Sometimes I save a book I'm dying to read for when I think I'll need it. Yes, one can always re-read, but it's just not the same. I've almost read CREATION LAKE about 8 times, but I finally read it, and I'm so glad to have read it this week. If you've also been saving it, I hope your time comes soon
Clinging tightly to the miraculous 250sq ft of “yard” included w my apartment! You can have a corner or come over for tomatoes ha
and also what on earth would they be eating? can’t imagine anything appetizing
I think we will fight and starve but I like this vision much better! I’m OK at gardening and catching fish, very happy to teach neighbors when such skills become more necessary!
Oh man, this one is almost *too* exactly what I was looking for! Thank you so much.
oh, this is perfect, thank you! I'm having strange deja vu looking at it, like, did I read this? in the days before i didn't leave my house for months? no way to know anymore, but i'm glad to read it now!
Can anyone recommend me a profile piece about... anyone, a musician, a politician, an athlete, a friend of someone famous that you read recently and liked? I'm racking my brains and mostly only remembering the ones we've rage-read for The Discourse
no, it's closed?! if I remember one thing from that book, it's that that place was an institution back before craft beer was ~a thing~. at least Taos Mesa persists! hope it's delish.
I have always wanted to go have a drink at Taos Mesa and also Eske’s since I proofread this book a decade or so ago, haha. Never been to Taos but I do have a cool glass necklace my dad bought me off a waitress’s neck? (Grateful for her willingness to hand it over on the spot!)
this is so kind, thank you! I've been heads-down in a novel lately, but maybe someday again I can share links to more/other work!
Yes! It’s just such an elegant gear shift for how the essay rises/arises out of that moment and out of the sadness and becomes something else also there at the end
I loved this essay! I've been thinking/writing a lot about homecoming, what home is, what we owe it, what it owes us, etc etc, and I'm a huge Wilco fan and really appreciated you weaving my obsessions together. Lovely piece of work, truly (and beautiful remembrance of your mother, too)
I found that turn so moving! It really caught me off guard, in a good way
For me, it's still "Via Chicago," not least of all because of Keller's line: "The song isn’t so much about arrival as it is about metamorphosis and what happens when someone passes through different places, among different people, long enough to be changed."
I'm a Wilco fan and knew whoever wrote about "Via Chicago" would do it proud, but Christopher Keller really delivered. I somehow missed the Tori Amos bus back in middle school, but Nanette Donohoe's take on "Winter" made this the best listen I've ever had to one of Amos's songs. Both worth the read!
He writes you books! Incredible
Time is a flat circle, and so is my cat
I tell myself it’s testament to my own personal growth lol
Hi Justin!! Long time no see
one of the best signs I've ever beheld with my own eyes
I’m writing a sapphic air hockey romance
shld be illegal to schedule the conference on spring forward weekend imho
I like this perspective! I think a lot about the distinction between growth and change, bc as a reader I don’t typically like when every character is static and no one has to grapple with or learn/unlearn things… but I do think “personal growth arc” can be really limiting to story so appreciate this
A most infuriating modern necessity: ruthlessly side-eyeing every single em dash in a manuscript in a paranoid attempt to make sure the voice isn't coming off like *that* voice.
This reminds me of something Toni Morrison wrote.
working on a genre of book that I call Y'allternative
It’s iconic, she’s iconic, but what did it all mean?
I wrote about Lisa Loeb and Stay (I Missed You) for @marchxness.bsky.social. We’re up against Lee Ann Womack and a worryingly good essay from @amygcb.bsky.social
Come and vote and feel your feelings!
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In some ways I wish I was at AWP but mainly I think it’s nostalgia for who I used to be
People now think they’re doing 90s fashion but they’re actually just emulating boring rich people from the 90s. They’re not capturing anything that was fun or interesting about the era, not the punk or grunge influences, not the heavy 70s and 30s call backs. Just boring rich people
Jenny, I love this. Am especially obsessed with the Bill Pullman detail? And also the ending.
