Heidi Czerwiec

Lol, I heard this new song by Mike Doughty, "[I Went to School with] 27 Jennifers," so I found my high school yearbook and counted them all up, and there were, no shit, 27 Jennifers, so apparently that was the requisite amount?

This week we’re pulling from the Assay Interview Project archives with an interview of Raki Kopernik. The interview focuses on Kopernik’s memoir “The Memory House.”

“Memory is emotional and sensory."

Read the complete interview here: buff.ly/tYM5A2Z

#Interview #NonfictionBooks #EssaysThatMatter

Your point is totally valid. As someone who provides creative writing to prisons, the staff love it—not because they see it as enrichment, but because they see it as free babysitting that keeps inmates occupied, as well as a privilege they can use as leverage.

Rip Van Winkle? 😆

B-51s

Jason Momoa? Hagrid? Brigham Young? But I LOVE your choice!

The Osmothèque scent archive near Versailles www.osmotheque.fr/en/the-colle...

10/10 no notes (Image description: SpaceX hat spotted discarded on trash can in Honolulu)

It’s Abu Ghraib all over again.

But inside our borders.

this is the time for scifi fans to exercise the ultimate depth and breadth of their creativity

make them shut down the hotline

use all your best Borg jokes

👀

National Guard was activated in 2014 in Ferguson.

Yes, this is a very niche intersection of a joke!

Have you seen the beautiful graphic novelization of Richard Adams' Watership Down?

If the stated goal is to stop "waste, fraud, and abuse," why pardon those guilty of fraud and abuse, and waste the money spent convicting them? (I think we all know the answer.)

If the stated goal is to stop "waste, fraud, and abuse," why pardon those guilty of fraud and abuse, and waste the money spent convicting them? (I think we all know the answer.)

There's a lot of silence from immigration proponents who say "They need to follow the rules and immigrate the right way." ICE is currently nabbing people who have been following the legal process and are showing up for their regular court appointments.

I love anything Marco Wilkinson writes!

Love you too—each and every one of you

The jets are unaliving themselves rather than serve this administration

Why is this so true?!

House Republicans are now targeting federal workers’ retirement benefits to help fund their massive tax cuts. Last week, the House Oversight Committee approved a plan to slash $50 billion from the retirement system over the next decade by changing

NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

YouTube video by The White Stripes The White Stripes - Conquest (Official Music Video)

Is anyone else spending this week singing "Co-ah-ahn-claaaaave!" to the tune of "Conquest"? No? Just me? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L7F...

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies.

Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

The Authors' Guild has been organizing a class-action suit against OpenAI and ChatGPT for unauthorized use—you didn't agree to have your work train generative AI. It's one thing for WaPo to use/reprint/repackage your work, but not this. This would be under copyright law/intellectual property.

The goodest trouble

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Thx!

Where are you rewatching it?