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Stephen Piccarella

@spiccarella.bsky.social

Writer etc.

308 Followers  |  170 Following  |  74 Posts  |  Joined: 20.09.2023
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Notes On Ice I’ve been thinking quite a bit about Ice recently.

Apropos of nothing I put together some brief notes on Anna Kavan’s masterpiece Ice, which all apply exclusively to the text and don’t refer in any way to anything else currently going on in the world. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

28.01.2026 21:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Where can I find copywriting or editorial work. Anywhere. Job boards, reliable clients to cold call, weird dystopian networking communities... I will try anything.

28.10.2025 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My Time As a Member of a Secret Society at Bennington College I attended Bennington College from the Fall of 2009 to the Spring of 2013.

While I was a student at Bennington College I was a member of a secret society called The Disciples of Paula Jean. I have not spoken publicly about it before now. This is not the kind of thing I usually post about, but it’s something I feel like I need to share rn. open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

08.07.2025 16:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sirens… not bad for a show that β€œlooks like that”

26.06.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stripping Corpse: The MΓΆbius Book by Catherine Lacey Part two

…and part two: open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

25.06.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stripping Corpse: The MΓΆbius Book by Catherine Lacey Part one

In case you missed I just posted a two-part hybrid β€œreview” of @catherinelacey.bsky.social’s The MΓΆbius Book on Substack, here’s part one: open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

25.06.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as β€œa lost treasure of a time when capitalism had so much slack in it that there was no pressing need to stop your mind from wandering”

12.06.2025 16:47 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Internet Novel Was Created In a Lab and I Worked There

The β€œInternet Novel” was created in a lab and I worked there open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

10.06.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Joey Tribbiani IS brat

08.06.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell It Slanted | Stephen Piccarella This was how I would first understand Pavement’s music: dense bursts of esoterica punctuated here and there by mellow springs of warm pop hum, an Oasis of boredom in a desert of horror. Various forms ...

For anyone who missed it in every other platform: I spent years chasing the Pavements story to write this insane hybrid-genre essay about it for @nplusonemag.com, thanks Mark Ibold Alex Ross Perry Angela Trimbur and, of course, Pavement www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

03.06.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tell It Slanted | Stephen Piccarella This was how I would first understand Pavement’s music: dense bursts of esoterica punctuated here and there by mellow springs of warm pop hum, an Oasis of boredom in a desert of horror. Various forms ...

β€œHow does β€˜Slanted! Enchanted!’ exemplify the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk?” @spiccarella.bsky.social on Pavement and β€œPavements”:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

02.06.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man what is wrong with this app

30.05.2025 17:08 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grey Fiction Letters from the margins of fiction

ICYMI after resisting for years for various reasons I've finally caved and started a newsletter, it's called Grey Fiction and the first post describes in a hopefully intelligible way what that means, I'm planning to publish once a week and would love for you to subscribe substack.com/inbox/post/1...

30.05.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re frying my ass on Raymond Carver stan twitter

28.05.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They’re frying my ass on Ocean Vuong stan twitter

27.05.2025 00:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I envy you your first viewing.

26.05.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I tweeted that I think the titles of his novels are bad and a number of them had harsh words for me

25.05.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Man Ocean Vuong fans can be a vicious bunch

25.05.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d happily participate in a symposium on Friends…

17.05.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bro you don’t have to do it there are so many Wire side projects

15.05.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I could have had class… I could have been an email

13.05.2025 19:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky the everything else app

03.05.2025 17:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I agree except about the four perfect songs

30.04.2025 21:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Any chance we’ll be hearing from the great lost riffer on the late David Thomas?

30.04.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Insane that this q is never answered and no one ever talks about it

25.04.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

La Cowgirl Qui Revient, after Robbe-Grillet

11.04.2025 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only power they can never take from us

07.04.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Fiction and/or nonfiction, I came up with this idea like two days ago and as yet have next to zero direction or plan for it but feel free to send any thoughts or queries my way here or at spiccarella@gmail.com

03.04.2025 16:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Crosspost from Twitter: would you or anyone you know be interested in submitting to a zine/anthology/symposium with the theme β€œNew Writing on De-evolution”? If so please like reply DM etc. thank you I love you

02.04.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

ACAB includes Paul Thomas Anderson

22.03.2025 20:11 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0