Leah Newsom
@leahenewsom.bsky.social
Writer. Teacher. Stories in Conjunctions, Ninth Letter, Passages North, Daedalus, y más. Arizona desert rat trash. Worth a million in prizes. Comms at ACMRS.
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ICYMI: ASU English alumni @leahenewsom.bsky.social, Daryn Orr and Sharon Enck along with other grads from The College chatted with Dean @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social about how their #ASUHumanities degrees prepared them for careers and beyond.
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November 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
ICYMI: ASU English alumni @leahenewsom.bsky.social, Daryn Orr and Sharon Enck along with other grads from The College chatted with Dean @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social about how their #ASUHumanities degrees prepared them for careers and beyond.
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Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for co-publishing my new short story "Home Sweet NewHome," which also appears in the latest print issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. You can read it online at Lit Hub today!
“Home Sweet NewHome”
We founded our community with the best of intentions, chartering our Earthtrust Agricultural Cooperative with shared courage and shared hope, collectively signing a ninety-nine-year work contract i…
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September 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for co-publishing my new short story "Home Sweet NewHome," which also appears in the latest print issue of Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. You can read it online at Lit Hub today!
Yesterday a student described Barthelme's "The School" as a proto-"shitpost core" story. And now I'm just convinced GenZ brainrot is postmodernism2. Hats off, kids.
September 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Yesterday a student described Barthelme's "The School" as a proto-"shitpost core" story. And now I'm just convinced GenZ brainrot is postmodernism2. Hats off, kids.
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Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
The Food That Makes You Gay
Too many people grow up fearing what food might reveal about themselves. Maybe it’s time we embrace self-discovery.
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August 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Now that it's been a few days, I wanted to share some of my favorite pieces I wrote for Eater over the 6+ years I was there. First off, I got to write a lot about the intersection of food and queerness, culminating in this piece that got me a JBFA nomination www.eater.com/24162871/foo...
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“'Classicism and Other Phobias,' contends with loss in its own way, by asking if classics might be used to combat forces, like racism, that give rise to profound losses... ” @newyorker.com @platanoclassics.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
Dan-el Padilla Peralta on Learning How to Combat Loss
The Princeton classicist shares works that informed his thinking on identity and world-building, and his book “Classicism and Other Phobias.”
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August 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“'Classicism and Other Phobias,' contends with loss in its own way, by asking if classics might be used to combat forces, like racism, that give rise to profound losses... ” @newyorker.com @platanoclassics.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/books/book-c...
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🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
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I love @leahenewsom.bsky.social's writing, and her new story "Horseplay" is my favorite thing she's written. A wild work of fiction. Don't miss it!
🐴 Fiction Friday: "That’s the key: the patterns. Without them, it’s just people in horse costumes."
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
From "Horseplay" by ASU English alum @leahenewsom.bsky.social. Read the story in Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences: ow.ly/2LMN50WFv9k #ASUHumanities CC: @acmrs.bsky.social
August 15, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I love @leahenewsom.bsky.social's writing, and her new story "Horseplay" is my favorite thing she's written. A wild work of fiction. Don't miss it!
I have a story out today in the new issue of Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The list of contributors is unreal, and I'm grateful to Ayanna Thompson for letting me get away with this wild story. (You can read it online!)
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Horseplay
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August 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I have a story out today in the new issue of Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The list of contributors is unreal, and I'm grateful to Ayanna Thompson for letting me get away with this wild story. (You can read it online!)
www.amacad.org/daedalus/hor...
www.amacad.org/daedalus/hor...
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Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
July 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Birthright citizenship isn’t only a legal construct, but it’s also a reproductive issue. Any attempt to narrow who qualifies as a citizen necessarily burdens the women whose bodies become the contested sites of national identity. More from Dan-el Padilla Peralta on citizenship and biopolitics:
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May 10: “Old Soul” by Sam Lipsyte
I think Sam’s one of the best writers alive, which I never really *forget*, but sometimes take for granted. Then I’ll reread something, and go “holy shit” out loud a few times — sometimes surprised he went there, other times in awe of what he can do w/ a sentence.
I think Sam’s one of the best writers alive, which I never really *forget*, but sometimes take for granted. Then I’ll reread something, and go “holy shit” out loud a few times — sometimes surprised he went there, other times in awe of what he can do w/ a sentence.
May 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
May 10: “Old Soul” by Sam Lipsyte
I think Sam’s one of the best writers alive, which I never really *forget*, but sometimes take for granted. Then I’ll reread something, and go “holy shit” out loud a few times — sometimes surprised he went there, other times in awe of what he can do w/ a sentence.
I think Sam’s one of the best writers alive, which I never really *forget*, but sometimes take for granted. Then I’ll reread something, and go “holy shit” out loud a few times — sometimes surprised he went there, other times in awe of what he can do w/ a sentence.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide
May 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
my 14yo made a power point of what she wants her future to look like and this is my favorite slide
Finally, my pandemic salve show is getting the attention it deserves lol
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The Oddball British Comedy Show I Thought I’d Hate (And Learned to Love)
The cult favorite “Taskmaster” has a nonsensical premise that slowly bowled me over.
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May 9, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Finally, my pandemic salve show is getting the attention it deserves lol
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AND ALSO WITH YOUSE
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
AND ALSO WITH YOUSE
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"This project really doesn’t have any right to... make quite as much sense as it does. But it is an absorbing, heart-racing, and thrilling production that gracefully utilizes this music to co-exist within powerful dramatic depictions of grief, fear, madness, and death." pitchfork.com/thepitch/rad...
Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief Brilliantly Recontextualized by New Staging of Hamlet: Review
A modern British production of Shakespeare’s immortal tale of madness and revenge brings out the underlying themes of Radiohead's most “political” album with the blessing of Thom Yorke himself.
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May 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
"This project really doesn’t have any right to... make quite as much sense as it does. But it is an absorbing, heart-racing, and thrilling production that gracefully utilizes this music to co-exist within powerful dramatic depictions of grief, fear, madness, and death." pitchfork.com/thepitch/rad...
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"What interests me about the scramble for Kalaallit Nunaat is not so much ahistorical appropriations of the Viking Age for right-wing nationalist politics ...but rather how the recent 'scramble' for Kalaallit Nunaat conjures the specter of medieval colonialism."
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Sagas and Sovereignty in Kalaallit Nunaat, Grænland, and Red, White, and Blueland
by Basil Arnould Price
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May 6, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"What interests me about the scramble for Kalaallit Nunaat is not so much ahistorical appropriations of the Viking Age for right-wing nationalist politics ...but rather how the recent 'scramble' for Kalaallit Nunaat conjures the specter of medieval colonialism."
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medium.com/@acmrs/76721...
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False narratives about migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are nothing new. Teaching premodern migration histories can
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
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contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
April 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
False narratives about migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers are nothing new. Teaching premodern migration histories can
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
contextualize the present anti-immigrant rhetoric. Find Mayte Green-Mercado's full talk and exemplar syllabi on Throughlines.
www.throughlines.org/suite-conten...
Had the unreal luck of having 3 pages of LUMP, my screenplay draft, critiqued on Scriptnotes this week. Feeling very appreciative of the time and generosity of John August, Craig Mazin, and Drew Marquardt. (The shredding of the lump begins at 39:45). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
681 - The Waiting Game
Podcast Episode · Scriptnotes Podcast · 03/25/2025 · 1h 7m
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March 26, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Had the unreal luck of having 3 pages of LUMP, my screenplay draft, critiqued on Scriptnotes this week. Feeling very appreciative of the time and generosity of John August, Craig Mazin, and Drew Marquardt. (The shredding of the lump begins at 39:45). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
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Money talks
We got a Costco membership for the first time in our lives today. They asked why & I said because treat your workers well, you value diversity, & you didn’t cave in to authoritarian demands. He said: “We’ve been getting lots of folks saying that, thanks for joining.”
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
Who needs a gallon of ketchup?
February 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Money talks
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@smathewss.bsky.social writes this as a novelist, an organizer and an immigrant who grew up under authoritarianism. I found it a centering and even calming experience to read it, arriving at a place to act from, variously.
February 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM
@smathewss.bsky.social writes this as a novelist, an organizer and an immigrant who grew up under authoritarianism. I found it a centering and even calming experience to read it, arriving at a place to act from, variously.
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I streamed two of this year's Sundance movies last night: ATROPIA, which won this year's Grand Jury Prize (and which I thought was really good), and BY DESIGN, which has the best logline I've seen in a long time: "A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair."
February 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I streamed two of this year's Sundance movies last night: ATROPIA, which won this year's Grand Jury Prize (and which I thought was really good), and BY DESIGN, which has the best logline I've seen in a long time: "A woman swaps bodies with a chair, and everyone likes her better as a chair."
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To continue her mission of uplifting Native artists, IAIA is establishing a scholarship fund in her honor. Contributions can be made at give.iaia.edu/give/659321/...
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Memorial Scholarship
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January 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
To continue her mission of uplifting Native artists, IAIA is establishing a scholarship fund in her honor. Contributions can be made at give.iaia.edu/give/659321/...
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The art is a pointed critique of the notion that Native American people and culture have been dispersed and diminished. Quick-to-See Smith instead imagines the disappearance of white America. About this work, she has said: 'the culture's changing…this is what’s happening, the Browning of America.'
January 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The art is a pointed critique of the notion that Native American people and culture have been dispersed and diminished. Quick-to-See Smith instead imagines the disappearance of white America. About this work, she has said: 'the culture's changing…this is what’s happening, the Browning of America.'
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The artwork featured on the program cover and marketing materials for RaceB4Race Indigeneity is "The Vanishing American" by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The work was provided courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery. We are saddened to hear of the artist's passing on January 24.
January 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The artwork featured on the program cover and marketing materials for RaceB4Race Indigeneity is "The Vanishing American" by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith. The work was provided courtesy of the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery. We are saddened to hear of the artist's passing on January 24.