Novel, PLANES, out now. Also magazine writing. essays on songs by me + pals: https://nitter.cf/t.co/0RYWiIVjEJ updates: https://nitter.cf/t.co/qowCbnZWDS
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Just about 11 years after I started writing it, PLANES is out today!
According to the New York Times it "captures our shared human ache with stunning accuracy." 🫠
nytimes.com/2022/05/31/books…
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Going live in 5 minutes or so
Join me today, November 3rd at 4:15 pm [EST] when we will discuss The Story of Capital, Chapter 10: Extractivism and the Metabolic Relation to Nature
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have u ever tried having a lengthy magazine draft (on a completely non-election topic) due the morning after election night?
i rEcoMMEnd iT
one just knows Isaac Chotiner has called Stevens a few times, and that she's genuinely thinking about it
The e-book of my 2022 novel PLANES is currently on steep discount: $7.99 (everywhere, apparently), a bargain for a book that one reader described as “the love-child of Don DeLillo and Virginia Woolf.”
bookshop.org/p/books/planes-…
The audiobook, read by Lameece Isaaq — who won multiple awards for her handling of the material — appears to be selling cheap as well. $12.99 via Apple Books, with similar prices elsewhere.
books.apple.com/us/book/plan…
I told my students I would write an example case study about the classical psychoanalytic defense mechanisms, using any fictional character of their collective choice. After a grueling multi-round election, we have a winner:
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confidently introducing errors into copy, secretly racking up huge expenses, way overdoing it on the em dashes, taking any assignment offered, buying huge amounts of books from used bookstores for no reason—AI is a mid-career magazine writer
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the kind of piece I'm jealous I didn't write, frankly
newyorker.com/books/under-re…
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"If you’re thinking that a human-tissue business sounds like a great way to hide evidence, you’ve probably been reading too much noir; you’re also right."
Peter Baker on Jordan Harper's noir
newyorker.com/books/under-re…
I wrote about the new Jordan Harper and the question of what makes noir noir...
This year’s buzzy “A Violent Masterpiece” inverts the genre’s traditional contrast between optimism and despair. Is a hopeful crime novel still a noir? newyorker.com/books/under-re…
Once on Sanibel Island, Florida, I read a short story by Ben Lerner set on Sanibel Island, Florida, and the next day I almost smashed into a guy with my bike on one of the island's famous bike paths and that guy was Ben Lerner.
You can also work the other end. Like maybe the idea you pitched didn't really work out. But still, at $14/w (my average), if you just file a paragraph or two then you'll still make some prosciutto money.
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my one tip for the “how can young writers make more money?” discourse is to note that editors will often pay a bonus if you go long. So like, my Gawker contract was $8/word, but I’d often file 2–3 times as many words as initially agreed upon, and they’d bump me up to $10/word
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Best bit: "writing was a gift humanity had made for itself, a way for us to know ourselves and each other across space and time." theguardian.com/education/ng…
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"I couldn’t wipe chatbots from their world, any more than I can wipe phones. All I could do was decide how much I would steer students toward them and how much I would nudge them toward other experiences." —Peter C Baker for The Guardian #longreads
theguardian.com/education/ng…
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夜に英文音読練習スペースやりますので一緒に練習してくださる方募集中🙂
theguardian.com/education/ng…
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Smart piece by @apcbapcb on our era of "blank space" conspiracy theories, in which the lack of evidence is the evidence nytimes.com/2026/03/04/magaz…
