The Alt Weekly Roundup (4/13/26) - The Alternative A highlight off Hiding Place's latest LP, the new single from German emo duo Holden Place, and more on this week's roundup

It’s been a great, great time for new music. Here’s our latest roundup: www.getalternative.com/the-alt-week...

Cormac McCarthy’s Valentine’s Day Candy Hearts Taken from works of the late great Cormac McCarthy. - - -

"Everywhere the dying groan and the horses lay screaming... Happy Valentine's Day!"https://buff.ly/g1Qx3JM

Open Call for full-length Prose manuscripts

Sundress Publications is open for submissions of full-length prose manuscripts in all genres. All authors are welcome to submit manuscripts during our reading period! Submissions are free for writers of color and those who purchase a book! www.sundresspublications.com/submit#prose

an all time favorite

love this album... I have a feeling that, come spring, this ones gonna be blaring from my windows. Check out my review!

“Psalm for the Slightly Tilted” “This is not / a good year. / But it has / witnesses.”

“I saw my people lean—
not toward hope but toward each other.”
—Ilya Kaminsky

woooohooo go Ross!

Visited Dollywood today and my life has been changed

Influencer Emily Dickinson’s Morning Routine 3:45 a.m. – Wake naturally to the soft sigh of a ghost. Or maybe it’s the hum of the Amherst wind through the shutters. Either way, it’s a Sign. Do...

"7:15 a.m. – Engage in a twenty-minute stare-down with a crow perched on the garden wall. The crow flees first. Victory."

🚨 Here is the final single from my upcoming album “piecemeal” which releases 5.2

Feat. @colortemperature.bsky.social who adds some beautifully haunting, layered vocals.

Mixed & Mastered as always by THE @wicknebber.bsky.social

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I’d recommend Big Swiss - Jen Begain. It’s based in Hudson Valley, queer, weird, and incredibly funny. I’ve been consuming it!

It’s suuuch a beaut!

NYC friends, I organized a reading for my pal Rose, who I met at Kenyon Writers WS (I still remember being so excited about her work on day 1) come celebrate queer joy this week with a fab reading 🦋💗🏳️‍⚧️

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David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes

Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.

a stuffed animal is sitting at a desk next to a radio that says cd on it . Alt: Alf the alien is sitting at a desk next to a radio dancing

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The way I missed the game last year because my travel plans didn’t work out and I’m missing it again this year…devastated. I need to chug gravy AND a beer out of it

hi :) I’m Ryleigh, a poet who flirts with prose. I luv hockey, hiking, shenanigans, and scary movies ✨ You can read my thoughts on recent albums, my prose, or my poems (recently nominated for BOTN) on my website: ryleighwann.com