Facing the reality that "Medicare pays for home hospice" means about five hours a week of care, which is ... not enough for a bed-ridden person.
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Facing the reality that "Medicare pays for home hospice" means about five hours a week of care, which is ... not enough for a bed-ridden person.
Monday book talks and Wednesday author visits. Ross Gay, Leif Enger, Julia Phillips. Plus a special one-night event with Percival Everett on April 23. Visit the below link for dates and details.
The book reopens: The Open Book's 2026 series starts next week at the University of South Carolina. Free and open to all! sc.edu/study/colleg...
🖤 Georges Perec at his desk
(in his apartment on rue Linné, Paris, shortly after receiving the 1978 Prix Médicis for *Life: A User’s Manual*)
i’m sorry to learn the great Portuguese novelist António Lobo Antunes has died. what an amazing body of work he has left
In a certain sense the past is far more real, or at any rate more stable, more resilient than the present. The present slips and vanishes like sand between the fingers, acquiring material weight, only in its recollection.
Andrei Tarkovsky
An intriguing list.
What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?
No Baltimore for me, but have fun, all you AWP kids!
“…goes to language, wounded by reality, seeking reality.”
(“…zur Sprache geht, wirklichkeitswund und wirklichkeitssuchend.”)
— Paul Celan, “Bremen Speech”
It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.
Thank you! I will! And wishing you all the best with your situation. Even though I knew what I was in for, I had no idea.
I’ve met a Steve, a Timothy, and a Joseph, all dogs at my dog park.
Thank you, Kate. I’ve been looking forward to your book for a long time. JQ told me about it way back, and I’m so happy it’s on the cusp of publication.
I meant “complications” but I suppose “symptoms” works.
My father entered the hospital for urgent but supposedly simple surgery. Two weeks of cascading symptoms later, we’re still here. I’m in a whole new world as we figure out what’s next. Elder care advice and resources most welcome. (I’m an only child with a job.)
A couple of them have really held up for me.
Off the top of my head: Michael Ondaatje, W.G. Sebald, Howard Norman, Eudora Welty.
Don't miss today's episode with Báyò Akómoláfé, and our deep dive into philosophy and language, words and worlds, both.
Audio📻🔥: milkweed.org/between-the-...
@ayinpress.bsky.social
Ugh.
Don’t forget the Never Too Late Award from the Bridport Prize which recognises entries from writers over 60 across all categories of prizes.
Link below
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What, you may ask, does a forgotten poem by a foreign-born Hollywood extra have to tell us now? All I can say is that Alexander Voloshin’s SIDETRACKED has been a source of comfort for me over the past few years—a sympathetic voice reaching across decades. “Been there,” he nods…
I've been at a hospital bedside off and on since last Friday and have developed this strong opinion: nurses' pay should be doubled or tripled, and nurses should also be tipped by surgeons at the end of every shift.
A screenshot of a page from Fish Publishing. The text says: " Flash Fiction Prize Tania Hershman Tania Hershman, judge for 2026. Summary: Open Judge: Tania Hershman Word Limit: 300 Closes: 28 Feb '26 Results: 18 April '26 Anthology Published: July '26 Entry Fees: €16 / €11 subsequent entries. (Optional Critique €45) Prizes: Top ten stories will be published in the FISH ANTHOLOGY 2026. 1st: €1,000 2nd: Online Writing Course + €300 3rd: €300" And there is a black and white headshot of Tania Hershman.
Not long left to submit your 300-word gems to Fish Flash Fiction Prize. I'm judging and I'm reading ALL the entries, so you know I'll see your story. Deadline Feb 28, send your word-shapes even if you think they might be "too weird" or "not flash enough"! fishpublishing.com/competition/...
Yeah, I didn't need to see that.
Good news alert: Just want to shout out Elana Meyers Taylor, the most decorated Black woman in the Winter Olympics, who won her sixth medal and first gold tonight, AND is also one of the only 8% of hearing parents who learn to sign for her deaf kid. Badass through and through.🥇
New call for submissions from @barrelhouse.bsky.social: The Aftermath. We're looking for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and art about what happens AFTER the big story is over and life goes back to "normal" (or whatever counts as "normal"). More details here:
Nothing like receiving a lovely certificate recognizing your teaching with a tacked-on sentence inviting you to workshop on how to integrate GenAI into your teaching, which was likely appreciated in the first place because you would never do that.
Spending the day with someone in the ER, and the doctors and nurses really are quite amazing. Going to sign on for season two of The Pitt. (While hoping to go home soon.)
