NYC No Kings

Free Mahmoud Khalil

Omar El Akkad’s One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This — out today!

Got to hear Helen Garner tell stories on a Soho rooftop & picked up her newly reissued The Children’s Bach (a favorite!) & This House of Grief — absolutely magical evening

our corner in Brooklyn this morning

the “academics in their 40s” groupchat when I tell them about a party last night at a Brooklyn bar where the hosts went over karaoke instructions and then announced “oh and we have poppers”

I mean: Victoria Chang’s “My Mother’s Teeth” — mygod
(Also here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/151141/obit-5d8d0cffc5885)

Sealey Challenge so far! Jenny Liou’s Muscle Memory, Cameron Awkward-Rich’s Dispatch, Tommy Pico’s IRL, & Victoria Chang’s Obit in particular are all gonna haunt me (in the best way possible)

Cackling at the part of the indictment where one of Trump’s senior campaign advisors said the legal & research teams weren’t finding evidence of election fraud in Georgia & wrote in a Dec 8 email that “it’s tough to own any of this when it’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership”

First time doing the Sealey Challenge — stack’s nearly there!

hi hi — what’d we miss over here so far?