My favorite aspect of Literary Conference are the gaps. You'll see what I mean.

Worm crew rise up

Literary conference or landscape painter

Same

Still my second? Third? Favorite aira

Bahr writes this region so beautifully it’s almost a shame he also fills it with some real horrors.

I’d certainly listen.

It’s time. Portland, at long last we show off our winter legs that look like drowned ET’s arms.

NOW ARE YOU LISTENING???

Yep.

Photo of a page with the text “the pure cone of St. Helens” highlighted

Easiest way to date a Le Guin book

Dad salute 🫡

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”

America’s Mayor can’t miss.

there go your chances of being name-checked in the next one bucko

Every time I listen to NIN now I have to force the image of reznor's fucking dyed stubble out of my head to let myself enjoy it

Someone please get this man a pickles sweatshirt of something. anything but that sad sad P for Portland branded shit. Rene Gonzalez-coded merch.

A Year After The Corrections Officer Strike, New York Is Still Failing Its Incarcerated Population | Defector In February of 2025, New York State correctional staff began an illegal work stoppage to challenge recent changes to the state’s carceral system. Their primary objective was to force the repeal of the...

this is a great, troubling piece about the dismal state of New York state prisons, written by an inmate at the Elmira Correctional Facility defector.com/a-year-after...

feel like this exposes me as a pretty poor reader for not clocking it but I love you regardless bud

Summer of Fire can’t come soon enough

I don’t think I understood the beached whale/seal to be Christ until now but of course it is.

By moser! I’ll be really interested to see how he does with this.

Do they still have the dogs you can pet though

the wet crunch of a dying snail

very funny town

literary arts event listing from Literary Arts. Priscilla Bernard Wieden in conversation with Kim Stafford, April 28 at 6:30 PM. Wieden's book cover is beside headshots of Wieden and Stafford. The book is titled Solitary Light: Mourning Poems and features a watercolor of a lighthouse.

mmhmm

see also: the psychopath blood-drenched hot elf companion you can fuck in each of their pathfinder games being the overwhelming fan favorites

Yesterday was an incredible news day!

polite silence in response to this one

More pressingly, can I get paid for my good taste