Evan Kindley
@evankindley.bsky.social
Associate Editor at Chronicle Review. Writing a group biography of the New York School of Poets for Knopf
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Evan Kindley
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The Miracles of James Schuyler
Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.
www.thenation.com
I reviewed Nathan Kernan's long-awaited biography of James Schuyler for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social
Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
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Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
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Three poems by Jordan Davis
Interrogator neededmust fail to understandthe simplest thingsin a vault of goo —Platitudes generatedby electricityfalling into a sourceit troubles us to considereven once,whispering to solvent afte…
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September 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
THREE POEMS by Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social
Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
burninghousepress.com/2025/09/20/t...
Poetry for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
burninghousepress.com/2025/09/20/t...
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"Escalator," a 1970 work by Photorealist painter Richard Estes
September 25, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Escalator," a 1970 work by Photorealist painter Richard Estes
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Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
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September 15, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our new magazine, Equator, is officially out in the world — and here @equatormag.bsky.social
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
Sign up for preview emails, donate, and get tickets to our launch event in London: equator.org
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Last year for The Chronicle I wrote about the long history of the first of these, which has been with us since the 1940s
September 12, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Last year for The Chronicle I wrote about the long history of the first of these, which has been with us since the 1940s
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My latest for @chronicle.com: Charlie Kirk's assassination on a college campus is a catastrophe for higher education and will likely only intensify the Trump administration's war on American colleges and universities.
Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Catastrophe for Higher Ed
Things were already bad. They’re about to get worse.
www.chronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
My latest for @chronicle.com: Charlie Kirk's assassination on a college campus is a catastrophe for higher education and will likely only intensify the Trump administration's war on American colleges and universities.
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Did you guys spot this, in the latest New Yorker crossword?
September 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social Did you guys spot this, in the latest New Yorker crossword?
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My latest for @newrepublic.com: I went back to Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1974 book “The Denial of Death” to see if it had insights in an age of AI, nightmare tech bros, and the return of Trump in the wake of Covid-19. Turns out it does, though not in the way Becker quite foresaw:
The One Percent’s Fear of Death Is Wreaking Havoc on the World
Ernest Becker’s The Denial of Death posited that we act out in antisocial ways—and even embrace authoritarians—because we cannot face our own unavoidable demise.
newrepublic.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My latest for @newrepublic.com: I went back to Ernest Becker’s Pulitzer-Prize winning 1974 book “The Denial of Death” to see if it had insights in an age of AI, nightmare tech bros, and the return of Trump in the wake of Covid-19. Turns out it does, though not in the way Becker quite foresaw:
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Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker
September 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Readers have long been frustrated by Robert Frost's poem "The Road Not Taken". Thanks to AI, it is now possible to explore BOTH of the paths described by the speaker
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My essay on the tense relationship between authors and AI, as embodied in a major lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now in the Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/what...
Opinion | What a New Landmark AI Settlement Will Mean for Authors
Creators should demand credit, not just compensation.
www.chronicle.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:26 PM
My essay on the tense relationship between authors and AI, as embodied in a major lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now in the Chronicle of Higher Education: www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Worst thing to happen to book crit was getting mercilessly synced to pub dates. writer gets 97% of the coverage they're ever getting by the end of week 2, & if the book is widely reviewed (positive or not) in prestige places some of your would-be audience burns out on takes & skips the book itself.
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Drank so much coffee that I can feel the Nothing nothinging
September 8, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Drank so much coffee that I can feel the Nothing nothinging
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Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
September 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Read our blog to get an overview of the Anthropic settlement. There’s an FAQ for authors, too. We hope you find it helpful.
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
authorsguild.org/news/what-au...
The Enshittified Ambersons www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
Orson Welles’ Lost Movie Will Use AI to Reconstruct Missing 43 Minutes
Amazon-backed firm Showrunner, led by Edward Saatchi, is using the film as a test case for how Hollywood can overhaul production. The results won't be commercialized — the tech giant hasn't obtained r...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
September 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The Enshittified Ambersons www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton · Things go kerflooey: David Lynch’s Gee-Wizardry
For years, his biography on press releases was just four words long: ‘Eagle scout, Missoula, Montana.’ David Lynch...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 5, 2025 at 11:43 AM
‘David Lynch had a peculiarly subtractive aesthetic. Just as the more you see, the less comprehensible it becomes, the less you can see (the lower the lighting, the poorer the quality) the more there is to look for.’
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Ruby Hamilton on the filmmaker: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
September 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Did u guys see the Tesla robot video? I think it's dying
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It’s publication day for Matthew Holman’s much-anticipated book on poet Frank O’Hara’s career as a curator
Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback
www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...
Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback
www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...
Frank O’Hara and MoMA
This is the first book to closely examine the curatorial work that the celebrated poet Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) undertook for the Museum of Modern Art in New Yo…
www.bloomsbury.com
September 4, 2025 at 1:27 PM
It’s publication day for Matthew Holman’s much-anticipated book on poet Frank O’Hara’s career as a curator
Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback
www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...
Available now from Bloomsbury at 30% off in paperback
www.bloomsbury.com/us/frank-oha...
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Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.
Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...
Peer Review Paranoia
The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.
www.chronicle.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Every single quote from the novel supposedly under analysis was hallucinated. Every single one.
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Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...
Peer Review Paranoia
The system is built on trust between scholars. AI is undermining that.
www.chronicle.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Thanks to @evankindley.bsky.social for shepherding this into print. www.chronicle.com/article/peer...
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“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...
Siobhan Phillips on Marianne Moore ("Armor's Undermining Modesty")
Close Readings · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
“What is more precise than precision? Illusion.” Today, a long-overdue episode on Marianne Moore, with the great Siobhan Phillips. We talked about Moore’s wonderful poem “Armor’s Undermining Modesty.” open.spotify.com/episode/2FPe...
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Wrote a little bit about this great new Rebecca Schiffman record.
Rebecca Schiffman : Before the Future : Aquarium Drunkard
Rebecca Schiffman’s fourth album kicks off with a nine-minute epic — a nervy opening move in these days of ever-decreasing attention spans. But it’s a gamble that pays off beautifully, as Before the F...
aquariumdrunkard.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Wrote a little bit about this great new Rebecca Schiffman record.
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“The days slide by and we feel we must / Stamp an impression on them,” Schuyler writes in “Hymn to Life.” “It is quite other. They stamp us.”
@evankindley.bsky.social on James Schuyler:
@evankindley.bsky.social on James Schuyler:
The Miracles of James Schuyler
Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.
www.thenation.com
June 18, 2025 at 2:57 PM
“The days slide by and we feel we must / Stamp an impression on them,” Schuyler writes in “Hymn to Life.” “It is quite other. They stamp us.”
@evankindley.bsky.social on James Schuyler:
@evankindley.bsky.social on James Schuyler:
I reviewed Nathan Kernan's long-awaited biography of James Schuyler for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/cult...
The Miracles of James Schuyler
Nathan Kernan’s biography of the New York School poet tracks the development of his serene and joyful work alongside the chaos of his life.
www.thenation.com
June 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I reviewed Nathan Kernan's long-awaited biography of James Schuyler for The Nation www.thenation.com/article/cult...
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Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.
May 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.
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Henry James’s American Journey
Why his turn-of-the-century travelogue still resonates.
www.chronicle.com
March 28, 2025 at 5:47 PM