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Wrote this for anyone who's trying to finish their novel this year: fightweek.substack.com/p/a-year-in-...
Loved chatting with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social for her wonderful Fight Week substack. We talked about boxing gym culture, what boxing taught me about writing & more. 🥊
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Our first-ever Sports Issue is coming soon! Featuring
@minakimes.bsky.social, Kiese Laymon, Jenny Odell, @lauravandenberg.bsky.social, a custom Believer-branded swim cap, and much more.
Subscribe now and get 15% off: store.mcsweeneys.net/products/the...
2 fights over the weekend & 2 wins. Wrote all about it here: fightweek.substack.com/p/on-levelin...
“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.”
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...
Wrote about a recent ER all-nighter & my relationship to pain: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle.bsky.social, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @blondieband.bsky.social, and Richard Ayoade, conducted by @rokwon.bsky.social, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, and more.
Wrote about last weekend's fight: fightweek.substack.com/p/let-the-lo...
Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
Thanks for coming out!
A woman standing between bookshelves at a microphone reading from her novel
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social reading from state of paradise
NYC! We'd love to see you at Florida Night! tomorrow (July 1), 6:30 PM, at P & T Knitwear. Super excited to be joining forces w Kristen Arnett, Gabriella Burnham, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, & Lynn Steger Strong. We're gonna have a good time. ptknitwear.com/events
Tennessee’s law expressly classifies on the basis of sex and transgender status, so the Constitution and settled precedent require the Court to subject it to intermediate scrutiny. The majority contorts logic and precedent to say otherwise, inexplicably declaring it must uphold Tennessee’s categorical ban on lifesaving medical treatment so long as “‘any reasonably conceivable state of facts’” might justify it. Ante, at 21. Thus, the majority subjects a law that plainly discriminates on the basis of sex to mere rational-basis review. By retreating from meaningful judicial review exactly where it matters most, the Court abandons transgender children and their families to political whims. In sadness, I dissent.
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Hudson Valley people: wildly excited to help host Catherine Lacey TONIGHT for The Möbius Book: 6:30 PM, Northern Spy Reading Series at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill. This will be very fun & you do not want to miss it!
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
Come out to P&T Knitwear on TUESDAY, JULY 1ST at 6:30pm, where our lovely @lauravandenberg.bsky.social will appear for FLORIDA NIGHT to talk about her novel STATE OF PARADISE!
#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
Baffler no. 79 features new short fiction from @lauravandenberg.bsky.social. In “Cake,” every treat is a burden, and every burden is an opportunity.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming Democratic primary for New York City mayor — delivering a jolt to the crowded race with less than nine days until early voting starts: bit.ly/45bpiU6
I wrote about boxing as the loneliest sport + what makes a community hold: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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It seems to us that if you're anywhere near the Southeast, this is the event you should be headed to on July 1. That lineup is bonkers.
Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
A delight & an honor to interview @mcrane12.bsky.social on FIGHT WEEK!
New newsletter is up! Wrote about what happens on a Fight Week + AMA. fightweek.substack.com/p/what-happe...
April newsletter is on finishing what we start: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-deep-end
Last call to register for this 2 session class on character! We will talk craft, read, write, Q & A. We will do deep dives into what characters need to do & do not need to do & what allows a character to feel alive-alive on the page. www.eventbrite.com/e/kinderhook...
A reminder that this magic is happening on Saturday in New Orleans. Come see @kristenarnett.bsky.social & @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social talk books & life & clowns & how to be a dirtbag and more!
"Your Second Wife," a story from my last collection, is getting adapted! deadline.com/2025/03/max-...
