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@arielcourage.bsky.social
ass’t fiction editor at AGNI mag, writer, post deleter arielcourage.com
That was it. I had no idea what else to read. I paced the neighborhood, in Chicago by now, the baby in a backpack, the toddler in the stroller. Old women came up and chided me about the baby’s uncovered head. ~from "Dearth" by Angela Woodward AGNI Online
Dearth
The day before the public library closed for the pandemic, a book I’d requested months earlier came in. I sat out the first weeks of my isolation lost in Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, the…
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“I projected a lot of symbolic value onto that tree, which grew despite adversity: The place was a superfund site.” @arielcourage.bsky.social explores America’s polluted urban ruins.
Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins
I once lived near an abandoned power plant. It was a rotting red-brick Rundbogenstil with reverse brick crenellations under its eaves; a plaque under its gable said it was erected in 1892. Scaffold…
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also pubbed a short story in joyland yesterday :) joylandpublishing.com/fiction/half...
Ariel Courage
Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Review. She’s currently an assistant fiction editor at Agni. Her short work has appeared ...
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Looking for a wickedly funny book about a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis who quits her job and takes off on a road trip to kill her father? Well, you are in luck because Bad Nature by @arielcourage.bsky.social is out today! www.islandbooks.com/book/9781250...
alissa nutting (!) reviewed my book (!!) in the nyt (!!!) :)))) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...
Book Review: ‘Bad Nature,’ by Ariel Courage
In Ariel Courage’s novel, “Bad Nature,” a powerful career woman sets out on a road trip intending to kill her father.
nytimes.com
forgot about this website for a bit but here is my book, it’s out 4/1 in the us and 4/16 in the uk!!!! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
madeleine watts and i are just two millennial ladies who wrote sad climate road-trip novels so this was an esp. fun interview thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Writer Madeleine Watts on balancing growth and guarding against burnout – The Creative Independent
Writer Madeleine Watts discusses taking creative work seriously, describing a world impacted by climate change, and the importance of replenishing the soul with art
thecreativeindependent.com
finally watched jonas mekas a couple weeks ago and ever since have been muttering ‘this must be…para-dise’ to myself in my worst lithuanian accent
that cruel kids table article is so ‘tell me you peaked in middle school without telling me you peaked in middle school’ coded
hard to forgive hochul for fumbling congestion pricing but i’ll reconsider if she signs climate superfund+co2 fracking ban w/o amendments that fuck em up…get on it girl…!
at least libby’s back up to 10 book holds again. nature is healing etc etc
spoke with pw about how recent fiction is addressing climate change; i’m in good company here www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Climate Fiction Grows More Realistic
As the facts of climate change manifest in real life, authors are finding that the future is all too present.
publishersweekly.com
mainly what separates bluesky from twitter is that i see way fewer viral suicide jokes on the daily
doing my part to help ny thru this drought by being too depressed to shower ;)
funny timing on this bc over the wknd my husband found an unopened pack of american spirits in the street…kismet! https://xraylitmag.com/visions-sins-ariel-courage/comics/
hardest part of being terminally online is having to feign delight and surprise at memes nononline friends send that have already been making the rounds for weeks/months
forgot this place existed for a bit but here is a comic of mine!
Ariel Courage - comics — Action, Spectacle
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my secret talent is that i can still be socially intimidated by people whose writing i dont even like
once again thinking about the jewelencrusted tortoise from à rebours
had like five funny/weird encounters with strangers in nyc today after MONTHS of drought, am over the moon, i live for this
