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James Yeh

@jamesyeh.bsky.social

Writer, editor, journalist, professor of writing. Words in the New York Times, Guardian, the Drift, McSweeney's Quarterly, the Believer, Dissent, and elsewhere. Formerly an editor at McSweeney’s Quarterly, the Believer, and VICE

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An Interview with Eileen Myles - Believer Magazine Eileen Myles’s writing is nimble yet incisive, insouciant yet wise. The author of no fewer than twenty-three books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Myles makes the act of writing seem both impossib...

“Just to be present with art is to completely reshuffle your cards.”

—Eileen Myles, interviewed by @jamesyeh.bsky.social

www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...

02.06.2025 20:57 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks so much to @briangresko.bsky.social for inviting me to participate in—and more importantly—for facilitating this meaningful project.

24.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Wrote an essay on the modest optimistic practices of writing and reading and showing up and standing with during these dark times for @writingco-lab.bsky.social's 100 Days of Creative Resistance (while also slipping in some lines from Nazim Hikmet, Lydia Davis, and colleagues and coworkers).

24.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

My name is Zohran Kwame Mamdani and I approve this message.

10.03.2025 14:29 — 👍 4523    🔁 822    💬 48    📌 20
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First Pass: A Conversation with James Yeh | A Conversation with James Yeh: 3/10 @ 12PM PT / 3PM ET Join Kaya Press for a conversation with James Yeh—writer and editor at Columbia University—as we discuss the work of an editor and take a close l...

I know there's a lot going on right now, but I'll be in conversation on the art of editing—and sharing a closer look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos" in @mcsweeneys.net—with Austin Nguyen at @kayapress.bsky.social TODAY at 3 ET/12 PT: kaya.com/2025/03/firs...

10.03.2025 16:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Every day I learn about a new comic book villain of a man who has been endowed with staggering and unchecked power.

29.01.2025 04:43 — 👍 498    🔁 73    💬 7    📌 2
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"Without moving a comma" A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024)

A belated remembrance of Gary Indiana (1950–2024): jamesyeh.substack.com/p/without-mo...

28.01.2025 16:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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OpenAI releases a teacher's guide to ChatGPT, but some educators are skeptical | TechCrunch OpenAI has partnered with Common Sense Media to release a new resource for K-12 teachers using ChatGPT. But some educators are skeptical.

Awful. OpenAI (and other AI cos) are making a hard push for getting AI into K-12 schools, which they see as a burgeoning market. Most teachers I've spoken to, meanwhile, say AI is terrible.

Outside of computer class, there should be no gen AI in K12 schools, period.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

20.11.2024 19:18 — 👍 1089    🔁 310    💬 65    📌 98

Truly one of the greats!

21.11.2024 03:13 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Percival Everett Can’t Be Pinned Down His masterful new novel, James, cements his status as one of our most idiosyncratic writers.

Two thousand words, if one is so inclined, on this year's winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, James, by the incomparable Percival Everett for @vulture.com: www.vulture.com/article/perc...

21.11.2024 03:12 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Glad to hear it!

21.11.2024 03:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Percival Everett!

21.11.2024 03:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

My own gumption consists, at the moment, of mere reposting.

14.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

A fresh new hell! As Dorothy Parker might’ve said.

14.11.2024 11:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fun to see the muskrat discover what a thousand newspaper stories have proclaimed for at least eight years: the leaden density of the jello salad between the ears of the fearless leader. (Epstein said DJT's semi-illiterate.)

(But should I be caustic on this platform? Is that unbutterfly of me?)

13.11.2024 06:07 — 👍 448    🔁 40    💬 26    📌 1
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Disturbing prediction from @pkrugman.bsky.social: If Trump's deportations really happen, inflation will spike, then MAGA loyalists will corrupt government info to mask it.

For autocrats, he says, "among their first targets are statistical agencies."

Our exchange:
newrepublic.com/article/1883...

13.11.2024 13:51 — 👍 3245    🔁 1195    💬 172    📌 127

"Great Elon Musk"

13.11.2024 01:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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