y'all, @rslarson.bsky.socialwww.chillsubs.com/writeordie/i...
Interview with Richard Scott Larson on Halloween as a Coming-Out Story, the Queer Canon, and His Debut Memoir The Long Hallway
I remember feeling genuinely hopeful that we seemed ready for a real reckoning with systemic racism and our deeply racist history in the summer of 2020, and bigots have spent every single day since finding new and depressing ways to say "Absolutely fucking not"
a useful exercise is to ask how the political press would be framing the election if the positions were reversed, meaning, if Trump were an incumbent presiding over a strong economy wielding a powerful campaign apparatus and Biden was the shambolic challenger on trial for multiple criminal offenses
This is incredible and I also feel so seen lol, the amount of those pages I endlessly created back then 😭
I love your perspective on these things, Amanda!
Beautiful close reading of ALL OF US STRANGERS by @rwstinner.bsky.social: "If it is collectively agreed upon that 'things are better,' it can be hard to pin down what is still painful, what has not been resolved."
Under the haunted surface of "All Of Us Strangers" lies the paradox of shared pain from shame and isolation
Today would be the great writer Carol Emshwiller's 103rd birthday, and I have only one message for all of humanity on this day: Read Carol Emshwiller! www.patreon.com/posts/read-c...
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Grateful for the opportunity to recommend some books at Electric Literature and also talk a little bit about my own!
Richard Scott Larson, author of