Many thanks to Brian for inviting me and my daughter @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social on his great new podcast! We had a blast talking with Brian about our shared musical obsessions, why this classic Onion article hits so close to home, and why this David Berman song means so much to both of us.

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Don’t miss this special girldad edition of Some Marvelous Experience! It was so amazing to talk with @andrewepstein.bsky.social and Casey Epstein-Gross about Silver Jews and so much more podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Global girl group KATSEYE puts off establishing any identity on its new EP, instead continuing its perpetual oscillation between hypersexualized, algorithmic hyper-slop and impossibly bland department-store-aisle pop. WILD score: D+ READ: www.pastemagazine.com/music/katsey...

Happy birthday to the great poet Guillaume Apollinaire (born on this day in 1880), seen here looking very rockstar avant la lettre in Giorgio de Chirico's "Premonitory Portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire" (1914)

Maybe everyone already knows this, but I hadn't really grasped that Milton's Paradise Lost is actually a sitcom until I got to talk about it with Katie Kadue and Ross Lerner. Check out this week's special "love and marriage" episode of Some Marvelous Experience! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Paradise Lost

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 25 · 47m

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"This is a book... about ambition and anxiety, about friendship and love, letters as drama, and philosophies of life." LOVE, JOE: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOE BRAINARD, edited by Daniel Kane, reviewed in ALH. tinyurl.com/2edau65u @dkanepoetry.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

Ryan Ruby on "Frank O'Hara at 100," and questions of style, O'Hara and MoMA, and his great, late long poem "Biotherm" www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/182...

The special issue of College Literature on "Infrastructural Poetics" that Claire Farley and I co-edited has just been published! We're so proud of this volume and all the brilliant writing that we get to feature here. You can find the full TOC at the link below: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57479

I had so much fun talking with Rainer Diana Hamilton and Shiv Kotecha about Elaine Sturtevant for this week's episode of Some Marvelous Experience. Give it a listen wherever you give listens! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

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Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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I'm thrilled to be launching Some Marvelous Experience today with this conversation with Josh Schneiderman and David Hobbs about their trip to see Nacny Holt's Sun Tunnels. I think it's an episode about having friends at the end of the world. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Sun Tunnels

Podcast Episode · Some Marvelous Experience · August 10 · 55m

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James Schuyler writing in his diary, 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce Head Island in Maine

From James Schuyler’s Diary (August 5, 1968)

Fairfield Porter, “Islands” (1968) Here is an excerpt from James Schuyler’s diary on August 5, 1968, written 58 years ago today, at Fairfield Porter’s home on Great Spruce H…

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I have entered my "reading an unpublished poem over the phone to the interviewer to explain something" era

Paste Magazine@pastemagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

In our latest feature, we talk to the loquacious John Darnielle about how the ever-prescient myth of Orpheus inspired the Mountain Goats' new album 'Days' and why he’d rather disappear behind his songs than become their face. www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mo...

when the interviewer cites Blanchot on Orpheus and gets to "the deep does not reveal itself directly; it is only disclosed hidden in the work" I literally shouted for joy

Paste Magazine@pastemagazine.bsky.social · last mo.

In our latest feature, we talk to the loquacious John Darnielle about how the ever-prescient myth of Orpheus inspired the Mountain Goats' new album 'Days' and why he’d rather disappear behind his songs than become their face. www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mo...

I maintain that if adults read wishes, lies and dreams and rose, where did you get that red by kenneth koch it would improve their metaphor literacy by 1000%

"In 1970, Kenneth Koch published a groundbreaking book about writing poetry with kids. Half a century later, Jess Shane tracks down his students to ask what it meant for their lives" ❤️ - "What's Inside the Moon," Signal Hill Issue 3

Issue Three

Where we're coming from and where we're going.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

Signal Hill — a new audio documentary magazine — has just released its first issue! Featuring pieces on kite festivals, Robin D. G. Kelley’s oral histories, sheep farms, caterpillars, protest sounds, and more

The poet Frank O'Hara died 60 years ago today at the age of 40, after a tragic accident on Fire Island, NY. Here's a piece I wrote for the Poetry Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary in 2016, about O'Hara's posthumous legacy: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/900...

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Some Marvelous Experience

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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I'm so excited for Brian Glavey's new book, "Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets," to be out in the world! @glavey.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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OK, if you were waiting to find out what kind of fox I am before you pre-ordered Relatability, wait no more. These generous blurbs (or blurps, as O'Hara called them) just posted and I am seriously verklempt. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Paying my respects to David Berman (and Jasper Johns) at the Whitney Museum

It's neat to see Sianne Ngai chooses the speaker of Frank O'Hara's "Lunch Poems" as one of "Three Pivotal Characters from American Literature" in this piece in the New York Times (alongside Pynchon's Oedipa Mass and Morrison's Sula). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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beautiful piece by my friend Hugh Foley on Ashbery and grief: Very little has changed in my conception of what the ideal life might look like. You sing a song and this provides for you to sit with your friends a little while. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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On reading grief through John Ashbery, or the other way round

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"the curators should have looked elsewhere for a way to understand the role of Surrealism in the American art of the 1960s.John Ashbery...wrote some suggestive words on Surrealism that have been too little noticed"- Barry Schwabsky on Surrealism @ Whitney www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Did We Get the History of Modern American Art Wrong?

The standard story of 1960s arts is one of Abstract Expressionism leading into Pop Art and minimalism. A Whitney show proposes an altogether different one centered on surrealism.

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"New Year is nearly here and who, knowing himself, would endanger his desires resolving them in a formula?" -- James Schuyler, "Empathy and New Year" newyorkschoolpoets.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/j...

James Schuyler’s “Empathy and New Year”

Around New Year’s Eve, I often think of James Schuyler’s great and moving poem about the turning of the year, “Empathy and New Year” (which first appeared as the opening poe…

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Madelyn Dawson writes about Joe Brainard and "The Complete C Comics" for the Brooklyn Rail -- brooklynrail.org/2025/12/art_...

Joe Brainard’s The Complete C Comics | The Brooklyn Rail

This collection makes clear how much pleasure Brainard took not only in the form of the comic but in the form of a magazine of comics: the collaborative methodology of passing work between friends, th...

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PEOPLE OF THE WORLD: RELAX! “People of the World: Relax!” is excerpted (at LARB) from “The Complete C Comics,” a collection of Joe Brainard’s innovative work: lareviewofbooks.org/article/peop...

Lucy Sante on Joe Brainard and the Complete C Comics

‘A Cartoon Revival’ | Lucy Sante

The illustrated poems, satirical ads, and talking shoes that filled the pages of C Comics.

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My daughter Casey wrote this review of the new Mountain Goats album! @caseyepsteingross.bsky.social

the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10mo ago

this review of the album we have coming out tomorrow is critical in the very best way -- the author asks good & fair questions about how my lyrics work differently within the more-details environment of a stage-musical conceit, and, v. importantly for me, 1/2 www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-mo...

One of the best Louvre heist stories -- the time Apollinaire and Picasso were wrongly accused of stealing the Mona Lisa (but were definitely neck-deep in a case of statues being stolen from the museum) www.thecollector.com/did-guillaum...

Did Guillaume Apollinaire Steal the Mona Lisa? | TheCollector

The great 20th century writer Guillaume Apollinaire was once embroiled in an art heist. But did he really steal the Mona Lisa?

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On 'Neon Grey Midnight Green,' Neko Case insists that grief sharpens rather than clouds reality, and that connection—human and animal alike—is the antidote to dread.

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