maddie crum

I logged back into bluesky to learn that I’d been tagged in this 🤠

An excerpt from my book, The Keeper, forthcoming next fall!

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

who’s still here?

my favorite audiobooks i listened to this year were “time and free will” by henri bergson and “veronica” by mary gaitskill

This app may be cringe but I appreciate that I can scroll here without taking critical damage / losing braincells

Kate Wagner x Grace Byron A Conversation with Critic Kate Wagner

read me and @emotrophywife.bsky.social in critical conversation about feminism, friendship, books, criticism and more open.substack.com/pub/gracebyr...

“Revision,” by Daisy Hildyard For the first time, Gabriel accepted that this privilege was in his possession. He had taken his place at the table.

“Gabriel had attended a normal school, wore sportswear, and had male friends from home who got into physical fights when they went out on a Saturday night. His peers at Oxford therefore believed him to be ‘street.’ ” A short story by Daisy Hildyard.

the only pictures i took at our christmas party were of the ice block i made in a bundt pan

my favorite books i read this year were “creation lake” by rachel kushner and “serve it forth” by m.f.k. fisher

spotify wrapped knows it’s funny, like a precocious kid

recommended some flip-flops and a jacqueline rose book for @dirt.bsky.social’s gift guide 🙃

“Paris Friend,” by Shuang Xuetao So you get on well? he said. You could say that, I said. You could say that, for a while now, she’s been my only reason to go on living.

“I was close to death all that month. When you get to the last stages of hunger, it doesn’t hurt at all. You lose all the strength in your body, but your brain keeps churning, and when you’re asleep you dream non-stop.” Fiction by Shuang Xuetao.

for @clereviewbooks.bsky.social, i riffed about jenny erpenbeck, who writes systems novels with psychological depth. it’ll be online eventually; for now here are some pictures of the issue, which came in the mail today!

decelerating one ebay purchase at a time

wondering if and when the pre-impressionist art bots will make the switch

if nicholson baker gets on here and starts posting slouchy pictures of chairs and traffic cones like he did on twitter ~2013, i’m in

Our open reading period will begin on September 1 and end on September 14. Please send us your best and your weirdest!

Guidelines for how and what to submit are here: dorothyproject.com/about/

…lol, are they gonna accidentally herald a new age of minimalism

blue sky in la last week