Leah Mensch
@leahmensch.bsky.social
Likely the world’s foremost Kate Braverman scholar, etc.
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Leah Mensch
@leahmensch.bsky.social
· Jul 30
Everything Requires an Explanation
All things Kate Braverman, ghost archives, and unlikely coincidences
substack.com
I started a free newsletter about KATE BRAVERMAN and my book project. Subscribe if you dare. ❤️
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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...
In undergrad I wrote a play for a theatre class about soil pollution in pittsburgh set in 2040 and in my play there was a one liner about how rite aids don’t exist anymore….so. I’m just saying.
Rite Aid, once one of America’s biggest pharmacy chains, shut its remaining stores this week after struggling for years to stay in business.
Rite Aid Closes Its Remaining Stores
The company said it had closed its remaining 89 stores this week after struggling for years to stay in business and filing for bankruptcy protection twice.
nyti.ms
October 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
In undergrad I wrote a play for a theatre class about soil pollution in pittsburgh set in 2040 and in my play there was a one liner about how rite aids don’t exist anymore….so. I’m just saying.
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
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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...
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We are The Beef Review, a journal of literary feuds. We want your anger, grievances, pet peeves, your drama.
Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too.
We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩
Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too.
We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩
September 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
We are The Beef Review, a journal of literary feuds. We want your anger, grievances, pet peeves, your drama.
Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too.
We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩
Part mid-life crisis, part bit-taken-too-far—the truth is we have Beef w/ the literary landscape, Beef w/ the world, & maybe Beef w/ you too.
We have big beefy plans. Stay tuned 🥩
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One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.
September 20, 2025 at 1:11 PM
One of the many reasons AI sucks. Literally none of these things are true.
When the community was fighting project blue in Tucson, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be from a post industrial city, whose population continues to suffer the devastating environmental, health, and safety effects of decades of industrialization and corporate greed. It breaks my heart.
Explosion at US Steel plant in Pennsylvania leaves 1 dead, dozens hurt or trapped under rubble
An explosion at a U.S. Steel plant near Pittsburgh has left one dead and dozens injured or trapped under the rubble, with emergency workers on site trying to rescue them.
apnews.com
August 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
When the community was fighting project blue in Tucson, I was thinking a lot about what it means to be from a post industrial city, whose population continues to suffer the devastating environmental, health, and safety effects of decades of industrialization and corporate greed. It breaks my heart.
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Tucson friends! There's a public meeting tomorrow on the Project Blue proposal aka Amazon's attempt to drain our aquifer for a data center. It's 5-7pm at the Tucson Convention Center & everyone is welcome, please make a sign & bring everyone you know!
August 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Tucson friends! There's a public meeting tomorrow on the Project Blue proposal aka Amazon's attempt to drain our aquifer for a data center. It's 5-7pm at the Tucson Convention Center & everyone is welcome, please make a sign & bring everyone you know!
I started a free newsletter about KATE BRAVERMAN and my book project. Subscribe if you dare. ❤️
Everything Requires an Explanation
All things Kate Braverman, ghost archives, and unlikely coincidences
substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I started a free newsletter about KATE BRAVERMAN and my book project. Subscribe if you dare. ❤️
It will be about Kate Braverman like everything else gear up
With the 36th pick @leahmensch.bsky.social calls up Bob Dylan's Tryin to Get to Heaven (1997):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVF...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BVF...
Bob Dylan - Tryin' to Get to Heaven (Official Audio)
YouTube video by BobDylanVEVO
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July 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
It will be about Kate Braverman like everything else gear up
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An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...
Tucson Essay Club (@tucsonessayclub)
Excerpt from Katherine Larson’s excellent new book The Wedding of the Foxes, and an interview with her. Book release 8/3/25 + social to follow.
substack.com
July 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
An interview with Tucson essayist and poet Katherine Larson and an excerpt from her new book The Wedding of the Foxes: substack.com/profile/3663...
Damn straight
July 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Damn straight
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July 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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The latest issue of The Kenyon Review is here! It is brimming with beauty and brilliance and includes “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest judged by Idra Novey.
kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...
kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...
July 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The latest issue of The Kenyon Review is here! It is brimming with beauty and brilliance and includes “The Milk Incident” by Easton Smith, the winning entry of the 2024 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest judged by Idra Novey.
kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...
kenyonreview.org/journal/spri...
Before this I was mostly kidding about recreating the great schism but now I am 100% serious. Who is in, I have ideas
May 8, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Before this I was mostly kidding about recreating the great schism but now I am 100% serious. Who is in, I have ideas
I feel like most people don’t realize how much small art museums rely on funding like NEA grants for archival preservation resources (I definitely didn’t until a few years ago) — but the Trump admin does realize, and that’s the point. To attack anything that records and humanizes (and might oppose)
If the NEA goes, it's an extinction-level event for small art museums and non-profits.
Trump's complete elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts—coupled with devastating cuts to humanities and library services—exposes an alarming agenda aimed not at saving money, but at exerting cultural control.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a...
May 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I feel like most people don’t realize how much small art museums rely on funding like NEA grants for archival preservation resources (I definitely didn’t until a few years ago) — but the Trump admin does realize, and that’s the point. To attack anything that records and humanizes (and might oppose)
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Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...
April 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Editing my (to me) epic Sisters of Mercy essay for the forthcoming @marchxness anthology and I'm reminded that I wrote this kind of for James Butler-Gruett, and I went pretty hard, I think! Give it a read: marchxness.com/copy-of-swee...
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A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
A hearty hell yeah congrats to Maya Bernstein-Schalet of @uamfa.bsky.social for winning an AWP Intro Journals award: www.awpwriter.org/AWP/Contests...
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"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead."
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
April 3, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"I’m supposed to be working on my thesis, but I made this tiny cabinet instead."
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
On Absurdity and For Love of the Bit: a new Tiny Cabinet from @leahmensch.bsky.social: the.tinycabi.net/2025/04/leah...
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Artificial intelligence? Baby I no longer believe humans have intelligence.
February 13, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Artificial intelligence? Baby I no longer believe humans have intelligence.
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Admiration for this reader of Charles Baxter's FIRST LIGHT, likely a physicist (like the protagonist) or an engineer, given their zeal for perfectly straight lines, who marked the hell out of this book, but then sold it? Maybe they died is more likely. Tx to @leahmensch.bsky.social for the find.
February 11, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Admiration for this reader of Charles Baxter's FIRST LIGHT, likely a physicist (like the protagonist) or an engineer, given their zeal for perfectly straight lines, who marked the hell out of this book, but then sold it? Maybe they died is more likely. Tx to @leahmensch.bsky.social for the find.
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"Everything Requires an Explanation," a new Tiny Cabinet by @leahmensch.bsky.social up on, you guessed it, the queen Kate Braverman, on the occasion of her 75th birthday
February 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Everything Requires an Explanation," a new Tiny Cabinet by @leahmensch.bsky.social up on, you guessed it, the queen Kate Braverman, on the occasion of her 75th birthday
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Also up in the new @hungermtn.bsky.social it's a long story, "Storm Call", actually one of my favorites in a while: hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunge...
February 4, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Also up in the new @hungermtn.bsky.social it's a long story, "Storm Call", actually one of my favorites in a while: hungermtn.netlify.app/issues/hunge...
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Big congrats to MFA faculty Bojan Louis, who just received a USA Fellowship: www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/boja...
Bojan Louis — United States Artists
Poet and Writer
www.unitedstatesartists.org
January 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Big congrats to MFA faculty Bojan Louis, who just received a USA Fellowship: www.unitedstatesartists.org/artists/boja...