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No, I’m not on X or Bluesky anymore. The echo chamber was a long time in the making and I unfortunately am trying to make a living off my writing. So I don’t know what latest discourse is or who’s mad at who. I’m still working on a few big pieces so this remains dormant until a piece ends up getting cut or I have an epiphany. Rarely do I lurk on notes other than to post work. In the meantime, I have a new slew of links.

This is a moving, potent essay on techno, dance, and the night by Aria Aber.

A great essay by my Bookforum editor David O’Neill on Lucy Ives and writing.

Killer profile of Alia Shawkat by Leah Abrams.

LOOSEY is always great. This is a knockout piece by Brendon Holder.

I was distraught I missed the show, but Hattie Lindert wrote a great piece on the Phoebe Bridgers pop up at MSG.

Unsurprisingly, I have underscores, the new Charli XCX, and Hole on repeat. I watched Edward Yang’s Mahjong with some friends—obsessed.

I’ve been revisiting our favorite bitter queen Gary Indiana. I love Resentment and Do Everything in the Dark. I also read The Tunnel by William Gass, a claustrophobic epic about fascism and the Midwest.

And here are some things I’ve written recently:

A short novella for Community Mausoleum. Fiction! Again! First time since Herculine.

On the closure of pediatric trans care for The Verge.

John Waters’ Desperate Living for Criterion Liner Notes.