Jason Sepac
@jasonsepac.bsky.social
Visual Essays in Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, The Pinch, The Normal School, and others. Love Pittsburgh, Pugs, and Polaroid.
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The kindness(es) that Jennifer Richter has shown me and my work go far beyond her blurb for PERSON UNDER, but I am still so giddy to share it…
You can still preorder my book directly from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social at the link in my bio
You can still preorder my book directly from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social at the link in my bio
October 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
The kindness(es) that Jennifer Richter has shown me and my work go far beyond her blurb for PERSON UNDER, but I am still so giddy to share it…
You can still preorder my book directly from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social at the link in my bio
You can still preorder my book directly from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social at the link in my bio
I can’t remember the last time I was THIS excited for a new book. Please do yourself a favor and pre-order.
My book PERSON UNDER has a cover 😭 and is available for preorder before its pub date in January!
@finishinglinepress.bsky.social is publishing PERSON UNDER and preordering a book plays an important role in turning a book into a book for small presses. I am full of thank yous.
Link in bio!
@finishinglinepress.bsky.social is publishing PERSON UNDER and preordering a book plays an important role in turning a book into a book for small presses. I am full of thank yous.
Link in bio!
September 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I can’t remember the last time I was THIS excited for a new book. Please do yourself a favor and pre-order.
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I’m back @literary-arts.org teaching this visual poetry workshop in October and y’all—this is beloved to me! I was floored by what created last time I taught this. I actually cannot believe I get to do it again.
@literaryarts also has a robust scholarship and access tuition program! Link in bio!
@literaryarts also has a robust scholarship and access tuition program! Link in bio!
September 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I’m back @literary-arts.org teaching this visual poetry workshop in October and y’all—this is beloved to me! I was floored by what created last time I taught this. I actually cannot believe I get to do it again.
@literaryarts also has a robust scholarship and access tuition program! Link in bio!
@literaryarts also has a robust scholarship and access tuition program! Link in bio!
Chris Bonanos: "...It’s actually better than magic because it’s human. This is the product of very, very smart people applying themselves super hard [...] using science and art together to make something wonderful. And they succeeded."
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Mr. Polaroid | American Experience | PBS
Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of...
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May 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Chris Bonanos: "...It’s actually better than magic because it’s human. This is the product of very, very smart people applying themselves super hard [...] using science and art together to make something wonderful. And they succeeded."
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In the grocery store tonight, they’re playing “Wind of Change” by Scorpions. Do you know the amazing Patrick Radden Keefe podcast about this song and its alleged writing by the CIA? You should. Hugely entertaining. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
My Friend Michael
Podcast Episode · Wind of Change · S1 E1 · 45m
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March 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In the grocery store tonight, they’re playing “Wind of Change” by Scorpions. Do you know the amazing Patrick Radden Keefe podcast about this song and its alleged writing by the CIA? You should. Hugely entertaining. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Me in the national security group chat
March 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Me in the national security group chat
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Check out another small press book we love: Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello.
A Small Press Book We Love: Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…
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March 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Check out another small press book we love: Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello.
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"sometimes I wish I didn’t make things so arduous. It’s just a game, after all. It’s just that sometimes I get IDEAS."
"Nick Cave is still someone worth writing about."
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
On 3/7 we bring back @elenavox.bsky.social's essay on Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' "Red Right Hand": marchxness.com/2xness-cave/
March 7, 2025 at 3:17 PM
"sometimes I wish I didn’t make things so arduous. It’s just a game, after all. It’s just that sometimes I get IDEAS."
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This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
February 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
Needless to say, I agree.
Sam Mills makes the case for visual artistic experimentation in literature.
Beautiful and Innovative: In Praise of Artistic Experimentation in Literature
I first read Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy as a teenager. I was hungry to assert maturity through my reading habits, to bypass YA fiction in favor of books for adults, …
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February 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Needless to say, I agree.
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"Television, film, and online video—together, the moving image has gotten to a point, some 440 years after Gutenberg, of displacing print as the world's medium of record." Peter Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
The Power of the Moving Image | Los Angeles Review of Books
Peter B. Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
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February 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Television, film, and online video—together, the moving image has gotten to a point, some 440 years after Gutenberg, of displacing print as the world's medium of record." Peter Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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Government workers when DOGE shows up.
February 4, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
@k-e-c.bsky.social absolutely killing it. 🔥🚶
i wrote about my favorite director for @longreads.com
huge thank you to @cherilucasrowlands.com for heroic edits & @sidehilling.bsky.social for taking photos and sharing pie
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huge thank you to @cherilucasrowlands.com for heroic edits & @sidehilling.bsky.social for taking photos and sharing pie
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David Lynch Was Here: A Visit to the Real Twin Peaks - Longreads
Notes from the Northwest on mourning, remembrance, and black coffee.
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January 30, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@k-e-c.bsky.social absolutely killing it. 🔥🚶
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🧁 been sitting/coasting on this news for a week ... so so honored to be among this year's @literaryarts.bsky.social fellows
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Announcing the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships
Announcing the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships
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January 29, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🧁 been sitting/coasting on this news for a week ... so so honored to be among this year's @literaryarts.bsky.social fellows
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Thank you, David Lynch, for always reminding us that art and life are spiritual acts. Your wisdom lives on.
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David Lynch Ushers in a Golden Age - Believer Magazine
“This is how we can change this world from suffering and negativity to a world enjoying positivity—end of suffering—real peace.” David Lynch is a filmmaker, musician, writer, painter, sculptor, lamp m...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Thank you, David Lynch, for always reminding us that art and life are spiritual acts. Your wisdom lives on.
www.thebeliever.net/logger/david...
www.thebeliever.net/logger/david...
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A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her.
His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
January 16, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her.
His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
“… [THE PITT] doesn't much bother capturing the vibe of Pittsburgh – nobody, including Wyle, even attempts the city's unique "yinz"-er accent.”
I might have tuned in just to hear Noah Wyle’s Pittsburghese.
I might have tuned in just to hear Noah Wyle’s Pittsburghese.
For NPR, I look at notable TV shows coming in January, including the bracing medical drama The Pitt, the gritty western American Primeval, the kinetic cop drama On Call - all debuting tomorrow! - as well as new Star Trek and the return of Severance. READ: loom.ly/MfQgBos
There's great TV coming in January, from 'Severance' Season 2 to a Jerry Springer doc
There is a lot of TV on deck in the new year – including multiple medical dramas, a violent Netflix drama about Utah settlers in the 1850s, plus, cop shows, Westerns and documentaries.
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January 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
“… [THE PITT] doesn't much bother capturing the vibe of Pittsburgh – nobody, including Wyle, even attempts the city's unique "yinz"-er accent.”
I might have tuned in just to hear Noah Wyle’s Pittsburghese.
I might have tuned in just to hear Noah Wyle’s Pittsburghese.
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incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy
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January 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM
incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
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I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
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Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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December 20, 2024 at 5:42 PM
I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.
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"So I did what poorly aged 90s movies taught me you do in the face of aging: I bought some dumb shit."
12/19 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is @jasonsepac.bsky.social on becoming nostalgia: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
12/19 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is @jasonsepac.bsky.social on becoming nostalgia: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
December 19, 2024 at 1:18 PM
"So I did what poorly aged 90s movies taught me you do in the face of aging: I bought some dumb shit."
12/19 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is @jasonsepac.bsky.social on becoming nostalgia: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
12/19 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is @jasonsepac.bsky.social on becoming nostalgia: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and prev...
www.essaydaily.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:20 PM
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share!
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
How did I not know John Edgar Wideman had a new book out 😳😓😬
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
December 18, 2024 at 9:59 PM
How did I not know John Edgar Wideman had a new book out 😳😓😬
An essay on Mick Foley? Merry Christmas to me.
for the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar, I wrote about our greatest living Santa Claus impersonator: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
Dec 15: Katherine Cusumano, Please Welcome Hardcore Santa to the Ring
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent. Find the rest of this year's and pr...
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December 15, 2024 at 9:37 PM
An essay on Mick Foley? Merry Christmas to me.
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So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.
Alongside fresh perspectives on Memphis legends—including @elenavox.bsky.social’s deep dive into the “very best of the very worst” of Elvis’s discography, and beyond!
December 12, 2024 at 1:24 AM
So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.