Sign in

Aidan Ryan

@aidanmryan.substack.com
73 followers 65 following 71 posts

i am here you are not i love you | writing, film, etc. | linktr.ee/Aidanryan

PostsRepliesMedia
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 10/03/2026
The Dortmund Gig was unforgettable and unrepeatable. Luckily, we caught it on video. Check out me, Dammnation, Rachelle Toarmino, and guests Peter Mayer and Christel Schuppenhauer at the Museum Ostwall. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/15-the-dor...
aidanmryan.substack.com
15. The Dortmund Gig ft. Dammnation and Rachelle Toarmino
I Am Here You Are Not I Love You at the Museum Ostwall im Dortmunder U
010
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
We are opening up our amazing Artist in Residence fellowship again. If you know any formerly incarcerated artists or artists otherwise directly impacted by state repression, please share. It's an incredible opportunity with a wonderful organization. civilrightscorps.org/artist-in-re...
civilrightscorps.org
Artist in Residence Fellowship 2026 - Civil Rights Corps
Civil Rights Corps is excited to announce the launch of its 2026 Artist in Residence fellowship. Each year, a groundbreaking visual artist whose work urgently confronts the subject matter of our civil...
14026
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 02/03/2026
Listen to my interview with Ani DiFranco, following her Unprecedented Sh!t tour and looking ahead to the release of her next book, The Spirit of Ani, with Lauren Coyle Rosen. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/15-the-unp...
aidanmryan.substack.com
15. The Unprecedented Ani DiFranco
Looking back on Unprecedented Sh!t, the songwriter's triumphant return to Buffalo, and the publication of The Spirit of Ani
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 18/02/2026
This is the last week to see CINDY SUFFOLETTO at WNYBAC. Stop by on Saturday, 11am-2pm, for my conversation with Nancy Weekly, Burchfield Scholar and author of an excellent essay on Suffoletto's work (which you can pick up at WNYBAC). wnybookarts.org/cindy-suffol...
wnybookarts.org
Cindy Suffoletto - WNY Book Arts Center
On view January 30 through February 21, 2026
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 16/02/2026
New interview with @equalityalec.bsky.social up this morning -- we talk about his work with Civil Rights Corps, the history of plea bargaining, the body camera con, the ICE budget, and much more. Listen: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/13-copagan...
aidanmryan.substack.com
13. Copaganda with Alec Karakatsanis
It's not too late to unlearn all the lies you were told about crime and safety
0105
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 09/02/2026
My conversation with Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public aidanmryan.substack.com/p/12-the-rev...
aidanmryan.substack.com
12. The Revolt of the Public with Martin Gurri
Watch now (45 mins) | Discussing Trump 2.0, Mamdani 1.0, Minneapolis, and more with the Oracle of the Crisis of Authority
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 27/01/2026
The Orwell quote we've all remembered slightly misses what's going on with MAGA shitposters right now. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
open.substack.com
The problem with that Orwell quote
The Millers don't need to convince YOU that 2 + 2 = 5
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 26/01/2026
People asking me for an audiobook. I can't do that myself (but would gladly work with a publisher). Here's a teaser: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/11-america...
aidanmryan.substack.com
11. Americans Abroad
An audiobook teaser
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 15/01/2026
Recognizing MAGA as a revolution might help the rest of us discern a counterrevolutionary path forward. Thoughts on Iran and Minneapolis, from London and Paris: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
aidanmryan.substack.com
The Case for a Counterrevolution
Thoughts on Minneapolis and Tehran by way of London and Paris
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 06/01/2026
EURO TOUR aidanmryan.substack.com/p/euro-tour-26
aidanmryan.substack.com
Euro Tour '26
Coming in hot to London, Paris, Berlin, and Dortmund
030
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 15/12/2025
Absolutely loving the emergence of Blindboy's new interest in radio voice, documentary cadences, town criers, jazz poetry, early vinyl, and how these inheritances play out in podcast production. open.spotify.com/episode/5ZI3...
open.spotify.com
The medieval origins of 2fm Radio DJ voice
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 03/12/2025
Joined Rachelle on The Desire Question - hear us on desire in art, intimacy + privacy + audience, balancing each other's priorities, and more - across Hell Yeah, I Am Here You Are Not I Love You, and our lives. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y...
podcasts.apple.com
You can have it ft. Rachelle Toarmino and Aidan Ryan
Podcast Episode · The Desire Question · 12/02/2025 · 35m
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 01/12/2025
Coming to the PNW--Friday in Seattle and Saturday in Portland.
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 19/11/2025
Reading Cory Doctorow's Enshittification and hanging out in NYC on election night got me thinking about why so many things are incentivized to suck -- and what we might do to change them. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
open.substack.com
Enshittification and its Incentives
How our economy is built to suck, and what we might be able to do about it
020
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 07/11/2025
The Buffalo History Museum asked me to write an episode for their excellent podcast on the local spiritualist and lawyer Edward C. Randall. He believed the dead have never died. Check it out. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
podcasts.apple.com
The Buffalo History Museum Podcast
History Podcast · Updated Monthly · The Buffalo History Museum Podcast is the premier source for Western New York history. Each episode, we tell a story of the people and events that have shaped our r...
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 29/10/2025
I'm back at it! If you enjoyed the last episode about Buffalo's Ezra Pound, check out this bonus episode with musings, corrections, and extended cuts from my conversation with Pound scholars Josh Kotin and Bob Spoo. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/09-bonus-e...
aidanmryan.substack.com
09. BONUS EPISODE - "I cannot make it cohere": More on Ezra Pound
Poems of incarceration, poems of the commons, antisemitism, Sherri Martinelli, apologies to Ed Sanders, Cutty Sark, revisions, Bill Bird, and accidental coherence
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 20/10/2025
New episode up now. I set out to understand how and why Ezra Pound's final published poem ended up in an obscure magazine in Buffalo. The whole story was bigger and weirder than I could have imagined. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
130
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 17/10/2025
Massive investigation dropping Monday. Subscribers get an early look. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 14/10/2025
Rachelle Toarmino by Lucy K Shaw: zonamotel.substack.com/p/profile-he...
zonamotel.substack.com
PROFILE: Hell Yeah for Rachelle Toarmino
Lucy K Shaw travels to Buffalo, NY to write about the pregnant, Peach Mag superstar
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 07/10/2025
Jon Cone reviews Franz Wright's At His Desk In The Past in Rain Taxi: raintaxi.com/at-his-desk-...
raintaxi.com
At His Desk in the Past
This new chapbook offers readers one more chance to enjoy the pure devotion Franz Wright had for poetry and to witness the craft as he practiced it in his final years. Reviewed by Jon Cone
020
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 05/10/2025
If you missed last month's live panel discussion in Cleveland featuring Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, Zach Savich, and me ... listen! aidanmryan.substack.com/p/07-i-am-he...
aidanmryan.substack.com
07. I Am Here ... with Madeline McDonnell, Caryl Pagel, and Zach Savich
Going Beyond Research at the Literary Cleveland Inkubator Writing Conference, Sept. 2025
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 25/08/2025
Gearing up for Cleveland, Sept. 13, where I'll speak with Zach Savich, Caryl Pagel, and Madeline McDonnell about research and the collision of creative and critical practices.
021
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 18/08/2025
Why did some of Ezra Pound's final cantos first appear in print in Buffalo (a full year BEFORE the unauthorized Ed Sanders Fuck You Press publication)? Why did this happen twice, in TWO of Buffalo's little magazines? I'll be trying to sort this out on my Substack in the weeks ahead. Follow along.
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 11/08/2025
Deeply grateful for this review from John Haber, who launched the first website for art criticism and history right around the time Cindy gave up her studio. Here he gives her some of the context she was missing then, comparing her work to Arshile Gorky. www.haberarts.com/topolski.htm
haberarts.com
Haber's Art Reviews: "I Am Here You Are Not I Love You," Andrew Topolski, and Cindy Suffoletto
Review by John Haber of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You by Aidan Ryan about Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 04/08/2025
Listen to James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on the life and poetry of Frank Stanford - recorded live in Buffalo, NY. open.spotify.com/episode/5FOW...
open.spotify.com
06. "When the rest of you / Were being children ..."
Organizing Isolation: The Podcast · Episode
210
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 01/08/2025
Buffalo: DO NOT MISS the reading and conversation with James McWilliams and Leo Lensing this Saturday, 7pm at Fitz Books: The Life and Poetry of Frank Stanford. This kind of thing doesn't come through our town often.
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 28/07/2025
This Tennessee audience got me to dish on Buffalo's numberless failings, how to keep making art (without fame or fortune) into your 80s, and the loneliness of eulogies. aidanmryan.substack.com/p/05-i-am-he...
aidanmryan.substack.com
.05 I Am Here ... on the Mountain
A visit to the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly
000
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
Andy Grace @andypgrace.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Buffalo, this Saturday July 26th 7:30 EST! In a silo!
031
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 21/07/2025
Check out the expanded second edition of Leo Lensing's Subiaco's Unofficial Poet Laureate: A Memoir of Frank Stanford in High School www.foundlingspress.com/books-and-me...
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 21/07/2025
New writing in Traffic East. First, a profile of the master blacksmith Andrew Chambers: www.trafficeast.com/inside-the-a...
trafficeast.com
Arc Iron — Aidan Ryan — Traffic East
Aidan Ryan on the life and work of Buffalo, New York blacksmith Andrew Chambers.
100
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 09/07/2025
Don't miss this upcoming conversation in Buffalo -- James McWilliams and Leo Lensing on their new scholarship around the poet (and Leo's high school friend) Frank Stanford.
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 23/06/2025
Latest on Lo Fi: Tyler and I talk art heists, agent fiascos, pro wrestling, and the partnerships of artists. Check it out. open.spotify.com/episode/1RiP...
open.spotify.com
Aidan Ryan - I Am Here You Are Not I Love You
Lo Fi Lit · Episode
030
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 16/06/2025
"Mostly it’s morning, Wednesday, and my loneliness older, the elegy oh going read it and weep!" Rachelle Toarmino for Alice Notley in Little Mirror www.littlemirrormag.com/rachelle-toa...
littlemirrormag.com
Rachelle Toarmino, Wednesday — Little Mirror
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 16/06/2025
My book is one month old today. Here's a roundup of all the reviews, reflections, and conversations so far - and a look at the rest of the summer. open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
open.substack.com
If You Missed It ...
Roundup from a month of reviews, interviews, and events
110
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
The Writing University @ UIOWA @writinguiowa.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished." New 5Q interview w/ University of Iowa Press author Aidan Ryan and his new book 'I Am Here You Are Not I Love You,' about visual artists Andrew Topolski and Cindy Suffoletto. 💛🖤 writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
writinguniversity.org
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
022
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
‪@aidanmryan.substack.com‬ examines the benefits and challenges of applying a fiction writing background to the art of biography.
buff.ly
Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record
Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…
132
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 04/06/2025
Early in my attempt to write this book, I realized that my sources disagreed on how Andy and Cindy had met. Navigating contradictions and gaps in the record required me to rely on tools I'd learned to use earlier in fiction. @literaryhub.bsky.social lithub.com/novelists-no...
lithub.com
Novelist’s Nonfiction: Writing Across the Gaps in the Record
Every biography begins with a unique set of constraints: there are only so many knowledgeable sources, only so much already written about a subject, only so many boxes in the archive. Anything beyo…
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 02/06/2025
I did 5 Qs with @writinguiowa.bsky.social - read it here: writinguniversity.org/news-archive...
writinguniversity.org
5Q Interview: University of Iowa Press Author Aidan Ryan
"I gave Cindy's eulogy—I was 18 years old—and the job never quite felt finished."
111
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 29/05/2025
Listen to the full reading and talk (feat. Laura Marris and Matt Kenyon) from the I AM HERE YOU ARE NOT I LOVE YOU launch earlier this month youtu.be/OnVX2PQbfKI?...
youtu.be
I Am Here You Are Not I Love You Book Launch - Author Aidan Ryan with Laura Marris and Matt Kenyon
YouTube video by Aidan Ryan
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 26/05/2025
Listen to my reading and conversation with Gabriel Bump this past Saturday at Unnameable Books in Turners Falls: open.substack.com/pub/aidanmry...
open.substack.com
.04 I Am Here ... with Gabriel Bump
On Alice Notley, unsent letters, pizza kitchens, making a home in Western New York, leaving it, what we can learn from Griselda, and how to keep making art
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 23/05/2025
If you're in driving distance of Turners Falls, MA tomorrow night, I want to see you at Unnameable Books -- be there by 7pm for a reading, film screening, and talk with me and Gabe Bump
000
Reposted by Aidan Ryan
Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Sharing what Rachelle Toarmino posted elsewhere— because it’s such a fantastic Notley quotation, that element of being-in that central to her poetics. That shamanic energy 🖤
Alice Notley @alice_notley • 12/28/13
I stole your stupid boxes that you call poems and threw them away
173
贝企
Alice Notley @alice_notley • 12/28/13
I stole your wealth and fame which are now irrelevant
171
ill
贝企
Alice Notley @alice_notley • 12/28/13
I stole your ability to kill me after we're dead
02
贝企
Alice Notley @alice_notley •12/28/13
I stole scale so you wouldn't be bigger than I am
17
Alice Notley @alice_notley •12/28/13
I'm stealing everything that you know by knowing more
17
01
ill
• • •
贝企
1409
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 18/05/2025
Listen - last night's reading and conversation with Charles Clough and Howard Fishman: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/03-i-am-he...
aidanmryan.substack.com
03. I Am Here ... with Howard Fishman and Charles Clough in Brooklyn
A reading and conversation about success and survival in the arts, the demands of New York City, and the merits of Vincent Gallo
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 10/05/2025
I loved these questions and this conversation--drop in for a discussion of the naming of the Pictures Generation, semiotics in the work of Andrew Topolski, how to be both artists and partners, and much more.
022
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 06/05/2025
Rereading To Anyone Who Ever Asks ahead of our conversation on May 17. This passage about Connie Converse could have been about Andy and Cindy. And it could have been about any almost-there artist in any time. Very excited for these books to collide in Brooklyn.
011
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 30/04/2025
Rachelle's HELL YEAH is now available for pre-order from Third Man Books - out October 14 t.co/0YguMq55da
t.co
http://thirdmanbooks.com/catalog/hellyeah
010
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 30/04/2025
Delighted to see the first review of I Am Here You Are Not I Love You in next month's Brooklyn Rail -- I'm humbled by some of what Melissa saw in this brooklynrail.org/2025/05/book...
brooklynrail.org
Aidan Ryan’s I Am Here You Are Not I Love You | The Brooklyn Rail
In undertaking the dual biography of his aunt and uncle, the artists Cindy Suffoletto and Andrew Topolski, Aidan Ryan looked in two directions: backward at the arc of their too-short lives and forward...
021
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 29/04/2025
I recorded my set at KGB last night -- three poems and the prologue to my book. Check it out here: aidanmryan.substack.com/p/02-three-p...
aidanmryan.substack.com
02. Three Poems and a Prologue
Masterclass in the Buffalo accent
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 28/04/2025
7:30! Not sure but from the looks of this I'm reading first
000
Aidan Ryan @aidanmryan.substack.com · 27/04/2025
NYC friends - come out to KGB Bar tomorrow night for what I think will be the first time I've read poems since 2019. I'll also read (just a teaser!) from my book I Am Here You Are Not I Love You ahead of the official release next month (Buffalo May 16 / Brooklyn May 17).
010