Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
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Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
· Mar 31
The Aurelie 30 Returns for April 2025
Back in the Game for 2025
open.substack.com
Hey there, so I do this thing every April in honor of my friend Aurelie Sheehan called #theaurelie30, which just entails starting a new piece of writing each day in April. Care to join me? Details at the substack: open.substack.com/pub/aurelie3...
Any thesis meeting that results in me recommending a bunch of Peaches videos to a writer is a great fucking time. Here's a banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqP...
Peaches - I Mean Something (feat. Feist) (Official Video)
YouTube video by PeachesTV
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November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Any thesis meeting that results in me recommending a bunch of Peaches videos to a writer is a great fucking time. Here's a banger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGqP...
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If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
Essay Collection Incubator
Generate, revise, and prepare your essay-collection manuscript for submission—with guest authors and industry professionals, craft lectures and exercises, and multiple rounds of feedback.
www.lillydancyger.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If you're working on an essay collection and feeling stuck or overwhelmed or just wishing for some guidance and camaraderie, consider applying for my six-month Essay Collection Incubator, which starts in January! (Applications due by December 4) www.lillydancyger.com/essay-collec...
So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
So @essaydaily.bsky.social is doing our yearly Advent calendar this year and we have a few more spots if you'd like to write about visual media (games, movies, shows, anything visual is ok). Drop me/us a line.
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The editor of Diagram, Ander Monson, highlights five lit mags that champion strange and unusual work. “…amid the many attempts to silence artists and writers in this country, I find myself inclined to say yes to anyone making new spaces for writing.” Read more: at.pw.org/5UnusualLitMags
October 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
The editor of Diagram, Ander Monson, highlights five lit mags that champion strange and unusual work. “…amid the many attempts to silence artists and writers in this country, I find myself inclined to say yes to anyone making new spaces for writing.” Read more: at.pw.org/5UnusualLitMags
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No love for Corel; as always the action's in the alt text
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
No love for Corel; as always the action's in the alt text
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Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
www.essaydaily.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!
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"And suddenly you just have to sit there and be sad as the sad thing happens."
@jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions.
Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...
@jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions.
Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...
October 27, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"And suddenly you just have to sit there and be sad as the sad thing happens."
@jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions.
Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...
@jacobgeller.com on the ways Shadow of the Colossus' music plays with our emotions.
Listen to the full episode here: postgame.substack.com/p/20-years-l...
NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO
"When the internet told me what Justice Alito had said, my first response was What’s a Gore Vidal?"
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
@andrew-maynard.bsky.social on Pornhub, Gore Vidal, and other Epsteins
www.essaydaily.org/2025/10/reth...
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist by Andrew Maynard
Rethinking Pornhub’s Role in the Literary Zeitgeist * Andrew Maynard * “Is it like the old Playboy magazine; you have essays there by the m...
www.essaydaily.org
October 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
NEW ESSAY DAILY NEW MAYNARD LET'S GO
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over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
October 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!
Ho ho ho it's book prize time send me your badass work
✨ 🗣️ Introducing River Teeth's 2025 Literary Nonfiction Book Prize Judge, Ander Monson! We are ecstatic to have Monson working with us as the final judge. His interview with our Assistant Managing Editor, Natasia Verdel, is live on our website, which you access through the link in our bio.
October 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Ho ho ho it's book prize time send me your badass work
SUPER excited to see Kathleen Edwards announcing a date at Hotel Congress in February (got my tix obviously): hotelcongress.com/event/kathle...
Kathleen Edwards - Hotel Congress
Doors 7pm | Show 8pm | 16+ – High Top Table for two: $35 + Dice fees (2 seat minimum) – Rail Seat: $35 + Dice fees – General Admission Seating: $30...
hotelcongress.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
SUPER excited to see Kathleen Edwards announcing a date at Hotel Congress in February (got my tix obviously): hotelcongress.com/event/kathle...
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
October 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I'm enjoying this interactive fiction, Slated for Demolition, from the 2025 IFComp: ifdb.org/viewgame?id=...
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My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
My essay on Creed's "My Own Prison" is in here! Thanks to @meganc.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @splitlippress.com for including me!
So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
So @eldiagram.bsky.social made broadsides for @richard-siken.bsky.social, @mathiassvalina.bsky.social, @joshriedel.bsky.social, and Thomas Dai for their recent @uapoetrycenter.bsky.social readings. We have some left; if you want to buy em here you go: thediagram.com/merch/produc...
Today I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8V...
Das Racist - Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell
YouTube video by LetMeRave
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October 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Today I'm at the Pizza Hut. I'm at the Taco Bell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQ8V...
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this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
October 8, 2025 at 5:42 PM
this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime
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Hey there, so I'm doing a project called What Happened On Oct 9th today, an outgrowth of the @essaydaily.bsky.social What Happened projects, in which we just write down/about what happens today. Join me if you want privately or on the public collaborative doc? docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What Happens on Oct 9 2025 Public Edition
What Happened on Oct 9 2025 Public Edition Hey there: short notice on this writing prompt but I thought it might be fun to share with you all. A few years ago, one of the projects I work on, Essay Da...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Hey there, so I'm doing a project called What Happened On Oct 9th today, an outgrowth of the @essaydaily.bsky.social What Happened projects, in which we just write down/about what happens today. Join me if you want privately or on the public collaborative doc? docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Really happy to see this translation of an experimental poem by Mohammad Azarm in the wonderful journal Diagram. Many thanks to Ander Monson.
thediagram.com/25_3/
eldiagram.bsky.social
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
thediagram.com/25_3/
eldiagram.bsky.social
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Really happy to see this translation of an experimental poem by Mohammad Azarm in the wonderful journal Diagram. Many thanks to Ander Monson.
thediagram.com/25_3/
eldiagram.bsky.social
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
thediagram.com/25_3/
eldiagram.bsky.social
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
Deserved; vote
Lost Records has been nominated for the Best Storytelling Award at the Golden Joystick Awards! You can vote here until October 31st: www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti... Congrats to all the nominees!
October 3, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Deserved; vote
Oh I see one of my favorite albums of all time, Slumber Party's self-titled, just got added to Bandcamp, just in time for you to pick it up: slumberpartydetroit.bandcamp.com/album/slumbe...
Slumber Party, by Slumber Party
13 track album
slumberpartydetroit.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Oh I see one of my favorite albums of all time, Slumber Party's self-titled, just got added to Bandcamp, just in time for you to pick it up: slumberpartydetroit.bandcamp.com/album/slumbe...
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My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar
Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
October 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My mom took too much Tylenol when she was pregnant with me and accidentally created the worlds foremost Kate Braverman scholar
"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."
My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...
My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...
Electric Geographies
Ander Monson in conversation with Yuts, creator of NORCO I first encountered NORCO last year teaching a course on narrative games. It’s a throwback-style point-and-click video game released in 2022…
graywolflab.org
October 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."
My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...
My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...
Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Next Tuesday I'm giving a Work Talk for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social at 7pm at Wave Archive with @leahmensch.bsky.social and Katie Jean Shinkle. I'm talking about a Michigan 1995 Simulator, Leah's doing Braverman impersonations, and KJS is dishing on Bad Men. Deets: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...