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Alec Michod

@alecmichod.bsky.social

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Est. 1975, Chicago. Novel: THE WHITE CITY. Words: The Believer, NY Times, Chicago Tribune, The Village Voice. @uchicago @columbiaSOA. Emmy-nominated writer + EP of kickass documentaries and docuseries.

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Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · 1d

“Chicago Latin kids, they’ll pay top dollar for anything.” #Pynchon @fwparker.bsky.social

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · 2d

Pynchon has now started two novels on the banks of Lake Michigan.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · 2d

William T. Vollmann on Pynchon. unherd.com/2025/10/thom...

Thomas Pynchon's world of shadows

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Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · 15d

Welcome to the fascinating world of Lee Roy Chapman. youtu.be/lTfRHP7nEfg

Public Secrets: Joe Brainard

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Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Jun 8

If only there had been some kind of warning… Happy #1984 Day to all who celebrate.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Jan 21

Darkness Falls.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Dec 14

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Nov 22

My generation’s JFK assassination.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Nov 18

IT’S IN THE GAME, a joint I developed, drops soon. youtu.be/B8aaMsIERRQ?...

It's In The Game: Madden NFL - Official Trailer | Prime Video

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Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Nov 16

“Because the regime is captive to its own lies, it must falsify everything. It falsifies the past. It falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future.”—Václav Havel

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Mar 30

“Don’t you think ribbon-skirted women should rule the world?” Louise Erdrich

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Mar 18

Happy Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist Day to all who celebrate.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Feb 29

In the late-’90s, I wrote to Tom @Skilling while writing my first novel, #TheWhiteCity. Needed to know the weather for a certain stretch of days in 1893. Dude wrote back with a detailed, encyclopedic narrative—blew my mind. The man. The legend.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Jan 30

Sad to learn that the painter Vera Klement, one of the founders of Artemesia Gallery, along with my mom, has passed. www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/a...

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Jan 18

“People don’t always talk about
What they obsess about—
Which leads to poetry.”
#FrederickSeidel

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Jan 2

RIP to Donald Barliant, a Chicago iconoclast who bought Barbara’s Bookstore amid 1968’s eruptions and grew it into one of America’s singular independent bookstores. A literary funhouse where I first saw DFW in the flesh, home to the most exuberant #TheWhiteCity reading.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Dec 14

Vineland, the movie.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Nov 26

RIP, Gabe Hudson.

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Sep 30

“All this, this is how the community works. It is sprawling. It spreads. What do you think they came for when they tried to get rid of us? Our community. You break that, and you break the individual.” #ReservationDogs

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Sep 10

“All of this is what you’re fighting for.” www.propublica.org/article/silv...

Alec Michod @alecmichod.bsky.social · Sep 2

R.I.C.P. (Rest In Cheeseburger Paradise) Jimmy Buffett. My thoughts are with his brother-in-law, the renegade visionary novelist of the American West, Thomas McGuane.