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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"List the birds native to your state and the birds that arrive for a season. Diagram the placement of all the nests...Start a list of people killed by ICE since 2024" @utopiaminus.bsky.social in today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/susa...

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Susan Briante @utopiaminus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thank you @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me share my list for resistance!

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"Memorize these lines from Purgatorio: As sheep come out of their pen, in ones, twos, and threes, and others stand timidly, with eyes and nose towards the ground, and what the first does, the others also do," Today's L*ST is a list from Bri Chapman: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/bri-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Up today in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series is Emiland Kray's "L’ambroise de Lotito: On Disordered Eating and a Connection Stronger than Life and Death": www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/emil...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

WANTED: LOST-T-SHIRT, PERFECT GREEN. Today's @essaydaily.bsky.social L*ST comes from @heidifettigwriter.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/heid...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh wow! Yesterday's entry in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS project is a LOST game by Dan Pinchbeck of The Chinese Room; quite an honor to be able to put this out in the world! www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/dan-...

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"I’m trying to remember the last time..." A new L*ST by @ellenbirkettmorris.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2026/09/elle...

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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I did not fully understand this song as a little kid, but it absolutely made me want my own apartment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaqJ...

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Dolly Parton - Two Doors Down LIVE (Dolly TV Series 1987)

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I was left thinking, or am thinking now, about those events that punctuate the multivolume tome of our life [with] colons before lists, the stuff that marks the way: Today in L*STS we have a LAST for you, being @pcmadden3.bsky.social's For the Last Time: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/patr...

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Patrick Madden, For the Last Time | L*STS

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

lest I come across as arrogant lest I remind him of the time he crashed my VW bug lest he retreats to demon metaphors lest the reference to palm forests triggers the Merwin digression lest I misunderstood the assignment "LEST LIST" by Timothy Dyke: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/timo...

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Pᴜʀᴇ Dᴇᴀᴅ Gᴀᴍɪɴɢ @puredeadgaming.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

OK this is incredibly cool. A gamer has created floppy disks of his Steam collection and they act as executables to launch that game.

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

A visual to go along with my "State Fair Vanitas" list linked below. The Kentucky State Fair is always a good time, but my favorite part is at the end, when the culinary exhibits have gone into full decay yet remain on display.

A blue-ribbon sweet potato pie covered in mold, near the end of the Kentucky State Fair.

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"My list questions why we can feel this beautiful—bordering on obsessional—appreciation of other women, but are so rarely able to harness that love and reverence for ourselves" Today's L*STS post is Jessica Curry's "Wannabe: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/jess...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Will take this opportunity once more to hype @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS, featuring my ode to the fair: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin...

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Erin Keane, State Fair Vanitas | L*STS

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Today we kick off publishing l*sts over at @essaydaily.bsky.social. L*STS are lists, lasts, losts, and lusts. First up is @erinkeane.bsky.social's State Fair Vanitas! www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/erin.... Want to contribute one? Pitch us!

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote a little list ode to the Kentucky State Fair for @essaydaily.bsky.social … and will find out later this week if my first-ever entries get a lil prize. (Probably not, but the prize is not the point!)

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"Saturday morning, Beth called to ask if I wanted to go birding at the wildlife refuge west of Syracuse. Beth was the elderly landlady of my hovel, where I drank until my vision fuzzed." Misha Tentser's last/lust in @essaydaily.bsky.social's L*STS series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/08/mish...

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Misha Tenster, On Birds and Poison | L*STS

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Care to contribute to Essay Daily's L*STS project (lists, lasts, losts, lusts, etc.)? Details: www.essaydaily.org/p/lsts-essay...

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Reminder about Caroline Tracey book launch tonight and Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening readings + the first 6 Significant Objects stories: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...

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Upcoming Readings Tonight + Significant Objects

Caroline Tracey book launch Sat evening; Kirk Wisland and Simmons Buntin Wed evening

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Essay Daily @essaydaily.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

"How is it that we’ve made it here to the age of artificial intelligence realized, and Max Headroom is not around?" Avery Gregurich takes a close look at Max Headroom in our Media Club series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/02/aver...

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Avery Gregurich, Seeking: Max Headroom

This essay is in our Media Club series, an ongoing series of essays on visual media. Pitch us something! More details here . * Seeking: M...

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Andrew Maynard @andrew-maynard.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Really enjoyed writing this.Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for making a space for essays on essays!

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

"at the time, it felt like each expression of private violence was an intimacy. A secret garden where most people wouldn’t tread" Day 2 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is Lily Herman on T2 Trainspotting: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 02, 2025: Lily Herman, Run the Train

* Run the Train Lily Herman * Content warning: violence, sexual abuse, genocide, infant mortality, substance use disorder. I felt the man’s...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"Tagged T-shirts have evolved into their own Linnaean taxonomy. The messages break down into specific genera or at least accents of fragmentary grammar and syntax." The most excellent Michael Martone in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 03, 2025: Michael Martone, ...All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Eight Memoirs on Wearing Words

…All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Eight Memoirs on Wearing Words Michael Martone * Magic Marker There was an empty box printed in black in...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

"What you learn first: how to carry. Load the hod with bricks or blocks and carry it to the job site. Unload it and do it again, again, again." Today in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar it's one of my favorite essayists, Joni Tevis on a 1910 photo: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

"I hate being the girl who watches boys play videogames, but I wrecked my wrists playing World of Warcraft in the aughts" Dec 6 in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar brings you @brookewonders.bsky.social on Bloodborne and a lot more: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"From a formal point of view, we share repetition, we share paper and canvas, and we share the robot." Dec 7 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar: Emiland Kray on HR Giger: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

I am very mad that the world didn't tell me you could visit Serge Gainsbourg's house before today, read @cathydelacruz.bsky.social's essay on it at @essaydaily.bsky.social www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 09: Cathy de la Cruz, A Mess, a Museum

A Mess, a Museum Cathy de la Cruz * “Well, this is my house. I don’t know what it is: a sitting room; a music room; a mess; a museum …” —Se...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

"Of course, a house, a home is an exhibition—a curated collection." Cathy de la Cruz in @essaydaily.bsky.social's Dec 9 essay: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

"I am an equally untrained plantswoman—for all my botanical successes, uncountable victims have nonetheless ended up on the compost heap." Dec 10 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social calendar brings you @j-sukys.bsky.social on weeds and art and more: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

"The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose." Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

"Polygamy is the paradigm of the patriarchy. Polyamory is the paradigm of the people.…Women are on TV talking about their sex lives." @nikwalk.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

As a die-hard RHOSLC fan I read @nikwalk.bsky.social ‘s piece for the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent calendar on the city and its other TV exports — polygamy and polyamory — with great interest. www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 12: Nicole Walker, Wives and Lives: From Polygamy to Polyamory

Wives and Lives: From Polygamy to Polyamory Nicole Walker * * There is a moment when I enter Northern Utah when I realize I’m on a d...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"Watching Reservation Dogs, easily one of my favorite television shows of the past ten years, makes me think about audience" Dec 13 @essaydaily.bsky.social features @utopiaminus.bsky.social on the great Reservation Dogs: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Erin Keane @erinkeane.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social for letting me hop into the Advent calendar project and write about "Dreamchild," an unsettling 1985 movie about the real Alice in Wonderland, featuring Jim Henson Creature Shop puppets, that we never talk about anymore. www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 14: Erin Keane, Dreamchild, or the Curse of Being Alice

Dreamchild, or the Curse of Being Alice Erin Keane * * Sandwiched between The Dark Crystal, a 1982 film I couldn’t follow as a child becau...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Hoo boy today's @essaydaily.bsky.social advent essay by Isabelle Robinson about rewatching Scream after a school shooting hits pretty hard: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

"I remember where I was when I first saw ads for The O.C. the same way my parents remember where they were when Kennedy was shot." Dec 16 is Ted McLoof day on @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 16: Ted McLoof, The Year Seth Cohen Ruled the Earth

The Year Seth Cohen Ruled the Earth Ted McLoof * * Recently, as part of the marketing for a book of coming-of-age stories I wrote , I was ...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

"It is this scene that I want to spend time with." David Griffith on The Godfather at 50 in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

"video games are, like all forms of narrative art, empathy machines." I love reading writers moved by games, and today features @charlesjensen.bsky.social on The Last of Us Part II (spoilers involved) in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

"One afternoon in the spring of 2022, my husband shooed our cat off the chair in my study, sat down, and said he had something to tell me. He had just completed an application to be on the reality show Alone." Sharon Wahl in the @essaydaily.bsky.social calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

"I don’t think we give enough credit to weirdness in games as a source of mystery and power." New essay up on @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today on the video game NORCO from @geographyofrobots.bsky.social and advocating for weirdness (minor spoilers): www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

"There's a scene near the end of the last episode of Midnight Mass that seems so clearly a pietà in its arrangement and prefacing..." @pcmadden3.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent on his traditional 12/21 date: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"I don’t know why I binge watch. I grew up in the fifties." In today's @essaydaily.bsky.social advent essay let @alisondeming.bsky.social sell you on the pleasures of binge-watching (Poldark): www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...

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Dec 23: Alison Deming, On Binge-Watching

* On Binge-Watching Alison Deming * * If you spliced together all the footage of Ross Poldark galloping along the seaside cliffs of Cornwa...

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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

We have just two more essays to go in the @essaydaily.bsky.social 2025 advent calendar. If you've missed any of them (understandable; it's a busy time of year), they're all linked here: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...

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The Essay Daily Advent Calendar

The 2025 Essay Daily Advent Calendar is here! And this year we are writing about visual media (TV shows, video games, movies, visual art, ...

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Will Slattery @wjaslattery.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

over at @essaydaily.bsky.social we’re gearing up for our annual Advent Calendar (the only time of year we actually post daily); send us yer stuff if you want to join in the advent adventures!

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Tucson Essay Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

TUCSON ESSAY ALERT

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