Launching soon, special double issue in collaboration with Majalla 28, co-edited by Mohammed Zaqzooq and Mahmoud al-Shaer, w/contributions from more than 20 writers in Gaza, + classic works, art, fiction, & poetry centering Gaza. All profit from sales+ads go to our Gaza partners

Happy bday Thomas Pynchon and David Attenborough. Solid double bill. The latter once described the honks of a flying V of geese as ‘a screaming across the sky’ sic

It still doesn't seem real, but somehow, some way, UC Berkeley and Harvard are going to support my weird little magazine. Which means that after twenty solid years of dreaming about it, I'm making a print mag of writing and art. lithub.com/expand-your-mi…

So grateful to be embarking on this with the incredible meara sharma and a very dreamy band of contributing editors and artists, incl. Jaquira Diaz, Amanda Gunn, Jia Sung 宋佳瑜, Laura van den Berg, Amber Sparks, and other brilliant human beings. First issue coming at you in spring 2025.

HOLY SHIT this is dreamy mag dreamed up by this dreamy editor 🌀💓

oh, thank you so much for your wonderful support and for wanting to read strange things that mess with time and space. You can follow Elastic magazine on here and sign up for updates over at elasticmag.com

I am so thrilled to be working with treasured friend and brilliant editorial mind Hillary Brenhouse on a NEW MAGAZINE of psychedelic art and literature.... follow Elastic magazine and stay tuned for its glorious arrival in spring 2025 💫 💫 💫 lithub.com/expand-your-mi…

excited to have a new short story in the Washington Square Review (Washington Square Review) ! it is an unhinged tale of creative desperation.... featuring cougars, turbomachinery, clawfoot tubs & more washingtonsquarereview.com/meara-sharma

Thank you so much meara sharma for this gorgeous review of PRACTICE in Los Angeles Review of Books! "It is always difficult to begin a text, but particularly difficult to begin a text about a text about a person trying to begin a text about a text" oh wow yes lareviewofbooks.org/article/thick-…

“As she continues to do anything but write her essay, Annabel’s fixation on the sonnets transmutes into a broader ethic of attention.” meara sharma reviews Rosalind Brown's debut novel, “Practice.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/thick-…

was a pleasure to think about why artists keep making art, paths forged by desire, and Stacey D'Erasmo's new book, for the The Washington Post: washingtonpost.com/books/2024/07/…

I spoke to Olympics Musical Director Victor Le Masne about that opening ceremony for The Guardian theguardian.com/music/article/…

Bharti Kher, Yorkshire Sculpture Park Yorkshire Sculpture Park review by meara sharma — magical transformations of glass into gold. The British-Indian artist draws on politics, religious traditions and her cultural heritage to make works of subtle power. ft.com/content/967e62… via @ft

crushed cars, melted bangles, banana-headed djinns... a visceral delight to write about Bharti Kher's alchemical art practice for the Financial Times ft.com/content/967e62…

Me on kedgeree, food doppelgängers, and the pleasures of inauthenticity, for Factory International factoryinternational.org/factoryplus/ed…

"Trajectories of success, as Walrond’s story demonstrates, are usually at odds with the vicissitudes of life, and the restlessness and changeability that tend to define creative people." —meara sharma’s essay on the Caribbean author Eric Walrond thebeliever.net/the-radiant-fo…

Two weeks left to submit to this wild ride of a first issue, send us the stuff you thought was too strange for the other lit mags, we don't give a damn about genre, linear time is a construct, [email protected]

So thrilled that this AWP panel on experiments in time across genres has been accepted — and excited to be in conversation with the brilliant Elissa Washuta, Jaquira Díaz, sasha fletcher, and Shze-Hui Tjoa. Also, Elastic magazine will debut in LA, holy shit.

"...a fur trapper blinded by yellow snow, a leprechaun masturbating into pancake batter, an intellectual dog, a fraudulent mystery man selling Nirvana." in which Rudi Zygadlo is good at writing about music. Plus, a word that will now enter my daily vocabulary (Anemoia)

“Behind the souvenirs and the cinemas, the fast food and the flashing lights, that which actually surrounds you... has been disciplined into a backdrop.” —meara sharma reflects on Land’s End, a scenic and historic site turned tourist trap thebeliever.net/sacrifice-zone…