'The effect of training people’s attention on matters of discourse and representation is to avoid addressing...material facts. The material facts in this case are: money, land, weapons, and over 37,000 dead Palestinians.' nybooks.com/online/2024/06…

How do people…have curly hair…on a humid east coast…I feel like I am 16 again and don’t know how to wear my hair down

Help there’s a millennial in the student union, reading Kairos, drinking cold brew, mistaking herself for a teen

AHHHH V.V. (Sugi) Ganeshananthan so deservedly sweeping awards with Brotherless Night!!!! The best news.

Incredible found essay by the great Brian Benson in Bending Genres LLC, collaged with quotes from abusive men who center their own victimhood (cw: that!)

bendinggenres.com/victim-complex…

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Ahhh, this! I remember working rurally after grad, feeling very isolated + jealous of friends in glossy media internships, deciding I might as well make myself a syllabus of old episodes for long solo walks on dirt roads. Guess what? It was great. I owe Longform Podcast so much.

I answered questions about wolves for a class with a bunch of 8 year-olds and look at the absolutely perfect subsequent fan mail

'At one point, I eavesdropped as one scientist leaned in to whisper a question to another: What is the purpose of a river?'

A little essay to whet your palate, on pub day!

lithub.com/a-fundamental-…

The urge to clear the cal, call up the writer friends, and meet in a candlelit circle to do this heart-stoppingly smart prompt from Alexander Chee's newsletter

I grew up a few streets away from here, and remember trick-or-treating at Ursula's house. So very glad this house will be preserved for other thinkers and writers carrying on her incomparable spirit ✨

Pssst fiction-writers, grist has been running a really compelling intersectional climate fiction contest for a few years, with superstar judges and BIG $$$$ prizes. Submit before June 13 here:

Why am I like this (so bad at texting)

I love so much about the moments of day I steal away to read Joanna Biggs’ ‘A Life of One’s Own,” but this—on Zora Neale Hurston—esp resonates as I think about a busy summer, and the importance of finding time not just to write, but to rest

A brilliant person I know (who doesn't have many pubs, came from art world) wrote an absolutely fire short story about a Georgia O'Keefe impersonator and asked me where to submit it. I am dumb to short fiction game. Do any lit mags feel like A+ fit for wry art-y stories?