“I think of the innocent lives / Of people in novels who know they’ll die / But not that the novel will end. How different they are / From us.”

On what would have been Mark Strand’s 90th birthday.

“History decays into images, not into stories.”

— Walter Benjamin (The Arcades Project, tr. Eiland et al.)

no hay doctores, no hay hospitales, no hay casa pa vivir / comprar pq todo está listeao en airbnb, pero malos son los que se quejan y no los que causaron estas condiciones… wuju! nunka cambies, pr

rip oj i essentially learned intersectionality from you

I’d prefer this to being ghosted, but I’d prefer being lied to w/ a bullshit excuse than receive this handwringing crap letting me know I’m a backup in case things go south with someone else lol

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

Domestic violence is a kind of small-scale terrorism. What OJ Simpson did to Nicole Brown Simpson was not the event of one night—it was a years long campaign that thousands of women suffer at other men’s hands. Read Andrea Dworkin’s memorial to Nicole: evergreenreview.com/read/in-memory…

Something fascinating happening right now: Because no foreign correspondents are allowed into Gaza, foreign aid workers who go in for 2-3 wk shifts and come out are, effectively, doubling as medical workers AND foreign correspondents. Theirs are the only 'western' reports we get.

if you've never had an alt and wondered about the joy and freedom a private diary can bring, please come and read this great fuckin piece by the light of my goddam life!!

Sharon Olds published STAG’S LEAP 15yrs after the divorce. Which is to say the poems will come when they come and how they come.

i loved this book. it’s so heartbreaking to see how many talented writers are having to make these decisions on account of PEN’s bullshit

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