@lauravandenberg.bsky.social
Not checking this account all that often these days but you can find me here: https://fightweek.substack.com/
This craft seminar will be taught by Laura van den Berg, who is the author of six works of fiction, most recently the novel State of Paradise (FSG, 2024). She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, among other awards. Her next novel, Ring of Night, is forthcoming in 2027.
Wrote this for anyone who's trying to finish their novel this year: fightweek.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...
A Year in the Life of a Novel
or: how I finished my novel in a year
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Loved chatting with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social for her wonderful Fight Week substack. We talked about boxing gym culture, what boxing taught me about writing & more. 🥊 fightweek.substack.com
FIGHT WEEK | Laura van den Berg | Substack
FIGHT WEEK is an every-other-week newsletter on writing & fighting. Click to read FIGHT WEEK, by Laura van den Berg, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring @minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more. Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
2 fights over the weekend & 2 wins. Wrote all about it here: fightweek.substack.com/p/on-levelin...
On Leveling Up
One weekend, 2 fights, 2 wins
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“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.” —Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine
The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...
thebeliever.net
Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...
It’s the Writer’s Job To Say Something True - Electric Literature
One year later, 6 authors reflect on the experience of publishing their most recent book
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Wrote about a recent ER all-nighter & my relationship to pain: substack.com/home/post/p-...
On Pain
my all-night odyssey in the ER & turning setbacks into keys
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Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle.bsky.social, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @blondieband.bsky.social, and Richard Ayoade, conducted by @rokwon.bsky.social, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, and more.
Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
The Edge of the Cliff
notes on performance & fear
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NYC! We'd love to see you at Florida Night! tomorrow (July 1), 6:30 PM, at P & T Knitwear. Super excited to be joining forces w Kristen Arnett, Gabriella Burnham, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, & Lynn Steger Strong. We're gonna have a good time. ptknitwear.com/events
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Hudson Valley people: wildly excited to help host Catherine Lacey TONIGHT for The Möbius Book: 6:30 PM, Northern Spy Reading Series at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill. This will be very fun & you do not want to miss it!
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Come out to P&T Knitwear on TUESDAY, JULY 1ST at 6:30pm, where our lovely @lauravandenberg.bsky.social will appear for FLORIDA NIGHT to talk about her novel STATE OF PARADISE! #florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
Baffler no. 79 features new short fiction from @lauravandenberg.bsky.social. In “Cake,” every treat is a burden, and every burden is an opportunity.
Cake | Laura van den Berg
Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming Democratic primary for New York City mayor — delivering a jolt to the crowded race with less than nine days until early voting starts: bit.ly/45bpiU6
I wrote about boxing as the loneliest sport + what makes a community hold: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Loneliest Sport
on what makes a community hold
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It seems to us that if you're anywhere near the Southeast, this is the event you should be headed to on July 1. That lineup is bonkers.
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social · last yr.Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
New newsletter is up! Wrote about what happens on a Fight Week + AMA. fightweek.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens on Fight Week
plus my first ever AMA
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Last call to register for this 2 session class on character! We will talk craft, read, write, Q & A. We will do deep dives into what characters need to do & do not need to do & what allows a character to feel alive-alive on the page. www.eventbrite.com/e/kinderhook...
Kinderhook Books | The Rough Notes Craft Talks | Laura van den Berg
Join Laura van den Berg for her two-part fiction Craft Talk—"Discovering Character"—and write your novel with us!
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A reminder that this magic is happening on Saturday in New Orleans. Come see @kristenarnett.bsky.social & @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social talk books & life & clowns & how to be a dirtbag and more!
"Your Second Wife," a story from my last collection, is getting adapted! deadline.com/2025/03/max-...
Max Developing Soapy Erotic Thriller ‘Your Second Wife’ From Jamie Rosengard, Adele Lim, Sugar23 & Jessica Rothe
Max has taken in for development Your Second Wife, a soapy, erotic thriller series based on Laura Van Den Berg's short story of the same name.
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A clown explores how much of life is a joke in this excerpt from "Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One" by Kristen Arnett (@kristenarnett.bsky.social), recommended by Laura van den Berg (@lauravandenberg.bsky.social).
The Birthday Clown of Your Queer Fantasy - Electric Literature
An excerpt from STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE by Kristen Arnett, recommended by Laura van den Berg
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