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Jason Sepac

@jasonsepac.bsky.social
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Visual Essays in Kenyon Review, Fourth Genre, The Iowa Review, The Pinch, The Normal School, and others. Love Pittsburgh, Pugs, and Polaroid. jasonsepac.com

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Audiobooks about music should have the actual music folded into them
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paige thomas @paigethomas.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
For the first time, I get to welcome my book into the world @literary-arts.org on march 3rd, and I get to do it with my little sister, Blair. If you can, please come! It’s free, you’ll be home before bedtime, and I can promise very cool surprises 👀 Link in bio!(@finishinglinepress.bsky.social)
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Jeremy Klemin @jeremyklemin.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Beyond grateful to @literary-arts.org for the support — and what a treat to be listed alongside my guy @jasonsepac.bsky.social!
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Thank you, @literary-arts.org !!! So grateful for the support. ❤️ And congrats to friend and OSU alum @jeremyklemin.bsky.social !!!
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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com
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I grew up with Alex Pretti
The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This book is awesome. Buy it.
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The newspaper of record of my entire childhood would literally rather die than pay its unionized workers the wages and benefits that the actual Supreme Court of the United States of America decided were owed to them.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
A separate list of celebrity and politician memoirs could cut this list by about 70%.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Accurate.
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paige thomas @paigethomas.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
The kindness(es) that Jennifer Richter has shown me and my work go far beyond her blurb for PERSON UNDER, but I am still so giddy to share it… You can still preorder my book directly from @finishinglinepress.bsky.social at the link in my bio
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I can’t remember the last time I was THIS excited for a new book. Please do yourself a favor and pre-order.
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paige thomas @paigethomas.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I’m back @literary-arts.org teaching this visual poetry workshop in October and y’all—this is beloved to me! I was floored by what created last time I taught this. I actually cannot believe I get to do it again. @literaryarts also has a robust scholarship and access tuition program! Link in bio!
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Chris Bonanos: "...It’s actually better than magic because it’s human. This is the product of very, very smart people applying themselves super hard [...] using science and art together to make something wonderful. And they succeeded." www.pbs.org/wgbh/america...
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Mr. Polaroid | American Experience | PBS
Before the iPhone, the Polaroid camera let people instantly chronicle their lives. Along with instant photo mania, its company culture became the model for Silicon Valley. Mr. Polaroid is the story of...
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Anastasia Tsioulcas @anastasiat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In the grocery store tonight, they’re playing “Wind of Change” by Scorpions. Do you know the amazing Patrick Radden Keefe podcast about this song and its alleged writing by the CIA? You should. Hugely entertaining. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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My Friend Michael
Podcast Episode · Wind of Change · S1 E1 · 45m
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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Me in the national security group chat
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Check out another small press book we love: Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello.
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A Small Press Book We Love: Let Me Clear My Throat by Elena Passarello
Small presses have had a rough year, but as the literary world continues to conglomerate, we at Literary Hub think they’re more important than ever. Which is why, every (work) day in March—wh…
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"sometimes I wish I didn’t make things so arduous. It’s just a game, after all. It’s just that sometimes I get IDEAS."
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Split/Lip Press @splitlippress.com · 28/02/2025
This is the longest we've kept a secret project secret: SLP is proud to be the home for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, collated by the Official @marchxness.bsky.social Selection Committee (@angermonsoon.bsky.social + @meganc.bsky.social) and forthcoming on 3/31/26!
WELCOME MARCH XNESS! This image is of the corny, old-style Publishers Marketplace announcement that "HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: The March Xness Anthology" by Ander Monson and Megan Campbell, cofounders of March Xness, will be published by Split/Lip Press in March 2026. A collection of essays spanning 8 tournaments from 40 contributors, the anthology includes writers Matt Bell, Danielle Evans, Elisa Gabbert, Raquel Gutierrez, and Elena Passarello, among others.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Needless to say, I agree.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"Television, film, and online video—together, the moving image has gotten to a point, some 440 years after Gutenberg, of displacing print as the world's medium of record." Peter Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The Power of the Moving Image | Los Angeles Review of Books
Peter B. Kaufman argues that video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Government workers when DOGE shows up.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
@k-e-c.bsky.social absolutely killing it. 🔥🚶
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katie cusumano @k-e-c.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🧁 been sitting/coasting on this news for a week ... so so honored to be among this year's @literaryarts.bsky.social fellows literary-arts.org/2025/01/anno...
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Announcing the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships
Announcing the 2025 Oregon Literary Fellowships
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Sarah Jones @sarahjones.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
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The Believer @thebeliever.net · 16/01/2025
Thank you, David Lynch, for always reminding us that art and life are spiritual acts. Your wisdom lives on. www.thebeliever.net/logger/david...
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David Lynch Ushers in a Golden Age - Believer Magazine
“This is how we can change this world from suffering and negativity to a world enjoying positivity—end of suffering—real peace.” David Lynch is a filmmaker, musician, writer, painter, sculptor, lamp m...
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
A girl I knew in college saw David Lynch speak at an event. When it ended, she found a way to get to the front to tell him how much his films and shows meant to her. His response was “Thank you. And remember, the universe is in your basement.”
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
“… [THE PITT] doesn't much bother capturing the vibe of Pittsburgh – nobody, including Wyle, even attempts the city's unique "yinz"-er accent.” I might have tuned in just to hear Noah Wyle’s Pittsburghese.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 04/01/2025
incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...
"I have no hopes for 2025. Humanity is disappointing. We killed the Earth. Villains triumph and the innocents suffer. I imagine these trends will continue."
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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I read this one immediately after blacking out on ebay looking for calendars from 1986 to hang on my wall in 2025 (the dates match up)...needless to say, it hit home.
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
"So I did what poorly aged 90s movies taught me you do in the face of aging: I bought some dumb shit." 12/19 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar is @jasonsepac.bsky.social on becoming nostalgia: www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
I wrote an essay on becoming nostalgia, dressing funny, and buying old shit on eBay to make me feel better. Thanks to @essaydaily.bsky.social and @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the chance to share! www.essaydaily.org/2024/12/dec-...
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Dec 19: Jason Sepac, Becoming Nostalgia
* This is part of our yearly Advent Calendar, which publishes an essay a day each year during advent.  Find the rest of this year's and prev...
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
How did I not know John Edgar Wideman had a new book out 😳😓😬
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
An essay on Mick Foley? Merry Christmas to me.
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Elena Passarello @elenavox.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
So happy to have an essay on (purportedly) bad Elvis movie songs in this year's Oxford American Music issue! I'll link a few of my fave awesome/awful tunes below.
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ℳ¡¢₶⩜ℇ𝕃 ☾∯⩓ℬ⦿⧑ @michaelchabon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I was listening to WDVE, in my freshman-year dorm at CMU, when I heard John Lennon had been shot & then that he was dead. Amid the grief and dismay of that day, I remember thinking: Well, he had already done so much, he had a full life, he *was* 40! (I was not yet 18.)
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Ander Monson @angermonsoon.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
"I like the dark despite the way adults complain. Bleak puddles call for bright galoshes. And the word galoshes, too, for galumph and slosh…" Here's Julie Marie Wade kicking off @essaydaily.bsky.social 's 2024 Advent Calendar with a timely essay, "Advent": www.essaydaily.org/2024/11/nov-...
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Nov 30, 2024: Julie Marie Wade, Advent
Welcome to the 2024 Advent Calendar. We begin with a preview of the Calendar this year, featuring an essay by Julie Marie Wade, "Advent." Th...
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Out of habit, I sometimes look at the Nanit app even when I know my daughter is at daycare. This piece perfectly captures what it’s like having a baby at this particular moment.
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Barrelhouse @barrelhouse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Big rejection week out there in lit mag world. Editors across the country, bored and stuck in overcrowded airport terminals, clearing the queue before going home and trying again to explain to their aunt that actually $50 for a 4000 word story is *pretty good*
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Mr. Completely @brokensymmetry.art · 21/11/2024
Evening is for posting old images you can't remember acquiring
An album cover for the Chipmunks Koyaanisqatsi
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Steven Moore @stmoore.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
folks! my essay collection is on sale at @uncpress.bsky.social: 30% off with code 01UNCP30 it's about rural Iowa, political polarization, TV, oil, the civilian-military divide, and the genius of Shania Twain. it's funny, and on sale! let's go! uncpress.org/book/9781469... #booksky #writers
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The Distance from Slaughter County | Steven Moore | University of North Carolina Press
As a soldier and civilian, Steven Moore has traveled from the American Midwest to Afghanistan and beyond. In those travels, he's seen what place can mean, sp...
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Saw Lindsay Lohan trending. Assuming she’s been nominated for Trump’s cabinet.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I read ANTKIND a few years ago and had to stop probably three or four times because I thought I might have lost my mind. Now I miss that feeling. I’m still chasing it.
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
A little disappointed no headline has played on "cabinet of curiosities" yet
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
This is the struggle exactly
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I made one of these. 🤷‍♂️ go.bsky.app/FjnKiCF
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Jason Sepac @jasonsepac.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
I have a new visual essay in The Iowa Review. Thank you so much to the staff at TIR and to anyone who ever set eyes on this in its early stages. My dad’s reaction when I showed him the cover: “See, this is why I need to save all my old junk.”
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
On the other site we’re talking about thunks.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
“Books are a user interface to knowledge” is one of those sentences that just makes me so sad for the person who said it, who seems never to have loved a book, or appreciated knowledge
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