New Voices / Issue 1 of WANTED is now live
ft. 10 previously unpublished authors from 3 different continents + new work by 7 contemporary favs
Please enjoy - whatiwanted.org
"Walden Homes" is out today:
thebaffler.com/fiction/walde…
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Fantastic piece by Nick Sturm on the welcome end of “The Best American Poetry” anthology series, a conglomerate-driven “genre management project that drives a wedge between poetry and interdisciplinary intellectual culture.” Every sentence absolutely rules defector.com/good-riddance-t…
My story "People I Once Knew Who Died Searching for God" is in issue 3 of @postpoplit - also ft. Chelsey Minnis, Bunny Rogers, & more - postpoplit (dot) com
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post-pop lit issue three is now available free to read online 🦢🦢
postpoplit.com/issuethree
The way we consume and discuss media in America is so dysfunctional that we’re mostly all basically illiterate no matter what we read
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Get! L'étranger: Show #511, 28-09-25, Radio Panik BXL feat @SCAB_Magazine @eyerarat @HouseofVlad @KenjiSiratori @blakebutler @daisanmyaku_azz @din_i_ilahi @FugitivesF @ExpatLitJ @TheAcademyofSun @german_sierra @JackSkelley @suefoxsix ao. - > radiopanik.org/emissions/l-e…
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The New Yorker review of Gravity's Rainbow in '73 is worth reading, to see how far its intellectual strength has diminished
It doesn't seem like a particularly RW moment in literature to any extent, more so it seems like a moment for neoliberal hacks to finally run out of gas for cred in a far beyond bled dry arena dominated too long by false pretense, stolen valor, and glorified middlemind
“A survival manual or a swan song or an I told you so”? Have you ever read Pynchon? As if any New Yorker staff writer could ever even…
“Shadow Ticket,” Thomas Pynchon’s first book in a dozen years, lands in a moment when reality seems to have caught up with his fictions—but it has little to tell us about our current era. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Lg…
Now on sale in PDF & PB at failtodestroy (dot) me
YOU MAY NOW FAIL TO DESTROY ME - an anthology of 32 authors on their most dangerous beliefs
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Why Language Models Hallucinate
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04664
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blake butler is the author of twelve book-length works, including “molly” and “300,000,000.” he is a founding editor of HTMLGIANT and his new work will be featured in issue three 🦢🦢
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I've received an email from someone whose mother-in-law was being pushed for a contract by a "book broker" called Lucy Peterson who claimed she'd worked with me. In case anyone comes across her, this is a complete fabrication. She had no role in reissue of The Last Samurai.
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An older piece I wrote on Gaddis's American pessimism: thepointmag.com/criticism/un…
I’m turning this account into a port a potty interiors feed. This one is titled “American Gothic with Sprite Can”
Sometimes he gets this look in his eyes like there’s something behind his forehead that he’s wrestling for control over only to be briefly surprised by the stupidity coming out of his mouth before he goes back under
RFK JR on Mass Shootings: There are many things that happened in the 1990’s that could explain these. One is the dependence on psychiatric drugs… there could be connections with video games
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
RFK Jr presents a disproven theory for mass shooters;
Video games have been proven time & time again to not influence violent behavior.
This claim has been around for almost 40 years & has been repeatedly disproven.
ox.ac.uk/news/2019-02-1…
theguardian.com/games/2020/jul…
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…