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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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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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This is two sentences joined by a semicolon.
The book is indeed good, though!
I do. With undergrads I actually have a late=absent policy
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I tried touching grass
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The You’re Still Doing This? award for poets aged 45-55
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I got Covid for the first time and it feels like I finally discovered the band that everyone else was into five years ago. A band that sucks and when you go their concert beats the shit out of you
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Pretty excited (and more than a little surprised) to have a piece in any Best American anything, let alone Sciene & Nature Writing
how many beer will you beer