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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 5d

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 12d

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 18d

This Friday, September 26th, come watch a live reading of Forms of Fire, a powerful multimedia theater experience created by me, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James. RSVP below.

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"Forms of Fire", a powerful multimedia theater experience, premieres at RCI | RCIUSA

Step inside the circuitry of a multimedia theater experience created by Andrei Codrescu, Lynnea Villanova, and Micah Ariel James

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 19d

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Andrei Codrescu – Keep the Sabbath With Me

to breathe in a burning house. Click to read Andrei Codrescu – Keep the Sabbath With Me, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 19d

"Trump’s Stalinist effort will fail because Trump was always a joke. All the surveillance and snitches can’t change that, but he has to be stopped before he turns the U.S. into a joke."

Where did all the jokes go? Find out on this week's Keep The Sabbath With Me. Linked below.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · 27d

Thank you Jordan for your posts on my work. This is encouraging and inspiring. It’s an honor to be be so well read

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Sep 8

"If we are good boys and girls and stay close to our phones, take our Xanax and have no desire to leave the city, we can get close to annihilation without anxiety."

Read about a strange dream I had, linked below.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · Sep 7

Codrescu suggests that readers make up a pseudonym under which to do their reading, “free of the name they carry like a sack of potatoes on their backs and hear called out in derision or displeasure by parents and teachers.” It’s a totally great idea.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 30

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MY TWO NOLANS

An obituary for JAMES Nolan and a celebration of the living master of many genres PAT Nolan. Not related by anything but my friendship with both of them.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 30

This week's post is devoted to my friend Jimmy Nolan, who passed this week. Link in first reply.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 23

SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.

you'll take me if you like it or not

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 23

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SHOTGUN WEDDING: Part Three of a three-part essay on A.I.

you'll take me if you like it or not

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 16

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Do Watches Keep Time or Does Time Keep Watches?

PART TWO of a three-part essay: IS A.I. AN IDEOLOGY OR A RELIGION?

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 7

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THIS AUGUST SWANS ENTERTAIN THE LINCOLN BRIGADE

we let poetry do the job

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 7

ICYMI: Read a batch of brand new poems by Yours Truly on my Substack. Getting through these times the only way we know how: through poetry. Link in first reply.

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 2

This week in August we rise from the obscene muck of our national shame to turn our lyric guns on the butcher of Russia. We will also lie down in the grass by the stream and think about nothing. We let poetry do our job.
New poems, linked below.
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THIS AUGUST SWANS ENTERTAIN THE LINCOLN BRIGADE

we let poetry do the job

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Aug 1

Next Saturday, August 2 at 10 am I am coming your way reading poetry. At $1 per poem, being a paid subscriber at $8/month is a bargain, even if you are not Wallace Stevens. Do it!
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 19

"The matryoshka egg is the favorite toy of the Russian people. Melania played with one until she found just the gold pervert inside. I bought one myself just after communism fell: inside, there was Gorbachov, Andropov, Brezhnev, Stalin, Lenin..."
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THESE ARE WALDO'S CLOTHES! WHERE IS WALDO?

Melania Gifts America a Beloved Russian Toy

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 19

melania’s gift to america
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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 5

Finally, enjoy a wonderful piece by Richard Collins: Mina Loy and the Millennium.
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MINA LOY AT THE END OF THE MILLENIUM

ON NOT REMEMBERING CERTAIN DETAILS OF THE MINA LOY MEMORIAL MILLENNIUM MOVEABLE FEAST, DECEMBER 31, 1999

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 5

It Was Today: Revisiting Myself on NPR: read as I reprise a 2000 interview from Chris De Benedetti with comments from 2025.
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twenty five years in a blink

An interview by Chris De Benedetti in 2000 with comments in 2025

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 5

"When I was 20, an elder poet, who still looks young at seventy five, asked me if I’d ever been happy, and then answered without waiting for me to reply: 'I’ve been ecstatic and I’ve been miserable, but never happy.'" New Post: ARS VIVENDI VS. ART MEMORIAE
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ARS VIVENDI VS. ART MEMORIAE

real wrestling: living vs. remembering

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jul 5

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Lucian Truscott Newsletter | Lucian K. Truscott IV | Substack

I've covered everything from three wars, a few presidential campaigns, the Stonewall riots and the Rolling Stones. This column reflects that history and is about politics, culture, personal stories, ...

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Andrei Codrescu @andreicodrescu.bsky.social · Jun 28

Saturday Substack: Snails and Laughter, an excerpt from my new pamphlet.
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SNAILS AND LAUGHTER

an alternative to news

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