Jacob Wren
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The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
The Air Contains Honey
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
Polyamorous Love Song
Rich and Poor
Authenticity is a Feeling
https://radicalcut.blogspot.com
“Sometimes, sitting before a blank page, I get a rush just thinking, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Why is it that everything I write fails to capture the range of what is possible? I think, We could write anything and yet we don’t.”
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 PM
“Sometimes, sitting before a blank page, I get a rush just thinking, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE. Why is it that everything I write fails to capture the range of what is possible? I think, We could write anything and yet we don’t.”
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
– Jackie Wang, Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun
"Why do these prizes and awards only seem to breed more prizes and awards? [...] Maybe our work was too much about acknowledging failure, about doubt. We saw something beautiful and comradely in our doubt. Maybe prize committees prize confidence, the ooze of it."
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Why do these prizes and awards only seem to breed more prizes and awards? [...] Maybe our work was too much about acknowledging failure, about doubt. We saw something beautiful and comradely in our doubt. Maybe prize committees prize confidence, the ooze of it."
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts
- Kate Zambreno, Drifts
It’s completely possible to make things that last many generations, that don’t need to be thrown out. But capitalism chooses not to because it’s more profitable to make garbage.
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
It’s completely possible to make things that last many generations, that don’t need to be thrown out. But capitalism chooses not to because it’s more profitable to make garbage.
"Without play, we risk being overwhelmed by an inhuman world."
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 AM
"Without play, we risk being overwhelmed by an inhuman world."
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
- Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story
"To try, in some way, to break into my own writing style and damage it. To find the necessary balance between damage and healing. To more fully consider the many overlaps between making and unlearning." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
November 23, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"To try, in some way, to break into my own writing style and damage it. To find the necessary balance between damage and healing. To more fully consider the many overlaps between making and unlearning." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM
“I’m not a serious thinker. I’m a writer: that’s very different. I think a writer’s intelligence has to be alive, has to be incomplete. It has to carry contradiction. It has to be sort of haphazard and amateur.”
- Benjamín Labatut
- Benjamín Labatut
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
November 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.”
- Doris Lessing
- Doris Lessing
Reposted by Jacob Wren
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
November 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
America putting most of its eggs in the generative AI basket, China going hard into green tech. When history looks back on this period, someone is going to look awfully stupid.
“It began with wandering. We rejected the idea of a destination. We thought of such wandering as equivalent to having a light touch.”
Some lines from the second instalment of Faithful Unbeliever, as serialized on my Patreon. All posts are currently free content.
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Some lines from the second instalment of Faithful Unbeliever, as serialized on my Patreon. All posts are currently free content.
www.patreon.com/c/jacob_wren...
November 22, 2025 at 8:32 PM
“It began with wandering. We rejected the idea of a destination. We thought of such wandering as equivalent to having a light touch.”
Some lines from the second instalment of Faithful Unbeliever, as serialized on my Patreon. All posts are currently free content.
www.patreon.com/c/jacob_wren...
Some lines from the second instalment of Faithful Unbeliever, as serialized on my Patreon. All posts are currently free content.
www.patreon.com/c/jacob_wren...
"Pippi represents my own childish longing to meet a person who has power but does not abuse it."
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
November 22, 2025 at 5:54 PM
"Pippi represents my own childish longing to meet a person who has power but does not abuse it."
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
- Astrid Lindgren, creator of Pippi Longstocking
Metonymy Press is one of my all time favourite presses. You can preorder their two new anthologies and at the same time help support them: gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
Preorder SHARP PINK CLAWS & support queer lit
We’re excited to publish two new anthologies that showcase work from some of our brilliant authors but we need some extra help getting there! As you all know, things have been hard for small publisher...
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November 21, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Metonymy Press is one of my all time favourite presses. You can preorder their two new anthologies and at the same time help support them: gogetfunding.com/metonymy-pre...
If you’re making fun of yourself are you punching up or punching down?
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
If you’re making fun of yourself are you punching up or punching down?
"An attempt to write a detective novel that takes place in a world without prisons. This idea has now appeared in many of my unfinished novels in one form or another." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
November 21, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"An attempt to write a detective novel that takes place in a world without prisons. This idea has now appeared in many of my unfinished novels in one form or another." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
"Poetry only changes if we refuse it. Just as the world is only changed by those who refuse it."
– Henri Meschonnic, A Rhythm Party Manifesto
– Henri Meschonnic, A Rhythm Party Manifesto
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"Poetry only changes if we refuse it. Just as the world is only changed by those who refuse it."
– Henri Meschonnic, A Rhythm Party Manifesto
– Henri Meschonnic, A Rhythm Party Manifesto
"Just because a book has won an award doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad"
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Mohammed El-Kurd
November 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"Just because a book has won an award doesn’t mean it’s necessarily bad"
- Mohammed El-Kurd
- Mohammed El-Kurd
"And yes, someday I am thinking of taking all of these unfinished fragments and putting them together as some kind of book of unfinished books." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
"And yes, someday I am thinking of taking all of these unfinished fragments and putting them together as some kind of book of unfinished books." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
I have artistic strengths and artistic weaknesses. And I’m trying to figure out how to lean into the strengths and away from the weaknesses. Though sometimes the weaknesses also produce interesting art.
November 19, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I have artistic strengths and artistic weaknesses. And I’m trying to figure out how to lean into the strengths and away from the weaknesses. Though sometimes the weaknesses also produce interesting art.
That joke in France where now everyone says they were part of the resistance, but at the time almost everyone was a collaborator.
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
That joke in France where now everyone says they were part of the resistance, but at the time almost everyone was a collaborator.
"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone; the shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."
- Cynthia Occelli
- Cynthia Occelli
November 18, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone; the shell cracks, its insides come out, and everything changes. To someone who doesn't understand growth, it would look like complete destruction."
- Cynthia Occelli
- Cynthia Occelli
"Over the past few years I've started a number of new novels that I just as quickly abandoned. I thought I would make a brief inventory of these failed attempts to see if, by writing about them in order, there is anything useful for me to learn." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"Over the past few years I've started a number of new novels that I just as quickly abandoned. I thought I would make a brief inventory of these failed attempts to see if, by writing about them in order, there is anything useful for me to learn." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/inve...
"Even Rutherford came to derive a curious satisfaction from the utter silence with which his essay was met; he concluded by its reception that it bore the birthmarks of an idea whose time had not yet come."
– Wendy Walker, The Secret Service
– Wendy Walker, The Secret Service
November 18, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"Even Rutherford came to derive a curious satisfaction from the utter silence with which his essay was met; he concluded by its reception that it bore the birthmarks of an idea whose time had not yet come."
– Wendy Walker, The Secret Service
– Wendy Walker, The Secret Service
"He is my closest friend. But I’m a creature of this century and it’s no longer entirely clear what human friendship is."
- Lucy Ives, Cosmogyny
- Lucy Ives, Cosmogyny
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"He is my closest friend. But I’m a creature of this century and it’s no longer entirely clear what human friendship is."
- Lucy Ives, Cosmogyny
- Lucy Ives, Cosmogyny
"I was feeling bitter and washed up so I decided to go back to school." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/mone...
November 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"I was feeling bitter and washed up so I decided to go back to school." radicalcut.blogspot.com/2025/11/mone...
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
November 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“Talent is perhaps nothing other than successfully sublimated rage.”
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
- Audre Lorde
- Audre Lorde
November 16, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot.”
- Audre Lorde
- Audre Lorde