Jay Jennings
@jayjenni.bsky.social
Writer: CARRY THE ROCK / Editor: CHARLES PORTIS: COLLECTED WORKS / jayjennings.net
Local Goodwill find for $1.99.
November 13, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Local Goodwill find for $1.99.
My cat, Jeoffrey, of blessed meowmory.
October 20, 2025 at 12:32 PM
My cat, Jeoffrey, of blessed meowmory.
My first-grader daughter brought this home from school today. I feel seen under her don’ts.
August 27, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My first-grader daughter brought this home from school today. I feel seen under her don’ts.
Enchanted, in all its meanings, by the poetry of Christian Lehnert in Wickerwork, as translated by Richard Sieburth. The poet is deeply and movingly engaged with all nature, even algae, moss, larvae. A quiet comfort amid chaos. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
August 2, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Enchanted, in all its meanings, by the poetry of Christian Lehnert in Wickerwork, as translated by Richard Sieburth. The poet is deeply and movingly engaged with all nature, even algae, moss, larvae. A quiet comfort amid chaos. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social
Nine years ago, @oxfordamerican.bsky.social produced a variety show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Charles Portis’s NORWOOD. Backstage, voice artist Fred Newman discovered a new sound from Harrison Scott Key’s ear.
August 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Nine years ago, @oxfordamerican.bsky.social produced a variety show celebrating the 50th anniversary of Charles Portis’s NORWOOD. Backstage, voice artist Fred Newman discovered a new sound from Harrison Scott Key’s ear.
It’s not often that this Faulkner gets an honor on a wall of writers, but the stairwell at Weidmann’s restaurant in Meridian includes John Faulkner in its notable writers of Mississippi. (His brother is here, too, of course.)
July 26, 2025 at 1:01 PM
It’s not often that this Faulkner gets an honor on a wall of writers, but the stairwell at Weidmann’s restaurant in Meridian includes John Faulkner in its notable writers of Mississippi. (His brother is here, too, of course.)
Nobody needs or wants this slop.
July 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nobody needs or wants this slop.
#TBT 24 years ago this week, I reconnected with my former student @rhettmiller.bsky.social for a piece about @officialold97s.bsky.social for Time Out New York.
April 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#TBT 24 years ago this week, I reconnected with my former student @rhettmiller.bsky.social for a piece about @officialold97s.bsky.social for Time Out New York.
Bookmail! Any time a @byslp.bsky.social book arrives is a banner day. I know very little about lacrosse but I’m about to learn!
April 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Bookmail! Any time a @byslp.bsky.social book arrives is a banner day. I know very little about lacrosse but I’m about to learn!
Can’t see the headline “The Revolving Restaurant Is Back” without thinking if this passage from The Dog of the South.
April 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Can’t see the headline “The Revolving Restaurant Is Back” without thinking if this passage from The Dog of the South.
Some subscribers have already received copies, so I can reveal now that Harper's has published some "new" Charles Portis for you to read, an excerpt from an unfinished novel discovered among his papers. Should be online tomorrow.
March 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Some subscribers have already received copies, so I can reveal now that Harper's has published some "new" Charles Portis for you to read, an excerpt from an unfinished novel discovered among his papers. Should be online tomorrow.
The 1200 block of Lawless Ave NE is really the worst part.
March 11, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The 1200 block of Lawless Ave NE is really the worst part.
Thank you, American Kennel Club for being unsentimentally disgusting.
February 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Thank you, American Kennel Club for being unsentimentally disgusting.
The goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick
January 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
The goalie's anxiety at the penalty kick
My daughter drew the lunch line at her kindergarten. Everybody chooses chocolate milk.
January 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
My daughter drew the lunch line at her kindergarten. Everybody chooses chocolate milk.
Today is Charles Portis’s birthday, and here’s an appropriate bit of ephemera from his archive, recently acquired by the Wittliff Collections at Texas State U. In San Marcos: a receipt for one night ($7) at the Park ‘n Sleep Motel in Tampa, 1969.
December 29, 2024 at 3:09 AM
Today is Charles Portis’s birthday, and here’s an appropriate bit of ephemera from his archive, recently acquired by the Wittliff Collections at Texas State U. In San Marcos: a receipt for one night ($7) at the Park ‘n Sleep Motel in Tampa, 1969.
My “liner note” about Julien Baker’s song “Mental Math” appears in the new Memphis Music Issue from @oxfordamerican.bsky.social.
December 12, 2024 at 11:16 AM
My “liner note” about Julien Baker’s song “Mental Math” appears in the new Memphis Music Issue from @oxfordamerican.bsky.social.