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J. Robert Lennon
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Books include CRITICAL HITS (with Carmen Maria Machado), Graywolf; HARD GIRLS, Mulholland; BUZZ KILL, Mulholland, Spring 25
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You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school
Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
yeah it's become second nature to me, a little vexing to have to switch it up
(My abandonment of the Mac has many causes, but mostly: if Apple's lefty bona fides are bullshit, and all tech is equally evil, and you're putting AI up in my shit and pointless bling in my OS, why am I paying you $600 for a hundred-dollar SSD? At least now I can play Fallout and have ports)
I am back on Windows after a 20-year break and while it's fine, I'm surprised at how hard it remains to type a damn em-dash, a thing I do many times a day, because I am an AI, apparently. For this and other special characters you want instant access to, I recommend the text-replacement app Beeftext
Beeftext
Beeftext is an open-source text snippet management tool for Windows.
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if it has to be explained to you why "wine moms," for example, might be upset by the demolition of the most visible symbol of American democracy, it's time to stop watching Zizek videos on youtube and just talk to a person in real life
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About to drive up to Ithaca for a long weekend. You've got two days to figure out how to get there in time for my reading Sunday
Hey I'm going to be in Ithaca talking IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE with @jrobertlennon.com in a couple weeks. Would be cool to see some of you there, assuming you, like me, live within a 4 hour drive
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Featuring books by Isabel Yap, Kristen Felicetti, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, GennaRose Nethercott, Sofia Samatar, Jeanne Thornton, @jedediahberry.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, Carmen Maria Machado and @jrobertlennon.com, and Helen Oyeyemi!
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Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:
I admit I was kind of susceptible to the excuse, but it still disqualifies him!
It’s good
[CW: earnestness/indignity]

my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.

Book details in link

That name again is Mr. Plow
Reboot: A Novel
A Novel
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EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
I admire that this graffito 1) clearly articulates the existence of a capybara-based economic system, and 2) takes no position for or against it
Me: …and that’s why I know they used human meat in the mcrib in certain markets if you know what I mean
Server: sir this is a wendys
M: oh my god sorry haha
Server: haha yeah mcds moved to route 9 last year
M: oh man you must get some freaks
S: haha you know it
M: alright later man haha
S: later bro
A fun thing I’ve been doing is singing the lyrics from Wire’s “Kidney Bingoes” to the tune of the Beach Boys’s “Little Surfer”
Hanging out with 1yo at the same playground where I used to hang out out with 28yo in 1998 and feeling intense nostalgia for an experience I am literally having right this second
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Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit, it's time to wish a ring-a-ding 15th birthday to Fallout: New Vegas with our pals at @obsidian.net!
I want a grogu egg so I can take my baby hiking. Why not this instead of plagiarism suicide machine you ghouls
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The minidisc era was not long, but I was all in.

I had a shoebox full of discs in the car that compromised most of my music collection.

Imagine having access to just about anything you wanted to hear! Ok, so we got that now, but I had that THEN.

And the aesthetics were top notch.
Massive turnout in Ithaca today, hundreds more than last time, including these heroes expressionlessly blocking traffic eight blocks away
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Holy crap Kara Walker chopped up a Stonewall Jackson statue and revealed a monster
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Hey I'm going to be in Ithaca talking IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE with @jrobertlennon.com in a couple weeks. Would be cool to see some of you there, assuming you, like me, live within a 4 hour drive
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