40% off sale, $30/yr. Help feed sleepy dog!
Plus, This Week's Writing 10/19/25
Recovering from vacation here; more posting in the wings though! (Dog is happy to have us back.)
Also! Like the title says, we are hitting the ground running (or sleeping!) with a 40% off sale on annual subs; that’s just $30/year! Help me keep scribbling, help the dog keep sleeping, support independent journalism!
Will pause a minute while you race to take advantage of this exciting sale!
[brief pause]
Okay! Posting was slow this week but did have a few things out. Here they are!
Politics
Interviewed Osita Nwanevu about his new book and the need for a new democracy. (Public Notice)
Tradwives are just white women choosing whiteness. (Dame Magazine)
Stefanos Geroulanos The Invention of Prehistory and MAGA science. (EIH)
Cultural Criticism
Best Wishes To All and enjoying the misery of others. (Splice Today)
Poetry
Poem about not finishing Dhalgren. (SHINE)
Hector Avalos inspired poem. (dadakuku)
The Bad Jesus
time to whip that rod
Duchamp inspired poem. (Five Fleas)
Innovation in the arts is mostly marketing.
This is a new idea.
Please share.
And that’s it. More next week…including a lengthy post about Fanon and Stephen Miller tomorrow! Support weird poems and sleeping dogs and long posts about Fanon! At a low low price!
I've read Sam Delaney, I think. Not sure. I know the name. You typed Dhalgren and I instantly think Delaney. Something from the prior millennium.
Ah, "Stars in my Pocket".
Sphere is a poem I will be reading again and again because it is fun, and I like thinking about it.