sheila heti definitely knows what plot is
September 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
sheila heti definitely knows what plot is
happy pub day to @maris.bsky.social electricliterature.com/maris-kreizm...
Maris Kreizman Finds Hope in Radicalization - Electric Literature
The author of "I Want to Burn This Place Down" on how it's community—not government—that will save us
electricliterature.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:38 PM
happy pub day to @maris.bsky.social electricliterature.com/maris-kreizm...
the harshest words in any review
June 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
the harshest words in any review
there is no one more uninteresting than james frey
June 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
there is no one more uninteresting than james frey
Why the world still hasn't caught up to Edward Said. lithub.com/hari-kunzru-... @harikunzru.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social
Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication
When Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it became an instant landmark of scholarship about the European imagination of “the East.” The construction of an alternate world of pas…
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May 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Why the world still hasn't caught up to Edward Said. lithub.com/hari-kunzru-... @harikunzru.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social
I love the real world
I made you a REAL summer reading list of fifteen REAL books by REAL authors— books that might not be on your radar. Some old, some newer. Here it is.
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rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/fifteen-re...
May 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I love the real world
a beautiful meditation on the screensaver www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05... @parisreview.bsky.social
Recurring Screens by Nora Claire Miller
May 20, 2025 – On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.
www.theparisreview.org
May 21, 2025 at 3:43 PM
a beautiful meditation on the screensaver www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05... @parisreview.bsky.social
excited for @maris.bsky.social's book launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-ma...
Offsite: Maris Kreizman: I Want to Burn This Place Down w/ Emma Straub
“A voice both familiar and full of verve.” —Patricia Lockwood, author of No One is Talking About This
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May 13, 2025 at 5:03 PM
excited for @maris.bsky.social's book launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-ma...
the NEA literary arts staff's letter in full: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff | The Editors
Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique...
www.nplusonemag.com
May 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
the NEA literary arts staff's letter in full: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
a cuck who will never know love
May 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
a cuck who will never know love
"I order a vanilla almond latte at a coffee cart in Brooklyn and look up at the red foliage of autumn trees. My tax dollars pay for the bombs that rain down on the other side of the world." @ariamisha.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/aria-abers-d...
Aria Aber’s Defiant Love Letter to Berlin - Public Books
“The experiences of coming of age and coming into art—of finding your own voice and a vision for your craft—are spiritual and psychological journeys, and, for lack of a better word, universal.”
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April 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
"I order a vanilla almond latte at a coffee cart in Brooklyn and look up at the red foliage of autumn trees. My tax dollars pay for the bombs that rain down on the other side of the world." @ariamisha.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/aria-abers-d...
Proud to call myself a qz alum
Quartz, the business news startup I worked on for a dozen years, through the height of digital media and the sector's crash, has fired all its writers and been sold to its fifth owner. So it felt like time to reflect. www.zachseward.com/what-was-qua...
What was Quartz?
2012–2025
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April 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Proud to call myself a qz alum
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The US economy's pronouns are was/were.
April 3, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The US economy's pronouns are was/were.
next read: @alexhigley.bsky.social's anti-optimization manifesto www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/25/o...
Optimizing Doesn't Equal Thriving: Q&A with Alex Higley – ZYZZYVA
It can be disorienting to read a novel as good as True Failure (Coffee House Press; 280 pages) is when its bold title archly gestures toward the opposite
www.zyzzyva.org
February 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
next read: @alexhigley.bsky.social's anti-optimization manifesto www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/25/o...
the rise and fall of the klan a century ago is a beautiful lesson for us now dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
February 24, 2025 at 6:56 PM
the rise and fall of the klan a century ago is a beautiful lesson for us now dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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Stuck on a project? Imagine you are an insane willem dafoe character lost in the reverie of endless toil. Make impulsive and reckless decisions! Hum/sing/mumble incoherently to yourself! Find delight in the minute chaos of repetitive actions! Choose to kill a man for speaking in an ambiguous tone
February 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Stuck on a project? Imagine you are an insane willem dafoe character lost in the reverie of endless toil. Make impulsive and reckless decisions! Hum/sing/mumble incoherently to yourself! Find delight in the minute chaos of repetitive actions! Choose to kill a man for speaking in an ambiguous tone
the short story that became Normal People www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-t...
At the Clinic - The White Review
At the Clinic by Sally Rooney, published in The White Review No. 18. The fictional debut of Marianne and Connell, before they appeared in Normal People.
www.thewhitereview.org
February 14, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the short story that became Normal People www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-t...
the alt lit syllabus thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
Alt Lit | The Point Magazine
The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.
thepointmag.com
February 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
the alt lit syllabus thepointmag.com/criticism/al...
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A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...
bookshop.org/p/books/blue...
bookshop.org/p/books/blue...
December 31, 2024 at 1:41 AM
A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...
bookshop.org/p/books/blue...
bookshop.org/p/books/blue...
gordon lish's ideal state for imaginative writing
February 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
gordon lish's ideal state for imaginative writing
"[one] wishes more of our generation would simply just shut up and start literal cults, instead of unimaginatively shoehorning every impulse into a high-growth-potential brand." @deliacai.bsky.social www.deezlinks.com/p/holding-hu...
Holding human connection hostage
Unless you upgrade for a premium Friendship subscription!!
www.deezlinks.com
January 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"[one] wishes more of our generation would simply just shut up and start literal cults, instead of unimaginatively shoehorning every impulse into a high-growth-potential brand." @deliacai.bsky.social www.deezlinks.com/p/holding-hu...