elvia wilk
elvia-wilk.bsky.social
elvia wilk
@elvia-wilk.bsky.social
writer who writes, editor who edits
www.elviapw.com
https://elviawilk.substack.com
wrote abt fake snow
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November 9, 2025 at 4:23 PM
“The rule about Berlin,” writes novelist Elvia Wilk, “is that you always got there too late.” The same logic, it seems, applies to the city that is Contemporary Art.
— JEPPE UGELVIG 😘
spikeartmagazine.com/articles/ess...
Nothing New But What’s Forgotten: On Nostalgia in Art by Jeppe Ugelvig
Art used to be better, right? Its people more authentic, its institutions less corrupt? Sure, nostalgia is fine copium; but might art yet dream up the new in the language of the past?
spikeartmagazine.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
My approach to THE CRAFT of writing at end of world elviawilk.substack.com/p/last-survi...
Last Survivor
I teach craft class. What is that tho?
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October 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
For the @clereviewbooks.bsky.social I wrote about incorporating myself as ELVIA INC, believing that the only way to keep being a writer was to become a corporation—but instead I crashed my car, got dommed by Hobbes' Leviathan, and was ransomed by the IRS.
clereviewofbooks.com/elvia-incorp...
Elvia, Incorporated - Cleveland Review of Books
I left the bank fully and completely realized as ELVIA INC, annual projected revenue: one million dollars.
clereviewofbooks.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:20 PM
On Peter Hujar's Day, on Bouchra, on good AI art (it exists), on everything you should see in NYC elviawilk.substack.com/p/a-barrage-...
A Barrage of Art
Overwhelm yourselfs with stuff to see in NYC
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October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A Barrage of Art
Overwhelm yourselfs with stuff to see in NYC
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October 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
September 2, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Reposted by elvia wilk
“Law enforcement needed lamps. Nightshift workers needed lamps. Malls needed lamps. Emergency services needed lamps. Moralists needed the metaphor of lamps.”

@elvia-wilk.bsky.social doesn’t love lamp in NYRA no. 46/47.

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August 12, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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August 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
reviving your skeleton of a novel... indefinitely moving apartments... writing fiction and criticism at the same time

elviawilk.substack.com/p/resuscitat...
Resuscitate, resuscitate
A summer in track changes
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July 30, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I went ahead and wrote this important listicle
elviawilk.substack.com/p/the-pastas...
The Pastas and the Weeds
What and where to eat in Rome
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July 8, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over," Mamdani told the crowd. "As my father told me years ago, when the right wins power, the left writes a great book. Those days are over too."
hellgatenyc.com/new-morning-...
A New Morning in New York City
The biggest political upset in city history, and other links to start a very different Wednesday.
hellgatenyc.com
June 25, 2025 at 2:55 PM
We’re raising funds for my dear friend Bill, who’s just been suddenly paroled from the notoriously awful Midstate prison in upstate NY and is now in a shelter trying to get his life started again. Please give if you can! chuffed.org/project/1312...
Help Bill land on his feet
Our friend William Reddick was granted parole this month, a long-awaited and hard-earned milestone. After a year and a half of re-incarceration, Bill is finally coming home, and we've organized this f...
chuffed.org
May 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Lucky and grateful to be FELLOWED to write about scriptwriting in art

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April 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened.
April 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
For when it's time to lie down and be sick
elviawilk.substack.com/p/rebecca
Rebecca
Gothic Woman Theory — Daphne du Maurier and the haunted body
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April 15, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’m taking on one (1) more new editing project this spring! Write me if you have a BOOK, ESSAY, IDEA, or GENERAL MALAISE and need help. ✼  ҉  ✼

I do Big 5s, art books, dissertations, your unfinished novel, or that hybrid-fragment-thing you can’t place. DM for creds.
April 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
learning Italian, wearing turtlenecks, la dolce vita, and knowing when to commit

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Eat Pray Conjugate
Lerner moments, Lahiri moments
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April 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM