k y'all, gonna be doubling down on art because it truly feels like the only path forward! gonna use this space to yell as loud as I can about the books and films and art that bring me joy! if that sounds good to you then you're invited! let's do this!

went down a manifesto rabbit hole this month, featuring Guerrilla Girls, The Museum of Everyday Life, Jerry Maguire, Werner Herzog, a fill-in-the-blank manifesto, and a whole lot more! abigailoswald.substack.com/p/the-month-...

The Month of Manifestos

31 ideas, arguments, inspirations, questions, resources, and assorted rabbit holes

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August people, have you ever considered that lemons might make you invisible to security cameras? 🍋

NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo

Your life is art. If your life is art, then everything is a medium. If your life is art, then everyone is your audience. If your life is art, there is no culmination; there is only accumulation. The project is your life. The process is the point. abigailoswald.itch.io/the-project-...

For a story: Did you participate in Pizza Hut's BOOK-IT! program? I'd love to talk to you about it for a story on the program being back this summer. If your child is participating in BOOK IT! this year, I'd love to speak with you, too. DMs open, rainesford.alexandra@gmail.com, Signal rstauff.20

okay y'all I really do try to avoid complaining social media these days but the current state of physical media hurts my heart; how many Emmys does The Bear have to win to get a DVD release? fingers crossed for a box set now that the final season's out! (please, Hulu, hear my digital prayer)

what a dream to yap about my very favorite things with MPR News - mail art, collage, zines and community! 📬 huge kudos and gratitude to @gretchenbrown.bsky.social, who put together such a fantastic piece out of a much longer conversation, and was so wonderful to talk with 💌

In age of AI, 'mail art' has special meaning for some Minnesota artists

As AI makes it easier to generate art with a click, a small but growing community of artists choosing a slower way to connect: the U.S. mail.

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allison / collage, zines, mail art@allisonanne.com · 4w ago

pretty excited to share that you can tune in to @mprnews.org Morning Edition tomorrow (Friday) to hear me talk to @gretchenbrown.bsky.social about mail art 💌 it will also be replayed on saturday, and posted online!

i wish everything looked like 1980s computer magazines

The DREAMY Summer ‘26 Edit is here to bless your feed with micro-surrealism, fearless self-portraiture, a faith-based guide to your copy machine, and everything we’re bringing to the cottage. Link in bio to read the entire issue now!

happy International Zine Month, y'all! I've got pocket viewfinders, tiny adventures to have in libraries + art museums, how-tos on bibliomancy + approaching life like a mystery that only you can solve—check 'em out!

Abigail Oswald@abigailoswald.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I'm so excited to share my zines online for the first time! ☺️ four new zines to inspire creativity and everyday adventures, all available for immediate download on Itch at a name-your-price option: abigailoswald.itch.io more details about each one in the thread!

felt inspired by @austinkleon.bsky.social's concept of "artistic genealogy" and ended up going down a John Cage rabbit hole this month! abigailoswald.substack.com/p/chains-of-...

Chains of Inspiration

Who inspired the creators who inspire you?

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Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Prime Day who? Sorry, I'm too busy supporting my independent bookshop 😍⁠ Through the 26th, take 35% off all sale audiobooks (yep) with code BIGIMPACT at checkout. Every purchase benefits your indie bookshop of choice. Thanks for supporting them today and every day 💗

This sounds so fun!

Abigail Oswald@abigailoswald.bsky.social · 2mo ago

made a zine for curious people who like to play detective in everyday life! CLUE LOG pulls inspiration from John Cage, Emily Dickinson, Journey, Carl Jung, Scrabble, various books about creativity, and more 🔎 a submission to my first-ever @itch.io zine jam! abigailoswald.itch.io/clue-log

made a zine for curious people who like to play detective in everyday life! CLUE LOG pulls inspiration from John Cage, Emily Dickinson, Journey, Carl Jung, Scrabble, various books about creativity, and more 🔎 a submission to my first-ever @itch.io zine jam! abigailoswald.itch.io/clue-log

our new Lost/Found imprint acquisition is official! I'm SO excited for y'all to read + rediscover @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social's EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE! reading this eerie + surreal story of survival made me feel a little stronger + more stubborn in my own life; I hope it does the same for you 📚

Split/Lip Press@splitlippress.com · 2mo ago

Excited to share the next acquisition for our Lost/Found imprint: EDGE OF THE KNOWN BUS LINE by @jamesrgapinski.bsky.social, a reissue of their award-winning 2018 novella which follows a woman’s gruesome fight for survival after a city bus drops her in a brutal wasteland of cannibals and cultists!

excited to share my zine, FOLLOW THE CLUES, as part of @creativemornings.bsky.social Release Day, a collective deadline shared by a community of creatives worldwide! FOLLOW THE CLUES is a tool for honing curiosity + building a personal practice in noticing 🔎 abigailoswald.itch.io/follow-the-c...

Yesterday's excellent galley mail Notes on Postcards by Jennifer Croft! The interior will be in color and features postcards with short notes. Out in November from @catapultbooks.bsky.social.

just added some fun stuff to my recommendations collection on @itch.io, including a meditation on deep reading, a found poetry game, a zine that inspired me while creating my own zines last year, and a catch-a-poem game! itch.io/c/6615942/re...

Recommendations - Collection by abigail oswald

A collection by abigail oswald

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🧵 The literary canon is shaped as much by chance as by merit. Brad Bigelow (@neglectedbooks.com) explains why forgotten books deserve to be found & preserved. 📚 Read Bigelow's essay & more in VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive 🔗 archive.org/details/vani...

"There’s a lyrical, almost musical side to cinema that speaks very profoundly to each of us. That’s why we can see the same movie, and you hate it and I love it. It’s the same movie, it’s our soul that is different." - Guillermo del Toro

Death is the Curator: An Interview with Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro is perhaps best known as a builder of worlds—his films grow from the sketchbooks that he fills with ideas for fantastical creatures and places.

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a communal creative deadline is such a fun idea! just committed to releasing a creative project on May 29 along w/ a bunch of other folks worldwide + thought to share here too if anyone needs a little accountability + community this month 😊 I'll be working on a zine! creativemornings.com/releaseday

Release Day | CreativeMornings ✕ Creative Quests ✕ Adobe

CreativeMornings is a breakfast lecture series for the creative community. Join us at one of our free monthly events around the world or watch the talks online!

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Art by Tony Stella

I'll never run out of good things to say about Elizabethtown ❤️ abigailoswald.substack.com/p/revisiting...

Revisiting Elizabethtown

On Cameron Crowe, failure, and loving imperfect things

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Molly Templeton@mollytempleton.com · 3mo ago

interesting how many people immediately took this to mean "movie you hated that everyone else loved" BUT I'm much more interested in the reverse: what did you love that everyone else hated? me? Battleship. and I have no shame. (once upon a time it was The Fall but people have wisely come around)

May 1st 1994 - After getting dumped by May, He Qiwu buys a tin of pineapple with an expiration date of 1 May for a whole month, because May enjoyed pineapples. 📽️📅 Chungking Express (1994)

hello world! I've been a bit quieter here lately, but wanted to share this piece I wrote about Ellen Arnstein, a really wonderful artist/poet/human being who changed my life in the brief time that I knew her... (1/4) abigailoswald.itch.io/begin-at-the...

Our Indie Bookshop Appreciation Sale starts...NOW! Stock up on audiobooks, save $$, and feel good knowing that every audiobook you buy directly supports your indie bookshop ⏬ Also - share pics of your cart/what you grab in the thread! We love seeing what you're excited about!

I made a batch of posters, zines, and a mixtape for people who pre-order DON’T CALL IT ART austinkleon.com/2026/04/10/p...

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