My long-in-the-works story about the late artist Loren Rex Cameron is in this new issue of the @thebeliever.net — and I finally got to hold a copy just now, wowowowow!!!
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I wrote about solitary confinement, penal isolators, and "the box."
There is always a box
And authoritarians will put everyone they can inside it.
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‘I told myself / I wouldn’t do this anymore, this writing / about people like they’re things’ Poetry by Maggie Millner. granta.com/first-year-s...
First Year Sober & Sentimentality | Maggie Millner | Granta
‘Imagine ruining your life, / I thought, / the ecstasy of that.’ Two poems by Maggie Millner.
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Swan Huntley’s novels include I Want You More, Getting Clean with Stevie Green, The Goddesses, and We Could Be Beautiful.
Isle McElroy is the author of three novels: The Atmospherians, People Collide, and the forthcoming Satellite. They were a 2025 Shearing Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute and were named a 2026 National Magazine Finalist in criticism.
In response to that putrid Bret Stephens column, brilliant @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social made a whole Google Doc with buy links for all of the @nationalbook.bsky.social Prize nominees. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them
Bret Stephens is mad at these books, you should buy them and read them, not just the SCARY PR COPY that triggered him like a snowflake. No, I won’t link this fuckshit here, because I won’t drive tra...
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Also, again, please consider signing up for my upcoming class for @shipmanagency.bsky.social, for nonfiction writers of all sorts. We’ll demystify pitching … www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Craft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency
2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...
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The NYC I moved to before the rich emptied it of cool people
yours for only $FUCK.99@upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · last wk.keith haring, grace jones, fela kuti, and jean-michel basquiat photographed by andy warhol. at mr. chow, nyc (june 1986)
Explore how your writing can respond to crisis with award-winning poet and essayist Susan Briante. Her most recent collection, 13 Questions for the Next Economy: New and Selected Works, is a finalist for the CLMP’s Firecracker Award in Poetry.
Story Time w Deb Olin Unferth. In this clip, Deb reads from her new novel EARTH 7 (Graywolf Press), a wildly inventive work of eco-fiction about love, survival, technology, and the fate of the planet. You can also hear my full conversation w Deb in EP 1049 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
Great list from @maris.bsky.social! Deligthted to see clients Zaina Arafat and Franny Choi here!
Maris Kreizman@maris.bsky.social · last wk.Its the season of most anticipated lists, and at a time when the publishing industry seems to have lost faith in nonfiction, I wanted to highlight 14 nonfiction titles that I’m really excited to read. lithub.com/is-nonfictio...
I will just add that when I wrote about being Annie Dillard's student, I tried to rescue her class from being lost, as it were. Such as I could. I've taught a lot of what she taught me over the years and most of it has held up.
Alexander Chee@alexanderchee.bsky.social · 2w agoI wrote about being Annie Dillard's student at Wesleyan in the spring of my last year in college for Elizabeth Benedict's Mentors and Monsters anthology, and The Morning News: themorningnews.org/annie-dillar...
Crazy schedule? Little kids at home? You'd love to take a class but your not sure if you'll have the time. Luckily, we record all of our classes! We have classes from Jonathan Escoffery, John Cameron Mitchell, @alexanderchee.bsky.social and more!
It’s Back To School Season. Buy A Class Recording!
Work Room recordings to get you back in the swing of things!
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I became a Scrivener convert after taking Ruth Franklin's excellent seminar (this class looks great too).
The Shipman Agency@shipmanagency.bsky.social · 3w agoRuth Franklin has been writing criticism for The New Yorker, Harper's, The New York Review of Books, and other publications for more than 20 years. Read more about her craft seminar here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Apparently, I said this. lithub.com/rabih-alamed...
Rabih Alameddine on Writing Humor In Times of Tumult and Tragedy
Rabih Alameddine, award-winning author of The Wrong End of the Telescope, celebrated the release of his new novel, The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother) at The Center for Fictio…
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This master class is taught by award winning novelist and editor Michael Zapata, author of The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. He is the recipient of the Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award and the DAG Prize for Literature. Read more and register here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...
Lidia Yuknavitch's most recent book is the memoir Reading the Waves. Her memoir The Chronology of Water has been adapted into a feature film by the actress Kristen Stewart. She is a practicing/publishing writer, a teacher/facilitator, and an arts advocate, who founded Corporeal Writing.
Soundtrack of a misspent youth (nostalgic) RIP Cheetah. Also I miss this version of NYC 💔
Dead Boys - Live At CBGB (1979 Full Concert)
YouTube video by Damaged Goods
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Didn't George Bailey call Mr Potter a "broken old man?" Perfection from Ossoff.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago"Broken old man" is tight.
Reminder into the void here that I'm teaching a two-class seminar on pitching, for @shipmanagency.bsky.social this fall ... www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
Craft Seminar: The Art of the Pitch with Sandy Ernest Allen — The Shipman Agency
2 Sessions: Saturdays, October 3 + 10 1:00-3:00pm ET Sandy Ernest Allen Master the art of pitching with journalist and editor Sandy Ernest Allen. Sandy is a trans and queer freelance journalist, a...
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And another round of congratulations for "Dispatches from the Land of Erasure" author Philip Metres for being named a 2026 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism finalist! Read more about the book here: buff.ly/q4wJXlJ
The Ark of Peace (after Pharoah Sanders), by Philip Metres worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/essay/a...
The Ark of Peace (after Pharoah Sanders), by Philip Metres
Philip Metres reflects on the twenty-fifth anniversary of 9/11, and how the ark-like embrace of Pharoah Sanders’s “Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah-Hum-Allah” provided some sanctuary on a day filled with awful, gu...
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The class will be one part informal pitch workshop and one part peer support group...As a class, we'll review everyone's pitches during our first session together (one pitch per student).
You'll learn how to discern the blueprint underneath the text, and how to adopt its choices for your own sensibility. For this seminar we'll consider stories by Denis Johnson, Miranda July, and Mariana Enriquez, to be distributed beforehand. Register here! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...
