Robert Lunday
@rlunday.bsky.social
Author of Mad Flights (Ashland PP, 2002), Gnome (Black Sun Lit, 2017), and Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness (University of New Mexico Press, 2023). In pursuit of Missingness Studies (theories of missing persons across all disciplines).
Reposted by Robert Lunday
WHEN WE TALK OF STOLEN SISTERS
This multi-award-winning collection of Jessica Doe’s poetry call our attention to the disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural genocide that continues, and the courageous survive.
Learn more and find links here: bit.ly/DoeSis
This multi-award-winning collection of Jessica Doe’s poetry call our attention to the disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural genocide that continues, and the courageous survive.
Learn more and find links here: bit.ly/DoeSis
May 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
WHEN WE TALK OF STOLEN SISTERS
This multi-award-winning collection of Jessica Doe’s poetry call our attention to the disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural genocide that continues, and the courageous survive.
Learn more and find links here: bit.ly/DoeSis
This multi-award-winning collection of Jessica Doe’s poetry call our attention to the disappearance of Indigenous women, the cultural genocide that continues, and the courageous survive.
Learn more and find links here: bit.ly/DoeSis
From the preface to the 1988 edition of his 1982 "All That is Solid Melts Into Air," an important book by the late Marshall Berman; posted here ironically, but also hopefully -- that Americans (and others) overall will reject this crisis of today that is much older than Trumpism.
May 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
From the preface to the 1988 edition of his 1982 "All That is Solid Melts Into Air," an important book by the late Marshall Berman; posted here ironically, but also hopefully -- that Americans (and others) overall will reject this crisis of today that is much older than Trumpism.
Sometimes the NYT still does good work; read the comments as well, for a good example of social-media integration -- co-authors and editors and readers continuing the story, politely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
Why Maids Keep Dying in Saudi Arabia (Gift Article)
East African leaders and Saudi royals are among those profiting off a lucrative, deadly trade in domestic workers.
www.nytimes.com
March 31, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Sometimes the NYT still does good work; read the comments as well, for a good example of social-media integration -- co-authors and editors and readers continuing the story, politely.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/w...
Including work by the late Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, among many others: poetry by descendants of those forced into internment camps during WWII.
www.thegateofmemory.com
www.thegateofmemory.com
The Gate of Memory
www.thegateofmemory.com
March 29, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Including work by the late Claire Kageyama-Ramakrishnan, among many others: poetry by descendants of those forced into internment camps during WWII.
www.thegateofmemory.com
www.thegateofmemory.com
Robert McBrearty's new collection is due out in March 2025. He's one of our funniest writers of short fiction, but also one of the most compassionate; I encourage all to buy and read! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Problem You Have: Stories
Stories
bookshop.org
February 16, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Robert McBrearty's new collection is due out in March 2025. He's one of our funniest writers of short fiction, but also one of the most compassionate; I encourage all to buy and read! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Listen to my conversation with Christi Cassidy on disappearance, living abroad, and various intersecting topics: movingalongpodcast.com/robert-lunda...
Robert Lunday on Moving from Houston to the Japanese Countryside, Global Disappearances, the Borderlands and Belonging, Japanese Culture - Moving Along
Writer and poet Robert Lunday, author of Disequilibria: Meditations on Missingness, shares his journey of growing up as a military dependent, the sudden disappearance of his stepfather in 1982, living...
movingalongpodcast.com
October 28, 2024 at 5:41 AM
Listen to my conversation with Christi Cassidy on disappearance, living abroad, and various intersecting topics: movingalongpodcast.com/robert-lunda...
The recording of our discussion at Brown Bag Lit is now available! tinyurl.com/3ed67vax
Listen to Maggie Messitt, me, moderators Chloe Yelena Miller and Shasta Grant, and our participants talk about the ways we write about disappearance.
Listen to Maggie Messitt, me, moderators Chloe Yelena Miller and Shasta Grant, and our participants talk about the ways we write about disappearance.
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September 10, 2024 at 3:16 PM
The recording of our discussion at Brown Bag Lit is now available! tinyurl.com/3ed67vax
Listen to Maggie Messitt, me, moderators Chloe Yelena Miller and Shasta Grant, and our participants talk about the ways we write about disappearance.
Listen to Maggie Messitt, me, moderators Chloe Yelena Miller and Shasta Grant, and our participants talk about the ways we write about disappearance.
Join us to hear Robert Lunday and Maggie Messitt on Monday, Sept. 9, from 12 – 1 pm EST.
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register for the free Zoom link (and consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
tinyurl.com/mr4d5arj
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register for the free Zoom link (and consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
tinyurl.com/mr4d5arj
August 23, 2024 at 1:31 AM
Join us to hear Robert Lunday and Maggie Messitt on Monday, Sept. 9, from 12 – 1 pm EST.
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register for the free Zoom link (and consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
tinyurl.com/mr4d5arj
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register for the free Zoom link (and consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
tinyurl.com/mr4d5arj
Reposted by Robert Lunday
Join us to hear Robert Lunday and Maggie Messitt on Monday, Sept. 9, from 12 – 1 pm EST.
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register (consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
www.brownbaglit.com/events/writi...
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register (consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
www.brownbaglit.com/events/writi...
August 22, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Join us to hear Robert Lunday and Maggie Messitt on Monday, Sept. 9, from 12 – 1 pm EST.
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register (consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
www.brownbaglit.com/events/writi...
Writing the Missing: A Conversation on Family, Disappearance, and Creative Investigations
Register (consider leaving us a tip to cover administrative costs?)
www.brownbaglit.com/events/writi...
Anticipating the publication of Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto -- having just seen the wonderful 1962 film version ("Zero Focus") by Yoshitara Nomura.
bookshop.org/p/books/poin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Fo...
bookshop.org/p/books/poin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Fo...
March 18, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Anticipating the publication of Point Zero by Seicho Matsumoto -- having just seen the wonderful 1962 film version ("Zero Focus") by Yoshitara Nomura.
bookshop.org/p/books/poin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Fo...
bookshop.org/p/books/poin...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_Fo...
Regarding the trending "Tortured Poets Department":
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/tahir...
and
www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/tahir...
and
www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1...
February 7, 2024 at 4:24 PM
Regarding the trending "Tortured Poets Department":
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/tahir...
and
www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1...
www.asymptotejournal.com/poetry/tahir...
and
www.npr.org/2023/08/05/1...
Check out the other authors in Sweet Lit's Connections series:
sweetlit.org/sweet-connec...
sweetlit.org/sweet-connec...
February 6, 2024 at 3:37 AM
Check out the other authors in Sweet Lit's Connections series:
sweetlit.org/sweet-connec...
sweetlit.org/sweet-connec...
Houston Missing Persons Day, 2/3/24:
February 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Houston Missing Persons Day, 2/3/24:
The answer to Earhart's and Noonan's fate has been an asymptote (a curve ever closer, never arriving) for many years. Maybe one of these days something else will end the mystery -- or give it a final bracket despite several unknown details about the journey itself.
www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1...
www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1...
January 29, 2024 at 10:17 PM
The answer to Earhart's and Noonan's fate has been an asymptote (a curve ever closer, never arriving) for many years. Maybe one of these days something else will end the mystery -- or give it a final bracket despite several unknown details about the journey itself.
www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1...
www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1...
Reposted by Robert Lunday
A couple years back, the book and then TV show THE LEFTOVERS explored the global psychological devastation wrought by a sudden and bizarre disappearance of 2% of the population. After COVID and Gaza, that idea seems quaint now. Turns out the world just doesn’t give a shit 😡
December 21, 2023 at 3:33 AM
A couple years back, the book and then TV show THE LEFTOVERS explored the global psychological devastation wrought by a sudden and bizarre disappearance of 2% of the population. After COVID and Gaza, that idea seems quaint now. Turns out the world just doesn’t give a shit 😡
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action. -- Franz Kafka, "Letter to His Father"
![Franz Kafka: By Atelier Schlosser & Wenisch - Otto Schlosser (1880-1942) & Max Wenisch (1876–?)[1] - Franz Kafka: Pictures of a Life by Klaus Wagenbach (1984), p. 89; sourced to Klaus Wagenbach Archiv, Berlin, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27147733](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:f3mfe7wjorg6fwztk5lzhtuy/bafkreicx5ocuir5vnzzep32g4tjyf5dnkwjxn7akmia7y3ftfgn6zdutxe@jpeg)
December 3, 2023 at 4:32 AM
Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action. -- Franz Kafka, "Letter to His Father"
Place and non-place are rather like opposed polarities: the first is never completely erased, the second never totally completed; they are like palimpsests on which the scrambled game of identity and relations is ceaselessly rewritten. -- Marc Augé, "Non-Places"
December 2, 2023 at 4:40 PM
Place and non-place are rather like opposed polarities: the first is never completely erased, the second never totally completed; they are like palimpsests on which the scrambled game of identity and relations is ceaselessly rewritten. -- Marc Augé, "Non-Places"
...I’ll be lost in the between, in the emptiness of the between, with the threats and the moments of radiant danger, the perfect days, the oases, the furious whisper of the night wind in the trees, the happiness, my fears, the imminent dawn. --Jane Mendelsohn, "I Was Amelia Earhart"
November 24, 2023 at 4:08 PM
...I’ll be lost in the between, in the emptiness of the between, with the threats and the moments of radiant danger, the perfect days, the oases, the furious whisper of the night wind in the trees, the happiness, my fears, the imminent dawn. --Jane Mendelsohn, "I Was Amelia Earhart"
Reposted by Robert Lunday
"We have unlearned the art of disappearance (art as such has always been a powerful lever of disappearance -- power of illusion and of a denegration of the real)."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 20, 2023 at 12:26 AM
"We have unlearned the art of disappearance (art as such has always been a powerful lever of disappearance -- power of illusion and of a denegration of the real)."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
My updated bibliography for the Literature of Disappearance: robertlunday.com/the-literatu...
November 21, 2023 at 3:23 AM
My updated bibliography for the Literature of Disappearance: robertlunday.com/the-literatu...
NamUs FYIs: Transgender and Indigenous missing / unidentified / unclaimed questions and answers. Even if wheels of govt. move slowly, they sometimes move progressively. (NamUs is the NIJ/DOJ-run database for missing and UID people in the US).
November 17, 2023 at 8:17 PM
NamUs FYIs: Transgender and Indigenous missing / unidentified / unclaimed questions and answers. Even if wheels of govt. move slowly, they sometimes move progressively. (NamUs is the NIJ/DOJ-run database for missing and UID people in the US).
Reposted by Robert Lunday
"If I can see the world after the point of my disappearance, that means I am immortal."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
October 27, 2023 at 6:53 PM
"If I can see the world after the point of my disappearance, that means I am immortal."
- The Perfect Crime
- The Perfect Crime
Thanks to Stalina Villarreal for telling me about Sara Uribe's "Antígona González," poetry about drug-trafficking violence and disappearance in Mexico-- I've ordered from bookshop.org, and listened to this talk with Uribe and translator John Pluecker:
libraryguides.bennington.edu/hybridgenre/...
libraryguides.bennington.edu/hybridgenre/...
October 25, 2023 at 1:57 PM
Thanks to Stalina Villarreal for telling me about Sara Uribe's "Antígona González," poetry about drug-trafficking violence and disappearance in Mexico-- I've ordered from bookshop.org, and listened to this talk with Uribe and translator John Pluecker:
libraryguides.bennington.edu/hybridgenre/...
libraryguides.bennington.edu/hybridgenre/...
This seems obvious:
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
I haven't seen (and can't judge) Scorsese's film yet, but might he have based it on Linda Hogan's novel?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Sp...
Wind River is another recent film that could have focused on, and empowered, the Indigenous characters.
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
I haven't seen (and can't judge) Scorsese's film yet, but might he have based it on Linda Hogan's novel?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Sp...
Wind River is another recent film that could have focused on, and empowered, the Indigenous characters.
October 25, 2023 at 1:48 PM
This seems obvious:
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
I haven't seen (and can't judge) Scorsese's film yet, but might he have based it on Linda Hogan's novel?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Sp...
Wind River is another recent film that could have focused on, and empowered, the Indigenous characters.
www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...
I haven't seen (and can't judge) Scorsese's film yet, but might he have based it on Linda Hogan's novel?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_Sp...
Wind River is another recent film that could have focused on, and empowered, the Indigenous characters.