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Short fiction in The Drift issue 13, out today. I hope you will read the whole thing because the end is different than the beginning. I don't like writing about sex these days, but I wrote this story in 2021. There is, arguably, "sex." thedriftmag.com/aliens/

Back in town for 24 hrs to celebrate my mother's birthday and read at The Drift's issue launch party.

“There is, he realizes, a perverse thrill to be had in this kind of moment, when a risky message precariously sits on one’s screen, an impulsive tap away from the realm of consequence.” — Gideon Jacobs thedriftmag.com/aliens/

Eric Adams has always thought of NYC as Gotham and the mayor's job as meeting with gray-area criminals in smoke filled backrooms and having a good table at good restaurants. He was pretty open about this. I understand why he is confused that people are upset.

If you missed Haunted Hallow at Pretty Garden, you may now read the readings in their complete, ghoulish form at the Archway Editions Journal. Enjoy, and may your Hallowmas be grim with dark and expansive majesty. archwayeditions.us/haunted-hallow…

"The flat-earthers are finally right." Gideon Jacobs peers into the uncanny valley of Donald Trump. lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-…

For Los Angeles Review of Books, I wrote about Trump as an image girl in an Image World, and the possibility that -- in a time when there are many more cameras than people -- reality is obeying rules of image/story like it does laws of physics. lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-…

"Trump is an image living in an image world. Why wouldn’t he be its leader?" Gideon Jacobs examines the hyperreality of Donald Trump. lareviewofbooks.org/article/trump-…

Glad to have been invited on NEW MODELS to chat with Caroline Busta & 𝕷𝖎𝖑 𝕴𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖙 | 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗠𝗢𝗗𝗘𝗟𝗦 🎲🎲. We spoke a day after the election, a few days after my essay in Los Angeles Review of Books was published, an ~hour after I found out Image King had reclaimed the throne of Image World. open.spotify.com/episode/6qVsDU…

I wrote a short review of Peter Vack's "Sillyboy" in the The Whitney Review of New Writing.

In this week’s episode of #LARBRadioHour, Medaya Ocher, Kate Wolf, and Eric Newman are joined by LARB contributor Gideon Jacobs for a discussion about the power of images in the era of Trump. lareviewofbooks.org/av/trump-loeil…

From the early days of Cameo, when I was so obsessed I embedded videos into short story.

I don’t really believe in the myth of the “evil genius” anymore. Moral idiots usually prove to also be idiot idiots.

"Musk is, at his core, an autistic nerd, and Trump, at his, a 1970's bully repulsed by nerds." Gideon Jacobs argues for a politics against Silicon Valley. lareviewofbooks.org/article/player…

I wasn’t planning on writing about politics again so soon— not my beat—but then Elon waved around his new chainsaw. Out today for Los Angeles Review of Books, "Player One and Main Character." lareviewofbooks.org/article/player…

For Document Journal, had the pleasure of chatting with Trevor Paglen about Images: A Show and also images in general. Photos by Daniel Arnold, who accompanied me on one of my sessions practicing preaching on the subway. documentjournal.com/2025/04/thou-s…

Went on NEW MODELS to discuss my essay in Los Angeles Review of Books, "Player One and Main Character." Realized today I should have titled it "The Story of Player One and Main Character." More fun.🇺🇸 open.spotify.com/episode/6Yw5Uf…

There is a particular kind of art/literary world event that is simultaneously charged with ambient social anxiety AND a diffuse disappointment that there’s nothing and no one present worth being anxious about. Tragic rooms.

"In some ways, I think schizophrenia is, like dissociation, a strangely understandable response to a world that is constantly and increasingly trying to make sense of us, predict our behavior, map our identities, translate and flatten the Self into data. Sometimes insanity seems

I wrote about KayKasparhauser's show at Entrance for artforum's summer issue. The work was an example of "grace and survival via [Johnny] Knoxvillian surrender and Sisyphean tenacity—a politics of making as if the elevator door is about to slam shut." artforum.com/events/kay-kas…