zoezolbrod
@zoezolbrod.bsky.social
Reader, writer, (THE TELLING, CURRENCY, essays etc in The Rumpus, The Guardian, Salon, HuffPost, Brevity Blog, novel COIN OF THE REALM forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books), Chicago, bikes > cars
And cardboard boxes
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
And cardboard boxes
I just ran out of my house because I heard a whistle blowing three times, and it was this kid blowing on his new recorder.
November 4, 2025 at 9:53 PM
I just ran out of my house because I heard a whistle blowing three times, and it was this kid blowing on his new recorder.
Incredible turnout today for a mutual aid food drive in Evanston, 2 days after people were beaten and abducted by ICE/feds and schools had to go on soft lockdown. We know how to come together.
November 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Incredible turnout today for a mutual aid food drive in Evanston, 2 days after people were beaten and abducted by ICE/feds and schools had to go on soft lockdown. We know how to come together.
Excited to announce that my novel COIN OF THE REALM will be published in 2027!
I started working on this so long ago. It's a dystopia set in the near future, but real events have made conditions worse, faster, than I imagined. Now I'm categorizing it as a cozy dystopia. Hope people read it.
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I started working on this so long ago. It's a dystopia set in the near future, but real events have made conditions worse, faster, than I imagined. Now I'm categorizing it as a cozy dystopia. Hope people read it.
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October 2, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Excited to announce that my novel COIN OF THE REALM will be published in 2027!
I started working on this so long ago. It's a dystopia set in the near future, but real events have made conditions worse, faster, than I imagined. Now I'm categorizing it as a cozy dystopia. Hope people read it.
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I started working on this so long ago. It's a dystopia set in the near future, but real events have made conditions worse, faster, than I imagined. Now I'm categorizing it as a cozy dystopia. Hope people read it.
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I get to talk about Sinead O'Connor's legacy of dissent at Printers Row Lit Fest this Sunday in our beautiful city with @marthabayne.bsky.social, @britticisms.bsky.social, and @circegirl.bsky.social.
September 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I get to talk about Sinead O'Connor's legacy of dissent at Printers Row Lit Fest this Sunday in our beautiful city with @marthabayne.bsky.social, @britticisms.bsky.social, and @circegirl.bsky.social.
I'm going to start telling how I decide to read the books I do. For some reason it seems connected to the discourse around the death of books coverage. This is about The Convenience Store Woman. The image of Muraka’s writing process may never leave me. open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbr...
May 26, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I'm going to start telling how I decide to read the books I do. For some reason it seems connected to the discourse around the death of books coverage. This is about The Convenience Store Woman. The image of Muraka’s writing process may never leave me. open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbr...
Once again, reality outpaces the near-future book I've been working on for a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
April 7, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Once again, reality outpaces the near-future book I've been working on for a decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/s...
A book about a powerful, mystical, misunderstood, furious conceptual artist who is stalked and strikes back might be the catharsis you need right now.https://open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbrod/p/woo-woo?r=t39s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
March 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
A book about a powerful, mystical, misunderstood, furious conceptual artist who is stalked and strikes back might be the catharsis you need right now.https://open.substack.com/pub/zoezolbrod/p/woo-woo?r=t39s&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Happy to pay on the Metra even tho it’s easy not to because I think of it as a vote for the Metra, which I love.
December 12, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Happy to pay on the Metra even tho it’s easy not to because I think of it as a vote for the Metra, which I love.
Incredible speech. Let’s do something!!
August 21, 2024 at 3:05 AM
Incredible speech. Let’s do something!!
Relatable! Hearing from Kamala's childhood bestie and her bestie's mom, who became Kamala's mom's friend.
August 20, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Relatable! Hearing from Kamala's childhood bestie and her bestie's mom, who became Kamala's mom's friend.
OK (not really) but that subtitle is a total mismatch with my novel, and the AI it/they ignored my better book.
September 27, 2023 at 8:30 PM
OK (not really) but that subtitle is a total mismatch with my novel, and the AI it/they ignored my better book.
When I read books in translation and/or written decades ago I’m reminded that my favorite way to learn is to be swept up in a narrative that relies on background knowledge I don’t quite have yet.
August 23, 2023 at 6:03 PM
When I read books in translation and/or written decades ago I’m reminded that my favorite way to learn is to be swept up in a narrative that relies on background knowledge I don’t quite have yet.
#1 takeaway. We who are middle class and above need to loudly support multi-family and low-income housing IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
August 6, 2023 at 2:57 PM
#1 takeaway. We who are middle class and above need to loudly support multi-family and low-income housing IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
