I wrote about body image and hiking for @longreads, and how no one has ever opened up a packet of Oreos on a mountaintop and said, “I’m being so bad.” longreads.com/2024/05/30/bod…

The book sounds excellent, but this interview alone is a great read on archival and oral research, friendship, and the singular Judith Jones. Anne Helen Petersen talks to Sara Franklin about The Editor: open.substack.com/pub/annehelen/…

Friends! Here are some literary journals that are open for submissions now or they’ll open soon or in July! Some will close soon. Genres, themes, & guidelines vary, & dates are tentative. I think these are no-fee submissions. There are many more out there! Good luck! 🖊️🌻❤️

I love a good Alcan story. David Zoby drives from Alaska to Wyoming: thesunmagazine.org/articles/583-c…

Unpredictable and entertaining new flash by @KarenHeuler in via @electriclit's The Commuter: electricliterature.com/so-much-to-kno…

“Ideology is a butcher of reality, severing the muscle from bone, discarding the unsightly and inedible and delivering neatly wrapped, digestible steaks to its consumers.” Phil Klay on art and activism and the difference between them: nytimes.com/2024/08/05/mag…

"what perishes is not you, but the ridiculous idea that any of this would conform to your napkin-sketch plans of the future." Playing in the ruins by Sasha Chapin open.substack.com/pub/sashachapi…

My typewriter interview with writer Elisa Gabbert is up! Great fun. Read it here: austinkleon.com/2024/08/27/typ…

This is the funniest article about pennies you will ever read.

⁦@SureAsMel⁩ on ⁦⁦Literary Hub⁩: “The books that stick with me … are books with blank spaces begging to be filled in. A story that refuses to hand us all the answers demands we do some interpretative work of our own.” link.lithub.com/view/624dbd108…

Enjoyed this @matthewshaer profile of Lore Segal about writing, being old, and death: nytimes.com/2024/10/06/mag…

A middle school curriculum based on obituaries: commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/why-ki…

What could be more fun than celebrating breakup day with your best friend, your crush, and your soon-to-be ex? buff.ly/3CE8g4P

a number of strangers and high school acquaintances have emailed me to say "I will think about your butt every day now," which is of course all I could've asked for in writing this essay nytimes.com/2025/01/14/mag…

If you're going to LA next week for #AWP25, come visit me and HFR at Table 337!

A clever, unpredictable story about loss, full of capital-P people, by Marie-Helene Bertino:

Sylvia Chan's "Never Stay Still," out now in HFR Issue 76, is a beautifully vulnerable and layered essay about the challenges of centering your own experience in a family narrative, and I was delighted to ask her a few questions about the writing process for the HFR blog:

"One time a venomous snake got into the lazy river. I coaxed the snake out of the water with a soft pretzel and everyone called me a genius." We're loving @johnjodzio's funny but heartwarming I'M ALIVE BUT I'M IN ASHEVILLE from our MAY ISSUE: buff.ly/IHyKU8e