newest Threepenny Review with Caryl Phillips’s essay “Why Read?” inside.

Conveniently it’s also a week after the conference

Come to my offsite reading in Georgia

In Athens, GA. (Not in Baltimore)

I’m part of a large professional listserv where different people keep replying UNSUBSCRIBE or SIGN OFF or UNENROLL. The total effect of it is weirdly beautiful—operatic.

If you consider yourself preeminent in your field of the humanities or sciences, know that there’s an undiscovered patent clerk somewhere doing the realer shit.

One of the protector figures in my life is this guy Mac who hired me at a liquor store in my 20s and still keeps up.

The 🔥 this time

To be clear, not my own. From the public archives.

Lots of show posters

Enjoyed a lovely day with my wife, celebrating her birthday. I’m grateful to be in the world with her. ⚡️🌀🌎

Reading with Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan - The Georgia Review JOIN US FOR A READING WITH BRENDA IIJIMA AND SARETTA MORGAN FEBRUARY 5 @4pm THE ATHENAEUM Q+A and book signing, reception to follow at The Special Collections Library This event is supported in part b...

Brenda Iijima and Saretta Morgan reading in Athens, Georgia this Thursday. Excited for it.

www.thegeorgiareview.com/event/readin...

Percival Everett, The Art of Fiction No. 235 “What I want to do is write something that seems like it means something and doesn’t. I want to write a novel that even I don’t understand.”

“I start with something that bugs me, some philosophical problem, and then I look for a way to explore it.” —Percival Everett

Season 2 — Blowback After a critically-acclaimed retelling of the Iraq War, season two of Blowback presents the unlikely story of the Cuban Revolution: America’s Cold...

blowback.show/Season-2

With increased U.S. sanctions and tariffs against Cuba, it’s a good time to listen again to Blowback’s Season 2 podcast on the Cuban Revolution and the perpetual U.S. effort to manage Cuban sovereignty.

Link in the comments.

With Senator Thune refusing to allow a separate DHS funding vote, there’s another chance today to contact your senators and insist that they hold their positions on defunding ICE.

Easy calls, straightforward script.

5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

The Internet Archive headquarters: a large white neoclassical building with columns, stands on a street corner in San Francisco.

The internet's memory isn’t a cloud—it’s heat, power, and hard drives 🔥💾

Inside the Internet Archive’s trillion-page fight against digital forgetting, from PetaBox servers to legal battles over memory itself ⚙️📚

➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

#InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #WebHistory

Eject Elbit Is Pushing Capital One to Drop $90M Loan to Israel's Largest Weapons Manufacturer Protesters across several cities are acting against the bank for funding Israeli arms manufacturer Elbit Systems, as company employees face censorship for talking about the genocide in Gaza.

If you wanted a reason to shut down your neighborhood’s Capital One Café …

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Defund ICE (UPDATED 1/22) - SENATE VOTE THIS WEEK ⭑ 5 Calls Updates January 22, 2026: By a 220-207 vote, the House has passed H.R. 7147, the standalone DHS appropriations bill. Republican Rep. Massie (KY) voted …

The phone lines of both my Senators were busy, which is good reason to keep calling.

5calls.org has a helpful app for various topics and scripts.

5calls.org/issue/dhs-bu...

Letter From Minnesota: Can You Hear Us, America? Since early December of last year, thousands of ICE officers have streamed into Minnesota to carry out a violent and grossly unconstitutional campaign of state intimidation upon the people of Minne…

"The desperation is making space for something else to emerge."—Dobby Gibson

lithub.com/letter-from-...

The difference between the 1000 mg Vitamin C supplement and the 500 mg Vitamin C supplement is the recommended dose of 4 rather than 2 capsules. So yeah, they’re just fucking with us.

“One of the most curious aspects of Smillie’s photographic survey of the Smithsonian is that it encompasses what would normally be the almost invisible accoutrements of museological storage and display: showcases, racks, shelves, chests with parts pulled out and piled up before paper backdrops[.]”

The Department of Preparation: Thomas Smillie’s Photographic Survey of the Smithsonian (1890–1913) A survey of the Smithsonian by the first curator of photography in the United States.

Was recently reminded of Thomas William Smillie’s work at the Smithsonian in the early 1900s, especially as profiled by The Public Domain Review.

publicdomainreview.org/collection/s...

Kim Stanley Robinson novel where everyone at Davos is held hostage by activists.

House flippers on my street, but they forgot to replace the Dale Jr. decal mailbox.

3 of my poems, in the best of company, from issue 7 of mercury firs. www.mercuryfirs.org/issue-7