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God Was Good and so is Paul's writing

“You was filthy, son. Filthy!” New fiction from Rémy Ngamije: astra-mag.com/articles/aqees…

“The license plate was real easy to remember. RICH. Below it dangled a rubber attachment of plastic testicles…. It meant the driver was a man. And he wanted you to know about that.” —Souvankham Thammavongsa: astra-mag.com/articles/rich/

“I suppose God is still good. He provided for the hereafter of the zealous child I was. The future became a story I could tell about the past, and in that story the past would live forever.” —c y b e r h u n k astra-mag.com/articles/god-w…

I'm wary of "deep" "Peanuts" essays, but this one on Pig Pen in Astra Magazine by Elif Batuman? I reel. astra-mag.com/articles/the-d… (This, too, will serve as a worthy last tweet should this long con collapse while I sleep.)

Something to be THANKFUL for: we hadn't realized Giada's story at Astra Magazine was available in full online . . . BUT IT IS! For your reading pleasure, friends . . . astra-mag.com/articles/540i/

Wow this one hurts: Astra mag is shutting down after just two issues. Has any literary magazine ever shuttered this quickly after launching with such fanfare? The original comet-that-burned-too-bright — The Yellow Book in the 1890s — lasted 3 years. bookforum.com/papertrail/ast…

We dare you to make Simone’s second job even more interesting.

The disconnect between creating Astra and then abruptly defunding it is incomprehensible. A magazine as special as Astra should not be reduced its profitability!! Fund magazines for the love of magazines only. I beg you.

There should be no-strings-attached government grants for funding artists, literary magazines, and local reporting for 5-10 year chunks. nytimes.com/2022/12/03/boo…

for The New York Times, I wrote about the rise and fall of Astra Magazine, plus what it says about funding for literary magazines nytimes.com/2022/12/03/boo…

Posthumously proud 🥲