Jay Moné

I'm starting a new writing project, and I'm vlogging the journey! Check out my new YouTube video!
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Haymarket and the University Press of Mississippi have a 50% off sale, and the NYU Press has a 60% off sale!

House of Mirrors: Preview Chapter Here’s a preview of my Gothic horror novel, House of Mirrors.

I heard some of yall wanted a sneak preview of my novel, House of Mirrors:
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Cover for In the Elements by Jay Moné. Tinted image of a sky with the sun and a bare tree.

My poetry chapbook, In the Elements, is now available for purchase:
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Erasure: A Confused Novel A literary masterpiece, or a book that forgot what it was doing? Have you read a novel praised for its flair and commentary? Did you ask yourself, “What’s so special about this book?” as you read i…

I wrote about Erasure by Percival Everett
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YouTube video by Jay Moné Writing Vlog: Revise With Me

New YouTube video!
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YouTube video by Jay Moné Writing Vlog: Revise With Me

New YouTube video!
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House of Mirrors: Preview Chapter Here’s a preview of my Gothic horror novel, House of Mirrors.

I heard some of yall wanted a sneak preview of my novel, House of Mirrors:
playing-in-the-dark.com/2025/07/05/h...

Former Librarian of Congress, fired by Trump, vows to improve public information in new Mellon role Carla Hayden, the former Librarian of Congress fired by President Donald Trump, has joined the the country's foremost philanthropic supporter of the arts.

Carla Hayden, the ex-Librarian of Congress who was fired by Trump, has a new role as senior fellow with the Mellon Foundation

I know it's very tempting to think that the liberals celebrating the deaths of children in Texas are astroturfed bots, but consider:

Stephen King was hooting and hollering on Twitter about the 2021 blizzard, which killed hundreds of people across Texas and surrounding states

This *is* the rot

The replacement of everything with generative AI is NOT inevitable, but it sure is if you all shrug and say "Well, it's inevitable" like your brain was washed in bad predictive SF for decades.

Cover of The Reformatory by Tanarive Due on top of an oversized bright orange gerber daisy on a white background.

Finished The Reformatory by @tananarivedue.bsky.social
a day or so ago. It’s brilliant but you all know that. Still. Going to attempt something more thoughtful at some point but for now, brilliant will have to do.

Not only that but also prioritized their feelings and well-being during Reconstruction.

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That's extra labor for me. Absolutely not!

If I published a chapter House of Mirrors on my website and charged $1 or 2 to read it, whether it be the first or a random chapter, would yall actually read it?

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Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

#BlackSky if you want to locate some of your ancestors who survived the slave trade, there is a site where you can look up your ancestors. Go to enslaved.org and type in your ancestors names from the 1800's and 1900's. I already found two of my family members and who trafficked them as well.

Finally

I've said a lot of these things before. There's more stuff I haven't covered in this thread:

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran says it launched attack on US forces at Qatar's Al Udeid Air Base.

It's so hard out here for us😭

The idea that any idea, no matter how factually incorrect, is appropriate to make if it's well-argued may be the very center of legal education's responsibility for what is happening now to the rule of law.

this is an extremely important point. “everything is up for debate” is moral rot. I am emphatic about telling my students that there are not always two defensible sides to an issue. sometimes there are! but sometimes there are more than two. and sometimes there’s just one.

JENA, La. (AP) — Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil has been released from an immigration jail after 104 days in custody.

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