Justin Taylor

i wrote the album bio for this one! (www.subpop.com/artists/iron...)

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY"

I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM

I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT

ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT

HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

if only those who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs knew that one day one might go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights

contemplating, awestruck, the centuries-long geometry of material and historical processes necessary to create the conditions for me to have just sent a text asking “want to go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights”

A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...

Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

hot damn

You are who eats you I know thee not, chopped unc

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

You are who eats you I know thee not, chopped unc

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

A Parish Chronicle - Harvard Review That Icelandic Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness was one of the twentieth century’s greatest novelists is to me so self-evident that it almost feels redundant to say so. This claim could be made solely u...

wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

and i still am

have been listening to the grateful dead ALL DAY and i still am

so stoked to see this story, drafted in my fall class at the Columbia MFA, now published at @necessaryfiction.com

i used to make a version of "boy kibble" i called "idiot bachelor slurry." i wrote about it some years back when i was commissioned to contribute an essay to an anthology of writers writing about food. the essay was rejected for being too funny

One thing lit journals with even modest security can do is beef up/launch online crit sections. for print quarterlies/biannuals it's a great way to drive traffic between issues. Budget 10k/yr for 25 pieces at 400/per--a decent albeit not awesome rate. Tweak those numbers as needed but it's a start

Yeah I'm with you there. I guess we have to accommodate ourselves to the fact that criticism has essentially been de-professionalized. It's a knock-on effect of the de-professionalization of literature itself. As with climate collapse, it's a symptom that will become a cause, intensify acceleration

I don't disagree but DIY only works for generating coverage. There's a ton of places already doing it from BookPost to Zona Motel. The issues are (1) reach and (2) how to pay critics a rate that allows us to treat the work *as* work. DIY ethos (god love it) is structurally antithetical to both goals

solidarity

"democracy dies in darkness" wasn't a warning, it was a vow

If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.

scene from Hamnet where Shakespeare composes "To be or not to be" speech in real time but it's Lindsey Buckingham trying out "Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff"

Learn to ode.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been asking @ Grok "Is this true?" ever since.

Standing in the Doorway -> Craft Talk -> Jam -> Craft Talk -> Not Fade Away

wrote this a few years ago but it came up in conversation this morning and i gotta say i'm still very happy with it my19thcentury.substack.com/p/standing-i...

still dont know what a tony dockpile is, not asking

oh wow, thanks again! whole reading list looks great. seems like a very cool class. i've been wanting to incorporate more crit and/or teach a class on crit for a while now but i've never gotten it together to design a syllabus

Hey that's awesome, thank you. No pressure but if you want to do a class visit I'd be happy to dial in

New Reviewing the Contemporary Novel reading list, featuring @tricialockwood.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @appletwigli.bsky.social, and others.

what if i just listened to Spacemen 3 all day

can't stop thinking about how any bus driver can just kidnap a fuckton of people and the only reason it doesn't happen all the time is because what the fuck do you want to do with a busload of people