E.B. Schnepp

me as a kid: wow I can't wait until we have robots and computers for everything

me now: if this toaster makes me download an app I am slipping out into the night to start a new life as a mysterious figure occasionally glimpsed in the fog

The cover of Foreign Bodies by Kimiko Hahn. Behind the white title text is a close up on a display like a museum one with small items in little squares. In the center is a tiny blue horse figurine, below it is a slightly rusty jack, to the left of the horse is another jack, to the top is what might be a very rusty part of a hinge, to the right is a circular silver object that might be a plate from a doll's dinner set, above the "plate" is tiny doll binoculars, below the plate is a bronze-ish circular object with a hole in the center that might be a washer of some type, top left is what looks like a small dog or cat that has moved out of place and is partially cut off, bottom left is what might be another jack.

Day 8! Yesterday's book was Foreign Bodies by Kimiko Hahn

This is so good! I it's so hard to even pick a couple lines to highlight (the entire end is just so stunning)

[...] but details
can always be changed to tell
the story you want to tell.
Like when I say what my son’s
first football game was,
I don’t have to mention
that he never looked at the screen

The cover of I Feel Fine by Olivia Muenz. A dark blue background with a series of gold semi circles/arches in the top left and bottom right corners and a solid but marbled gold circle in the middle that kind of resembles the moon.

Day 7! Yesterday's book was I Feel Fine by Olivia Muenz

The vibes are literary decay. The audience is you at 3 a.m., rereading a sentence like it wronged you.

living—despite living—against

Zbigniew Herbert, trs. the Carpenters

The cover of The Essential June Jordan. The cover is primarily made up of a black and white photo of June Jordan, with the title running sideways along a thin margin on the right side.

Day 6! Yesterday's book was The Essential June Jordan

The cover of Oculus by Sally Wen Mao. It has a photo style cover of a woman taking a photo either of herself in a mirror or of the viewer, with the camera covering the majority of her face and a vase of white lilies in front of her.

Day 5! Yesterday's book was Oculus by Sally Wen Mao

The cover of If Men, Then by Eliza Griswold. A pink cover with red text and slightly top of center a torn photograph of a woman in black and white with a fragment of another photo of a different woman layered over top of it, so it almost but not quite appears that the woman's face from below has her face finished by the one above. A collaged image.

Day 4! Yesterday's book was was If Men, Then by Eliza Griswold

How to Write a Novel

The cover of Feeding the Ghosts by Rahul Mehta. It has a white background with different colored doodle-y squiggles and lines in different colors across it that texturally look like crayon or colored pencil.

Day 3! Yesterday's book was Feeding the Ghosts by Rahul Mehta

Time to pull out the olden days interior-of-a-Taco-Bell pics and be like… idk what to tell you buddy, but actually we had MORE colors back then.

The cover of Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson. A warm black background with the ceramic figurine of two children in the foreground, one riding the other like a pony.

Day 2! Yesterday’s book was Anne Carson’s Men in the Off Hours!

Thank you so much!!

The cover of Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hysoon, translated by Don Mee Choi. The cover is abstract, with a hot pink background with the impression of a bird in cream.

Yesterday was day 1 of the Sealey Challenge and I read a wonderful book that’s been sitting on my tbr pile for far too long, Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi.

Brazos Brazos, by Justin Carter Publication Date: August 6, 2024 A stark and lonely voice rings clear in Justin Carter's debut collection. Brazos teems with ghosts, bloodlines, and gas flares, tracing a "riv...

Looking for a #SealeyChallenge book to read? How about this one. It’s pretty good according to me, the person who wrote it, but also most people on Goodreads gave it a five, so it’s good according to them too.

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Petition to always have AWP in Chicago.

That was an immediate moment of divine judgement or karma or something.

no i am not “lost” i am consciously uncoupling from space and time

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

I don’t know what I’m doing, but I’m pretty sure I’m doing it wrong.

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We should have listened when the modems screamed at us.

ok, also looking at the og post, how is desecrated being defined? desolate? salted earth? Desecrated for or to whom? This is so fascinating when in context of perspective too, like what if there's like a real happy cockroach or something that can/does still live there? Is it still desecrated?

a scene from the Ghibli movie "nausicaä of the valley of the wind." a character is sitting at a desk with her head down, in a room filled with various colourful flora all lit up and giving off a calming glowing effect in a moment of solitude.

Good morning✌️🍀

I remember you talking about this ages ago and still haven't recovered from the fragment/premise alone. I'm so glad this is in the world (and will always mourn that missing work).

… new river river merch?

touched too much grass

all itchy

once again—and I cannot say this enough—I love my fucking em dashes and will not stop using them

I also like grouping things in threes. It’s a fairy tale thing

FURTHERMORE, the keyboard shortcut for an em dash is super fucking easy

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