iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 13/07/2026

"If Richard Warren hadn’t made that pact, his band of settlers would have died. Might that have been for the best? Or are all societies cobbled together from covenants, compromises, and banal, institutionalized atrocities?" @bethmachlan.bsky.social on WIDOW'S BAY and our national inheritance(s)

bbm11.substack.com

Widow's Bay is About* Birthright Citizenship

So many spoilers. SO many.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 13/07/2026

bbm11.substack.com

Widow's Bay is About* Birthright Citizenship

So many spoilers. SO many.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 17/06/2026

the new season of THE BEAR makes Chicago look like an apocalyptic hellscape which honestly is exactly how I remember it

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 04/06/2026

"To write about art might encourage some removal from the self, but nothing requires it. And so this accident of history has caused me to associate I-lessness with ekphrasis: a mode that elides the I as if some universal eye were speaking out." Elisa Gabbert

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How Poets Went From Describing Art to Personally Admiring It

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 30/05/2026

"The novel can be sung, chanted, mimed, painted, filmed, animated, printed in braille, carved on the wall of a cave. What matters is the art act, the mirror of human life." Atticus Lish

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Art Act

Notes on a Life in Images and Words

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Hugh Ryan @hughryan.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Tonight is the night! Join me and @sabs.bsky.social at @strandbooks.com to chat about MY BAD: the '90s, gender, queerness, aids, the internet, Burning Man, radical faeries, queer nightlife, shame, pleasure, building family, saying you're sorry, and so much more www.eventbrite.com/e/hugh-ryan-...

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Hugh Ryan + Sabrina Imbler: My Bad

Join us for a release event with award-winning author Hugh Ryan, discussing his new book MY BAD.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 27/05/2026

back from the Catskills writing retreat with lots of pages about Tom Ripley, gay murder, impostordom as a literary trope, and my weird wonderful horrible first year in NYC

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Dave Housley @housleydave.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Hey writers your weird pals are opening for submissions on June 1!

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

“White people aren’t being oppressed, they’re being asked to live in a shared reality.” On today’s VIBE CHECK, we’re talking about all the rage we’re seeing in American culture right now. And we talk about the rage at work in the new movie #IsGodIs.

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Time to Set It the F*ck Off

Podcast Episode · Vibe Check · May 27 · 57m

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Oh, I love this novel. And I had so much fun writing this.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 27/05/2026

back from the Catskills writing retreat with lots of pages about Tom Ripley, gay murder, impostordom as a literary trope, and my weird wonderful horrible first year in NYC

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 20/05/2026

husband is playing the hit man video game series while I reread all the tom ripley novels in case you were invited to our house but want to reconsider your rsvp

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 20/05/2026

husband is playing the hit man video game series while I reread all the tom ripley novels in case you were invited to our house but want to reconsider your rsvp

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 20/05/2026

I was talking to my mom on mother's day and she asked about the book on submission, and I was like omg existential dread for maybe seventy minutes and she finally resurfaced from her holiday wine and was like "tell me where I can buy it"

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 20/05/2026

spending this weed gummy working on the opening paragraph of my next book, moving the word "had" all around the page, changing verb tenses and then changing them back, adding a "sometimes" here and there to make myself seem less creepy

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Maureen Langloss @maureenlangloss.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Shout out to all the lit mag editors & readers just doing their best in this new AI world, often for little or no money, because they believe in writing & art & supporting the people who create it. There's no easy or clear path through this mess AI's creating, but I appreciate you all trying.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 19/05/2026

Hi if anyone needs me I will be walking into the sea

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 19/05/2026

"Women are incredible students of each other, and writing interactions between them is always a dreamy prospect because I get to spend time in the brutal, data-rich territory of people who look."

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Farran Smith Nehme 🇱🇧 @selfstyledsiren.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I’ve added to the flood of remembrances for the nothing-if-not-memorable Rex Reed. (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/selfstyl...

open.substack.com

In Memoriam: Rex Reed

Serious, and also glib and readable

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 13/05/2026

👇🏻

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Debutiful @debutiful.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

MY READING LIFE: New Skin author Sarah Wang answered our Q&A so readers could get to know the books that shaped her life and influenced her writing. debutiful.net/2026/05/13/s...

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 12/05/2026

"We are always a collage under construction—taking this fragment, editing out another, consciously or unconsciously. ... Of course, there is always a battle between these fragments: between the need to remember, the need to forget."

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William Kentridge: That Which I Have Drawn

To begin In preparation for these lectures, I made a list of projects, drawings, films, installations and performances I could use as the spine of these talks—each lecture having a project, to be u…

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 04/05/2026

"Anyone who is making anything is typically possessed by the need to translate a personal vision into a sharable vision. I have an almost spiritual respect for that thing, and I’m not even talking about inspiration or a great idea, but something more like a haunting." @catherinelacey.bsky.social

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Should You Trash Your Novel Draft?

Or is it redeemable?

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 04/05/2026

A couple years ago @danielkraus.com wrote in his newsletter that my book was among his favorites of the year, and now his absolutely incredible ANGEL DOWN has won the Pulitzer! Obviously related phenomena (and congrats Daniel!)

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 04/05/2026

I spent more time than I should have writing this piece about the new Ben Lerner novel, mostly because this little book is just so dense and recursive and an utter pleasure to read

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catherinelacey.substack.com

Should You Trash Your Novel Draft?

Or is it redeemable?

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 04/05/2026

I spent more time than I should have writing this piece about the new Ben Lerner novel, mostly because this little book is just so dense and recursive and an utter pleasure to read

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Slant @slantmagazine.com · 04/05/2026

Ben Lerner’s TRANSCRIPTION is ultimately about a pact we must make when we read fiction. Read @richardscottlarson.com's review. tinyurl.com/4vkn623u

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk. - Baudelaire

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Monica Castillo @mcastimovies.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Will have a follow-up to this soon, but the fight against the Paramount and WB merger isn’t over yet.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 30/04/2026

"rewarding myself for finishing this Ben Lerner essay by watching like five episodes of Temptation Island" is the kind of gay I have become

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Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

"Lerner suggests that attention—the “hinge” he calls “fiction”—can locate the virtual within an actual, the latter of which has become, in a very traditional sense of the word, quite virtual." Amelia Anthony on Ben Lerner's "Transcription" clereviewofbooks.com/virtual-real...

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Virtual Reality: On Ben Lerner’s “Transcription” - Cleveland Review of Books

Life's white machine has been replaced by one in technicolor.

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 27/04/2026

I've been working on this for days and I think the opposite is now true, the essay is trying to kill me

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 22/04/2026

my essay about the new Ben Lerner is a bit of a beautiful mess at the moment but writing about this book is bringing me back to life

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Association of University Presses @aupresses.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

How do presses measure journal performance? bit.ly/3jSGowt University press publishers answer frequently asked questions like this one on our #AskUP site. Curious about how university press publishing works? #AskUP!

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

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Alina Stefanescu @alinaetc.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Bob Creeley for this beautiful sunny humpday.

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Adam Sternbergh @sternbergh.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

when your war is going great

screenshot from New York Times article that reads: Mr. Trump’s proposed blockade “makes no sense,” Spain’s defense minister, Margarita Robles, said in a television interview. “Since this war started, nothing makes sense,” she added. “This is another episode in the downward spiral the world has been dragged into.”

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 13/04/2026

changing my life one page at a time lol

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richard scott larson @richardscottlarson.com · 07/04/2026

I had a great time talking to @jackiedwrites.bsky.social about my memoir for this new podcast about queer and trans nonfiction writing... very grateful to be able to keep discussing this book almost two years after it first appeared 🤓🔥

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The Queer & Trans Nonfiction Podcast | jackiedomenus

The QT (Queer & Trans) Nonfiction Podcast, hosted by writer Jackie Domenus, explores the best of today’s memoirs, essay collections, journalism, and more by LGBTQ+ authors. Listen in on discussion...

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