James Yeh
@jamesyeh.bsky.social
Writer, editor, journalist, professor of writing. Words in the New York Times, Guardian, the Drift, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Believer, Dissent, and elsewhere. Formerly an editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE
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“Just to be present with art is to completely reshuffle your cards.”
—Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Eileen Myles - Believer Magazine
Eileen Myles’s writing is nimble yet incisive, insouciant yet wise. The author of no fewer than twenty-three books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Myles makes the act of writing seem both impossib...
www.thebeliever.net
June 2, 2025 at 8:57 PM
“Just to be present with art is to completely reshuffle your cards.”
—Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
Wrote an essay on the modest optimistic practices of writing and reading and showing up and standing with during these dark times for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance (while also slipping in some lines from Nazim Hikmet, Lydia Davis, and colleagues and coworkers).
Day 64 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @jamesyeh.bsky.social on Optimistic Practices
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@writingco-lab.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Wrote an essay on the modest optimistic practices of writing and reading and showing up and standing with during these dark times for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance (while also slipping in some lines from Nazim Hikmet, Lydia Davis, and colleagues and coworkers).
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My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
Socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to hike corporate taxes to pay for loads of freebies
The Queens state assemblyman said his plans for his socialist utopia involve subsidizing free transit and childcare with higher taxes on corporations and establishing city-run food stores, freezing rent for millions of New Yorkers and creating a new safety plan for the city.
nypost.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.
I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'll be in conversation on the art of editing—and sharing a closer look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos" in @mcsweeneys.net—with Austin Nguyen at @kayapress.bsky.social TODAY at 3 ET/12 PT: kaya.com/2025/03/firs...
First Pass: A Conversation with James Yeh |
A Conversation with James Yeh: 3/10 @ 12PM PT / 3PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with James Yeh—writer and editor at Columbia University—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close l...
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March 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'll be in conversation on the art of editing—and sharing a closer look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos" in @mcsweeneys.net—with Austin Nguyen at @kayapress.bsky.social TODAY at 3 ET/12 PT: kaya.com/2025/03/firs...
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Every day I learn about a new comic book villain of a man who has been endowed with staggering and unchecked power.
The federal government's new top HR attorney has said "Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish" and "Slaves owe us reparations," according to a new report from @pogo.org. www.pogo.org/investigatio...
“Raging Misogynist” Now Federal Government H.R.’s Top Lawyer
The Office of Personnel Management’s new general counsel has a history of racist and sexist social media posts.
www.pogo.org
January 29, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Every day I learn about a new comic book villain of a man who has been endowed with staggering and unchecked power.
A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024): jamesyeh.substack.com/p/without-mo...
"Without moving a comma"
A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024)
jamesyeh.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024): jamesyeh.substack.com/p/without-mo...
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Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible.
Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...
Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...
OpenAI releases a teacher's guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical | TechCrunch
OpenAI has partnered with Common Sense Media to release a new resource for K-12 teachers using ChatGPT. But some educators are skeptical.
techcrunch.com
November 20, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible.
Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...
Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...
Two thousand words, if one is so inclined, on this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, James, by the incomparable Percival Everett for @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/perc...
Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned Down
His masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.
www.vulture.com
November 21, 2024 at 3:12 AM
Two thousand words, if one is so inclined, on this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, James, by the incomparable Percival Everett for @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/perc...
My own gumption consists, at the moment, of mere reposting.
Look, I’m old enough to remember Friendster so bear with me while I muster the gumption to participate.
November 14, 2024 at 12:08 PM
My own gumption consists, at the moment, of mere reposting.
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Fun to see the muskrat discover what a thousand newspaper stories have proclaimed for at least eight years: the leaden density of the jello salad between the ears of the fearless leader. (Epstein said DJT's semi-illiterate.)
(But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)
(But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)
I’m sure this is just a misunderstanding and these two radicalized egomaniacs will continue to get along swimmingly forever
November 13, 2024 at 6:07 AM
Fun to see the muskrat discover what a thousand newspaper stories have proclaimed for at least eight years: the leaden density of the jello salad between the ears of the fearless leader. (Epstein said DJT's semi-illiterate.)
(But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)
(But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)
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Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
November 13, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...
For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."
Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...