hail disaster A fire in the western world, you say?

albums, poems, canyons

The beef n latkes at Sherman’s deli in Palm Springs. It’s a corned beef sandwich but the bread is latkes

a corned beef sandwich but the bread is latkes

this is excellent, and so so so so bleak

two from this weekend at Treefort in Boise: Toody Cole & Her Band at Neurolux; Geese on the main stage

hard agree. im a fairweather callahan fan and have skipped the last several but i threw this on last night and found it warm and gorgeous and deeply moving

Hilarious that this is the image on the Black Rider Wikipedia page

It’s a-I, predicate nominative mario

A Nigel Farage tweet: The Bank of England is replacing Winston Churchill with a picture of a beaver on our bank notes. This is the definition of woke.

The words NIGEL FARAGE BEAVER CHURCHILL in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles font.

Grammarly's updated Expert Review lineup.

a wine tasting happens every time you drink it

perfect answer, dont ask what the question was

clicked over to @thesunmagazine.bsky.social to see what's new and was happy to see a couple of David Berman poems from Actual Air newly reprinted. then humbled-thrilled-jarred to find myself quoted in the editor's introduction. David's "surreal clarity" yes. Always and forever

i wrote the album bio for this one! (www.subpop.com/artists/iron...)

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY"

I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM

I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT

ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

if only those who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs knew that one day one might go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights

contemplating, awestruck, the centuries-long geometry of material and historical processes necessary to create the conditions for me to have just sent a text asking “want to go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights”

A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...

Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

hot damn

You are who eats you I know thee not, chopped unc

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

You are who eats you I know thee not, chopped unc

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...

wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

and i still am

have been listening to the grateful dead ALL DAY and i still am

so stoked to see this story, drafted in my fall class at the Columbia MFA, now published at @necessaryfiction.com

i used to make a version of "boy kibble" i called "idiot bachelor slurry." i wrote about it some years back when i was commissioned to contribute an essay to an anthology of writers writing about food. the essay was rejected for being too funny

One thing lit journals with even modest security can do is beef up/launch online crit sections. for print quarterlies/biannuals it's a great way to drive traffic between issues. Budget 10k/yr for 25 pieces at 400/per--a decent albeit not awesome rate. Tweak those numbers as needed but it's a start

Yeah I'm with you there. I guess we have to accommodate ourselves to the fact that criticism has essentially been de-professionalized. It's a knock-on effect of the de-professionalization of literature itself. As with climate collapse, it's a symptom that will become a cause, intensify acceleration

I don't disagree but DIY only works for generating coverage. There's a ton of places already doing it from BookPost to Zona Motel. The issues are (1) reach and (2) how to pay critics a rate that allows us to treat the work *as* work. DIY ethos (god love it) is structurally antithetical to both goals

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