Ander Monson
Grind line. Predator Studies. March Xness. DIAGRAM. New Michigan Press. The Assessment Matters Institute. Essay Daily. University of Arizona MFA. Working hard for the money. http://otherelectricities.com
- Tucson tonight at 6:30, come out for John Haskell and Sharon Wahl in the very first @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social reading at 6:30pm at 600 S. Meyer (a couple blocks west of 5 Points in Barrio Viejo)
- I'm in how about you all
- Check out the Kickstarter for ABIDE. www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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- If you want a little distraction from the terrors of the world here's the SW region of the upcoming @marchxness.bsky.social 90s March Sadness tournament
- I will be reading some old school bangers like "Fuckin' Crabs 2", "Masters of Time But Not Masters of Pants" and "Tiger with the Face of a Man"
- Who wore it better? Find out tonight at the Double Negative Evening of Ekphrasis featuring new books by Mike Powell and @danadiehl.bsky.social. 6:30pm at Wave Archive!
- Who wore it better? Find out tonight at the Double Negative Evening of Ekphrasis featuring new books by Mike Powell and @danadiehl.bsky.social. 6:30pm at Wave Archive!
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- Really enjoyed this @jasondiamond.bsky.social piece on collecting the Vintage Contemporaries: longreads.com/2017/10/20/j...
- Reposted by Ander MonsonSOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos? www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...
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- Details on tonight's @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social club member write-together / social hour on the substack. Meet at Slow Body at 6:30 for writing, 7:30 for social: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
- YES
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- alt texts ftw again
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- Tucson folks take note of @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2 tomorrow night featuring @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss. 6pm Reilly rooftop bar. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
- "How do you acknowledge a corrupted history and still have pity on the people who carry that history in our bodies?" —John Haskell on BLOW-UP (1966), in the new @essaydaily.bsky.social Media Club series: www.essaydaily.org/2026/01/john...
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- Join @madnor.bsky.social, @alisondeming.bsky.social, and Lucinda Bliss for @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social's Work Talks 2, FRI JAN 2 6pm at Reilly Rooftop. Details: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
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- With Will's great 12/25 essay on Pentiment the 2025 Advent Calendar concludes. We will continue to publish essays on visual media (games, TV, film, art) into 2026, so pitch us if you want to write one: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
- How it started / how it's going / looks like we're gonna need a bigger goat
- "dive into the pages of Pentiment, a remarkable game with unparalleled poly-vocal poly-textual poly-textural poly-typographic depictions of the relationship between religion and daily human life." @wjaslattery.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "Memory is an image rendered by electricity and seen by the heart alone. The cosmology of FFVII states the planet itself has memory. All living things die, and their spirits return..." @geramee.bsky.social in a moving Final Fantasy VII advent essay today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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- Misremembering a Christmas Short Story by Stacey Richter: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
- Reposting my Christmas / Big Rudolph epic, "My Monument," on account of it being Christmas eve: creativenonfiction.org/writing/my-m...
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- List time
- We have just two more essays to go in the @essaydaily.bsky.social 2025 advent calendar. If you've missed any of them (understandable; it's a busy time of year), they're all linked here: www.essaydaily.org/p/the-essay-...
- "I don’t know why I binge watch. I grew up in the fifties." In today's @essaydaily.bsky.social advent essay let @alisondeming.bsky.social sell you on the pleasures of binge-watching (Poldark): www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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- "I was never going to be Scottish, or as good looking or charming. But I could raise my Sickboy flag high and proud through the singed follicles of my scalp, with three-inch spikes of pure salt-white hair jutting up like defiant stalagmites." Kirk Wisland: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "There's a scene near the end of the last episode of Midnight Mass that seems so clearly a pietà in its arrangement and prefacing..." @pcmadden3.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent on his traditional 12/21 date: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- Sending you a Winter 2025 mixtape from @meganc.bsky.social and me. Youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...; Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
- "I don’t think we give enough credit to weirdness in games as a source of mystery and power." New essay up on @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today on the video game NORCO from @geographyofrobots.bsky.social and advocating for weirdness (minor spoilers): www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "One afternoon in the spring of 2022, my husband shooed our cat off the chair in my study, sat down, and said he had something to tell me. He had just completed an application to be on the reality show Alone." Sharon Wahl in the @essaydaily.bsky.social calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "video games are, like all forms of narrative art, empathy machines." I love reading writers moved by games, and today features @charlesjensen.bsky.social on The Last of Us Part II (spoilers involved) in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "It is this scene that I want to spend time with." David Griffith on The Godfather at 50 in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "I remember where I was when I first saw ads for The O.C. the same way my parents remember where they were when Kennedy was shot." Dec 16 is Ted McLoof day on @essaydaily.bsky.social: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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[Not loaded yet] - Hoo boy today's @essaydaily.bsky.social advent essay by Isabelle Robinson about rewatching Scream after a school shooting hits pretty hard: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- Tucson Essay Movie Club tonight 8pm at Casa Video with the best xmas sort-of-horror movie, Rare Exports, with me and @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social
- For Dec 14 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social advent calendar @erinkeane.bsky.social wants to talk about a forgotten Jim Henson Muppets film, Dreamchild (1985): www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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- "Watching Reservation Dogs, easily one of my favorite television shows of the past ten years, makes me think about audience" Dec 13 @essaydaily.bsky.social features @utopiaminus.bsky.social on the great Reservation Dogs: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- Reposted by Ander MonsonGot an extremely kind and generous review of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE in @riverteeth.bsky.social riverteethjournal.com/book-reviews...
- "Polygamy is the paradigm of the patriarchy. Polyamory is the paradigm of the people.…Women are on TV talking about their sex lives." @nikwalk.bsky.social in @essaydaily.bsky.social's advent calendar today: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- "The first time I watched Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia, I was twenty years old, and I felt the pin on the hand grenade in my head coming loose." Let's go @leahmensch.bsky.social, Dec 11th in the @essaydaily.bsky.social Advent Calendar: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
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- "I am an equally untrained plantswoman—for all my botanical successes, uncountable victims have nonetheless ended up on the compost heap." Dec 10 in the @essaydaily.bsky.social calendar brings you @j-sukys.bsky.social on weeds and art and more: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- I really like this side project of Juan's; I'm trying to avoid making an "it obviously has legs" joke but I guess I didn't so
- A couple more words about this Sunday's Tucson Essay Movie Club presentation of 2010's Rare Exports, my fav Xmas movie of all time, over at the @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social substack: open.substack.com/pub/tucsones...
- "Of course, a house, a home is an exhibition—a curated collection." Cathy de la Cruz in @essaydaily.bsky.social's Dec 9 essay: www.essaydaily.org/2025/12/dec-...
- Alright peeps it's time for me to host Tucson Essay Movie Club @tucsonessayclub.bsky.social this Sunday 8pm Casa Video featuring the definitively best Xmas / anti-Xmas movie of all time: 2010's RARE EXPORTS. Come and join me and my pack of Finns. We're gonna blow up Santa!
