Gab Cody

Wait. Wut.

Veryman, man of steel.

Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera, with the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction sticker on the cover

Vajra Chandrasekera, photo by Sanjeewa Weerasinghe. The author sits at a white table, arms resting in front of him, wearing a tan jacket and a white shirt.

Congratulations to Vajra Chandrasekera (@vajra.me), recipient of the 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Rakesfall!

Chandrasekera's book was chosen by authors Matt Bell, Indra Das, Kelly Link, Sequoia Nagamatsu, and Rebecca Roanhorse.

Rebecca Campbell won the 2023 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for Arboreality; her followup, The Other Shore, is out today from the good folks at Stelliform Press!

Coming soon to Crash Course Native American History: Lily Gladstone! Before she was an Oscar nominee for her role in Killers of the Flower Moon, Lily hosted Crash Course Film Production. We asked Lily to come back and guest host our episode about Native women, which comes out tomorrow!

I would be there… but I’m not in town until the next week.

A period poster (1950s) for Born Yesterday. Starring Judy Holliday and William Holden.

“The whole history of the world is the story of the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish. All that’s bad around us is bred by selfishness. Sometimes selfishness can even get to be a cause, an organized force, even a government. And then it’s called fascism.”

Like, really.

I saw this in a Karen Finley show at P.S. 122.

Fibre!

English: a language where being up for something means you’re down for it.

A young woman dressed in red pants and a pink top stands on the sidewalk in front of large words on a window « Being Hyper Human. » just behind her a poster shows another woman, eerily similar though not the same as the woman on the sidewalk.

Perhaps the best photograph I’ve ever taken.

The Adventures of Pussy Jones — Theatre Beyond Broadway Directed and Written by Gab Cody A.R.T./New York Theatres | 502 W 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019 June 17th - June 18th

Our workshop got a review…

www.theatrebeyondbroadway.com/reviews/the-...

Finally, some good news.

Poster of a cheetah in a 19th century dress drinking tea. The poster reads “The Adventures of Pussy Jones.” Women in Theatre Festival” June 17 and 18 at 7pm.

Hey, NYC: Come see a workshop presentation of a new physical comedy devised with an ensemble:
#theatre #theater #NYCtheater #NYCtheatre
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They could even put it on a track and just have one person “conducting” it from the front.

You know that feeling when you’ve written so many plays that have been performed and you’re writing a new one and at some point you wonder to yourself, “Have I ever written a play before?” 💙📚

It’s like thinking a haircut will change your personality.

A play, a novel, and another novel. I have a writing problem. Organize an intervention.

A poster for the mystery The Residence featuring actor Uzo Aduba dressed in tweed holding a pair of binoculars. The White House is visible in the lenses.

I recommend THE RESIDENCE. Great performances. Upstairs/Downstairs. Mystery.

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

"People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours."

George Eliot, Middlemarch

Environmentalists: Second attempt at wetlands bill would leave 80% vulnerable to development • Tennessee Lookout A bill to strip protections from Tennessee’s wetlands moved through a Senate committee over the objection of scientists.

Environmentalists: Second attempt at wetlands bill would leave 80% vulnerable to development tennesseelookout.com/2025/03/20/e...

Bear pig

To everyone’s surprise, I was there at 5. Monday deadline!

New Orleans jazz band THE NEW ORLEANS RUG CUTTERS (they were INCREDIBLE). Lit by the afternoon sun: guitar, trumpet, sax, upright bass, and drums.

Band like a painting.

I want to take this class.

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I am enjoying this read.