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Ander Monson
@angermonsoon.bsky.social
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Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · Mar 31
Hey there, so I do this thing every April in honor of my friend Aurelie Sheehan called #theaurelie30, which just entails starting a new piece of writing each day in April. Care to join me? Details at the substack: open.substack.com/pub/aurelie3...
The Aurelie 30 Returns for April 2025
Back in the Game for 2025
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Kaveh Bassiri @kbassiri.bsky.social · 2d
Really happy to see this translation of an experimental poem by Mohammad Azarm in the wonderful journal Diagram. Many thanks to Ander Monson.

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Diagram 25.3
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d
as only one of these games made me cry (it's Lost Records) it's an easy choice for me
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d
Deserved; vote
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Desiree Cifre @desireecifre.bsky.social · 5d
Lost Records has been nominated for the Best Storytelling Award at the Golden Joystick Awards! You can vote here until October 31st: www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti... Congrats to all the nominees!
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d
Oh I see one of my favorite albums of all time, Slumber Party's self-titled, just got added to Bandcamp, just in time for you to pick it up: slumberpartydetroit.bandcamp.com/album/slumbe...
Slumber Party, by Slumber Party
13 track album
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Leah Mensch @leahmensch.bsky.social · 5d
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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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 6d
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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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 5d
"You commit to something, and you just become the incubator for the work."

My conversation with Yuts / @geographyofrobots.bsky.social (maker of the great game NORCO) is up on @graywolfpress.bsky.social's Games Lab today: graywolflab.org/2025/10/03/e...
Electric Geographies
Ander Monson in conversation with Yuts, creator of NORCO I first encountered NORCO last year teaching a course on narrative games. It’s a throwback-style point-and-click video game released in 2022…
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 6d
super cool
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 6d
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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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 7d
CAMPUS FLOWERS, a new show up in the Tiny Cabinet by Hanna Wilkens: the.tinycabi.net/2025/10/camp...
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 7d
Really into litmags that run in vending machines also (like The Memory Vending Machine I costarted up a couple years ago: memoryvending.supply)
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 7d
EXACTLY
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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 7d
All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
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Read — Zine Machine
Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.
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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 7d
All I know to do when things are Very Bad is make art with more artists. I hope my little lit mag @zinemachine.bsky.social (launched today!), brings you what it’s brought me—an insistence that there’s so much brilliance, cleverness, humor, & beauty. That it’s never far away.🩷
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Read — Zine Machine
Our launch issue is LIVE!! Read zines made by real (paid!) human artists in Zine Machine's Summer '25 Edit, out now.
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 8d
"On one corner of their big, dumb work truck that they didn’t use for work, they had fastened up a confederate flag. On the other corner, the flag of the United States. I don’t know why it bothered me."

And lo, it's Chris Swartzentruber with a Villain Era turn: villaineralit.com/2025/09/30/b...
Bench Seat Confessional by Chris Swartzentruber
I grew up in a small town in Southern Arizona mostly made up of military members, Border Patrol agents, and Raytheon employees. All of the other people that live there own or work at businesses lik…
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 9d
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 8d
XNESS ESSAYS IN A BOOK???????
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 9d
Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social!

Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology
Now available for pre-order: Hit Repeat Until I Hate Music: The March Xness Anthology, edited by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, coming with Split/Lip Press on March 31. Image shows a yellow book cover with a dubbed cassette tape, upon which the title of the book has been written.
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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 12d
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A bunch of push pins in assorted colors: red, yellow, green, blue, purple. Four of the pins will eventually hold up newspaper clippings on the corkboard in Samantha’s closet. Another four will connect strands of twine on the board, crisscrossing in cat’s cradle patterns. The ninth push pin will accidentally prick Samantha’s forefinger, drawing blood, and it falls to the floor, bouncing under her bed, where it remains, forgotten.
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Manic Pixie Soccer Mom @meganc.bsky.social · 12d
For whatever reason I'm seeing more Arizona slander than usual on the timeline & I just want you all to know that it only makes us desert rats stronger.
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 15d
I liked it too. Not overlong which was smart. Pared down. Bony even.
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 15d
"What if we had to live, remembering? Would
we do something different if we knew we’d have to live alongside ghosts?" —Katherine Larson, "Haunted Household Objects"
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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 16d
New feature on @richard-siken.bsky.social's newest book which is arguably essays!
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Four Essays (?) by Tucson's Own Richard Siken
New Siken book dropped 08/26; he's reading at UA Poetry Center 10/9
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 18d
Mighta did a thing : thediagram.com/merch/produc...
The Predator with a Latte at a Starbucks A fine shirt you should definitely wear to Starbucks.
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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 21d
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A statue of a fearsome dragon holding the Royal Coat of Arms of England in its talons. The statue is one of the ten “King’s Beasts” at Hampton Court Palace, King Henry VIII’s favorite residence. The 7,664 ratings of Hampton Court Palace on Tripadvisor are overwhelmingly favorable. A review left on October 20, 2018, by one Annabelle from Windlesham, Surrey, bears mentioning. Annabelle writes of visiting the palace with her mum and dad, and of being separated from them. Standing on the bridge over the moat, the West Gate before her, Annabelle heard a raspy, guttural whisper. Come here, lost child, the voice said. Annabelle wasn’t afraid. She makes this clear in her review. She was merely curious. The low voice said, come to me, dear girl. She followed the voice, tracking it to where it seemed loudest. It was this King’s Beast, Annabelle writes, the Royal Dragon. She stood in front of the statue, and—quoting Annabelle’s review here—had “the most brilliant conversation” with the beast. Annabelle rated Hampton Court Palace 5/5 (Excellent). I never want to leave my new friends here, Annabelle writes. A follow-up review on Tripadvisor appears to be written by Annabelle’s parents. WHERE ARE YOU ANABELLE?, they write in all caps. COME HOME!!! PLEASE, ANABELLE, COME HOME
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 21d
You are doing good work here
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 21d
It's actually my favorite Halloween movie
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d.ly @dly.bsky.social · 26d
the one trick mods don’t want you to know
A Bluesky appeal for suspension. The reason for appeal is a line from Mean Girls: I don't think my father, the inventor of Toaster Strudel, would be too pleased to hear about this
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