Jennifer Kabat

I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me.

Daniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social

🙏🙏🙏 @tissetakagi.bsky.social from the side of the mountain I live on!

Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers

electricliterature.com/jennifer-kab... #BookSky 💙📚 @electricliterature.com @jenkabat.bsky.social

To which I add one of the rabbits rabbiting about today in the heatwave in our shit-show world. (Also rank Mamdani No. 1 and please don't rank Cuomo)...

Jennifer Kabat Discovered Kurt Vonnegut’s Brother Caused Her Town’s Catastrophic Flood - Electric Literature The author of “Nightshining” on connecting to place, Nabokov's blue butterfly, and America’s mid-century rainmakers

Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat.bsky.social‬) discusses “Nightshining,” the second in her diptych of memoirs, how her idea of community evolved while writing the book, and the relationship between our varied experiences of time and historical progress. (@summerjhart)

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BOMB Magazine | Jennifer Kabat by Laura Marris The essayist examines the roots of American socialism and the environmental history of man-made climate change in rural New York.

"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? "

— @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.

@milkweededitions.bsky.social

(Also in this issue of BOMB: Ocean Vuong interviewed by Bjork, new work by Catherine Lacey and Ed Park-- eg the issue is amazing and I feel lucky to be in its pages.... )

Saturday Shout-Out ~ May 31, 2025 Share your recently published work with the WRJ community

Every other week, we shout out writers & their recent lit mag publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s...

@deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social

"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social

N.Y. Lawmakers Fight Trump With a Proposal Targeting Elon Musk A bill would authorize an audit of a state deal allowing Tesla to lease a factory site near Buffalo for $1 a year, and would create a way for the state to claw back subsidies.

State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman Micah Lasher hope to give Musk a taste of his own medicine, scrutinizing his sweetheart deal in Buffalo: identifying “‘waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.’” And seeing whether Tesla is living up to its commitments.

Clint Smith watches the destruction of the Black Lives Mural near the White House. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

‘This Land Is Yours’ | Nell Irvin Painter Two recent books recover the missing Black history of upstate New York, challenging the delusion of New York as a land of freedom far removed from the American original sin of slavery.

“Only in 1799, more than a century and a half after the first enslaved person arrived in New York, did the state pass an act ‘for the gradual abolition of slavery,’ meaning it remained a slave state well into the nineteenth century.” —Nell Irvin Painter

Small reminder: North America's largest rodents are waving the red flag. My epistolary response and support for my beaver-fever heroes🦫🦫✊: Beavers Are Socialist | New York Review of Architecture nyra.nyc/articles/bea...

BREAKING: DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say Agents told him his student visa was revoked. But he had a green card. Agents then said that was revoked too.

Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

A few reported salaries:
- Kyle Schutt: $195,200
- Jeremy Lewin: $167,000

We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee.

Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.

The prehistory of AIDS: “Like a number of his Black LGBTQ peers, Hemphill began publishing & performing his work as more spaces…opened up & welcomed these artists’ visions & voices. For a moment, a flowering of Black LGBTQ literary & artistic production was visible to anyone paying attention.”

Just found the telegram my parents sent the White House and Justice Dept after this: “ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO PROTECT THESE PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO ASK ONLY WHAT MOST OF US TAKE FOR GRANTED.”

"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.