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Jennifer Kabat

@jenkabat.bsky.social

Nightshining + The Eighth Moon (Milkweed Eds 2024 + 2025). Upstater. Art writer. Essayist. Rural rabble-rouser. Socialist. Member Margaretville VFD.

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@bryncrow.bsky.social · last mo.

Whose ancestors are we listening to? This week I write about two history and place-based memoirs by @jenkabat.bsky.social in my ongoing look at indigeneity and immigration in the U.S. : finding-throughlines.ghost.io/on-listening...

On Listening to the Elders: Democracy, Progress, and Duress

This week, after finishing the second volume in Jennifer Kabat's memoir diptych, I am sitting with the resonances and ripple effects. Kabat engages deeply with history and the landscape as spaces for ...

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The Believer@thebeliever.net · 6mo ago

“As she describes the process of cutting a horse’s spinal column from its tail, her voice sounds like polished silver, the Queen’s English, the one you hear on the BBC.” — @jenkabat.bsky.social on Rose English

A Chaos of Possibilities - Believer Magazine

I. HORSES, DEBUTANTES, BAROQUE, AND BALLET Six women, girls really, march toward a dressage ring dressed in tiny tunics girdled with wide leather belts from which horsetails—real horse-tails—shake…

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Jennifer Kabat@jenkabat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This plant threatens capitalism's penchant for wealth held in real estate & is probably the world's largest vascular plant & the world's largest single female organism. EG finding my way to love knotweed for @thebaffler.com

The Baffler@thebaffler.com · 9mo ago

In our new issue, Jennifer Kabat writes on the knotweed that chokes the parking lots and subdivisions across the United States, and wonders: are the measures we are using to eradicate the invader more dangerous than the plant itself?

Jennifer Kabat@jenkabat.bsky.social · last yr.

I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me.

Los Angeles Review of Books@lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

"Tillman’s ideas slip between each other in a playful way that I wish I could emulate. Words repeat and double back, reinforcing and undermining each other." Jennifer Kabat on Lynne Tillman and “Thrilled to Death.” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/out-of-language-comes-nothing-and-everything/

Jennifer Kabat@jenkabat.bsky.social · last yr.

Daniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social

The Believer@thebeliever.net · last yr.

San Francisco! Believer contributor @jenkabat.bsky.social and Editor Daniel Gumbiner will be at @booksmith.bsky.social on August 19 to celebrate the release of Jennifer's new book, "Nightshining." Register for the event here: app.gopassage.com/events/night...

Electric Literature@electricliterature.com · last yr.

Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat.bsky.social‬) discusses “Nightshining,” the second in her diptych of memoirs, how her idea of community evolved while writing the book, and the relationship between our varied experiences of time and historical progress. (@summerjhart) buff.ly/44mrqGX

Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature

The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers

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Benjamin Samuel@benjaminsamuel.xyz · last yr.

"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? " — @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue. @milkweededitions.bsky.social

BOMB Magazine | Jennifer Kabat by Laura Marris

The essayist examines the roots of American socialism and the environmental history of man-made climate change in rural New York.

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Jennifer Kabat@jenkabat.bsky.social · last yr.

"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social

West Trade Review@westtradereview.bsky.social · last yr.

“Kabat muses on the sense that narrative, at least in its more traditional forms, is unable to faithfully fully render the truth she seeks to explore.” Excerpt from review of @jenkabat.bsky.social's Nightshining, new from Milkweed Editions. Read the full review: buff.ly/yAKSoxc #writingcommunity

Karrie Jacobs@karrieurbanist.bsky.social · 2y ago

State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman Micah Lasher hope to give Musk a taste of his own medicine, scrutinizing his sweetheart deal in Buffalo: identifying “‘waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.’” And seeing whether Tesla is living up to its commitments.

N.Y. Lawmakers Fight Trump With a Proposal Targeting Elon Musk

A bill would authorize an audit of a state deal allowing Tesla to lease a factory site near Buffalo for $1 a year, and would create a way for the state to claw back subsidies.

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The New York Review of Books@nybooks.com · 2y ago

“Only in 1799, more than a century and a half after the first enslaved person arrived in New York, did the state pass an act ‘for the gradual abolition of slavery,’ meaning it remained a slave state well into the nineteenth century.” —Nell Irvin Painter

‘This Land Is Yours’ | Nell Irvin Painter

Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.

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Alt National Park Service@altnps.bsky.social · 2y ago

We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee. Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.

Lisa Diedrich@lisadiedrich.bsky.social · 2y ago

The prehistory of AIDS: “Like a number of his Black LGBTQ peers, Hemphill began publishing & performing his work as more spaces…opened up & welcomed these artists’ visions & voices. For a moment, a flowering of Black LGBTQ literary & artistic production was visible to anyone paying attention.”

Lit Hub@literaryhub.bsky.social · 2y ago

John Keene traces the life and work of Essex Hemphill, an early poetic chronicler of Black queer experience.

Jennifer Kabat@jenkabat.bsky.social · 2y ago

"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.