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Where can I find copywriting or editorial work. Anywhere. Job boards, reliable clients to cold call, weird dystopian networking communities... I will try anything.
October 28, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Where can I find copywriting or editorial work. Anywhere. Job boards, reliable clients to cold call, weird dystopian networking communities... I will try anything.
While I was a student at Bennington College I was a member of a secret society called The Disciples of Paula Jean. I have not spoken publicly about it before now. This is not the kind of thing I usually post about, but it’s something I feel like I need to share rn. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
My Time As a Member of a Secret Society at Bennington College
I attended Bennington College from the Fall of 2009 to the Spring of 2013.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
While I was a student at Bennington College I was a member of a secret society called The Disciples of Paula Jean. I have not spoken publicly about it before now. This is not the kind of thing I usually post about, but it’s something I feel like I need to share rn. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
Sirens… not bad for a show that “looks like that”
June 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Sirens… not bad for a show that “looks like that”
In case you missed I just posted a two-part hybrid “review” of @catherinelacey.bsky.social’s The Möbius Book on Substack, here’s part one: open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
Stripping Corpse: The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey
Part one
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June 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In case you missed I just posted a two-part hybrid “review” of @catherinelacey.bsky.social’s The Möbius Book on Substack, here’s part one: open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
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@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as “a lost treasure of a time when capitalism had so much slack in it that there was no pressing need to stop your mind from wandering”
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as “a lost treasure of a time when capitalism had so much slack in it that there was no pressing need to stop your mind from wandering”
The “Internet Novel” was created in a lab and I worked there open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
The Internet Novel Was Created In a Lab
and I Worked There
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June 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The “Internet Novel” was created in a lab and I worked there open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...
Joey Tribbiani IS brat
June 8, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Joey Tribbiani IS brat
For anyone who missed it in every other platform: I spent years chasing the Pavements story to write this insane hybrid-genre essay about it for @nplusonemag.com, thanks Mark Ibold Alex Ross Perry Angela Trimbur and, of course, Pavement www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Tell It Slanted | Stephen Piccarella
This was how I would first understand Pavement’s music: dense bursts of esoterica punctuated here and there by mellow springs of warm pop hum, an Oasis of boredom in a desert of horror. Various forms ...
www.nplusonemag.com
June 3, 2025 at 3:09 PM
For anyone who missed it in every other platform: I spent years chasing the Pavements story to write this insane hybrid-genre essay about it for @nplusonemag.com, thanks Mark Ibold Alex Ross Perry Angela Trimbur and, of course, Pavement www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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“How does ‘Slanted! Enchanted!’ exemplify the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk?” @spiccarella.bsky.social on Pavement and “Pavements”:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Tell It Slanted | Stephen Piccarella
This was how I would first understand Pavement’s music: dense bursts of esoterica punctuated here and there by mellow springs of warm pop hum, an Oasis of boredom in a desert of horror. Various forms ...
www.nplusonemag.com
June 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
“How does ‘Slanted! Enchanted!’ exemplify the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk?” @spiccarella.bsky.social on Pavement and “Pavements”:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
ICYMI after resisting for years for various reasons I've finally caved and started a newsletter, it's called Grey Fiction and the first post describes in a hopefully intelligible way what that means, I'm planning to publish once a week and would love for you to subscribe substack.com/inbox/post/1...
Grey Fiction
Letters from the margins of fiction
substack.com
May 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
ICYMI after resisting for years for various reasons I've finally caved and started a newsletter, it's called Grey Fiction and the first post describes in a hopefully intelligible way what that means, I'm planning to publish once a week and would love for you to subscribe substack.com/inbox/post/1...
They’re frying my ass on Raymond Carver stan twitter
May 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
They’re frying my ass on Raymond Carver stan twitter
They’re frying my ass on Ocean Vuong stan twitter
May 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
They’re frying my ass on Ocean Vuong stan twitter
Man Ocean Vuong fans can be a vicious bunch
May 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Man Ocean Vuong fans can be a vicious bunch
I could have had class… I could have been an email
May 13, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I could have had class… I could have been an email
Bluesky the everything else app
May 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Bluesky the everything else app
Crosspost from Twitter: would you or anyone you know be interested in submitting to a zine/anthology/symposium with the theme “New Writing on De-evolution”? If so please like reply DM etc. thank you I love you
April 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Crosspost from Twitter: would you or anyone you know be interested in submitting to a zine/anthology/symposium with the theme “New Writing on De-evolution”? If so please like reply DM etc. thank you I love you
I know the correct ranking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies. But I’m not telling
March 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
I know the correct ranking of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies. But I’m not telling
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Published June 1978 in "The Village Voice," the David Johansen piece “Kid Patriarch Makes His Move” is just about as close as I’ve ever come to writing one of those formulaic staples of arts journalism, a celebrity profile.
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
The Big Lookback: David Johansen
"Kid Patriarch Makes His Move," The Village Voice, June 12, 1978
robertchristgau.substack.com
March 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Published June 1978 in "The Village Voice," the David Johansen piece “Kid Patriarch Makes His Move” is just about as close as I’ve ever come to writing one of those formulaic staples of arts journalism, a celebrity profile.
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
robertchristgau.substack.com/p/the-big-lo...
For anyone in this unique audience who might be looking or tapped in: I’m looking for editorial or content production work. I have 10+ years’ experience across various industries including tech, healthcare, and media. Happy to share samples docs etc. Let me know!
February 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
For anyone in this unique audience who might be looking or tapped in: I’m looking for editorial or content production work. I have 10+ years’ experience across various industries including tech, healthcare, and media. Happy to share samples docs etc. Let me know!
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Brodernism—stupid word. But there’s always been something embarrassing about the way critics fawn over these doorstoppers. That said, without all the far-flung world lit in translation the culture would be in a sorry state. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
Against High Brodernism | Los Angeles Review of Books
Federico Perelmuter considers László Krasznahorkai’s “Herscht 07769,” translated by Ottilie Mulzet.
lareviewofbooks.org
February 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Brodernism—stupid word. But there’s always been something embarrassing about the way critics fawn over these doorstoppers. That said, without all the far-flung world lit in translation the culture would be in a sorry state. lareviewofbooks.org/article/agai...
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This happened to me too
Oh no I think I’ve discovered and love Devo
February 15, 2025 at 6:07 AM
This happened to me too
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This is the best club I’ve ever been a part of. go.bsky.app/Fncfb1h
February 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This is the best club I’ve ever been a part of. go.bsky.app/Fncfb1h
Someone QT’d saying Bluesky needs this energy so here you go
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Someone QT’d saying Bluesky needs this energy so here you go
New Whistler’s Motherfucker track in memory of David Lynch, rest well king whistlersmotherfucker.bandcamp.com/track/in-mou...
In Mourning, by Whistler's Motherfucker
track by Whistler's Motherfucker
whistlersmotherfucker.bandcamp.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
New Whistler’s Motherfucker track in memory of David Lynch, rest well king whistlersmotherfucker.bandcamp.com/track/in-mou...