“In Lippens’s books, the messiness of life is stylized, or sharpened into sensibility.”
@lindsaylerman.bsky.social interviews @natelippens.bsky.social about his new novel RIPCORD @semiotexte.bsky.social , friendship, gatekeeping & more…🌀 southwestreview.com/a-porous-exc...
That’s a good question. I need to read devils!
Is there really such a thing as refined cruelty tho?
thank you for reading—loved this one so much 🤍
We have to tell stories, and we have to tell them in the best possible way we can, in our moment in history. And so I was like, OK, fine. I'll serve the gods of literature in whatever way I need to, even if that means that I produce something that I couldn't imagine myself producing 10 years ago. But that's good. I have to change. We have to change. I love that. Yeah. Then maybe that's what our social responsibility is, because I definitely don't think it's our responsibility as writers to show people what's right. I don't know that what I'm talking about is even a political responsibility. It's not. It's to keep writing and to write well and to be true to whatever that invisible dream force is that drives you to do it is, as opposed to the one that says, make as much money as you can and then die.
y'all @lindsaylerman.bsky.social's interview with Sarah LaBrie in @thecreativeindependent.com is so good 😭 made me want to write!
thecreativeindependent.com/people/write...
Perfect
Showing up without clothes is the ultimate power move
Listen to episode 4: Scaffolding, Dionysus, & Mental Bonfires w/ Lindsay Lerman!
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@lindsaylerman.bsky.social @clashbooks.bsky.social
The secret is that other writers aren't competition; they're peers, colleagues and friends. Someone who reads me is going to read other writers as well; the entire publishing economy is "yes, and." Therefore it does me no harm, and much good, to support other writers and to wish them well.
golden hour
Cover of Red Flags by Charlene Elsby. Image of woman covered in blood.
RED FLAGS
Eight stream of consciousness stories from the points of view of people actively dying, inspired by the woman who was run down and dragged at the intersection outside my apartment. Plus three out-of-print chapbooks. (House of Vlad, 2024)
“Elsby at her most devastating.” -David Simmons
it’s always fascinating to see who you’re next to
these are so beautiful!
the way self-declared left-leaning people tell on themselves with “now is not the time for art”
Seems calm (not derogatory) here
I think I’m here
mom can you pick me up, someone told me with a straight face that a daily meditation practice is cultural appropriation and immoral
if you exist a little too much in the physical world to really kill it on social media (or you can’t buy your way in), the only strategy is to make things so beautiful that they slowly but surely break into the virtual world. it works
yes!
@lindsaylerman.bsky.social
from what i hear, it’s live footage of the destruction
and this is *with* them running nonstop ads - honestly a v powerful reminder that money can’t buy everything
Excited to announce my new novel is up for pre-order from @whiskeytit.bsky.social
Very thankful and lucky to receive these blurbs from @charleneelsby.bsky.social David Leo Rice and @lindsaylerman.bsky.social
absolutely.
It’s on the calendar!
❤️🔥
“It turns out I just love writing and I just love life. I love the impossible challenge of it, of finding beauty in the horror.”
🥀 Lindsay Lerman
@lindsaylerman.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lindsayl...
Extremely glamorous! 🥀
Is this your jardin? So beautiful
god bless the german tradition of drinking in very relaxed ways in very beautiful parks
