A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.

Glad I can't actually watch it, haha. Looking at the score is bad enough

Really bad

The publisher has only five copies left of my translation of Book IV of Vergil's Georgics, titled The Bees.

It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick.

Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!

Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen talks old scenes and a new tour: defector.com/grizzly-bear...

Tortoise spoke with @theguardian.com about their Chicago roots; the making of their new album, ‘𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡,’ out next month; and the special shows they’re performing to celebrate the release of the album, their first in nine years 🦂✨
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Photo: Heather Cantrell

Read Anna Gaca’s essay in LARB Quarterly no. 46, where she recounts her journey learning French and immersing herself in the language. “What trust is lost, what intimate connections with language, with culture, with auditory experience itself?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vous-ecoutez-rfi/

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here:

www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

#roadecology

"This will never work": PARCHMENT (@parchmentmag.bsky.social), a literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is returning to print.

I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5

"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place."

@craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

My new piece Untitled/Dreamweapon is out today on Bandcamp. Its based off a recording originally performed by Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad in NYC, 1968, my own take on "Untitled" from the Dreamweapon recordings. Ive been trying to think of ways to make more work with explicit Antifascist intentions…

Happy to see this article in the Statesman Journal that says the Benton County Planning Commission voted to deny the landfill's expansion permit: www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/2...

Incredible article by Jaclyn Moyer in the June issue of @highcountrynews.org about a community in rural Oregon fighting against the expansion of an already colossal landfill:

Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...

Each William Langewiesche disaster story was an event in itself: defector.com/each-william...

there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...

Never thought Forth Wanderers would come back. Still listen to their 2018 album a bunch. New songs sound great: forthwanderers.bandcamp.com/track/to-kno...

Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.

The infamous Toronto '85 live version of "Baby Beluga" is 19 minutes long and features audible cries of anguish from kids in the audience. But Raffi and the band just kept going.

I wrote about trash for @bookpostusa.bsky.social

I wrote about enduring Philadelphia traditions, Wanamaker’s ads that printed the word WANAMAKER 111 times in a row, and taking my son to the department store where I proposed. defector.com/one-last-tri...

‘I have always had a taste for not-quite-novels, but I suspect this would always have been too much of a not-quite-a-not-quite-novel for me.’

Michael Hofmann reads Paul Valéry’s 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

icymi I wrote about some seriously cool hunting strategies of cuttlefish
defector.com/this-is-the-...

sometimes it fills me with paralyzing dread to think that early millennials are the last people in the industrialized world who have an accessible, first-person pre-internet frame of reference, but then i am comforted by the knowledge that someday i will die defector.com/glossy-gunky...

Great story in the @inquirer.com about blueback herring returning to Cooper River in NJ (a river once thought too polluted to support many fish species): share.inquirer.com/8jTAgQ