100% with you - I have thought a lot about alternative formats (did my best to subvert at Sublunary reading in Seattle and in L.A.)

do you do anything to direct your feed?

I don't see anyone on mine, it has become pointless to me - I kept refusing to leave determined to stick it out, but it has just gotten worse and worse to the point of pointless

we had a growing community that was making small presses sustainable (outside capitalism)

now that community is splintered, dissolving and I'm looking at cat pics/fantasy lit posts to spite a Nazi scumbag who is insensitive to the slight

I get it, Jacob, I just want us all on the same page again

an anti-capitalist niche formed via small presses who were able to survive and sustain by way of a (growing) community formed

the dissolution of that community not worth the comeuppance one imagines a billionaire experiencing imo

realism of best we can do imo, but I get the no fkking way stance

Does the divide serve scumbag capitalists we're trying to oppose with an (albeit weak) anti-capitalist force (dissolved in the divide)?

They want this. Division. I said the same thing begging everyone to leave and come here. They didn't and won't because this is a neutered, non-oppositional space

collapse of the affluent exiling their palanquin-bearers

we miss cranky Uncle Jacob at the other place - everybody gets away with so much shit now 😉

sorry I spaced, had much to contribute - I feel more comfortable talking about pleasure from (v. desire for) - should be monthly series, great to see everyone

hope you can make it to Alvin/Alina reading Sunday - got a thumbs up from Josh about possibly showing and Sublunary future, but no response

please let me in

as she is to most, which is why she first comes to mind when readers looking for recs (used to be the case with Bioy-Casares, but he's but getting some love over the last few years - here and elsewhere)

ditto Ocampo (Topless Tower my fav)

I second this, Morel is one of a handful of books I'm always recommending - others:

Nelly's Version/Eva Figes
Riddance/Shelley (not Shirley) Jackson
Ladivine/Marie NDiaye

[Horshack laugh]

presuming you've observed fairytale protocol and roamed the countryside seeking the owner of the other shoe and are marking the anniversary of your quest

my pinned tweet therefrom

"literary aspirations incompletely stifled"

"successful" writing

🙁