sheila heti definitely knows what plot is

Maris Kreizman Finds Hope in Radicalization - Electric Literature The author of "I Want to Burn This Place Down" on how it's community—not government—that will save us

happy pub day to @maris.bsky.social electricliterature.com/maris-kreizm...

the harshest words in any review

Frequency Illusion | Hazlitt Love was not a drink, and my pursuit of it did not fit perfectly into the rubric of addiction, but it had taken me.

hazlitt.net/feature/freq... @melissafebos.bsky.social

there is no one more uninteresting than james frey

Hari Kunzru Reflects on Edward Said’s Culture and Imperialism Thirty Years After Publication When Edward Said’s book, Orientalism, was published in 1978, it became an instant landmark of scholarship about the European imagination of “the East.” The construction of an alternate world of pas…

Why the world still hasn't caught up to Edward Said. lithub.com/hari-kunzru-... @harikunzru.bsky.social @literaryhub.bsky.social

I love the real world

Recurring Screens by Nora Claire Miller May 20, 2025 – On retro screen savers, Bianca Rae Messinger’s pleasureis amiracle, and Grandma’s iMac.

a beautiful meditation on the screensaver www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/05... @parisreview.bsky.social

excited for @maris.bsky.social's book launch! www.eventbrite.com/e/offsite-ma...

A Message from the NEA’s Literary Arts Staff | The Editors Thank you to the poets, the story writers, the novelists, the essayists, the memoirists for your words that have lifted us toward the light. You remind us to slow down and be awed, to feel that unique...

the NEA literary arts staff's letter in full: www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

a cuck who will never know love

Aria Aber’s Defiant Love Letter to Berlin - Public Books “The experiences of coming of age and coming into art—of finding your own voice and a vision for your craft—are spiritual and psychological journeys, and, for lack of a better word, universal.”

"I order a vanilla almond latte at a coffee cart in Brooklyn and look up at the red foliage of autumn trees. My tax dollars pay for the bombs that rain down on the other side of the world." @ariamisha.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/aria-abers-d...

I can’t wait

Proud to call myself a qz alum

The US economy's pronouns are was/were.

Schumer’s Warning | David Klion What Chuck Schumer has to say about antisemitism is predictable and redundant.

Schumer: awful
Schumer's review: transcendent
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Optimizing Doesn't Equal Thriving: Q&A with Alex Higley – ZYZZYVA It can be disorienting to read a novel as good as True Failure (Coffee House Press; 280 pages) is when its bold title archly gestures toward the opposite

next read: @alexhigley.bsky.social's anti-optimization manifesto www.zyzzyva.org/2025/02/25/o...

What Felt Impossible Became Possible | dansinker.com

the rise and fall of the klan a century ago is a beautiful lesson for us now dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Stuck on a project? Imagine you are an insane willem dafoe character lost in the reverie of endless toil. Make impulsive and reckless decisions! Hum/sing/mumble incoherently to yourself! Find delight in the minute chaos of repetitive actions! Choose to kill a man for speaking in an ambiguous tone

At the Clinic - The White Review At the Clinic by Sally Rooney, published in The White Review No. 18. The fictional debut of Marianne and Connell, before they appeared in Normal People.

the short story that became Normal People www.thewhitereview.org/fiction/at-t...

Alt Lit | The Point Magazine The thing that actually matters about a scene is the work it produces. So I decided to read the work.

the alt lit syllabus thepointmag.com/criticism/al...

Cover of Blue Ruin, black sans serif font, reflected in a kind of silvery mirror. A novel by Hari Kunzru, designed by John Gall, with a face emerging from clouds by Chad Wys.

A short thread on what I've done this year. In May my novel Blue Ruin was published. A kind of Covid pastoral, populated by art monsters ...

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gordon lish's ideal state for imaginative writing

LOL

Holding human connection hostage Unless you upgrade for a premium Friendship subscription!!

"[one] wishes more of our generation would simply just shut up and start literal cults, instead of unimaginatively shoehorning every impulse into a high-growth-potential brand." @deliacai.bsky.social www.deezlinks.com/p/holding-hu...

cinema! www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...

I’ve been sitting on this one for years because I don’t like anything old-timey. Joke’s on me because this was a message from the future.

MFA fiction this is not. Excited for this writer’s long career ahead.

No one should have had to write this book, but this one grabbed me and didn’t let go until I reconsidered god.

I read it with my poet friend’s underlines, then bought a copy and read it again. It is a razor blade to colonialism’s quivering neck.