'Death may be far more alive than we ever thought possible.' theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

'Richard Serra is our great sculptor, like it or not. I say relax and like it.' Schjeldahl from '19. newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…

Today’s ⁦The Wall Street Journal⁩

'I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.'

Virginia Woolf, writer of Mrs Dalloway and Orlando, died #OnThisDay in 1941.

Pulling Weeds: Lauren Oyler (Lauren Oyler) Doesn’t Take Her Work Too Seriously — gq.com/story/pulling-… via GQ Magazine

Sculptor Richard Serra left 'Wake' in his wake at Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, and I love it so much. RIP.

For the last few months I've been working on a profile that's in this week's The New Yorker magazine, of the Dutch architect Koen Olthuis and his career-long quest to design modern buildings — apartments, theaters, entire cities — that float on water newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

Wrote a little bit about Wayne Koestenbaum's latest, out from Semiotext(e), for Los Angeles Review of Books! lareviewofbooks.org/article/chants…

time to Party with Nicolas

the support i've had in writing my first book has been meaningful beyond belief—the gift of being read(!) and understood(!!)

Come join us in New Haven!

I wrote about Ben Lerner's poetry and persona: how the creation of a self in fiction changed – and expanded – his poems.

thenation.com/article/cultur…

Since thinking about the American canon has occupied a solid part of my brain for the last couple months, I'm happy now to offload this task to you...here's our list of 136 Great American Novels. Enjoy and argue.

theatlantic.com/books/archive/…

“At 87, I am solitary.” In 2016, the late poet Donald Hall wrote about solitude and loneliness. nyer.cm/LCRWbmp

huge mailbox windfall after 3 weeks away…… The Drift issue 12, gabriel smith for penguinpress, Becca rothfeld, Cody Delistraty, and my close personal friend rachel cusk

delightfully insightful profile from Maya Binyam newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

My freshman year I lost my childhood best friend, Elissa. I spent the rest of college attempting to write through the pain of that loss (as you can tell by the chapbook below). Now, nearly a decade later, I couldn’t be more honored to finally tell her story.

for The New Yorker i reported on how climate change affects elvis. impersonator Bob McArthur has lived in Las Vegas for only a year and a half, but has worked through the wettest monsoon in decades, a rare tropical storm, and the city’s hottest month ever.
newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

The second part of my conversation with Kate Zambreno!

'You go to Yale or Columbia...you expect to have the best. But the thing is to be a writer, you have to actually have an interesting voice.' dirt.fyi/article/2024/0…

We have a galley giveaway underway Goodreads for Cody Delistraty’s book THE GRIEF CURE, on sale 6/25! Enter here to win! goodreads.com/book/show/1995…