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Friends! Since I'm teaching a ULYSSES course this fall, I'm creating a summer reading group for people who've always wanted to take on the Big Blue Book of Eccles but didn't want to go it alone. We'll read an episode a week and meet over zoom at 9pm Mondays. Sign up here! forms.gle/FS2duobtanVS...

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lord forgive me but it’s time to go back to the old me (gonna read Ulysses along w my brilliant pal @samuelashworth.bsky.social this summer, and you should too, whether you’re like me and have a 20yr toxic relationship w it, or have never read it but have always been curious, or anything in between)

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“Introibo ad altare Dei.” Speaking of Summer Reads, why not come along and get your ULYSSES on?

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Ulysses gets dismissed as impenetrable or intimidating. In reality it’s pure comedy, start to finish, punctuated by profound tenderness and breathtaking filth. It’s fun as hell.

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Friends! Since I'm teaching a ULYSSES course this fall, I'm creating a summer reading group for people who've always wanted to take on the Big Blue Book of Eccles but didn't want to go it alone. We'll read an episode a week and meet over zoom at 9pm Mondays. Sign up here! forms.gle/FS2duobtanVS...

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I cannot overstate, as a kid who grew up in New York in the 90s, how important it is to me emotionally that the Knicks beat the living shit out of the Indiana pacers

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the amazing intern for @sfwp.bsky.social made this book trailer for THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY and uh it's perfect?

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Thrilled to have a piece in the new Barrelhouse special issue that includes the phrase "Mephistopheles of Boners"

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We have a new online issue up today! Inspired by Supreme Court Justice Alito's question about whether Pornhub includes highbrow literary content, like Gore Vidal, we felt it our duty to fill that void. Lots of great, surprising, weird work in here www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...

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A lot of people are misreading this as "Vox is paying them $70 million" which is...not what is happening. Bluesky needs to have a banner at the top that says "Hey maybe read the article first?" (Vox management can still get wrecked, though)

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Sorry, I don't want to make a habit of doing Media Business Knower posts (or doing any posts at all, really), but maybe I can help lower some people's blood pressure: This contract is a total nothingburger, that doesn't foretell/confirm anything, and is not worth getting worked up over [thread]

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The New Yorker just gave a full-throated RAVE to Heartbeat Opera's landmark production of Salome. Is Alex Ross saying my brother is a better conductor than Yannick Nezet-Seguin? Yes. GO SEE THEIR FAUST (which I did the translation for and is running in NYC right now) www.heartbeatopera.org/faust

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The cement king of Sioux City who drives a brand new F-350 and has two vacation houses in Florida isn't an elite but a grad student with $200,000 in debt and a nose ring is, that's how this works.

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It was my immense pleasure to talk with @zachpowers.bsky.social at the Writer's Center about writing, dead bodies, and why "what's your process?" is the most futile question in the world!

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A fine thing to do of a Sunday afternoon in May!

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watching the knicks humiliate boston

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Two nights ago I was hungry and jittery and couldn't sleep so at like 1am I got up to get a banana and I sat down and ate the banana and read the first two essays in this and then I slept like a baby

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Currently reading "The Death and Life of August Sweeney" by @samuelashworth.bsky.social and thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow, despite the description of an autopsy, it makes me hungry for fine food and wine!

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I think everyone in New York knows Andy Cuomo is a piece of shit. The problem is they think he's THEIR piece of shit. ANDY CUOMO IS NOT YOUR PIECE OF SHIT

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Just sent AWP panel proposals and I have room for at least one more. If you're putting one together--especially if it's about professional matters, the post-publication year, or wild-ass research--reach out, I give very good panel

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Come dig lit this Sunday at The Cordell in Bathesda. Some incredible @sfwp.bsky.social authors will be reading! The Obnoxiously Pleasant podcast will be hanging! @monicalewinsky.bsky.social and I will be doing weird poem shit! @whiskeytit.com will be in the house! There will be books!

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TONIGHT at 6:30pm EDT, @samuelashworth.bsky.social, Carol Mitchell, & Liesel Hamilton will be at The Arts Club for The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center's Book Launch & Showcase, hosted by Leeya Mehta! buff.ly/gpyBYco Can't make it? Get THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY: buff.ly/K160gMH

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I got my copy today and you should get yours. It will scratch your itch for great writing in the space of a few pages, and it’ll do it over and over.

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I really liked this book. I read it in a few days and have thought about it a lot since.

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Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

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You guys wanna see a dead body

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It actually means a lot to have AUGUST SWEENEY recognized as a Jewish book, because it is. Every page of it. (Though NGL I was unaware it was Jewish American Heritage Month, mazel tov to us, I guess)

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L'chaim!

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The show ETOILES is amazing. They gave the Sherman-Palladinos infinity dollars and half the professional dancers in America to make a bilingual show where Charlotte Gainsbourg is basically if Rory Gilmore grew up to run the Ballet National de Paris

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Kudos to rfk jr for exposing the government’s lies. If ducks can swim in rock creek so can u. U can even drink it, it’s like nature’s raw milk. The deep state doesn’t want u to know the truth. Drinking good bacteria is the best way to kill bad bacteria, that’s science. drink rock creek water.

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“Be a human being!” should flash onscreen every time any of us accesses a social media platform

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I can’t believe people still have to say this but: when you see a headline and dek (the little summary under the headline) that makes you angry, read the piece before you post about it. If the headline, which 99% of the time the author did not write, isn’t an accurate representation of the piece…

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Please read Steph's very short thread. (It's me. I'm the writer.) This is the first time in my career that I've had to delete a link to a story I wrote (I didn't write the headline or subhead) because of calls for my death. It's been an odd Monday.

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This week, for bonkers reasons, my wife is being attacked by far-right Indians on X as a deep-state supporter of Pakistani "terrorism." They saw a few isolated facts online and spun them into a delusional narrative that fits their worldview. This site's every bit as guilty of that shit as X is.

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ICYMI, @writesloud.bsky.social sat down to talk with @samuelashworth.bsky.social about his debut novel, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY over in the ! buff.ly/qFwFvLM Get THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY right here: amzn.to/4eCaDDH @susanschulman.bsky.social

Friends! Since I'm teaching a ULYSSES course this fall, I'm creating a summer reading group for people who've always wanted to take on the Big Blue Book of Eccles but didn't want to go it alone. We'll read an episode a week and meet over zoom at 9pm Mondays. Sign up here! forms.gle/FS2duobtanVS...

“Introibo ad altare Dei.” Speaking of Summer Reads, why not come along and get your ULYSSES on?

Ulysses gets dismissed as impenetrable or intimidating. In reality it’s pure comedy, start to finish, punctuated by profound tenderness and breathtaking filth. It’s fun as hell.

Friends! Since I'm teaching a ULYSSES course this fall, I'm creating a summer reading group for people who've always wanted to take on the Big Blue Book of Eccles but didn't want to go it alone. We'll read an episode a week and meet over zoom at 9pm Mondays. Sign up here! forms.gle/FS2duobtanVS...

I cannot overstate, as a kid who grew up in New York in the 90s, how important it is to me emotionally that the Knicks beat the living shit out of the Indiana pacers

the amazing intern for @sfwp.bsky.social made this book trailer for THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY and uh it's perfect?

Thrilled to have a piece in the new Barrelhouse special issue that includes the phrase "Mephistopheles of Boners"

We have a new online issue up today! Inspired by Supreme Court Justice Alito's question about whether Pornhub includes highbrow literary content, like Gore Vidal, we felt it our duty to fill that void. Lots of great, surprising, weird work in here www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/new-onl...

A lot of people are misreading this as "Vox is paying them $70 million" which is...not what is happening. Bluesky needs to have a banner at the top that says "Hey maybe read the article first?" (Vox management can still get wrecked, though)

Sorry, I don't want to make a habit of doing Media Business Knower posts (or doing any posts at all, really), but maybe I can help lower some people's blood pressure: This contract is a total nothingburger, that doesn't foretell/confirm anything, and is not worth getting worked up over [thread]

The New Yorker just gave a full-throated RAVE to Heartbeat Opera's landmark production of Salome. Is Alex Ross saying my brother is a better conductor than Yannick Nezet-Seguin? Yes. GO SEE THEIR FAUST (which I did the translation for and is running in NYC right now) www.heartbeatopera.org/faust

The cement king of Sioux City who drives a brand new F-350 and has two vacation houses in Florida isn't an elite but a grad student with $200,000 in debt and a nose ring is, that's how this works.

It was my immense pleasure to talk with @zachpowers.bsky.social at the Writer's Center about writing, dead bodies, and why "what's your process?" is the most futile question in the world!

A fine thing to do of a Sunday afternoon in May!

watching the knicks humiliate boston

Two nights ago I was hungry and jittery and couldn't sleep so at like 1am I got up to get a banana and I sat down and ate the banana and read the first two essays in this and then I slept like a baby

Currently reading "The Death and Life of August Sweeney" by @samuelashworth.bsky.social and thoroughly enjoying it. Somehow, despite the description of an autopsy, it makes me hungry for fine food and wine!

I think everyone in New York knows Andy Cuomo is a piece of shit. The problem is they think he's THEIR piece of shit. ANDY CUOMO IS NOT YOUR PIECE OF SHIT

Just sent AWP panel proposals and I have room for at least one more. If you're putting one together--especially if it's about professional matters, the post-publication year, or wild-ass research--reach out, I give very good panel

Come dig lit this Sunday at The Cordell in Bathesda. Some incredible @sfwp.bsky.social authors will be reading! The Obnoxiously Pleasant podcast will be hanging! @monicalewinsky.bsky.social and I will be doing weird poem shit! @whiskeytit.com will be in the house! There will be books!

TONIGHT at 6:30pm EDT, @samuelashworth.bsky.social, Carol Mitchell, & Liesel Hamilton will be at The Arts Club for The Alan Cheuse International Writers Center's Book Launch & Showcase, hosted by Leeya Mehta! buff.ly/gpyBYco Can't make it? Get THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY: buff.ly/K160gMH

I got my copy today and you should get yours. It will scratch your itch for great writing in the space of a few pages, and it’ll do it over and over.

I really liked this book. I read it in a few days and have thought about it a lot since.

Sure, AI may be an environmental disaster and produce mid outcomes in cases where it doesn't straight up lie, but at least it's extremely unprofitable.

You guys wanna see a dead body

It actually means a lot to have AUGUST SWEENEY recognized as a Jewish book, because it is. Every page of it. (Though NGL I was unaware it was Jewish American Heritage Month, mazel tov to us, I guess)

L'chaim!

The show ETOILES is amazing. They gave the Sherman-Palladinos infinity dollars and half the professional dancers in America to make a bilingual show where Charlotte Gainsbourg is basically if Rory Gilmore grew up to run the Ballet National de Paris

“Be a human being!” should flash onscreen every time any of us accesses a social media platform

Please read Steph's very short thread. (It's me. I'm the writer.) This is the first time in my career that I've had to delete a link to a story I wrote (I didn't write the headline or subhead) because of calls for my death. It's been an odd Monday.

This week, for bonkers reasons, my wife is being attacked by far-right Indians on X as a deep-state supporter of Pakistani "terrorism." They saw a few isolated facts online and spun them into a delusional narrative that fits their worldview. This site's every bit as guilty of that shit as X is.

ICYMI, @writesloud.bsky.social sat down to talk with @samuelashworth.bsky.social about his debut novel, THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY over in the ! buff.ly/qFwFvLM Get THE DEATH AND LIFE OF AUGUST SWEENEY right here: amzn.to/4eCaDDH @susanschulman.bsky.social

Has the entire NEA budget fallen into the Red Sea yet

Chicago Pope's here

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope