Stephen Piccarella

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...

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

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...

Sirens… not bad for a show that “looks like that”

Stripping Corpse: The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey Part two

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

Stripping Corpse: The Möbius Book by Catherine Lacey Part one

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

@rxgau.bsky.social great on Brian Wilson’s SMILE as “a 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”

The Internet Novel Was Created In a Lab and I Worked There

The “Internet Novel” was created in a lab and I worked there open.substack.com/pub/stephenp...

Joey Tribbiani IS brat

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/...

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 ...

“How does ‘Slanted! Enchanted!’ exemplify the Wagnerian concept of the gesamtkunstwerk?” @spiccarella.bsky.social on Pavement and “Pavements”:
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Man what is wrong with this app

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...

They’re frying my ass on Raymond Carver stan twitter

They’re frying my ass on Ocean Vuong stan twitter

I envy you your first viewing.

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

Man Ocean Vuong fans can be a vicious bunch

I’d happily participate in a symposium on Friends…

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

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

Bluesky the everything else app

I agree except about the four perfect songs

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

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

La Cowgirl Qui Revient, after Robbe-Grillet

The only power they can never take from us

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

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

ACAB includes Paul Thomas Anderson