This Saturday 1/31, 7pm at Spotty Dog Books in Hudson NY: THAT TIME OF YEAR series w/ Davey Davis, Lauren Cook, Miriam Atkin, Stacy Szymaszek

I don’t know how much longer we can be expected to live alongside the lie that this is not exactly what it looks like: a violent siege, meant to destroy people. The lie makes it even more destructive.

The Portland Press Herald is on the ground covering the ICE surge in Maine without a paywall as a public service.

"Oh my gosh, it was so nice to see you! Have a lovely day, fuck ICE!"
"Oh you too hon! Stay safe in that traffic, fuck ICE!'

- two older Minnesota ladies, bidding farewell after the protest

8/30/85: Agnes Varda's Vagabond, w/Sandrine Bonnaire
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What the United States government is letting Israel do to Gazans is monstrous. A grave crime against humanity. Shame on everyone who is enabling this.

The images of children starved to death in Gaza should be the lead of every news program.

You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳

can we please just have more book reviews instead of these weird pieces about whether or not straight white men can still read or publish novels

In libraries, we call this vocational awe. The idea that if you are invested in your calling, you should accept low wages/inhumane conditions is a nasty little trick of capitalism.

I’m an author, I’m hungry, I care deeply about my work, AND I deserve to be paid for it.

As someone who lives in Los Angeles, don’t let social or mainstream media gaslight you into thinking there’s a violent uprising taking place here. The Trump administration is trying to punish this state and this city. He’s also setting a precedent to unleash troops on Democratic cities.

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Andrea is a brilliant artist support her project if you can!

Announcing a new film project! I’m making an improvised, Cassavetes-style, Grotowski-esque, middle-aged Midsommar. Plants and trees and theater people and blood and guts and ecstatic rituals. Help us get ready for WE WANT TO BE READY fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/andrea-klein...

Thrilled to be a 2025 writing fellow at Lighthouse Works!

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines

(with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

Madeleine Cutrona “Like Any Living Thing” on view at The Draw @mkadkingston.bsky.social

This Saturday in Hudson NY, I’m hosting That Time of Year reading series at Spotty Dog Books with this stellar lineup: Dawn Lundy Martin, Anna Moschovakis, Marianne Shaneen. 1/25 at 7pm!