
What was it we were thinking of"
#writers #writing #drama #theater
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No Kings downtown Cleveland.
June 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
No Kings downtown Cleveland.
~~~~~~~NO KINGS~~~~~~
"The national uprising against tyranny, victorious since 14 April, has hoisted a flag that is invested by means of the feelings of the people with the double representation of the hope of freedom and of its irreversible triumph."
"The national uprising against tyranny, victorious since 14 April, has hoisted a flag that is invested by means of the feelings of the people with the double representation of the hope of freedom and of its irreversible triumph."
June 13, 2025 at 8:15 AM
~~~~~~~NO KINGS~~~~~~
"The national uprising against tyranny, victorious since 14 April, has hoisted a flag that is invested by means of the feelings of the people with the double representation of the hope of freedom and of its irreversible triumph."
"The national uprising against tyranny, victorious since 14 April, has hoisted a flag that is invested by means of the feelings of the people with the double representation of the hope of freedom and of its irreversible triumph."
As of today, on Homo Vitruvius — the play's the thing.
"What We Were Thinking Of," a play in two acts.
The American drama. Where we came from. Where we're going?
Two families. Two friends. One country.
#drama #writers #theater #play #books #booksky
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"What We Were Thinking Of," a play in two acts.
The American drama. Where we came from. Where we're going?
Two families. Two friends. One country.
#drama #writers #theater #play #books #booksky
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June 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
This Sunday, at the DTLA Central Library’s Taper Auditorium, Projecting L.A. 2024's culminating screening, after a year, of 32 news, documentary, and street #photographers' work depicting #losangeles life. If you can't be there, watch at the project website: www.thelaproject.org/projecting-l...
May 2, 2025 at 11:05 PM
This Sunday, at the DTLA Central Library’s Taper Auditorium, Projecting L.A. 2024's culminating screening, after a year, of 32 news, documentary, and street #photographers' work depicting #losangeles life. If you can't be there, watch at the project website: www.thelaproject.org/projecting-l...
He's on the USSC. It isn't that he's literally stupid. So . . .
'Justice Alito said that he had refused to join the court’s order because “we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”'
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'Justice Alito said that he had refused to join the court’s order because “we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”'
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April 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
He's on the USSC. It isn't that he's literally stupid. So . . .
'Justice Alito said that he had refused to join the court’s order because “we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”'
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...
'Justice Alito said that he had refused to join the court’s order because “we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”'
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(When there is no word for it
when word has not come,)
. . . .
(of mouth or eaten, or for want
of a better, so they stick in your throat,)
~ from “The Words,” in Waiting for Word
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Still image from Zabriskie Point, by Michelangelo Antonioni
when word has not come,)
. . . .
(of mouth or eaten, or for want
of a better, so they stick in your throat,)
~ from “The Words,” in Waiting for Word
.
Still image from Zabriskie Point, by Michelangelo Antonioni
April 15, 2025 at 4:11 AM
(When there is no word for it
when word has not come,)
. . . .
(of mouth or eaten, or for want
of a better, so they stick in your throat,)
~ from “The Words,” in Waiting for Word
.
Still image from Zabriskie Point, by Michelangelo Antonioni
when word has not come,)
. . . .
(of mouth or eaten, or for want
of a better, so they stick in your throat,)
~ from “The Words,” in Waiting for Word
.
Still image from Zabriskie Point, by Michelangelo Antonioni
ICE-apprehended Venezuelan gang pelicans lined up for American-justice, public humiliation head shearing off the coast of failed-state, woke DEI radical Marxist California.
They were eating the cats and dogs.
They were eating the cats and dogs.
April 15, 2025 at 4:10 AM
ICE-apprehended Venezuelan gang pelicans lined up for American-justice, public humiliation head shearing off the coast of failed-state, woke DEI radical Marxist California.
They were eating the cats and dogs.
They were eating the cats and dogs.
I'm visiting family in Cleveland so I attended the Hands Off protest there at Market Square Park.
I also auditioned for the sequel to The Departed.
I also auditioned for the sequel to The Departed.
April 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I'm visiting family in Cleveland so I attended the Hands Off protest there at Market Square Park.
I also auditioned for the sequel to The Departed.
I also auditioned for the sequel to The Departed.
One person in the United States today who led, of whom to be proud.
Who wasn't silent.
Don't be silent on Saturday.
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Who wasn't silent.
Don't be silent on Saturday.
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April 2, 2025 at 12:17 AM
One person in the United States today who led, of whom to be proud.
Who wasn't silent.
Don't be silent on Saturday.
handsoff2025.com/n
Who wasn't silent.
Don't be silent on Saturday.
handsoff2025.com/n
Usha, Eva; Eva, Clara; Clara, Eva; Eva, Usha.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Usha, Eva; Eva, Clara; Clara, Eva; Eva, Usha.
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"When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do."
~ Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist and oceanographer
~ Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist and oceanographer
March 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
"When I first ventured into the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea appeared to be a blue infinity too large, too wild to be harmed by anything that people could do."
~ Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist and oceanographer
~ Sylvia Earle, American marine biologist and oceanographer
Tomorrow on American Samizdat I ask the question that hangs over us all.
"Most people avoid conflict. They do not like it, they cannot bear it. They will run from it. They will not show at the metaphorical barricades, let alone the literal ones. Rather than contest, they will abide."
"Most people avoid conflict. They do not like it, they cannot bear it. They will run from it. They will not show at the metaphorical barricades, let alone the literal ones. Rather than contest, they will abide."
March 21, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Tomorrow on American Samizdat I ask the question that hangs over us all.
"Most people avoid conflict. They do not like it, they cannot bear it. They will run from it. They will not show at the metaphorical barricades, let alone the literal ones. Rather than contest, they will abide."
"Most people avoid conflict. They do not like it, they cannot bear it. They will run from it. They will not show at the metaphorical barricades, let alone the literal ones. Rather than contest, they will abide."