Josh McColough
@joshmccolough.bsky.social
Gen X | Writer | Professor | Cubs | Gus, Bernedoodle // Writing in 'Best American Science & Nature Writing 2023', Missouri Rev, Witness, Chicago Qrtly Rev (coming Fall 25), Split Lip Mag, Puerto del Sol, Epiphany… //
A.) Trillium Lake, OR
B.) “Trillium” the essay, based upon A.)
C.) @chicagoqreview.bsky.social , home of “Trillium” the essay #litmags #booksky
B.) “Trillium” the essay, based upon A.)
C.) @chicagoqreview.bsky.social , home of “Trillium” the essay #litmags #booksky
November 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A.) Trillium Lake, OR
B.) “Trillium” the essay, based upon A.)
C.) @chicagoqreview.bsky.social , home of “Trillium” the essay #litmags #booksky
B.) “Trillium” the essay, based upon A.)
C.) @chicagoqreview.bsky.social , home of “Trillium” the essay #litmags #booksky
Proud to have a new essay ("Trillium") in the latest issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review! Really honored to be included with so many incredible writers. 🙏 @chicagoqreview.bsky.social #litmags #essay #writer #nowreading #booksky
October 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Proud to have a new essay ("Trillium") in the latest issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review! Really honored to be included with so many incredible writers. 🙏 @chicagoqreview.bsky.social #litmags #essay #writer #nowreading #booksky
In his speech, Franklin argued that the Constitution would last unless—or until—“the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Via @thefp.com
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Things Worth Remembering: The Imperfection of America
When the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, Benjamin Franklin acknowledged its flaws—then defended it magnificently.
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September 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
In his speech, Franklin argued that the Constitution would last unless—or until—“the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Via @thefp.com
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“I work in the West Wing, you Pepperidge Farm ad motherf*ckers.” —Jonah Ryan, Veep
August 15, 2025 at 6:07 PM
“I work in the West Wing, you Pepperidge Farm ad motherf*ckers.” —Jonah Ryan, Veep
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PBS book show "Between the Covers" gives FLORIDA PALMS a nice little shout-out for their Summer Series.
Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it!
#pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social
Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it!
#pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social
July 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
PBS book show "Between the Covers" gives FLORIDA PALMS a nice little shout-out for their Summer Series.
Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it!
#pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social
Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it!
#pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social
We #GenX can't catch a break this week. Malcolm, Ozzy and Hulk? We get it--we're all do-nothing slackers. Just keep your damn hands off the cast of "Facts of Life," pls thx
July 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We #GenX can't catch a break this week. Malcolm, Ozzy and Hulk? We get it--we're all do-nothing slackers. Just keep your damn hands off the cast of "Facts of Life," pls thx
Amen. I teach English Comp at a comm college. Why won’t universities at least draft position statements that both acknowledge AI’s utility & role in professional life and also state there may be classes in which critical thought is the point? @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Amen. I teach English Comp at a comm college. Why won’t universities at least draft position statements that both acknowledge AI’s utility & role in professional life and also state there may be classes in which critical thought is the point? @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...
I leave the tiniest of doors a little bit open for these. But not today, Pringles.
June 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I leave the tiniest of doors a little bit open for these. But not today, Pringles.
We will never not need Hanif. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XC8Qyj
In Defense of Despair
The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.
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May 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
We will never not need Hanif. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XC8Qyj
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It's this week's "Memoir Monday" newsletter, featuring: Sofi Stambo, @tkdano.bsky.social, Catherine Hiller, Kristina Kasparian, Sheila Heti, Lilly Jay, Sayuri Ayers, @joshmccolough.bsky.social, @courtneykocak.bsky.social memoirland.substack.com/p/a-passel-o...
A Passel of Personal Essays to Read Over the New Year...
Plus: Our partnership with Literary Liberation and new workshops there, and Narratively's 2024 upcoming workshops...
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December 30, 2024 at 5:21 PM
It's this week's "Memoir Monday" newsletter, featuring: Sofi Stambo, @tkdano.bsky.social, Catherine Hiller, Kristina Kasparian, Sheila Heti, Lilly Jay, Sayuri Ayers, @joshmccolough.bsky.social, @courtneykocak.bsky.social memoirland.substack.com/p/a-passel-o...
Really proud to have a new essay out in Witness about growing up amid child abduction panics of the 80s. How many of you #GenX got your fingerprints taken in case you were abducted & they had to ID your body? #GenerationX #litmags #authors
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Child Catchers By Josh McColough- Witness Magazine
by Josh McColough Whenever I return home to visit my parents, they present me with a box of artifacts to sift through. They are purging my childhood home in anticipation of their deaths, which are not...
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December 9, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Really proud to have a new essay out in Witness about growing up amid child abduction panics of the 80s. How many of you #GenX got your fingerprints taken in case you were abducted & they had to ID your body? #GenerationX #litmags #authors
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...
witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...
Now is the exact time for nostalgia —back to a time when store managers could wield baseball bats at unruly customers. Let us never forget. #genx #80s
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SEE IT: The wild story of the Cabbage Patch Kid Riots of 1983
YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY
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November 23, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Now is the exact time for nostalgia —back to a time when store managers could wield baseball bats at unruly customers. Let us never forget. #genx #80s
youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8
Been here for a while now @chrislhayes.bsky.social
a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom
ALT: a man in a bathtub with the words welcome to the party pal on the bottom
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November 13, 2024 at 3:55 AM
Been here for a while now @chrislhayes.bsky.social
I’m currently reading a book called “Anticipating Walks.”
November 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I’m currently reading a book called “Anticipating Walks.”
Really captures the odd craft of writing when you have no "public" that is clamoring for your next...whatever. lithub.com/in-defense-o...
In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer
My parents are going through a phase where they’re obsessed with McDonalds—with its cheap coffee drinks and Big Macs with Special Sauce on the side. They are eighty-six and eighty-one respectively,…
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June 5, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Really captures the odd craft of writing when you have no "public" that is clamoring for your next...whatever. lithub.com/in-defense-o...
I cropped my family out of this picture b/c Guster whipping his ears around like a model flipping hair...
December 4, 2023 at 4:40 PM
I cropped my family out of this picture b/c Guster whipping his ears around like a model flipping hair...
Three days, three rejections, three separate pieces. If it weren’t so compulsively satisfying, I’d be more upset. 333 | 333 | 333
October 23, 2023 at 9:28 PM
Three days, three rejections, three separate pieces. If it weren’t so compulsively satisfying, I’d be more upset. 333 | 333 | 333
This comes out tomorrow. !!!! !!!
October 16, 2023 at 3:37 PM
This comes out tomorrow. !!!! !!!
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MAD BOY by @nickarvin.bsky.social is one of @mitchnobis.bsky.social's favorite recent novels. Nick reads from it here--go get his book!
Wednesday Night Sessions featuring Writer Nick Arvin
Writer Nick Arvin joins Wednesday Night Sessions host Mitchell Nobis for a conversation and reading.Presented by KickstART Farmington.
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September 25, 2023 at 9:24 PM
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Guided by Voices 40th Anniversary concert in Dayton this past weekend. Herein lies GenX--perfectly discontented and always ready to rock.
September 5, 2023 at 5:18 PM
Guided by Voices 40th Anniversary concert in Dayton this past weekend. Herein lies GenX--perfectly discontented and always ready to rock.
My surprise that the months old Pepperidge Farms Cinnamon Raisin bread is still soft/good is only eclipsed by my horror about what I'm putting into my body. Still...tasty when toasted.
August 21, 2023 at 3:48 PM
My surprise that the months old Pepperidge Farms Cinnamon Raisin bread is still soft/good is only eclipsed by my horror about what I'm putting into my body. Still...tasty when toasted.
Dear god what happened to us? Did something happen to us? Am I the only one left???? Should I tell...Justin E.H. Smith I'm still here?
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/
August 14, 2023 at 4:24 PM
Dear god what happened to us? Did something happen to us? Am I the only one left???? Should I tell...Justin E.H. Smith I'm still here?
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/09/
Sentinel... the birds are on notice
August 9, 2023 at 6:45 PM
Sentinel... the birds are on notice