Brendan McKennedy
@okehcomputer.bsky.social
such sorrow & then pancakes
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Fiction in The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, EPOCH, Colorado Review. I live in Busan. Yeah like in that movie title
I take photos: bsky.app/profile/insamsullivan.bsky.social
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Fiction in The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, EPOCH, Colorado Review. I live in Busan. Yeah like in that movie title
I take photos: bsky.app/profile/insamsullivan.bsky.social
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Ruins - The American Scholar
theamericanscholar.org
Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
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Back in the U.S. for Thanksgiving week and have so many thoughts:
-Portions are huge
-Oh yeah, I forgot about tips
-I missed racial diversity
-Why is everything so expensive?
-There’s so much space!
-Portions are huge
-Oh yeah, I forgot about tips
-I missed racial diversity
-Why is everything so expensive?
-There’s so much space!
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Back in the U.S. for Thanksgiving week and have so many thoughts:
-Portions are huge
-Oh yeah, I forgot about tips
-I missed racial diversity
-Why is everything so expensive?
-There’s so much space!
-Portions are huge
-Oh yeah, I forgot about tips
-I missed racial diversity
-Why is everything so expensive?
-There’s so much space!
Humanity: a case in point.
Look up from your fucking phone.
Look up from your fucking phone.
November 20, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Humanity: a case in point.
Look up from your fucking phone.
Look up from your fucking phone.
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Mérida, Yucatán, 2025
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #dayofthedead #diademuertos #hanalpixan #anima #snapshot #nikon
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #dayofthedead #diademuertos #hanalpixan #anima #snapshot #nikon
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Mérida, Yucatán, 2025
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #dayofthedead #diademuertos #hanalpixan #anima #snapshot #nikon
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #dayofthedead #diademuertos #hanalpixan #anima #snapshot #nikon
October 31, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Mérida, Yucatán, 2025
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon
October 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Mérida, Yucatán, 2025
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon
#merida #yucatan #mexico #streetphotography #monochrome #blackandwhite #longlens #dayofthedead #diademuertos #PixanPeek #anima #vaqueria #snapshot #nikon
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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September 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...
thesewaneereview.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I was saddened to hear today of the death of the writer Maxine Clair. Her novel in stories “Rattlebone” is one that deserves to be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight . thesewaneereview.com/articles/man...
Contributor copies arrived in Busan today ~ how nice to hold it.
I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social
I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Contributor copies arrived in Busan today ~ how nice to hold it.
I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social
I don't publish stories often, but when I do they somehow go into excellent journals like @theamscho.bsky.social
The Miles Davis soundtrack to this movie is so great. The granddaddy of noir jazz.
Now playing (04:35 AM PST):
"Elevator to the Gallows" (1958)
By Louis Malle
Runtime: 91 min.
"Elevator to the Gallows" (1958)
By Louis Malle
Runtime: 91 min.
September 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Miles Davis soundtrack to this movie is so great. The granddaddy of noir jazz.
The Clash - English Civil War (Remastered) [Official Audio]
YouTube video by theclashVEVO
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September 14, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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I'm going to be at the Gwangalli Beach Book Festival. Book club friends and I will be selling used books and handing out coupons and stuff from local cafes and eateries we enjoy. If you're in Busan 09/18-09/23 stop by the beach and buy some books!
September 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
I'm going to be at the Gwangalli Beach Book Festival. Book club friends and I will be selling used books and handing out coupons and stuff from local cafes and eateries we enjoy. If you're in Busan 09/18-09/23 stop by the beach and buy some books!
Tom Waits - "Hoist That Rag" (Remastered)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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September 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
Ruins - The American Scholar
theamericanscholar.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
Ruins - The American Scholar
theamericanscholar.org
September 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hey look I have a story in the new issue of The American Scholar @theamscho.bsky.social
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
This little story means a great deal to me & I'm amazed to see it published here. You should subscribe. But if it sneaks out from behind the paywall you bet I'll be sharing again.
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Here are ten.
August 26, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Here are ten.
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Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie.
August 24, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Justice. I've heard that word. I tried it out. I wrote it down. I wrote it down several times and always it looked like a damn cold lie.
Laura Itandehui - Si Me Ven Alegre
Album of the summer. Of my summer anyway. Album of coming home from the beach & making dinner with a pastel Busan sunset outside the window
Album of the summer. Of my summer anyway. Album of coming home from the beach & making dinner with a pastel Busan sunset outside the window
Tal Vez
YouTube video by Laura Itandehui - Topic
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August 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Laura Itandehui - Si Me Ven Alegre
Album of the summer. Of my summer anyway. Album of coming home from the beach & making dinner with a pastel Busan sunset outside the window
Album of the summer. Of my summer anyway. Album of coming home from the beach & making dinner with a pastel Busan sunset outside the window
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"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk." ~ Jane Kenyon
August 19, 2025 at 11:54 AM
"Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears. Be by yourself as often as you can. Walk." ~ Jane Kenyon
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As someone from the USA I always have a hard time celebrating Korean Liberation Day (Aug 15th), because I know what happened. The Koreans had spent 35 years trying to get free, and they immediately began putting into action the plans they'd made. Was it perfect? No, of course not. But then the
August 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
As someone from the USA I always have a hard time celebrating Korean Liberation Day (Aug 15th), because I know what happened. The Koreans had spent 35 years trying to get free, and they immediately began putting into action the plans they'd made. Was it perfect? No, of course not. But then the
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The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened?
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
The editors of The Shanghai Literary Review, a distinguished print & digital magazine founded in 2016, have made an alarming announcement, stating: "We’re writing today with an important and difficult update." Why the delay? What happened?
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
👉 Statement: shanghailiterary.substack.com/p/issue-9-up...
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RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature.
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
August 12, 2025 at 7:20 AM
RESIDENCY ALERT! Apply for Bucheon's Residency Program in 2025! Open to writers, poets, translators, graphic novelists who have at least one published work and are from a City of Literature.
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
Applications close on 31 August 2025. - lnkd.in/gBupJm9G
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In a letter from William Maxwell to Mavis Gallant: “I hope that you are not foolish enough to be discouraged at this point. Your command of humorous detail is getting stronger & sharper, and so is your sense of character […] I have very serious hopes for you.” #NYRBWomen25 lithub.com/chasing-myst...
Chasing Mystery Through Fiction: On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant
The Archives of The New Yorker consist of thousands upon thousands of letters and memos and cablegrams and onionskin-thin carbon copies—enough that, by the mid-1980s, a vertical stack of them might…
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July 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
In a letter from William Maxwell to Mavis Gallant: “I hope that you are not foolish enough to be discouraged at this point. Your command of humorous detail is getting stronger & sharper, and so is your sense of character […] I have very serious hopes for you.” #NYRBWomen25 lithub.com/chasing-myst...
Tried using Chatgpt 5 to look up 1918 rail routes. It's still useless. Still confidently reports made-up nonsense. Still sneakily gives links to unrelated websites, or sites that give facts flatly contradicting chatgpt. It'll send you on wild goose chases. Credulous users are a danger to us all.
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tried using Chatgpt 5 to look up 1918 rail routes. It's still useless. Still confidently reports made-up nonsense. Still sneakily gives links to unrelated websites, or sites that give facts flatly contradicting chatgpt. It'll send you on wild goose chases. Credulous users are a danger to us all.