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Maggie Nelson: Compatible Perversities | Broadcast An Argonauts anniversary interview

Maggie Nelson on dreams, anxiety, and the meeting of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift. “To choose that opportunity to denigrate what so many people are into—You want collectivization? Work with it.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

A Very Swamp Dogg Thanksgiving | Broadcast Holiday recipes from a superhero of soul.

Move over, Julia Child. Bring a little soul to your Thanksgiving table with @TheSwampDogg's IF YOU CAN KILL IT I CAN COOK IT, out from Pioneer Works Press. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sw...

“Every age has its search for healers.” Maggie Nelson on shame blankets, compatible perversities, and what heteropessimism misses. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

Maggie Nelson: Compatible Perversities | Broadcast An <i>Argonauts</i> anniversary interview.

“Perversities can be compatible, but then perversities are not static. We all change.” Maggie Nelson talks with Broadcast editor Lucy McKeon about love, sex, care, and The Argonauts, 10 years later. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...

Truth or Dare with Laura Albert | Broadcast The JT LeRoy creator talks to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta about destroying fiction, finding fame, and letting the girls out.

“People assumed I wanted money, fame, to meet Madonna. They could not comprehend a different sense of desire.” Last year, Laura Albert spoke to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club about trauma, truth, and phone sex at Press Play. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...

Secure your spot for Press Play 2025—our weekend-long fair of books, records, art, ephemera, talks, and workshops, returning December 13. pioneerworks.org/programs/pre...

Truth or Dare with Laura Albert | Broadcast The JT LeRoy creator talks to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta about destroying fiction, finding fame, and letting the girls out.

Labia piercings, phone sex pseudonyms, and the generative power of disassociation: Last Press Play, we got Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club to interview the legendary Laura Albert. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...

Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.

“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.

“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...

Ende Tymes - YouTube Founded in the wake of Fukushima, the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation contemplates the harsh, distorted quality of our age with pioneers of...

Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve Brad Bolman on what curveballs reveal about science, shared reality, and American values.

"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."

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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast Sports, science, and collective delusion.

Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (@bolman.bsky.social) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...

When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast Sports, science, and collective delusion.

For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from @bolman.bsky.social on PW Broadcast.
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast Sports, science, and collective delusion.

The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all

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Outernational Episode 2: Greg Saunier A podcast about music and activism. Amirtha talks to the drummer and co-founder of Deerhoof, Greg Saunier.

And listen to Working Artist Fellow Amirtha Kidambi's interview with Deerhoof's drummer, Greg Saunier. The two discuss the band's early history, their recent departure from Spotify, and the role of musicians in late-stage capitalism. open.substack.com/pub/amirthak...

Deerhoof Live at Pioneer Works YouTube video by Pioneer Works

Watch @deerhoof.bsky.social's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUh...

Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters. @amypedulla.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

Guardians of Gowanus | Broadcast Along the city’s most polluted waterway, a band of citizen scientists is turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival.

“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast, @amypedulla.bsky.social reports. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...

This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (@chriskraus.bsky.social) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house, @parisreview.bsky.social poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (@mattbroaddus.bsky.social), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor Mónica de la Torre. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...

The Cooler Jesus | Broadcast Julian Brave NoiseCat on the myth and mischief of Coyote—and the foolish river pirate who signaled his return.

“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from @aaknopf.bsky.social, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we...

"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

Big Apple Sky Calendar: October, November, December 2025 | Broadcast Dramatic highlights from the skies above Earth by intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson.

"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...

Tentacle Memory | Broadcast When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.

“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...

Edge of Paradise | Broadcast In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.

How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...

Picture This: Hot Bodies | Broadcast To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.

Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...

Climate Hacks | Broadcast Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne’s pirate solutions to climate change.

“We were both frustrated about how climate art mostly just grieved. We wanted to locate agency and not just give in to sorrow.” @lav.io, @tega.bsky.social, and @shannonmattern.bsky.social talk pirate solutions to climate change. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/cl...

Among The Ruins | Broadcast Heat won't show up in family photos, but its quiet violence is felt beyond the frame.

Another achingly beautiful piece on mothering against the "apocalypse," from @emilyraboteau.bsky.social. Among The Ruins via Broadcast of @pioneerwork.bsky.social. #climateweeknyc #heat #climatecrisis #Rome #NYC #trees pioneerworks.org/broadcast/am...

“The warmth of the sun was a joy for most of human history, but thanks to human foolishness, this source of life has become the curse of our age.” Bill McKibben (@billmckibben.bsky.social) on shade’s fragile mercy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pr...