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loved recording a panel for Writers & Books with Ingrid Rojas Contreras Anna Qu and Maria Brandt on New Forms in Memoir, will be aired this Saturday at 8pm ET/5pm PST

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For the release of Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department,” about 50 Harvard University students who are in a class devoted entirely to the artist gathered in a lecture hall to listen to the album. When the clock struck midnight, the analysis began. nyti.ms/3vWN72T

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two more days of early bird registration for a course on Plath I'm teaching with Victoria Chang communityofwriters.org/rediscovering-…

My grieving is suddenly less lonely after reading ⁦Victoria Chang⁩’s With my Back to the World.

my inner bunny in a dress says thanks Scribner and Simon & Schuster you rock.

The One About the Bloodbath was not my favorite episode of Friends

Check out my latest humor in Timothy McSweeney :

'Beowulf, a new prose translation into Gen Z'

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I Love Hearing Your Dreams open.substack.com/pub/matthewzap…

We have some luminaries on the roster this week! Friday, March 15th at 5pm, we’re hosting a Poetry Reading with Victoria Chang and Matthew Zapruder at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street; followed by a reception/signing!

look me in the eye Tex from Substack and tell me that I'm satisfied

On October 16, 1985, Tom Waits took the stage on UK's music program The Tube. Kicking it off with a short story about Frank's life after his Wild Years, Waits goes into '16 Shells From A 30.6,' 'In The Neighborhood,' 'Cemetery Polka,' and 'Walking Spanish'
youtu.be/etOng4dzr7w

can't wait for this class with Victoria! Also, if you can't make all the sessions or want to rewatch anything they are recorded.

Wise words from Dan Pfeiffer: 'Instead of dismissing the polls, we should embrace the idea that Donald Trump can win this election. And then use that frightening notion to re-energize the anti-MAGA majority that delivered victories in 2018, 2019, 2022, 2022, and 2023. Telling…