Related: newrepublic.com/article/1946...

Thank you for reading, Heather!

Inside Trump’s Bizarre Campaign to Bend the Art World to His Will The president and his allies want to use institutions like the Kennedy Center and the National Endowment for the Arts to challenge the left’s cultural power. Here’s how their plan is going so far.

my former HuffPost colleague and perennial favorite @dliebelson.bsky.social has a great piece today about Trump's attempt to get way way into the art world

newrepublic.com/article/1946...

Aw thank you Jason. You’re MY favorite!!

Hi! I am interested in chatting with artists & writers about the new NEA requirements for a story, especially those who are part of orgs that are or were considering applying for funding.

Email: dliebelson@gmail.com & I’m also on Signal

Please share 👋

If you just finished REJECTION by @tonytula.com (or need a breather in the middle) I have been loving STILL LIFE by @katpburke.bsky.social

“When I looked at fashion magazines and they showed party outfits, I wondered where those people were going.”

Relate to this 💙💙

The new year is what we make it - High Country News What will you do to help make things better?

New essay about the new year and hope in @highcountrynews.bsky.social ❤️

www.hcn.org/issues/57-1/...

Excerpt from THE WILDERNESS

Reading Ayşegül Savaş‘s THE WILDERNESS while in the first forty days of postpartum myself was such a bracing relief against the cutesy platitudes often assigned to early motherhood—an experience I’ve found equally ferocious & poetic.

I highly recommend it!

The Ghost Coat | Catherine Lacey | Granta ‘The coat was technically too big for me, but what did that mean, really? I knew I was larger than I appeared to be, like an object in a rear-view mirror.’

I have a new story up on Granta, THE GHOST COAT.

I wrote it because I found a such a coat in my home years ago, but also because I once had an argument with several French directors about the perfection of the film Titane, and how stupid they were to misunderstand it.

Likewise follow @ashponders.bsky.social !!

bsky.app/profile/ashp...

Yay I did!!