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Senior Editor @ Epiphany Lit. Stories in EPOCH, Carolina Quarterly, Bridge Eight, Sequestrum, McSweeney's Internet Tendency et al. Video creations (Richard Hell, Nancy Wilson, et al) www.jeffbond.nyc www.chillsubs.com/profile/jeffbondnyc

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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why BS? QT, MT, XS, OD… seems legit. Asking sincerely.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"Mom turned her skin transparent so I could see down to her aching bones. I held on for as long as I could. Maybe that made me a foolish kid, but I wouldn’t have wanted her to change." Gorgeous new fiction in @epiphanylit.bsky.social from Sammi Chiyao: www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/hea...
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Heaven is a Place in West Palm Beach, a story by Sammi Chiyao — Epiphany Magazine
I breathed through the tube and didn’t die, and finally I looked down and saw them. All these small fish streaking by, silvery and orange and pink, hermit crabs scuttling around the rocks, tufts of se...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Q & A with Sara Lippman, Editor of Epiphany. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Q & A with Sara Lippman, Editor of Epiphany. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Q&A today (Thurs Aug 27) at 2:30 EDT with me and @saralippmann.bsky.social. Open to all! Register at link in comments.
From Becky Tuch, founder of Lit Mag News: "Just a reminder that today at 2:30 pm est I will be speaking with Sara Lippman and Jeff Bond, Editor-in-Chief and Senior Fiction Editor of Epiphany."
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Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Join a live Q&A with our EIC @saralippmann.bsky.social, Editor @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social, and Becky Tuch from Lit Mag News on 8/27 at 2:30PM ET. This is your moment to ask about submissions, editing, and how lit mags work—and registration is free. Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
To order a copy: www.epochliterary.com/shop/p/volum...
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EPOCH Volume 73 Number 2 — EPOCH
Volume 73, Number 2. Hannah Ariesen, Anum Asi, Jeffrey Bond, Gerri Brightwell, Carol Cail, Collin Callahan, Julie Choffel, John Cotter, Daniel Davis-Williams, Stevie Edwards, Jessica Goodfellow, Evan ...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Check out @epochliterary.com V73 No.2 which includes my short story “Little Wow” (link in comments)
Front cover of EPOCH literary journal V73 No. 2Snapshot of opening paragraph to Jeff Bond’s short story “Little Wow”
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Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Thrilled to join an illustrious group of literary organizations as a 2026 Amazon Literary Partnership grant recipient, which will enable us to continue supporting writers at every stage of their career. #AmazonLiteraryPartnership @clmporg.bsky.social
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
“Sandy, why don’t you wear a bikini like Mama? Were you always gay?” “Shaye!” Mama yells. “Since as long as I can remember, honey.” Sandy laughs. “And your Mama look better in a bikini than I do.” _________ New flash in @epiphanylit.bsky.social www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/a-p...
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A Pain So Common by Ryan Russell — Epiphany Magazine
Sometimes she’ll circle whatever town we’re in with a wine bottle between her honey-brown knees, passing the bottle to me now and then, tussle my curls and kiss my hand.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Get the issue or subscribe: www.epiphanymagazine.org/store
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Shop Epiphany Magazine | Issues & Subscriptions — Epiphany Magazine
Browse new and back issues and books and subscribe to the magazine. Print and digital subscriptions available.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"I imagine Courtney on the ferry earlier today. In my imagination, all the couples are making out, maybe there’s even some light fingering." From the new issue of @epiphanylit.bsky.social : Amelia Beckerman's "Boyfriend Island" 😆 so, so funny www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/boy...
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Boyfriend Island — Epiphany Magazine
We watch as they don’t even glance back at the dock sinking under the weight of all the people who love them too. As the ferry pulls away, I break into shoulder-curling sobs.
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S. M. Strand @smstrand.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
This was so fun to work on with Jeff Bond. Proud to have it up at The Disappointed Housewife! @offbeatlit.bsky.social @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social thedisappointedhousewife.com/2026/06/23/v...
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Vanya, Vanity, and Betrayal on the Bay ~ memoir by Jeff Bond and S. M. Strand
So Spielberg’s “having a moment.” Again. Maybe it’s futile, but I still have hopes that my as yet unsigned memoir will find a home. The American public deserves to know the truth about their “favor…
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Gorgeous new flash in @epiphanylit.bsky.social from queer Nigerian storyteller Chidera Solomon Anikpe: "A Nigerian Mother’s Guide to Dewinging an Angel" including an interview between the author and myself. Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈🌈 www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/nig...
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A Nigerian Mother’s Guide to Dewinging an Angel — Epiphany Magazine
He swears that he can feel them sometimes, phantom appendages on his back twitching and thrumming with unlived life. “I swear mummy. I swear.”
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Epiphany @epiphanylit.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Our new issue, “Neighbors,” is dropping on June 15! Issue 36’s striking collection of work confronts the ways that people long for each other—from a Playboy Mansion to a Nigerian schoolyard to the classic avyan in a new translation of an unsung Iranian author.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"Writers give characters miscarriages, dissertations, only one friend. Writers have seven friends, acknowledged alphabetically in the acknowledgments." Excellent new humor from Rebecca Schiff and Sam Axelrod in McSweeney's. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wri...
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Writers
“Writers don’t like to write. Writers are decent writers. Writers read interviews with themselves. Writers turn off Wi-Fi. Writers are under thirty-five. Wri...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Am I reading too much into this or is this a clear sign that humanity is pretty much done?
A post on NextDoor asks "Are there any museums around New York that are worth visiting?"
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Writers: @epiphanylit.bsky.social is OPEN for print subs. Send your best fiction, CNF, poetry. Paying market, all subs read by 2 or more readers. We find our favorites in the slush pile epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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We hope that when you read Epiphany, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the themes to which we keep returning. We hope that you...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Excellent new fiction in @epiphanylit.bsky.social online: Emma Heath's "Grievance Line" www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/gri...
Screenshot of text from a short story: "Just because Susan was able to fully evolve to the bird of paradise pose in Fabulous Mrs. Jansson's Yoga class in Hawaii, where you had moved for high school, after Australia, does not meet our qualifications for [Valid Grievance]. The fact that Mrs. Jansson called Susan an “elegant crane” while she said she could tell you ate too much white bread “from the way your legs looked” was not at all the fault of Susan. We have categorized this as a [Misdirected Grievance]."
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Weirdly I just posted this mangled Guardian headline today
Mangled headline sounds like cop wrongly imprisoned for killing self
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Sometimes it’s not easy being both an editor and a reader of headlines 🤪
A screenshot of a newspaper headline is badly/confusingly written to suggest that a cop was wrongfully imprisoned for murdering himself
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The last line of that story is one of my all-time favorite lines ever
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Issue 35 FW25 of @epiphanylit.bsky.social is out! Stories by Joanna Hershon and John Weir and 2 new poems by Edmund White. www.epiphanymagazine.org/store/p/issu...
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Epiphany Issue No. 35 / FW25 | Print Issue — Epiphany Magazine
Recognize yourself in “Metamorphosis,” Edidiong Uzoma Essien’s subversion of the Kafkian trope that takes on sex work, fantasy, and capitalism; in John Weir’s “Starting from Paumanok,” an ode to lost ...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
#writers Epiphany subs open till Mon 12/15! Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation. Paying market. 💰 Send us your darlings! epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Epiphany Submission Manager
We hope that when you read Epiphany, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the themes to which we keep returning. We hope that you...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Epiphany Magazine (@epiphanylit.bsky.social) is open for submissions! Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translation. I am your Fiction Editor and our Guest Poetry Editor is Camille Rankine. Paying market. This post contains no bad news. epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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Epiphany Magazine Submission Manager
We hope that when you read Epiphany, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the themes to which we keep returning. We hope that you...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Get lit(erary) tonight (Thurs 10/16) at Liz's Book Bar, 315 Smith St in Brooklyn at 8:00PM to hear authors read from the latest issue of Epiphany. Cost of entry is to one drink to support Liz's Book Bar -- that's it!
List and pics of readers at event: Alice Liang, Ananya Pandya, Emily Skillings, June Glass
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Epiphany’s Fresh Voices Fellowship supports one emerging BIPOC writer without an advanced writing degree. *$2000 stipend *Year-long editorial fellowship at a small non-profit literary magazine *Publication Applications are O P E N
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Applications are Open for the 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship! — Epiphany Magazine
The 2026 Fresh Voices Fellowship is currently OPEN for applications and will close on November 1st, 2025. The Fresh Voices Fellowship supports one emerging Black, Indigenous, or other writer of...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Interesting read in Wired where attempted payment triggered a determination that the a published story was an “AI fabrication.” Not the same as your situation but interesting that it has a similar stress point www.wired.com/story/how-wi...
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How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer
We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
IYKYK
A smashed birdhouse on the ground is paired with a picture of Betty Davis in a Mary Poppins hat, eating a piece of fried chicken. The caption reads “Fat birds!
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
If you haven’t yet confirmed that the writer is who they say they are, it could be an imposter or plagiarizer. I’ve seen suspected plagiarizers balk when asked to do something (meet face to face on Zoom, etc) that would force their true identity out in the open.
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Lisette Brodey @lisettebrodey.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The Cultural and Political Obsession With Trans People Is Harming My Community 🏳️‍⚧️ Read Denne Michele Norris's introduction to Electric Literature's first book, "Both/And" bit.ly/4mdf6A8
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The Cultural and Political Obsession With Trans People Is Harming My Community - Electric Literature
Read Denne Michele Norris's introduction to Electric Literature's first book, "Both/And"
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
I always kinda preferred this version tho TBH youtu.be/LvYCXXGOwAE?...
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Eduard Khil -- The version the Soviets didn't want you to see!
YouTube video by Bond Wooley
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Representing @epiphanylit.bsky.social at the One Story Writers' Conference in NYC. Honored to be quoted on their Instagram! Congrats to @onestorymag.bsky.social for organizing an excellent event.
Screenshot of One Story's Instagram post that includes a quote from me, Jeff Bond, Fiction Editor at Epiphany: "Writing and editing aren't generally thought of as visual skills, but in many ways, they are. The way you use white space on the page can invite reader to take a breath, think about what they've just read before plowing forward. Have no white space can be just as effective in asking the reader to bear with you, this is dense and long but, please trust me, we're going somewhere."
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Here’s the song mashed up with The Bee Gees and Donna Summer. Works in a strange way. youtu.be/QqWxy41rmug?...
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You Should Be Dancing, Billie Joe
YouTube video by johndamn
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Another excellent satire from SM Strand, who happens to be my very funny sister. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tra...
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Trade Your Way to Wellness: A Patriotic Guide to Farm-Fresh Health Care
“Trump’s Medicaid cuts are coming for rural Americans: ‘It’s going to have to hit them first.’ Experts worry the tax-and-spending bill will gut hea...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Another excellent satire from SM Strand 😂 www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/adv...
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Advice from Your Conservative Neighbor on How You, a Liberal, Can Hang an American Flag Without Looking Like a Trumper
I saw you this morning as you were getting your paper, gazing wistfully at that flagpole bracket like it broke your heart in junior year. You want ...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Dog loss seems to what’s on the collective brain/heart of the #writing community here today. Here’s my contribution, an almost-ghost story from Bridge Eight: “Roscoe lives alone with 35 dogs. … He finds them easy to take care of because they are dead.” www.bridgeeight.com/sunshine/
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Sunshine » Bridge Eight Press
ROSCOE LIVES ALONE WITH THIRTY-FIVE DOGS. He finds them easy to take care of, even though he's seventy and slowing down. The dogs require little but that he calls out their names a few times a day, th...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
@saralippmann.bsky.social steered me toward this short story: “Horse” by @amybonnaffons.bsky.social It’s magnificent ciervoblanco.club/horse-by-amy...
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'Horse' by Amy Bonnaffons - Ciervo Blanco
Every morning we meet in the kitchen and unsheathe our needles. Serena delicately peels down her underwear, exposing a modest triangle of buttock; I count to three, hold her hip to steady her tremblin...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thousands of you have been asking me, "Where can I get a print copy of that amazing literary journal in which you, Jeff, edited SEVEN of the thirteen prose pieces?" and I am here to tell you that you can purchase it at this link, for just $20: epiphanyzine.com/features/202...
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Epiphany Issue 34, Spring/Summer 2025: Desire & Dread Is Out! — Epiphany Magazine
The latest issue of Epiphany is out! Check out the table of contents to get a taste of what and who is in the magazine!
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Submissions for the Fall/Winter Epiphany print issue close on Sun Jun 15 (tomorrow). Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry Get ‘em in before midnight! All subs read by at least 2 ppl epiphanymagazine.submittable.com/submit
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We hope that when you read Epiphany: A Literary Journal, you'll get a sense of the great variety of stories, poems, essays, and genre-bending work that we like, and the recurring themes to which we ke...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Epiphany Issue 34 is out! “Desire & Dread” available in both digital & print. So, so crazy proud of the stories in here and whatever part I had in helping bring them to life. Please check it out! epiphanyzine.com/features/202...
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Epiphany Issue 34, Spring/Summer 2025: Desire & Dread Is Out! — Epiphany Magazine
The latest issue of Epiphany is out! Check out the table of contents to get a taste of what and who is in the magazine!
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Something I did when I had more free time was make unlikely mashups. This one is Cher X Pink Floyd, which I call “Dark Side of the Moonstruck.” Silly fun. youtu.be/v5wIR6X6vPw?...
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MASHUP - DARK SIDE OF THE MOONSTRUCK!! (CHER, PINK FLOYD)
YouTube video by johndamn
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Edmund White, novelist and great chronicler of gay life, dies aged 85
The American essayist, playwright and author of books including A Boy’s Own Story and The Married Man has died
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Paul Baggaley, editor-in-chief of White’s publisher Bloomsbury, said “It is impossible to overstate the importance or influence of his writing, in bringing the gay experience to the widest readership, and always achieved with wit, elegance and sexual candour.”
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Very saddened by the news of the death of the iconic Edmund White. A literary lion and a true gay icon who I am proud to have called a friend. 💔
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Excellent new short piece by Jody Callahan on epiphanyzine.com: “Any Day Can Be Thanksgiving” epiphanyzine.com/features/202...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Epiphany Summer Fete Thurs 6/12 6PM-? at the Urbane Arts Club, 1016 Beverly Rd in Brooklyn! Guests Mahogany L. Browne & Emily Kirven. OPEN BAR and our new issue will be available. Win free editorial feedback or a Catskills getaway! Music by Daphne Gale. Q train takes you right there. IT WILL BE FUN
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Epiphany Presents: The 2025 Fête — Epiphany Magazine
Welcome to Epiphany 's Annual Fete! Join us for a night of glamour and giving back at The Urbane Arts Club. Get ready for an evening filled with live music, delicious hors d'oeuvres, an open bar with...
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I had to zoom in to see if this was Pitchbot
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
That was an excellent read.
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Jeff Bond @jeffbondnyc.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
2 free tix available for Epiphany Summer Fete with guests Mahogany L. Brown and Emily Kirven Thursday, June 12 in Brooklyn! Follow @epiphanylitjournal on Instagram, like the fete post and tag the friend you'd bring if (when) you win. Winner chosen on Friday 5/23. IT'S GOING TO BE AMAZING
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 16/05/2025
"Can you picture this year’s Christmas dinner? The Pope shows up with his seven-layer dip and gets accosted with, “The Walmart cashier said ‘Happy Holidays’ to me to deliberately persecute Christians—what are you gonna do about it, Your Holiness?!”
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An Open Letter to My Dead Mother about the New Pope with the MAGA Brother
Hey Mum! Remember a couple of months before you died, when you told me the Freemasons had installed Pope Francis? And that he was in cahoots with O...
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