Alex Higley
@alexhigley.bsky.social
TRUE FAILURE (2/25), Coffee House Press editor, Great Place Books alexhigley.com
I didn't want to write about AI or have an AI policy for EPOCH because I thought it went without saying...that was naive of me, I think. Click through to read my blog post on the subject, if you like.
EPOCH@epochliterary.com · last mo.73.2 is at the printer, and 74.1 opens for submissions in two weeks! Please note we have a new AI policy that you can read on our submission page (TL;DR: we don't want AI-generated text), and a blog post from our editor on the subject, linked below.
When you get your two best boys to join you at the serape and leather satchel convention
True Failure came out a year ago today. Thanks to those of you that have read and reached out or purchased and tossed in a pile! Photo from @jerrybrennan.bsky.social
Can’t wait to read this book!
Autumn House Press@autumnhouse.org · 6mo agoCover reveal! 🦜 We’re thrilled to share the cover of our 2025 Autumn House Fiction Prize winner, OBJECTS OF DESIRE by Adam O’Fallon Price, selected by Alexandra Kleeman. Coming October 2026. Preorders open soon. DM us for a galley. #Coverreveal #Shortstory #Fiction @adamoprice.bsky.social
Two spots left in this course! We’ll go deep on four Sparks from four different Spark eras. I’ll also give you feedback on your WIP. I love these classes and might be looking forward to this one most of all!
Great Place Books@greatplacebooks.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew class with @adremily.bsky.social Greatplacebooks.com/spark
. @wilmes.bsky.social nails it on the Indiana Bears: "Profits only go so far before they start to defeat pride and purpose, and the Bears will be leaving so much of what matters about their franchise behind if they all care about is maximally fleecing a government" www.sbnation.com/nfl/1104255/...
The Bears moving to Indiana would be a soulless betrayal of a city that loves them
The Indiana Bears just aren’t right.
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RIP Silverblatt. Formed a lot of my education in books. Miss the old KCRW website when it was easy to navigate through eps. Goodbye to a true lunatic.
wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...
A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review
That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...
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I have a headache but someone needs to write about how this ties into the enshittification of books, and how the project all along has been to undermine literature and free thought (dangerous to the regime!) in favor of high-volume self-published chat GPT-composed amazon slop.
wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
You Are Who Eats You | Justin Taylor
Dunn was quite possibly the last writer anyone would have expected to resurface, after nearly two decades of silence, with the 1989 bestseller and as a finalist for the National Book Award.
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I wrote about the political left and right, and why class analysis falls short of explaining how they operate. aeon.co/essays/why-h...
Why Hume is better at explaining modern capitalism than Marx | Aeon Essays
In 1752, David Hume discerned that wealth was becoming untethered from land. Here lies the origin of our political divisions
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Writers, it's time. Scrivener for Creative Writers is back! Join me 1/31 for a 90-minute class that will give you a powerful start to your writing year. Info and signups (and student discount) at jaimegreen.net/classes
wrote about the clippers as an existential failure basketball.realgm.com/analysis/282...
The Decaying Los Angeles Clippers
The Clippers have tied themselves to time and biology more clearly than any team; while, ironically, dressing it all up with an unusual amount of futuristic exuberance.
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grizzly fireworks sign, russell street, missoula, montana, 1987
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True Failure
Check out True Failure - <p><b>A twisting examination of life under late capitalism and the deceptions we inhabit to invent our own success stories.</b> <p/>Ben just lost his job, but he won't fess up...
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Congratulations to Northwestern on being extorted!
Matthew Eadie@mattheweadie.bsky.social · 9mo agoBREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university Full statement from NU below:
stork cafe, 3rd street, route 66, winslow, arizona, 1979
deane and jo's mini golf, wagon wheels, yakima, washington, 1987
