@boa-editions.bsky.social has a shiny new website, which means there's a new link to order This Elegance that I'll share below ✨ boaeditions.org/book/this-el...
Derrick Austin
@paradiselaust.bsky.social
Author: THIS ELEGANCE, TENDERNESS, and TROUBLE THE WATER (BOA Editions) | Art Writer | He/Him 📍Chicago https://linktr.ee/DerrickAustin
The beauty of the world, Simone Weil wrote, is the mouth of a labyrinth. Find me there. —Derrick Austin, from "Self-Portraits"
The Gleaners and I Macho Dancer Some Like It Hot The Young Girls of Rochefort
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 5d agoPost your favorite first-watches of July 🍿
“Nights sweating through business casual in a goth club / helped liberate me from shame. Who cared / about a college seminar on spiritual autobiography? / Whether or not my parents believe in God, I was born.” —Derrick Austin ( @paradiselaust.bsky.social), “Self Portraits” @boa-editions.bsky.social
Pioneering L.A. assemblage artist Betye Saar, who ‘liberated’ Aunt Jemima, dies days before her 100th birthday https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-07-27/betye-saar-dead-artist-assemblage-aunt-jemima-99?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky_
thirtycabins.substack.com/p/for-bathin... Today, the Thirty Cabins project folks are sharing my story from the book, as well as a brief interview with me. The beautiful book is a limited run and available to preorder at Thirtycabins.com. 👴🧓
for BATHING and BASKING
A story by Richard Mirabella, plus an author interview
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For the first time in my writing life, I have the problem of having written things that are too long to send out 🤣
So...where IS the Isabelle Huppert as Elizabeth Bathory movie?
On her feast day, my Mary Magdalene poem from Tenderness
I moved to Chicago a year ago. Upheaval and isolation have defined my 30s, and I realized this city has been the first place in a long time I’ve felt even a little settled. Who knows if the winds will send me elsewhere; in the meantime, I like it here.
Preview of our #XMen97 discussion of S2 EP 1/2/3 with @ashandpod.bsky.social & @jacksonlanzing.bsky.social up now everywhere you get your pods! (Full ep with you imminently 👀 !) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/r...
(PREVIEW) X-Men '97 S2 EP1/2/3 (With NYX & KANG writer Jackson Lanzing and Ash Alleyne!)
Podcast Episode · Referential · 21 July · Bonus · 15min
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Poetry News → rafu.com/2026/07/reci... #PoetryNews #PoetrySky
Recipients of Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship Named - Rafu Shimpo
The Daniel K. Inouye National Center for the Preservation of Democracy (Democracy Center) has awarded the fourth annual Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship to Derrick Austin and Mari Carmen Barrios...
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"Today's poem speaks to the way we show up for our friends ... and the ways we can be saved by our friendships, even long-distance ones," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1562. Read “Listening to Vespertine for Twenty Hours Straight" by @paradiselaust.bsky.social: bit.ly/4fr1UWk
got this classic playing in the background while I work on an application
jourdain searles@judysquirrels.bsky.social · 2y agosuddenly, last summer | dir. joseph l. mankiewicz
A poem from This Elegance about depression and my favorite Björk album up at The Slowdown!
The Slowdown@slowdownshow.org · 2w ago"Today's poem speaks to the way we show up for our friends ... and the ways we can be saved by our friendships, even long-distance ones," @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social shares in episode 1562. Read “Listening to Vespertine for Twenty Hours Straight" by @paradiselaust.bsky.social: bit.ly/4fr1UWk
Watching The Young Girls of Rochefort for the first time on the big screen >>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · 4w agoHappy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🦸
This promotional PSYCHO pre-release marketing photo (designed to satisfy demand and mislead from the film’s actual plot) always makes me smile.
Pleased to share some good news: I'm one of the recipients of the Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship. I'm grateful to @democracyjanm.bsky.social @jamuseum.bsky.social for the support that will help me continue working on an essay collection about visual art. www.janm.org/democracy/ar...
Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship—Fellows | Japanese American National Museum
The Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship encourages arts writers of color to write about art from their own cultural and political perspectives to enrich and broaden arts writing as a practice and p...
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"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"
Time Regained The Manchurian Candidate The Rose King I Love Boosters
Letterboxd@letterboxd.social · last mo.Post your favorite first-watches of June 🍿
If I’m not in a museum, chances are I’m in a movie theater 🍿
Bright Wall/Dark Room@brightwalldarkroom.com · last mo.Movies!