Josh McColough

A.) Trillium Lake, OR
B.) “Trillium” the essay, based upon A.)
C.) @chicagoqreview.bsky.social , home of “Trillium” the essay #litmags #booksky

Proud to have a new essay ("Trillium") in the latest issue of the Chicago Quarterly Review! Really honored to be included with so many incredible writers. 🙏 @chicagoqreview.bsky.social #litmags #essay #writer #nowreading #booksky

Oh my god. My last memory of LaGuardia (early 2000s) was walking to a terminal with my roller bag and being passed on either side by multiple, rather large rats.

This is such a cluster—I teach at a community college & have read every think-piece abt banning, succumbing to, embracing, living with, working alongside A/I. For now, tho, am white-knuckling it like everyone else is (whether they truly claim to be or not).

Things Worth Remembering: The Imperfection of America When the Constitution was signed on September 17, 1787, Benjamin Franklin acknowledged its flaws—then defended it magnificently.

In his speech, Franklin argued that the Constitution would last unless—or until—“the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.” Via @thefp.com

www.thefp.com/p/things-wor...

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Lit mags are opening again. Mine is the essay in the dark coat! #litmags #writing #publishing

“I work in the West Wing, you Pepperidge Farm ad motherf*ckers.” —Jonah Ryan, Veep

PBS book show "Between the Covers" gives FLORIDA PALMS a nice little shout-out for their Summer Series.

Thanks Oline Cogdill for the nice words! I so appreciate it!

#pbs #joepan #floridapalms #debutauthor #crimebooks @pbs.org @simonbooks.bsky.social

We #GenX can't catch a break this week. Malcolm, Ozzy and Hulk? We get it--we're all do-nothing slackers. Just keep your damn hands off the cast of "Facts of Life," pls thx

Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Amen. I teach English Comp at a comm college. Why won’t universities at least draft position statements that both acknowledge AI’s utility & role in professional life and also state there may be classes in which critical thought is the point? @meghanor.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

I leave the tiniest of doors a little bit open for these. But not today, Pringles.

According to ChatGPT it’s from a deer or a cow “or another large mammal.” So…I continue to be underwhelmed by ChatGPT’s lack of imagination.

Thank you for including me. You all do such great work!

In Defense of Despair The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

We will never not need Hanif. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/XC8Qyj

Thank you so much for including this piece!

A Passel of Personal Essays to Read Over the New Year... Plus: Our partnership with Literary Liberation and new workshops there, and Narratively's 2024 upcoming workshops...

It's this week's "Memoir Monday" newsletter, featuring: Sofi Stambo, @tkdano.bsky.social, Catherine Hiller, Kristina Kasparian, Sheila Heti, Lilly Jay, Sayuri Ayers, @joshmccolough.bsky.social, @courtneykocak.bsky.social memoirland.substack.com/p/a-passel-o...

He was an absolute treasure--great human to model. Always had snacks, jokes and tape recorded interviews of Richard Pryor working out bits/ideas.

Child Catchers By Josh McColough- Witness Magazine by Josh McColough Whenever I return home to visit my parents, they present me with a box of artifacts to sift through. They are purging my childhood home in anticipation of their deaths, which are not...

Really proud to have a new essay out in Witness about growing up amid child abduction panics of the 80s. How many of you #GenX got your fingerprints taken in case you were abducted & they had to ID your body? #GenerationX #litmags #authors

witness.blackmountaininstitute.org/issues/winte...

YouTube video by Eyewitness News ABC7NY SEE IT: The wild story of the Cabbage Patch Kid Riots of 1983

Now is the exact time for nostalgia —back to a time when store managers could wield baseball bats at unruly customers. Let us never forget. #genx #80s
youtu.be/mzfuo94KCe8

Celebrating two full days in normal sinus rhythm. #IYKYK

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Been here for a while now @chrislhayes.bsky.social

I’m currently reading a book called “Anticipating Walks.”

In Defense of Being a Slow Novel Writer My parents are going through a phase where they’re obsessed with McDonalds—with its cheap coffee drinks and Big Macs with Special Sauce on the side. They are eighty-six and eighty-one respectively,…

Really captures the odd craft of writing when you have no "public" that is clamoring for your next...whatever. lithub.com/in-defense-o...

He’s a Prell dog!

I cropped my family out of this picture b/c Guster whipping his ears around like a model flipping hair...

Three days, three rejections, three separate pieces. If it weren’t so compulsively satisfying, I’d be more upset. 333 | 333 | 333

Welcome, Ferris!

This comes out tomorrow. !!!! !!!

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