Liz Arnold
@lizarnold.bsky.social
Writer and NYFA Nonfiction fellow. Managing editor, ACLU Magazine. Brooklyn & Finger Lakes. liz-arnold.com
Very sad that the aurora borealis continue to dazzle wherever I am not!
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Very sad that the aurora borealis continue to dazzle wherever I am not!
I’m loving those printed, quilted-cotton, diaper-bag jackets women are wearing, they are very fresh and cute!
August 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m loving those printed, quilted-cotton, diaper-bag jackets women are wearing, they are very fresh and cute!
I loved the Jeff Buckley documentary and especially the way director Amy Berg told the story through the eyes the women closest to him. A shot of his bookshelves included SELECTED POEMS OF ANNE SEXTON and Jeanette Winterson’s WRITTEN ON THE BODY.
August 9, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I loved the Jeff Buckley documentary and especially the way director Amy Berg told the story through the eyes the women closest to him. A shot of his bookshelves included SELECTED POEMS OF ANNE SEXTON and Jeanette Winterson’s WRITTEN ON THE BODY.
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It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Review: The Man, Not the Myth
With her new documentary, director and producer Amy Berg presents the late Jeff Buckley as a bottomless vessel for creativity—and rejects the idea that he was fated for a tragic end.
pitchfork.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It’s Never Over has no interest in painting Jeff Buckley as a doomed, tragic figure, but as an artist who somehow foresaw his brief life—and devoured the world, while he could
One of my favorite lines in Jeff Buckley's music is this one—with a kind of obsolete urgency—in "Last Goodbye," and the way he sings it: Did you rush to the phone to call
August 7, 2025 at 9:50 PM
One of my favorite lines in Jeff Buckley's music is this one—with a kind of obsolete urgency—in "Last Goodbye," and the way he sings it: Did you rush to the phone to call
I'm going to see the Jeff Buckley doc tonight at Angelika and can't stop thinking about the late 90s and how everyone seemed to have a connection to him. Such an enigma.
August 7, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I'm going to see the Jeff Buckley doc tonight at Angelika and can't stop thinking about the late 90s and how everyone seemed to have a connection to him. Such an enigma.
Oopsie accidental four-month break from here but I'm coming back.
August 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Oopsie accidental four-month break from here but I'm coming back.
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As we all open our phones on the boat back to the mainland
April 7, 2025 at 3:21 AM
As we all open our phones on the boat back to the mainland
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Contacted my legislators to urge restored funding for #Fulbright & #CriticalLanguageScholarship (CLS) programs. I reunited with my first mother while on a Fulbright grant in 2010 and met her again after supervising the CLS Korea program in 2016. My life literally would not be the same without them.
March 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Contacted my legislators to urge restored funding for #Fulbright & #CriticalLanguageScholarship (CLS) programs. I reunited with my first mother while on a Fulbright grant in 2010 and met her again after supervising the CLS Korea program in 2016. My life literally would not be the same without them.
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This generative class focuses on the art of beginnings and how to take those crucial first steps into a new piece. Writers will leave with fresh ideas, new pages, and practical strategies for both starting strong and sustaining momentum. Sign up today!
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Spring Craft Intensive: Julie Buntin - Tin House
This generative class is all about beginnings - how good ones work, and how to take the first step into a new piece. Many of the maxims about beginnings revolve around the same idea: a beginning is…
buff.ly
March 3, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This generative class focuses on the art of beginnings and how to take those crucial first steps into a new piece. Writers will leave with fresh ideas, new pages, and practical strategies for both starting strong and sustaining momentum. Sign up today!
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Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities.
Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do?
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do?
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Pitt to pause PhD admissions, following Vanderbilt and USC, because of uncertainty of NIH funding to academic universities.
Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do?
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
Who will teach and train US scientists for pharma and biotech? Should we import them from countries that do?
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
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How many of my academic friends saw this?
Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions.
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
Pitt Pauses All PhD Admissions.
www.wesa.fm/health-scien...
The University of Pittsburgh pauses its Ph.D. admissions process amid research funding uncertainty
A spokesperson for the University told WESA Friday that the school has "temporarily paused additional Ph.D. offers of admission," while Pitt works to understand how proposed federal funding cuts could...
www.wesa.fm
February 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...
Visiting Writers Series | Butler University
www.butler.edu
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...
Wow. Watch Patricia Smith perform her poem, SKINHEAD, published in Agni in 1992 and still feels urgent today. Poet Shira Erlichman mentioned the poem in her lecture during the Tin House workshop over the weekend. Before Kendrick Lamar's resounding halftime statement. #THWW
Patricia Smith Skinhead
YouTube video by urbanrenewalprogram
www.youtube.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Wow. Watch Patricia Smith perform her poem, SKINHEAD, published in Agni in 1992 and still feels urgent today. Poet Shira Erlichman mentioned the poem in her lecture during the Tin House workshop over the weekend. Before Kendrick Lamar's resounding halftime statement. #THWW
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I am so lucky to be loved like this, and I hope one day Taylor finds that kind of love too. @joshgondelman.bsky.social www.thecut.com/2019/12/my-w...
My Wife’s Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too
No one tells you about the other in-laws you acquire when you get married.
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February 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I am so lucky to be loved like this, and I hope one day Taylor finds that kind of love too. @joshgondelman.bsky.social www.thecut.com/2019/12/my-w...
All of us girls in 2003 wore our jeans like Kendrick’s last night, is that coming back
February 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
All of us girls in 2003 wore our jeans like Kendrick’s last night, is that coming back
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Is that me lightly chuckling that a film about a charming queens stripper beat out the very epic lone genius of The Brutalist? Yes. Yes it is.
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‘Anora’ Wins Big at Producers and Directors Guild Awards
The film that takes those two major industry prizes almost always goes on to win the best-picture Oscar.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Is that me lightly chuckling that a film about a charming queens stripper beat out the very epic lone genius of The Brutalist? Yes. Yes it is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/m...
Wow. “Cider will sit on approximately 2,500 acres of land in Genesee County, east of Buffalo, where it began construction in late 2024.”
Kicking off the week with some #goodclimatenews 💚
A clean energy investment company has secured $950 million to build New York’s largest solar farm. ☀️
A clean energy investment company has secured $950 million to build New York’s largest solar farm. ☀️
New York's largest solar farm is a go with $950 million in funding
Greenbacker Renewable Energy has secured $950 million to build what will be New York State's largest solar farm.
electrek.co
February 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Wow. “Cider will sit on approximately 2,500 acres of land in Genesee County, east of Buffalo, where it began construction in late 2024.”
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Novels are written alone. But they don’t have to be revised and encouraged alone. And a supportive community of writers can make a huge difference between a few opening chapters tossed in the trash and a full manuscript emailed to agents.
February 3, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Novels are written alone. But they don’t have to be revised and encouraged alone. And a supportive community of writers can make a huge difference between a few opening chapters tossed in the trash and a full manuscript emailed to agents.
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There’s still time for you to apply to the 2025 #THSW! ⏰ Applications are due this Sunday. In addition to our General Scholarships, we also offer many community-focused awards such as the Own Path Scholarship for writers without MFAs.
Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/sum...
Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/sum...
January 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
There’s still time for you to apply to the 2025 #THSW! ⏰ Applications are due this Sunday. In addition to our General Scholarships, we also offer many community-focused awards such as the Own Path Scholarship for writers without MFAs.
Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/sum...
Apply: tinhouse.com/workshop/sum...
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Rest in power, Alonzo Davis.
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Alonzo Davis, Artist Who Founded One of America’s First Black-Owned Galleries, Dies at 82
Alonzo Davis, an artist who founded Brockman Gallery, one of the first major Black-owned galleries in the US, has died at 82.
www.artnews.com
January 31, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Rest in power, Alonzo Davis.
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
www.artnews.com/art-news/new...
No wonder I could never remember the meaning of "capricious." Its origins are from, in part, riccio, or "hedgehog." (At least now I know the definition.)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
January 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
No wonder I could never remember the meaning of "capricious." Its origins are from, in part, riccio, or "hedgehog." (At least now I know the definition.)
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...
DFW talking to Charlie Rose about David Lynch. Minutes 4:50-10:00ish.
"Blue Velvet came at a time for me when I really needed to see it and it helped me a lot in my own work, and after that I… followed this guy’s whole career and I find him instructive and useful. For whatever that’s worth." ...
"Blue Velvet came at a time for me when I really needed to see it and it helped me a lot in my own work, and after that I… followed this guy’s whole career and I find him instructive and useful. For whatever that’s worth." ...
David Foster Wallace interview on Charlie Rose (1997)
YouTube video by Manufacturing Intellect
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January 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
DFW talking to Charlie Rose about David Lynch. Minutes 4:50-10:00ish.
"Blue Velvet came at a time for me when I really needed to see it and it helped me a lot in my own work, and after that I… followed this guy’s whole career and I find him instructive and useful. For whatever that’s worth." ...
"Blue Velvet came at a time for me when I really needed to see it and it helped me a lot in my own work, and after that I… followed this guy’s whole career and I find him instructive and useful. For whatever that’s worth." ...
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Freaked out by Patriotic Education EO? Here’s some history. I could post quickly because it’s part of my beat—& supported. Draws on reporting I did for Harper’s & Vanity Fair. Point being reporting takes time & resources, & that takes funds. Journalism crisis is intertwined w/ fascism crisis.
I've been writing about the Right's "Patriotic Education" for years. In 2020 & '21, I argued that even as Trump lost he was laying the foundation for its broader implementation. Now, today, here we are. Here's a brief history of the erasure of history. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/patriotic-...
Patriotic Education and the End of History
Or, a brief history of today's erasure of history.
slowcivilwar.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Freaked out by Patriotic Education EO? Here’s some history. I could post quickly because it’s part of my beat—& supported. Draws on reporting I did for Harper’s & Vanity Fair. Point being reporting takes time & resources, & that takes funds. Journalism crisis is intertwined w/ fascism crisis.
Love librarians 👀 🧵
When the Patriot Act was passed, libraries got requests for patrons’ borrowing history. We were prohibited from disclosing those requests.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
We deleted and shredded those records and stopped tracking reading history for that reason.
ALSO.
January 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Love librarians 👀 🧵