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Mary Robison

experienced a transition on Spotify this morning that I thought really exemplified my very specific taste in music when Dolly Parton finished “Harper Valley PTA” and Marvin Gaye began “Inner City Blues”

I feel like we should all leave this site before it makes us even meaner, dumber, and more annoying. That said, I will probably stay.

It’s been a long while since a new-to-me book with which I have no prior association has brought me to tears, but weepy to report that Emily Ruskovich’s 2017 novel Idaho is the most recent to do so. I somehow missed it when it came out, and I definitely recommend if you did, too.

I’ve always wanted to do IV ketamine again, but this time while smoking a fat blunt. Feel like that would have made it a perfect high. Is this not the prompt?

I'm not really on here anymore, but I do feel a responsibility to share this terrific piece in Book Post by no less a genius than Kathryn Davis on Joy's "Chicken Hill," which is one of my favourites of her newer stories. books.substack.com/p/diary-kathry…

Peeking my head into this hellscape to say that I absolutely adored this Samantha Hunt story in the new The Yale Review, which reminded me of Grace Paley's magnificent "Faith in a Tree," one of my favourite stories ever. yalereview.org/article/samant…

When they say something so Joyphobic you gotta hit em with the sunglass stare

ATTN: Joy Division!! 11. 18. 25. The queue begins outside the Knopf headquarters today at noon. (I will bring the tents and the sunglasses.)

thank you to Aperture for inviting me to write this (on the occasion of a new edition of the book) and letting me do it in this way. non-internet title is "On Sally Mann's 'At Twelve,' in a Dozen Reflections." aperture.org/editorial/sall…

Hi, all. Peeking in to say (PITS, can y'all make that a thing in my absence?) that I am so fucking thrilled Marie Howe was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry! The New & Selected released last year by W. W. Norton contains some of my favourite poems ever. A good thing.

hello, what remains of Twitter, how are you all. just wanted to tell you lovely people that I'm offering my Joy Williams seminar + workshop again for 7 weeks, this July and August. for more info: vincentscarpa.com, which is sort of updated now and has some content!

An actual visionary, spelunker of various hells, who knew as much about death and the dead as anyone, Alice Notley also leaves us with one of the finest elegies ever written:poetryfoundation.org/poems/50834/at…

Hard to know what to say about the passing of Alice Notley, who changed every writer I know. She was everything you want from a poet, a writer. Linguistic brilliance, channeling voices, languages, beings; intelligence, humor, play, ability to break form or honor it. A genius.

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Notley (1945-2025). In celebration of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Poetry interview, along with her poems, from our archive. buff.ly/qiSx3j8

I think she was the best one we had. What a loss.