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Coco Picard

@cocolarolo.bsky.social
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books + comics / often in the vicinity of art / recently The Healing Circle (Red Hen Press) she/her/hers

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Giovanni Aloi @giovannialoi.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
hair-raising encounters with films in their natural habitat. Visit the University of Minnesota Press website to buy your copy and check out the other titles in our series! More coming soon... @uminnpress.bsky.social @cocolarolo.bsky.social #artafternature #anthropocene #posthumanism #animals
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University of Minnesota Press @uminnpress.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Two vibrant books release today! -One Spring Up North: A wordless picture-book journey through an awakening spring in the Boundary Waters -Cinemal: Where experimental films and animals collide, in the Art after Nature series ed. by @giovannialoi.bsky.social and @cocolarolo.bsky.social #NewBooks
Book cover of One Spring Up North by John Owens. Colored-pencil drawing of a person holding a canoe paddle standing among flowers before wavy waters and distant trees. Title and author in sky above.Book cover of Cinemal: The Becoming-Animal of Experimental Film by Tessa Laird. Film still of a baby sloth hanging onto a tree branch upside down, highlighted in vivid rainbow colors. Title in white lowercase letters above.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 25/04/2025
In this comic interview Coco Picard speaks with Emily Everett about her debut novel “All That Life Can Afford,” the test prep industry as a microcosm for how the world works, and how class structure determines accessibility in the UK. buff.ly/Xe3U5a4
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 28/03/2025
In this comic interview Coco Picard (@cocolarolo.bsky.social) speaks with Ibtisam Azem about her novel "The Book of Disappearance," and what it means to write against disappearance. buff.ly/iS67LXq
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“The Book of Disappearance” Explores a Fictional World Where Palestinians Vanish - Electric Literature
Ibtisam Azem discusses the Nakba, colonialism, and the role of literature in resisting erasure
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Salem Collo-Julin @hollohulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
And that's just a few of the stories you'll read if you hit our website or find a print copy on the streets of Chicago. Local journalism matters. Take a stand for us and for all the people we cover by donating to @chicagoreader.com now. donorbox.org/save-the-chi... /end
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Save the Chicago Reader - Salem Collo-Julin's Fundraiser on Donorbox
Imagine a teenager in a study carrel at a Chicago Public Library branch. It’s the late end of the 1980s, and a stack of newspapers is on a table nearby. Standing up to stretch after an hour of pretend...
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Salem Collo-Julin @hollohulo.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Writer and artist @cocolarolo.bsky.social brings us an illustrated interview with author @alexhigley.bsky.social about his latest, out from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Higley appears at Chicago's Exile in Bookville on 2/28. chicagoreader.com/books/book-r... 4/
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Failing up - Chicago Reader
True Failure, the latest novel from Alex Higley, follows the deceptions of characters failing upward in their bid for the American dream.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Libraries as radical sites of private/anti-AI research
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Yesterdays note to self
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
against artificial intelligentsia
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Late night comics brought me back to a playlist I made for a friend open.spotify.com/playlist/32h...
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Music for Sarah
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
1000% this. Public libraries are actually pretty radical--free to all, and based on the idea that info should be available to all. Get a library card! Use your library! Those numbers often play into their funding.
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Shannon Heffernan @shannonheffernan.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
As Trump takes office, Chicago Public Schools tries to reassure parents it will keep immigrant & LGBTQ students safe. www.cps.edu/services-and...
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New Administration Guidance
View important information regarding the potential impact of the incoming presidential administration’s voiced policy changes on CPS school communities. The content on this page will continue to evolv...
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Bots paint pastoral kinkaid knock offs to prove they aren’t bots
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Filipa Ramos @filipaaaaaaaaaaa.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRJc...
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David Lynch’s final weather report
YouTube video by The Golden Circle
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Support the LA Artists relief fund www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui...
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Donate to Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over, organized by Grief and Hope
Grief… and hope. We are a group of volunteers—artists, gallery employees,… Grief and Hope needs your support for Help LA's Artists and Art Workers Start Over
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Kyle Beachy @kylebeachy.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
I have this book and can confirm both weird and wonderful.
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
"Message to the performers: Do not try to carry this play forward. Let it creep slowly over the stage with no help, with no end in view." - Richard Foreman, Idiot Savant
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
If NYE fashion says anything about 2025, dog sweaters are IN.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Preschool breakout group
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Andrew Russeth @russeth.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Francis Alÿs, '1943,' 2012, first shown at Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Sound of Music remake by Sofia Coppola
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Karen E. Bender @karenebender.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
The PR dept for the brussels sprouts industry goes wild!
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Colors sing in the rain.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Shout out to the first grade dad in Facebook glasses bearing witness to archived absurdities of my long fallow account during school drop off.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
🤍🔥🔥🤍🔥🔥🤍
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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 08/12/2024
My brother’s cat has been lounging casually in his Christmas tree and I’m obsessed 😂
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
When I finish a novel I doubt I will write another only to find myself unexpectedly beginning again weeks or months later, always by surprise, like boo! Gotcha. Anyway, today I started another novel.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“tsunami warning passed + I’m recommended to download the “My Shake” App” which sounds like a very bad with many scare quotes poem.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Personal abject mess as a form of rebellion in the age of AI aspiration
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
snack or hat? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...
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Scientists baffled as orcas seem to revive an 80s trend: dead salmon hats
At least one of the marine mammals was recently spotted in Washington wearing the multipurpose fishy accessory
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The site itself explores how plants serve as conceptual models for organizing information. One can explore the collection using an arboreal (hierarchical and branching), a rhizomatic (horizonal and linked) or a bryophytic (flat ontology) navigation structure.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 02/12/2024
In “Scaffolding,” Lauren Elkin ( @laurenelkin.bsky.social ) explores a shifting, lived ethics of the body and desire. (interview by @cocolarolo.bsky.social )
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In "Scaffolding," Extramarital Sexual Pleasure is the Antidote to Patriarchal Structures - Electric Literature
Lauren Elkin discusses constructing a novel about feminist art, Parisian architecture, and psychoanalysis
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Fiction Collective Two @fictioncollective2.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Read an excerpt from THE CASTLE by @snrogoff.bsky.social - use code FC250 for 50% off until Dec. 31st only ! www.uapress.ua.edu/978157366207...
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
They will halt on January 20, 2025 when Trump takes office, noting the “threat to democracy and freedom of expression posed by the cooperation between the president of the most powerful country in the world, Donald J. Trump, and the richest man in the world, Elon Musk…”
Post from Peter Sweden:

BREAKING: The European Federation of Journalists representing 320.000 journalists have announced they will stop posting on X.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is exactly why, I argue, we need to stop talking about the need to "reduce emissions" and start talking about the need to "phase out fossil fuels." www.wired.com/story/fossil...
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The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
The term “reducing emissions” has outlived its usefulness, a crutch to soften the blow that’s being exploited by greenwashers. Now it’s time to get real.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
mix tape/mood board for my as yet unpublished novel open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZT...
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Mood Board for the Construction of a Wolf
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Ok rando-radio station Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue followed by the excerpted Star Wars soundtrack is a little much day after thanksgiving
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Authors Against Book Bans has posted an open letter demanding that publishers prepare for 2025 by protecting authors and the freedom to read.
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Authors Against Book Bans demand publishers prepare for 2025.
Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers and creative workers who “stand united against the deeply unconstitutional movement to limit the freedom to read,” released an open letter ye…
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jericho jennifer nelson @henkaipantomime.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
postdoc position at Cornell for work on on Ottoman Palestine, Mandatory Palestine, and/or Palestine/Israel. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29312
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Cornell University, Near Eastern Studies
Full service online faculty recruitment and application management system for academic institutions worldwide. We offer unique solutions tailored for academic communities.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
dangerous imbecility flocks to power
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
New graphic interview with @acrebooks.bsky.social author Moshe Zvi Marvit is now live! #NothingVast
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R. O. Kwon 권오경 @rokwon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
while writing Exhibit, I also kept a process journal, writing notes to myself & maybe to the novel about the attendant thoughts, feelings, terrors, joys, anxieties & now it’s out!, thank you to @bombmag.bsky.social for publishing this 🖤
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NONFICTION
A Novel's Hidden Diary: Writing Exhibit
Process journal: Seven years of notes

BY R.O. KWON
NOVEMBER 26, 20247.20.16

Idon’t quite know what this new book is, who these people might be, or where it’s going, but I imagine it might also be true that, if I knew, I’d be too bored to keep going. So I hope, and I hack through thick leaves. I began Exhibit in 2014, and, until 2017, worked on it when I wasn’t editing my first novel. Starting in 2017, my fiction-writing time went to just Exhibit.

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Last week’s election left us brokenhearted and afraid. I keep forcing myself to take deep inhales. It helps a little. What will become of us? I want to be a better person; I would like to be less selfish. I’ve made resolutions about how I’ll use my time. Will they keep? Will I grow up at last?

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Each month that goes past, since the elections: flicker of surprise, we’re not yet all dead. Last night, I finished typing out notes for the second novel. I think I’m starting to see where it’s going, what it hopes to be.
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
The POV of this puzzle
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“smell of an old school pencil case”
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Jacob Wren @jacobwren.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
"This border is rotten meat, a hallucination, a wavering line a stupid idea. Can't we blink and it'll be gone?" - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Bodymap
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Coco Picard @cocolarolo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
New comics-based interview with #vanessagerman about her solo show is now live! chicagoreader.com/visual-arts-...
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vanessa german on her Logan Center exhibition - Chicago Reader
Works by artist vanessa german on view at the Logan Center aim to transport viewers into a space of vulnerability, curiosity, and courage.
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becca grady @beccagrady.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
An excerpt from a larger book project I've been working on is up on @elsewherejournal.bsky.social (welcome to @bsky.app Elsewhere!) This piece is from a sliver of time @sypgrant.bsky.social and I spent in Wyoming and Montana on a residency moon. www.elsewhere-journal.com/twilight-pos...
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Attention — Elsewhere: A Journal of Place
By Becca Grady Wind and water have whittled hoodoos and buttes over time, drawing and sculpting with sandstone, mudstone, volcanic ash, and shale. This geological strata is on display for miles. S...
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