SHARPEN: There You Are. • On headshots, the business of posing, and the photo that finally showed me myself
Posts by Listening in the Dark with Amber Tamblyn
SHARPEN: Name your Bright Spot • On the moon, astronauts named craters after the people they loved. Down here, we're naming ours.
Sister Stones and Feeding the Imagination • An empowering, perspective-shifting conversation with Lidia Yuknavitch + some newsletter news.
One Brave Word After the Next • On the murder of Renee Nicole Macklin Good and losing a poet to violence.
Good Riddance: We Ain't Ready • Michelle Obama's real talk, the end of the Epstein files, and thousands of years of silencing women.
INTERVIEW: A conversation with author Soraya Chemaly on rage and dismantling supremacy • A recording from Amber Tamblyn's live video
Good Riddance: The Myth of Arrival • On the pendulum of politics, the hope of Zohran Mamdani, and making peace with the fight.
Good Riddance: Keepsakes of the Almost • Political merchandise, how our losses have paved a road for change, and women’s forever fight.
Good Riddance: Bringing Up Beakling • Pigeon conspiracy theories, spooky Halloween companions, and a tiny unexpected guest.
Good Riddance: Open Hands, Open Future • Watching the clouds with my father, isolation rituals, and the beautiful freedom in surrender.
Love Makes No Mistakes. • Remembering Andrea Gibson through friends and community, for The Poetry Foundation
David Cross on How America Lost the Plot—and Might Be Able to Find It Again • A conversation with my husband about stand-up comedy, politics since 9/11, and 13 years of marriage on our wedding anniversary
Good Riddance: Selling Out the Punchline • On the Riyadh Comedy Festival, American comedians becoming court jesters, and the hypocrisy of those who once cried foul at cancel culture.
Good Riddance: The Green Thumb That Couldn’t Grow • The splendors of gardening, the headaches of growing, and getting flowers pregnant.
Good Riddance: What Poets Are Called to Do • On creative stasis, pens as pressure cookers, and how to write through hell and back.
Good Riddance: Chaos and Catastrophe for Public Health • In which I absolutely lose my shit over Robert Fuckshit Kennedy Jr.
Good Riddance: Hello Tendinitis, My Old Friend • Tired tendons, self-care in the face of writing deadlines, and acquiescing to voice dictation.
Good Riddance: Make America Grift Again • Jillian Michaels, rewriting racist history, and a movement built on dangerous disinformation.
Good Riddance: Mistakes Through the Mail Slot • A conversation with my mother, postcard failures, and a small writing prompt, just for you.