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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jul 7

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EPOCH @epochliterary.com · Jun 17

Coming soon

EPOCH Volume 72, Number 2. Cover painting of kids riding the subway.

FICTION
Renesha Dhanraj
Remy Barnes
Kristof Anetta
Murzban F. Shroff
Justin Taylor
Pegah Ouji
Bee Sacks
Greg Ames
Gabriel da Silva-Schicchi
Emma Cairns Watson
ESSAYS
Greg Sendi
Micah Perks
POETRY
Aldo Amparán
Brandon Shimoda
Weijia Pan
Ed Skoog
Betsy Mitchell Martinez
Christopher Kennedy
Bryan D. Price
Danny Cassidy
Elisa Gabbert
Laine Derr
Cary Marcous
Erin Malone
Lisa Russ Spaar
Stephen Thomas Roberts
Michael Martin
Korey Williams
Brittany Atkinson
Lily Jarman-Reisch
Taylor Franson-Thiel
FM Stringer
COMIC
Ariel Courage
COVER ART
David Pjecha

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jun 13

muumuuhouse.com/ac.09jun2025...

Ariel Courage | Tortoise

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · May 16

bon appetit 🧑‍🍳

Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · May 16

Required reading for those looking to eventually eat the rich (@arielcourage.bsky.social)

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Monkeycat @monkeycat.bsky.social · Apr 26

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The Mood of My Times: A Guest Post by Ariel Courage - B&N Reads

Author Ariel Courage has penned an exclusive essay on writing her debut novel Bad Nature, down below.

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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Apr 10

“I projected a lot of symbolic value onto that tree, which grew despite adversity: The place was a superfund site.” @arielcourage.bsky.social explores America’s polluted urban ruins.

Our Superfunds, Ourselves: Inside America’s Polluted Urban Ruins

I once lived near an abandoned power plant. It was a rotting red-brick Rundbogenstil with reverse brick crenellations under its eaves; a plaque under its gable said it was erected in 1892. Scaffold…

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Apr 3

got to write a bad nature playlist 😇

largeheartedboy.com/2025/04/01/a...

Ariel Courage’s music playlist for her novel Bad Nature – Largehearted Boy

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Apr 2

also pubbed a short story in joyland yesterday :)

joylandpublishing.com/fiction/half...

Ariel Courage

Ariel Courage is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA program, where she was editor-in-chief of the Brooklyn Review. She’s currently an assistant fiction editor at Agni. Her short work has appeared ...

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · Apr 1

I liked this book by the way. On shelves today. Ppl should grab a copy.

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Apr 1

alissa nutting (!) reviewed my book (!!) in the nyt (!!!) :))))

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

Book Review: ‘Bad Nature,’ by Ariel Courage

In Ariel Courage’s novel, “Bad Nature,” a powerful career woman sets out on a road trip intending to kill her father.

www.nytimes.com

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Cait_onthe_luce @caitluce.bsky.social · Apr 1

Looking for a wickedly funny book about a woman with a terminal cancer diagnosis who quits her job and takes off on a road trip to kill her father? Well, you are in luck because Bad Nature by @arielcourage.bsky.social is out today! www.islandbooks.com/book/9781250...

Copies of Bad Nature with Agni literary journal on wooden display table.

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Apr 1

alissa nutting (!) reviewed my book (!!) in the nyt (!!!) :))))

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/b...

Book Review: ‘Bad Nature,’ by Ariel Courage

In Ariel Courage’s novel, “Bad Nature,” a powerful career woman sets out on a road trip intending to kill her father.

www.nytimes.com

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Mar 30

forgot about this website for a bit but here is my book, it’s out 4/1 in the us and 4/16 in the uk!!!!

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Mar 6

madeleine watts and i are just two millennial ladies who wrote sad climate road-trip novels so this was an esp. fun interview

thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...

Writer Madeleine Watts on balancing growth and guarding against burnout – The Creative Independent

Writer Madeleine Watts discusses taking creative work seriously, describing a world impacted by climate change, and the importance of replenishing the soul with art

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Mar 1

finally watched jonas mekas a couple weeks ago and ever since have been muttering ‘this must be…para-dise’ to myself in my worst lithuanian accent

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Feb 26

had the same thought lmao we are getting the worst iteration of everything

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jan 28

that cruel kids table article is so ‘tell me you peaked in middle school without telling me you peaked in middle school’ coded

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jan 22

wish i felt schadenfreude but all i feel is sadenfreude ;(

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jan 16

he died from my lame ill-timed joke alas rip king 😔

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Jan 16

nightwalk dir. by david lynch

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Dec 11

hard to forgive hochul for fumbling congestion pricing but i’ll reconsider if she signs climate superfund+co2 fracking ban w/o amendments that fuck em up…get on it girl…!

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Dec 10

freelancers union in sunset park

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Nov 27

at least libby’s back up to 10 book holds again. nature is healing etc etc

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Nov 25

spoke with pw about how recent fiction is addressing climate change; i’m in good company here

www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Climate Fiction Grows More Realistic

As the facts of climate change manifest in real life, authors are finding that the future is all too present.

www.publishersweekly.com

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🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Nov 16

mainly what separates bluesky from twitter is that i see way fewer viral suicide jokes on the daily

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Nov 8

doing my part to help ny thru this drought by being too depressed to shower ;)

🆒 @arielcourage.bsky.social · Apr 8

funny timing on this bc over the wknd my husband found an unopened pack of american spirits in the street…kismet!

https://xraylitmag.com/visions-sins-ariel-courage/comics/

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