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Mordecai Martin
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He/him. Writer. איבערטייטשער. Fifth generation New Yorker. Mad man and Psychiatric Survivor. Hairy AND over-share-y. MFA from Randolph College. http://www.MordecaiMartin.net. https://fartaytshtundfarbesert.substack.com/
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · Nov 11
Fuck I did my #introduction post and I forgot to put a link to my website that has all my publications and my blog and my contact form. Fuck. Fuck me. Shit. Shit balls. Fuck a duck. Fuck a rama ding dong. Shit and piss. Fuck, shit, and assholes. Assholes and piss. Fuck a dog.
Jesus fucked. Dang.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 10h
Impossible sausage
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Hannah Grieco @writesloud.bsky.social · 12h
Bookshop is having a sale to counter Prime Day! What a great opportunity to buy this cool new book I heard about.

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First Kicking, Then Not
Check out First Kicking, Then Not - <p>A young woman transforms after an unspeakable loss. A recent divorcee discovers a new life. An aging mother fears losing everything she loves, while another aban...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 15h
Omg
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 15h
This is a really interesting question. I don’t have a great reasoned answer, but my personal instinct is if it’s a philosophy text, as I suppose it is, it deserves more universalism, while otherwise literary prose should be about evoking the feel you’re going for, the era. Does that make sense?
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
My favorite moments of this fascist hell scape is when these fucks turn against each other in ever increasing hysterics of performing toxic masculinity or some other fascist trait. It reminds me of those episodes of GI Joe where Cobra Commander and Destro can’t get along, so like, it all falls apart
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
I am trying to trust myself and my work in that soft middle ground, of being evaluated and appraised and weighed. I think my work has the goods. I think it's what these people, these middle men, my collaborators, I think it's what they want and need. I think my readers are out there. But it is hard
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
Agents, Editors, Copy-Editors, Fact Checkers, Publishers. They insert themselves between us and being read and they are the people we want and need to collaborate with. it makes a difficult interim between writing the last word and the completion of the work, in front of the eyes of the reader.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
Writing is an odd art; because of time constraints (and opportunities! To slow down and be read slowly! What a gift!) involved, and because of the history of publication and of editing, we have a lot of what might impolitely and incorrectly be called "Middle men" in between us and our audience.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
The work has to be read to be finished, by a real reader, who comes across it doing something else or seeks it out or just is a fan. Too often in my case, that reader becomes a person in my life, and it's hard to get them back to being a reader. But all the same, that's who needs to finish the work.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 2d
I think a lot about how part of the completion of the work, is being read. And not just by your dad or your wife or someone who's sitting there while you anxiously stare at them, waiting for a long enough pause to say "What'd you think of the twist?!"
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 3d
What are you waiting for?
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Jared Beloff @readinstead.bsky.social · 6d
You need to register for this event! Seriously, who wouldn't want to see @mitchnobis.bsky @djvorreyer.bsky.social and Chris L Butler read from their new books!?

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A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer
A NAWP Reading: Chris L. Butler, Mitch Nobis & Donna Vorreyer. Hosted by Jared Beloff.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
We’ve all had a boss like this
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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d
pull down and pulverize that subaltern’s tower, and make a little heap of dust of it
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
Loved this
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Kristina Tabor Saccone @kristinatabor.bsky.social · 3d
New post up on Blue Violet, my Substack. It’s not just about Barbie tho “Barbie was one of my earliest influences, her plastic proportioned body dressed and undressed in my hands, where I learned what arms, breasts, stomach, and thighs were supposed to look like.”

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The Weight of Dolls
On Body Image and the Stories We Inherit
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 3d
Reading social media and feeling the usual feelings, I should say more, I should say it now, I should not wait to build an audience, I have to build an audience. But countering it with the delicious slowness of my process. It takes time to do what I am doing. It takes time to write, to translate.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
Yeah that’s fair
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
So clearly they are at least thinking of you
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
Alina, it wouldn’t fit
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
I’ve yet to encounter this person!
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
Hanging with Celan in between chunks of Auster’s the New York Trilogy. It’s Paul fall!
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
Started reading Celan for the first time. Can’t really move on from the pairing of poppies and memory, bread crumb and death. Will stay here for a long time
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 7d
My Spanish is coming along nicely in these classes, but I think I’ll find a bunch of clubs to join and see if immersion can hyper charge it
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 8d
Still trying to determine what it all means
Jerome and I: On being a Jew with a patron saint
The first time I lived in Mexico City, I came, as I have always come, to be with Atenea, the woman I love, and stayed for 8 months, from April to December, and really I would have been content to stay...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 8d
everyone be nice to me (and all translators), it’s international day of translation
Jerome and I: On being a Jew with a patron saint
The first time I lived in Mexico City, I came, as I have always come, to be with Atenea, the woman I love, and stayed for 8 months, from April to December, and really I would have been content to stay...
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 9d
While I am not solving the world’s problems, I am living a life a trillion times more worthwhile than those who cause and relish in cruelty, because I do not do evil, but focus exclusively on saying something true and beautiful.

Art is not enough. It is the only way forward.
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Mordecai Martin @mordecaimartin.net · 9d
I’ve been thinking a lot about art and impotence, the feeling that so much of the work we do is disproportionate to the effect we have, that we often feel like we have no effect, that nothing is happening. Paradoxically, I also am feeling that Art is the only thing that matters.
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