richard scott larson
@richardscottlarson.com
Author of THE LONG HALLWAY (University of Wisconsin Press) / NYFA & MacDowell Fellow in Nonfiction / NBCC member / 🏳️🌈 (he/him)
http://richardscottlarson.com
http://richardscottlarson.com
I was at a urinal between Ethan Hawke and his kid after a screening of The Hobbit and they spoke past me arguing about the name of a dwarf who died in the film
What is YOUR most mundane celebrity encounter?
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
Belle and Sebastian asked me to hold the elevator for them at a Holiday Inn in Paris, after a gig...
February 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
I was at a urinal between Ethan Hawke and his kid after a screening of The Hobbit and they spoke past me arguing about the name of a dwarf who died in the film
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In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
Free Ebooks: Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice an...
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January 30, 2026 at 3:50 PM
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
"Better to return to the texts, and to give daring adaptations their fair shake, than to live like Heathcliff — cantankerous and volatile, hoping to coax a ghost of the half-remembered past back into our hearts."
Who Cares if Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ Helmet Is Historically Accurate?
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
"Better to return to the texts, and to give daring adaptations their fair shake, than to live like Heathcliff — cantankerous and volatile, hoping to coax a ghost of the half-remembered past back into our hearts."
I'm halfway through episode one of this amazing new literary podcast w/ Jarrett Earnest interviewing Darryl Pinckney about memoir, Elizabeth Hardwick, etc and I'm already obsessed
Introducing Private Life, Our New Podcast
A New York Review Podcast hosted by Jarrett Earnest.
www.nybooks.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I'm halfway through episode one of this amazing new literary podcast w/ Jarrett Earnest interviewing Darryl Pinckney about memoir, Elizabeth Hardwick, etc and I'm already obsessed
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This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
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He could not stop watching 😭
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
He could not stop watching 😭
He could not stop watching 😭
February 11, 2026 at 10:01 PM
He could not stop watching 😭
This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 PM
This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
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When I first reached out to @richardscottlarson.com (The Long Hallway) for an interview, he hesitated. He actually wrote back wondering if his perspective would be valuable to the newsletter because, unlike the full-time dream we’re often sold, he relies heavily on a day job.
January 10, 2026 at 11:44 PM
When I first reached out to @richardscottlarson.com (The Long Hallway) for an interview, he hesitated. He actually wrote back wondering if his perspective would be valuable to the newsletter because, unlike the full-time dream we’re often sold, he relies heavily on a day job.
2025 was mostly about getting my new manuscript ready to send out, but I published a few things, including this review of @catherinelacey.bsky.social's The Möbius Book: "The reader becomes a detective parsing truths veiled by the imagined and (re)constructed" chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/18/r...
Revealing the Self Through an Act of Imagination: On Catherine Lacey’s "The Möbius Book" - Chicago Review of Books
“There’s nothing wrong with inventing a story to explain something real to yourself,” says one woman to another in The Möbius Book, acclaimed novelist Catherine Lacey’s new hybrid text, a book that ju...
chireviewofbooks.com
January 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM
2025 was mostly about getting my new manuscript ready to send out, but I published a few things, including this review of @catherinelacey.bsky.social's The Möbius Book: "The reader becomes a detective parsing truths veiled by the imagined and (re)constructed" chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/18/r...
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"Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device..."
@richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio.
Link in thread.
@richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio.
Link in thread.
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 PM
"Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device..."
@richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio.
Link in thread.
@richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio.
Link in thread.
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I've talked to a lot of people who didn't come out until middle age but you so rarely see it onscreen so credit to Stranger Things
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
I've talked to a lot of people who didn't come out until middle age but you so rarely see it onscreen so credit to Stranger Things
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Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Microplastics are here to stay; that's why we need to eat them responsibly in the classroom
Very grateful to have been able to contribute an essay to this special folio on horror and the uncanny!
The uncanny. The strange. However you slice it, things are getting spooky in our 22.2 folio featuring writing on HORROR by @gingerko.bsky.social, CD Eskilon, @richardscottlarson.com.bsky.social, Jen Fawkes, and Raul Palma. Link in first comment.
November 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Very grateful to have been able to contribute an essay to this special folio on horror and the uncanny!
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@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is."
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is."
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.
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Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.
Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.
September 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.
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That man's last words were trying to deflect a conversation about gun violence onto "gang violence". He left this world on the wings of racism.
September 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
That man's last words were trying to deflect a conversation about gun violence onto "gang violence". He left this world on the wings of racism.
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I'm highly aware of my own sins of moral convenience (we can talk about that some other time*), but I'd think that saying no thank you to JKR-profiting work would be a relatively easy thing for anyone, especially anyone already rich and successful.
*or never
*or never
September 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I'm highly aware of my own sins of moral convenience (we can talk about that some other time*), but I'd think that saying no thank you to JKR-profiting work would be a relatively easy thing for anyone, especially anyone already rich and successful.
*or never
*or never
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When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib
I’m sorry, it’s a problem that, as one anonymous critic says here, cultural criticism is “eating your vegetables.” Cultural criticism is dessert, after a grueling day of news! nymag.com/intelligence...
Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.
nymag.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM
When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib
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The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
September 6, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
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"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
Washington D.C. Indies Contend With Police and Military Presence
The Trump administration’s military takeover in Washington, D.C., last month is impacting sales and foot traffic to various degrees at indie bookstores across the city.
www.publishersweekly.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty
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Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th.
www.32auctions.com/unboundforga...
The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.
www.32auctions.com/unboundforga...
The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.
Unbound for Gaza
Silent auction 'Unbound for Gaza' hosted online at 32auctions.
www.32auctions.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th.
www.32auctions.com/unboundforga...
The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.
www.32auctions.com/unboundforga...
The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.
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I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn
I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn
August 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn