elvia wilk

Resuscitate, resuscitate A summer in track changes

reviving your skeleton of a novel... indefinitely moving apartments... writing fiction and criticism at the same time

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The Pastas and the Weeds What and where to eat in Rome

I went ahead and wrote this important listicle
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A New Morning in New York City The biggest political upset in city history, and other links to start a very different Wednesday.

“I am sorry, but the days of moral victories are over," Mamdani told the crowd. "As my father told me years ago, when the right wins power, the left writes a great book. Those days are over too."
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Criticism in Crisis!! Part 2 It's not in crisis. Anyway this is about making art and writing criticism at the same time.

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The screenshot New novel drops next year

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Criticism in Crisis!! Part 1 A taxonomy of reviews: Good faith, Bad faith, Takedown

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Before the Biennale: A 2015 conversation with Carlo Ratti Unearthing an interview from the late-great uncube magazine

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2 Guards Charged With Murder in Beating Death of Prisoner in New York

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Help Bill land on his feet Our friend William Reddick was granted parole this month, a long-awaited and hard-earned milestone. After a year and a half of re-incarceration, Bill is finally coming home, and we've organized this f...

We’re raising funds for my dear friend Bill, who’s just been suddenly paroled from the notoriously awful Midstate prison in upstate NY and is now in a shelter trying to get his life started again. Please give if you can! chuffed.org/project/1312...

Sick me on it Health Communism, Dying for Sex, What to See & Read

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Lucky and grateful to be FELLOWED to write about scriptwriting in art

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In less than half a minute, this entire thing happened.

Rebecca Gothic Woman Theory — Daphne du Maurier and the haunted body

For when it's time to lie down and be sick
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I’m taking on one (1) more new editing project this spring! Write me if you have a BOOK, ESSAY, IDEA, or GENERAL MALAISE and need help. ✼　 ҉ 　✼

I do Big 5s, art books, dissertations, your unfinished novel, or that hybrid-fragment-thing you can’t place. DM for creds.

Rebecca Gothic Woman Theory: Chronic illness, Rebecca, and the haunted body

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Eat Pray Conjugate Lerner moments, Lahiri moments

learning Italian, wearing turtlenecks, la dolce vita, and knowing when to commit

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instagram reel screenshot that shows a child holding a slice of pizza with olive oil being drizzled on it with the following text in front of it: The level of nourishment in my four-year-old asking for EVOO drizzle on her holistic pizza This is ancestral healing. This is nurturing spirituality. This is responsibly laying the genetic foundations for future generations.

babe what's wrong you've barely touched your holistic pizza that represents ancestral healing

Decorate your villa Lifestyles of extinct bloodlines

a trojan horse of a post about medici interiors elviawilk.substack.com/p/decorate-y...

my first big story for WIRED is about the inconceivable, uncomputable complexity of the simplest organisms on Earth 🪱

love to google translate an article w my name in it! great article tbh

"We feel the ravages of financialization every time our check bounces, or we receive yet another medical bill from a nefarious-sounding collections bot, or see our libraries close, replaced by a PO box for some untraceable housing management company named HOUSEZ4U <3."

Review of Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary - Notes - e-flux Andreas Petrossiants reviews a new edited collection from Goldsmiths Press on the aesthetic dimensions of financialization.

Incredible review of the new book Finance Aesthetics by my Andreas www.e-flux.com/notes/661679...

Various Dooms Anne Imhof, oceans, rare books, ubiquitous books, protests

I DID write on Imhof, plus about why I would do that, amid the police state no less. Then: what do the Love is Blind dumps this season say about a nation divided? KEEP SCROLLING for book recs incl. my writing group’s BUMPER CROP of releases. There’s a DOOM for everyone ❤️‍🔥 substack.com/home/post/p-...

Off-Earth - Fred Scharmen - Code Space Architecture and infrastructure mediate our relationship with pre-existing environments. When the environment in question is as hostile as outer space, there is no existence possible without that medi...

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Outsider Art? I've been asking for fifteen years

I wrote my first book when I was 21. It was about an "outsider art" road trip across the US south. It’s wild to read your young self and find her interesting?! I channeled her in this pretty long essay about outsider art and made it Timely and Relevant! open.substack.com/pub/elviawil...

Why Can’t Robots Stay Robots? 'The Wild Robot' is a heartwarming but heavy-handed fable about the primacy of human values.

“The Wild Robot” is a heartwarming but heavy-handed fable about the primacy of human values, Elvia Wilk writes:

Chronicling the Last Days of Old New York - Boston Review In his acerbic and often hilarious Village Voice column, Gary Indiana documented a cultural world being lost to AIDS and corporate greed.

“A great deal of interesting recent art seems content simply to mimic the nullity of meaning produced by mass media and mechanical reproduction, confronting the same hypothetical spectator who hasn’t yet heard the bad news.” —Gary Indiana (1950–2024)

I thought so hard in the 2010s about the possibility of even the weather news becoming a rumor because there were no definitive sources left - it's a subplot of my first book - but I didn't feel that gnarly gooey "it's happening" until now

WHAT I AM READING WRITING DOING And you can, too

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