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Who chooses the poems featured on the New York City subway? Meet the people behind Poetry in Motion.

Happy 122nd birthday to the NYC subway! For @literaryhub.bsky.social, I spoke to the head of the MTA's Art & Design program and the Poetry Society of America about the beloved Poetry in Motion program

🎂 Happy Birthday, #NYCsubway! 📽️ Behold! The first-ever known footage of the subway, and we're sharing it today on the subway's 122nd birthday. #TodayInHistory: #OnThisDay in 1904, New York City’s first rapid transit subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) opened.

For Halloween I am being Normal

This is a very fun, debut collection of stories and sure to be a fun conversation. Come on out! Afterwards we can all go down the block and recreate the poster of Once Upon A Time In America together

In this week's newsletter, @jamesfolta.com and I rounded up great writing by @donmoyn.bsky.social, @bizzycoy.bsky.social in @pointsincase.com, Nick DiLallo in @mcsweeneys.net, and Patricia Marx in @newyorker.com. Plus, info about my upcoming short humor workshops. See the issue and subscribe 👇

The algo finally gets me

What the hell?! Though I guess it was kind of accurate to today?

What the hell?! Though I guess it was kind of accurate to today?

This is a very fun, debut collection of stories and sure to be a fun conversation. Come on out! Afterwards we can all go down the block and recreate the poster of Once Upon A Time In America together

Catch up on this week’s news with these cool Venn diagrams.

Wrote a bit about some of my frustrations with AI, a recent Atlantic article about an African literary prize, and how generative tech’s very presence can be corrosive to literary culture

LMAO

What if we all pooled our resources and bought Kelly Carkson an even bigger bird 🫶

In this week's newsletter @jamesfolta.com & I assembled great writing by Lisa Pertoso in @pointsincase.com, and by @tylergooch.bsky.social, David Distenfeld, and Jeremiah Budin in @mcsweeneys.net +A new @literaryhub.bsky.social article by James & my upcoming short humor workshops Read & subscribe👇

Wrote a bit about some of my frustrations with AI, a recent Atlantic article about an African literary prize, and how generative tech’s very presence can be corrosive to literary culture

Found poem / self portrait after transcription

Found poem / self portrait after transcription

The Irish novelist known for nailing Millennial relationship psychosis and speaking up about Palestine told The Guardian this morning that she can no longer sell her novels in the United Kingdom.

Well met, weary traveler! Stop for a wizard ale and hear my tale of publishing yet to come...

Me and the boys getting together for a trivial night, just dithering and mumbling, not even finishing our beers, wasting the night away

Well met, weary traveler! Stop for a wizard ale and hear my tale of publishing yet to come...

In honor of her Nobel, here’s an old @mcsweeneys.net piece of mine inspired by Anne Carson’s translations

This software is designed by people, when their products malfunction and break laws, those people should be held responsible

Got to shout out the homies “Mechanization Takes Command“ and the concept of the pharmakon in this piece where I’m trying to figure out a district court ruling

Last week's Newsletter from @lukevburns.bsky.social and I was our nine year anniversary! We featured writing by Aliza Zelin Neidich, Lanyne Dixon & Marco Kaye in @mcsweeneys.net & Dan Caprera in The Big Jewel (RIP) Click below to read more, and subscribe!

Good news! My eye doctor's texting system is glitching and sending me a message every four minutes!

love this piece in @literaryhub.bsky.social #medievalsky lithub.com/what-to-read...

Looks like it's bozo hours down at the dumbass factory again

Ready to hit the town

Looks like it's bozo hours down at the dumbass factory again

Dial D for Dialing

If you could recommend one book to someone as their very first read ever, what would it be?

One movie in the Criterion Closet should be a hidden switch that opens a trap door

I’m the Michael Jordan of softly saying “okay” to myself 75+ times per day

Happy birthday Caravaggio, here’s something I wrote a few years back for McSweeney’s #50

“Ever since we’ve posted the secondary coverage as well as the editorial, there’s been an absolute outpour of similar stories hitting my inbox and the sexual-misconduct tip line.”

Bro last night was a braided essay

Wrote about a short film and a novella with autumnal vibes for your late September, at @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/two-great-wo...

Wrote about a short film and a novella with autumnal vibes for your late September, at @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/two-great-wo...

This software is designed by people, when their products malfunction and break laws, those people should be held responsible

Happy fall from me, @mcsweeneys.net, and former Obama administration Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack

Age-gap relationship with my expired sauces

What if I became a "Linux guy"

I don't know. I don't know.

*Bruce Springsteen voice* “well they torched the portapotties in the park last night”