Ellena Basada

adimagazine.com/articles/the-e… I've been writing this essay for 3 years and have learned so much from it. On Clarice Lispector and Fernanda Melchor, and the El Salvadoran mega prison CECOT, published by @AdiMagazine 🌹

>publishes a single book of the best short stories written in years >never writes anything again with the exception of like two pieces for harpers >doesn't explain >leaves

Join Darcie Dennigan in NYC with Stine An & Trace Peterson this Tuesday at P&T Knitwear

Wish I could stop being so nervous and just be free

Read @sicamgabrielle on Brigid Brophy; Rachel Dastgir on Hélène Bessette; @eebeebeebeebeeb on Olivia Kan-Sperling; @helenarambles on writers’ desks; @dagswebb on the internet; @pourfairelevide on self-unaliving; Rosa Appignanesi on hypochondria; & more… review31.co.uk

"How do we write toward the unspeakable, and what does it mean to do so ethically?" Ellana Basada (@eebeebeebeebeeb) writes about our relationship to violence, ambiguity, and more through her analysis of Melchor & Lispector in "The Ethics of Ambiguity." adimagazine.com/articles/the-e…

"Summer is coming. I love how the keeper says it. All the words die in his mouth."

🪦 Celebrating Darcie Dennigan's novel LITTLE NECK, released today! This is your essential fall read 🍂 Erotic and expressive, Little Neck is a novel of secrets. fonografeditions.com/catalog/fono39… 🪦 Use Dennigan at checkout to get 40% off this week!

Thinking of victorian epitaphs and the funereal draw of dirt -- peonies as budding breasts! celebrating the publication of darcie's Little Neck today. what a genius writer and pleasure to work with. @fonograf_ed

David Lynch’s drawing of what happens during Transcendental Meditation

Zoe Dubno’s “Happiness and Love” and Vincenzo Latronico’s “Perfection” are, in a sense, remakes of older novels. @a_nathanwest writes on the literary redo. thebaffler.com/latest/imperfe…

@sashafrerejones hi sasha!

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Had lots of fun reviewing Olivia Kan-Sperling's Little Pink Book for @Review31

"Little Pink Book doesn’t just perform dandyism; it participates in what Fredric Jameson famously called pastiche: a ‘blank parody’ that imitates style without satirical intent or critical edge." @eebeebeebeebeeb on Olivia Kan-Sperling's LITTLE PINK BOOK review31.co.uk/essay/view/131…

Support the arts! Support small presses! Support poetry! Fonograf Editions is publishing Eileen Myles' archival collection Bird Watching and we need your help ~ kickstarter.com/projects/birdw…

@lil_smush What do you mean bruk down?