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Prose for the prose god!

submitted 83 days ago • 3 comments

I am so excited for this! My first pro pub in years & years, with a little story I'm v proud of in the hands of a fantastic editor 🧡

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Here is the amazing cover for Lawless, which arrives Wednesday for Hexagon’s Drone Bee subscribers and up! 🗡️🗡️ Featuring work from @srich-writer.bsky.social @antoinettev.bsky.social @criverawrites.bsky.social @tfg.bsky.social and M. Halstead Cover art from and edited by @rhinobeetl.bsky.social

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

“A political art, let it be / tenderness,” - Amiri Baraka, Short Speech to My Friends

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If you want to understand what happened at the New York Times this story of mine from last month broke some news and also includes an overview of where we are and how we got here, linking others' good work.

submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

The Locked Tomb series, Muir The Buddha of Suburbia, Kureishi On Beauty, Smith The Virgin in the Garden & Still Life, Byatt Pnin, Nabokov The Secret History, Tartt

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Logging onto bluesky

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

LAWLESS is finally coming this Wednesday, and I'm extremely excited to bring you this little collection of stories about extraordinary outlaws 💖🗡️ Check out our beloved contributors: @antoinettev.bsky.social @criverawrites.bsky.social mhalstead.com @srich-writer.bsky.social @tfg.bsky.social

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

this shit is more ironic the more I think about it. Capitalism rots the brain.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

it is hard to predict in advance how much damage will be inflicted, but some of our energy needs to be devoted to thinking about the job of rebuilding

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

everything I knitted in January (instead of posting)

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment

If you haven't yet read this flash about a sad mammoth who manages a human mortuary, then you really should:

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

CBC Arts inaugurates a new column for "Emerging Queer Voices" with a paean to, of all goddamn things, Harry Potter. www.cbc.ca/arts/emergin...

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

from the depths of the past, Buddycat wishes you a very weird week

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment

This Toronto yarn shop's making a big deal of pivoting to only "sustainable" yarn in the new year. But it's still pushing a South American tourist retreat & appearances in NYC. Unnecessary jet travel, v sustainable & ethical.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

Say good-bye (and good riddance) to 2024 in the best way possible -- with tons of free queer smutty romance! Come join us for our year-ending theme-free big bang at www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/front...

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Nikki Giovanni (from "Walking Down Park")

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

To try, in some way, to break into my own writing style and damage it.

submitted 157 days ago • 2 comments

‘In our discrimination study, participants use variations of the phrase “doesn’t make sense”2 for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI-generated poems when explaining their discrimination responses (144 explanations vs. 29 explanations). (1/2)

submitted 161 days ago • 2 comments

for the most part, I am enjoying Gold's _Dangerous Fictions_, but the tendency to toss off unrelated snide little asides is getting to me. It's extremely Online in the bad way. (When it's snippy but on-topic, it's often p funny, however.) what's the use of this parenthetical?

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment

This morning, Facebook reminded me that today is Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s 43rd birthday—13 of those years spent in prison, with only a few fleeting months of freedom. His mother has been on hunger strike for over a month now. Freedom for Alaa Abd El-Fattah. #freealaa

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

The European Court of Human Rights is looking into a complaint against France by two NGOs over Operation Sirli, which saw Egyptian-French military involvement in extrajudicial killings along the Egyptian western border under the guise of fighting terrorism.

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

Five writers of whom I’ve read 5+ books: Iris Murdoch Sarah Schulman Colson Whitehead Michael Chabon Emile Zola

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

This is so dark. Ads generated via image-matching AI without any consideration of context. Shop the Molasses Flood and syphilitic tumours! www.404media.co/email/c1b02e...

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments

No storebought despair, we have despair at home

submitted 169 days ago • 0 comments

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

submitted 171 days ago • 20 comments

idk maybe the future of everything is going to be zines. it seems like all art and writing are completely moneyless if you don't go in with money. maybe i'm wrong!

Prose for the prose god!

I am so excited for this! My first pro pub in years & years, with a little story I'm v proud of in the hands of a fantastic editor 🧡

“A political art, let it be / tenderness,” - Amiri Baraka, Short Speech to My Friends

If you want to understand what happened at the New York Times this story of mine from last month broke some news and also includes an overview of where we are and how we got here, linking others' good work.

The Locked Tomb series, Muir The Buddha of Suburbia, Kureishi On Beauty, Smith The Virgin in the Garden & Still Life, Byatt Pnin, Nabokov The Secret History, Tartt

Logging onto bluesky

LAWLESS is finally coming this Wednesday, and I'm extremely excited to bring you this little collection of stories about extraordinary outlaws 💖🗡️ Check out our beloved contributors: @antoinettev.bsky.social @criverawrites.bsky.social mhalstead.com @srich-writer.bsky.social @tfg.bsky.social

this shit is more ironic the more I think about it. Capitalism rots the brain.

it is hard to predict in advance how much damage will be inflicted, but some of our energy needs to be devoted to thinking about the job of rebuilding

everything I knitted in January (instead of posting)

If you haven't yet read this flash about a sad mammoth who manages a human mortuary, then you really should:

CBC Arts inaugurates a new column for "Emerging Queer Voices" with a paean to, of all goddamn things, Harry Potter. www.cbc.ca/arts/emergin...

from the depths of the past, Buddycat wishes you a very weird week

This Toronto yarn shop's making a big deal of pivoting to only "sustainable" yarn in the new year. But it's still pushing a South American tourist retreat & appearances in NYC. Unnecessary jet travel, v sustainable & ethical.

Say good-bye (and good riddance) to 2024 in the best way possible -- with tons of free queer smutty romance! Come join us for our year-ending theme-free big bang at www.shousetsubangbang.com/mirror/front...

RIP Nikki Giovanni (from "Walking Down Park")

To try, in some way, to break into my own writing style and damage it.

‘In our discrimination study, participants use variations of the phrase “doesn’t make sense”2 for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI-generated poems when explaining their discrimination responses (144 explanations vs. 29 explanations). (1/2)

for the most part, I am enjoying Gold's _Dangerous Fictions_, but the tendency to toss off unrelated snide little asides is getting to me. It's extremely Online in the bad way. (When it's snippy but on-topic, it's often p funny, however.) what's the use of this parenthetical?

This morning, Facebook reminded me that today is Alaa Abd El-Fattah’s 43rd birthday—13 of those years spent in prison, with only a few fleeting months of freedom. His mother has been on hunger strike for over a month now. Freedom for Alaa Abd El-Fattah. #freealaa

The European Court of Human Rights is looking into a complaint against France by two NGOs over Operation Sirli, which saw Egyptian-French military involvement in extrajudicial killings along the Egyptian western border under the guise of fighting terrorism.

Five writers of whom I’ve read 5+ books: Iris Murdoch Sarah Schulman Colson Whitehead Michael Chabon Emile Zola

This is so dark. Ads generated via image-matching AI without any consideration of context. Shop the Molasses Flood and syphilitic tumours! www.404media.co/email/c1b02e...

No storebought despair, we have despair at home

Download your free copy of the anthology "Light in Gaza: Writings Born of Fire," which I had the honor of co-editing in 2022. Light in Gaza explores the critical role of Gaza in Palestinian identity, history, and the struggle for liberation. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1861-l...

idk maybe the future of everything is going to be zines. it seems like all art and writing are completely moneyless if you don't go in with money. maybe i'm wrong!

Peru fabric panel by Howard Smith for House Vallila, Finland (1977)

God I love Siri Hustvedt.