richard scott larson

"If Richard Warren hadn’t made that pact, his band of settlers would have died. Might that have been for the best? Or are all societies cobbled together from covenants, compromises, and banal, institutionalized atrocities?" @bethmachlan.bsky.social on WIDOW'S BAY and our national inheritance(s)

"If Richard Warren hadn’t made that pact, his band of settlers would have died. Might that have been for the best? Or are all societies cobbled together from covenants, compromises, and banal, institutionalized atrocities?" @bethmachlan.bsky.social on WIDOW'S BAY and our national inheritance(s)

"To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with ekphrasis: a mode that elides the I as if some universal eye were speaking out." Elisa Gabbert

"The novel can be sung, chanted, mimed, painted, filmed, animated, printed in braille, carved on the wall of a cave. What matters is the art act, the mirror of human life." Atticus Lish

Tonight is the night! Join me and @sabs.bsky.social at @strandbooks.com to chat about MY BAD: the '90s, gender, queerness, aids, the internet, Burning Man, radical faeries, queer nightlife, shame, pleasure, building family, saying you're sorry, and so much more www.eventbrite.com/e/hugh-ryan-...

Joanna Biggs on Makenna Goodman’s fairy tale lives

back from the Catskills writing retreat with lots of pages about Tom Ripley, gay murder, impostordom as a literary trope, and my weird wonderful horrible first year in NYC

Hey writers your weird pals are opening for submissions on June 1!

“White people aren’t being oppressed, they’re being asked to live in a shared reality.” On today’s VIBE CHECK, we’re talking about all the rage we’re seeing in American culture right now. And we talk about the rage at work in the new movie #IsGodIs.

back from the Catskills writing retreat with lots of pages about Tom Ripley, gay murder, impostordom as a literary trope, and my weird wonderful horrible first year in NYC

husband is playing the hit man video game series while I reread all the tom ripley novels in case you were invited to our house but want to reconsider your rsvp

NOT NOW, RADIOACTIVE MUTANT SUPER PIGS.

husband is playing the hit man video game series while I reread all the tom ripley novels in case you were invited to our house but want to reconsider your rsvp

I was talking to my mom on mother's day and she asked about the book on submission, and I was like omg existential dread for maybe seventy minutes and she finally resurfaced from her holiday wine and was like "tell me where I can buy it"

I was talking to my mom on mother's day and she asked about the book on submission, and I was like omg existential dread for maybe seventy minutes and she finally resurfaced from her holiday wine and was like "tell me where I can buy it"

spending this weed gummy working on the opening paragraph of my next book, moving the word "had" all around the page, changing verb tenses and then changing them back, adding a "sometimes" here and there to make myself seem less creepy

Shout out to all the lit mag editors & readers just doing their best in this new AI world, often for little or no money, because they believe in writing & art & supporting the people who create it. There's no easy or clear path through this mess AI's creating, but I appreciate you all trying.

"Women are incredible students of each other, and writing interactions between them is always a dreamy prospect because I get to spend time in the brutal, data-rich territory of people who look."

I’ve added to the flood of remembrances for the nothing-if-not-memorable Rex Reed. (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...

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Lucy Sante explores her fascination with memory (by recommending some books).

MY READING LIFE: New Skin author Sarah Wang answered our Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. debutiful.net/2026/05/13/s...

"We are always a collage under construction—taking this fragment, editing out another, consciously or unconsciously. ... Of course, there is always a battle between these fragments: between the need to remember, the need to forget."

"Anyone who is making anything is typically possessed by the need to translate a personal vision into a sharable vision. I have an almost spiritual respect for that thing, and I’m not even talking about inspiration or a great idea, but something more like a haunting." @catherinelacey.bsky.social

A couple years ago @danielkraus.com wrote in his newsletter that my book was among his favorites of the year, and now his absolutely incredible ANGEL DOWN has won the Pulitzer! Obviously related phenomena (and congrats Daniel!)

I spent more time than I should have writing this piece about the new Ben Lerner novel, mostly because this little book is just so dense and recursive and an utter pleasure to read

A couple years ago @danielkraus.com wrote in his newsletter that my book was among his favorites of the year, and now his absolutely incredible ANGEL DOWN has won the Pulitzer! Obviously related phenomena (and congrats Daniel!)

"Anyone who is making anything is typically possessed by the need to translate a personal vision into a sharable vision. I have an almost spiritual respect for that thing, and I’m not even talking about inspiration or a great idea, but something more like a haunting." @catherinelacey.bsky.social

I spent more time than I should have writing this piece about the new Ben Lerner novel, mostly because this little book is just so dense and recursive and an utter pleasure to read

Ben Lerner’s TRANSCRIPTION is ultimately about a pact we must make when we read fiction. Read @richardscottlarson.com's review. tinyurl.com/4vkn623u

Will have a follow-up to this soon, but the fight against the Paramount and WB merger isn’t over yet.

And @marshallshaffer.bsky.social on the phenomenon of THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA and what it taught millennials about the workplace: crookedmarquee.com/20-years-ago...

I only watched one episode 💀

"rewarding myself for finishing this Ben Lerner essay by watching like five episodes of Temptation Island" is the kind of gay I have become

"Lerner suggests that attention—the “hinge” he calls “fiction”—can locate the virtual within an actual, the latter of which has become, in a very traditional sense of the word, quite virtual." Amelia Anthony on Ben Lerner's "Transcription" clereviewofbooks.com/virtual-real...

I've been working on this for days and I think the opposite is now true, the essay is trying to kill me

my essay about the new Ben Lerner is a bit of a beautiful mess at the moment but writing about this book is bringing me back to life

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when your war is going great

changing my life one page at a time lol

Episode 2 featuring @richardscottlarson.com is available now on Podbean, Spotify, and Apple!

I had a great time talking to @jackiedwrites.bsky.social about my memoir for this new podcast about queer and trans nonfiction writing... very grateful to be able to keep discussing this book almost two years after it first appeared 🤓🔥