@lauravandenberg.bsky.social
Writer of fictions. Boxer. NY / FL. I would love to see a photo of your dog. Newsletter is FIGHT WEEK: https://fightweek.substack.com/.
2 fights over the weekend & 2 wins. Wrote all about it here: fightweek.substack.com/p/on-levelin...
On Leveling Up
One weekend, 2 fights, 2 wins
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October 28, 2025 at 5:19 PM
2 fights over the weekend & 2 wins. Wrote all about it here: fightweek.substack.com/p/on-levelin...
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“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.”
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
An Interview with Laura van den Berg - Believer Magazine
The first time I read Laura van den Berg’s stories in her debut collection, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, I was astonished. The stories, teeming with disaster and fantast...
www.thebeliever.net
September 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
“I reject scarcity and the feeling that the other writers around you are your competition, and that there’s only so much pie.”
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
—Laura van den Berg, interviewed by @rokwon.bsky.social
www.thebeliever.net/an-interview...
Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...
It’s the Writer’s Job To Say Something True - Electric Literature
One year later, 6 authors reflect on the experience of publishing their most recent book
electricliterature.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Got into money, reaching readers, and what we would tell our pre-publication selves with five writers I admire so much: electricliterature.com/its-the-writ...
Wrote about a recent ER all-nighter & my relationship to pain: substack.com/home/post/p-...
On Pain
my all-night odyssey in the ER & turning setbacks into keys
substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Wrote about a recent ER all-nighter & my relationship to pain: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle.bsky.social, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @blondieband.bsky.social, and Richard Ayoade, conducted by @rokwon.bsky.social, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, and more.
August 22, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Our fall issue is coming! We have essays by @heatherchristle.bsky.social, Oliver Egger, and Ash Sanders; interviews with Laura van den Berg, @blondieband.bsky.social, and Richard Ayoade, conducted by @rokwon.bsky.social, Emma Ingrisani, and Wallace Shawn; poetry, reviews, and more.
Wrote about last weekend's fight: fightweek.substack.com/p/let-the-lo...
Let the Loss Become Fuel
fight week re-cap
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July 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Wrote about last weekend's fight: fightweek.substack.com/p/let-the-lo...
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"Every time I thought about the event I felt like vomiting on my shoes"
Laura Van Den Berg on stage fright - something horribly familiar to most writers - and how to dull it into submission
Laura Van Den Berg on stage fright - something horribly familiar to most writers - and how to dull it into submission
Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
The Edge of the Cliff
notes on performance & fear
fightweek.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
"Every time I thought about the event I felt like vomiting on my shoes"
Laura Van Den Berg on stage fright - something horribly familiar to most writers - and how to dull it into submission
Laura Van Den Berg on stage fright - something horribly familiar to most writers - and how to dull it into submission
Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
The Edge of the Cliff
notes on performance & fear
fightweek.substack.com
July 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wrote about having terrible performance anxiety & how I worked through it: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-edge-o...
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@lauravandenberg.bsky.social reading from state of paradise
July 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
@lauravandenberg.bsky.social reading from state of paradise
NYC! We'd love to see you at Florida Night! tomorrow (July 1), 6:30 PM, at P & T Knitwear. Super excited to be joining forces w Kristen Arnett, Gabriella Burnham, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, & Lynn Steger Strong. We're gonna have a good time. ptknitwear.com/events
June 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
NYC! We'd love to see you at Florida Night! tomorrow (July 1), 6:30 PM, at P & T Knitwear. Super excited to be joining forces w Kristen Arnett, Gabriella Burnham, Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya, & Lynn Steger Strong. We're gonna have a good time. ptknitwear.com/events
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Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
June 18, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Justice Sotomayor's dissent in Skrmetti (which she's now reading from the bench) is deeply pained, accusing her colleagues of abandoning "transgender children and their families to political whims" and badly damaging "bedrock" principles of equal protection. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
Hudson Valley people: wildly excited to help host Catherine Lacey TONIGHT for The Möbius Book: 6:30 PM, Northern Spy Reading Series at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill. This will be very fun & you do not want to miss it!
June 18, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Hudson Valley people: wildly excited to help host Catherine Lacey TONIGHT for The Möbius Book: 6:30 PM, Northern Spy Reading Series at Left Bank Ciders in Catskill. This will be very fun & you do not want to miss it!
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Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
June 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
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Come out to P&T Knitwear on TUESDAY, JULY 1ST at 6:30pm, where our lovely @lauravandenberg.bsky.social will appear for FLORIDA NIGHT to talk about her novel STATE OF PARADISE!
#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
June 16, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Come out to P&T Knitwear on TUESDAY, JULY 1ST at 6:30pm, where our lovely @lauravandenberg.bsky.social will appear for FLORIDA NIGHT to talk about her novel STATE OF PARADISE!
#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
#florida #lauravandenberg #stateofparadise
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Baffler no. 79 features new short fiction from @lauravandenberg.bsky.social. In “Cake,” every treat is a burden, and every burden is an opportunity.
Cake | Laura van den Berg
Rita has exorcised her mother’s superstitions, but that hasn’t kept her from developing her own.
thebaffler.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Baffler no. 79 features new short fiction from @lauravandenberg.bsky.social. In “Cake,” every treat is a burden, and every burden is an opportunity.
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming Democratic primary for New York City mayor — delivering a jolt to the crowded race with less than nine days until early voting starts: bit.ly/45bpiU6
June 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed Zohran Mamdani in the upcoming Democratic primary for New York City mayor — delivering a jolt to the crowded race with less than nine days until early voting starts: bit.ly/45bpiU6
I wrote about boxing as the loneliest sport + what makes a community hold: substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Loneliest Sport
on what makes a community hold
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June 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I wrote about boxing as the loneliest sport + what makes a community hold: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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It seems to us that if you're anywhere near the Southeast, this is the event you should be headed to on July 1. That lineup is bonkers.
Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
June 4, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It seems to us that if you're anywhere near the Southeast, this is the event you should be headed to on July 1. That lineup is bonkers.
Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
June 4, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Wildly excited for this night of Florida lit at P & T Knitwear on July 1, with @kristenarnett.bsky.social, @kaylakumari.bsky.social, Gabriella Burnham, & Lynn Steger Strong. You can get your tickets right here: www.eventbrite.com/e/florida-ni...
A delight & an honor to interview @mcrane12.bsky.social on FIGHT WEEK!
I have an interview up with @lauravandenberg.bsky.social on her amazing substack FIGHT WEEK, check it out 🙏🏼🙏🏼
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open.substack.com/pub/fightwee...
What do you do with a love like that?
An Interview with Mac Crane
open.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A delight & an honor to interview @mcrane12.bsky.social on FIGHT WEEK!
New newsletter is up! Wrote about what happens on a Fight Week + AMA. fightweek.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happens on Fight Week
plus my first ever AMA
fightweek.substack.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
New newsletter is up! Wrote about what happens on a Fight Week + AMA. fightweek.substack.com/p/what-happe...
April newsletter is on finishing what we start: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-deep-end
April 9, 2025 at 3:26 PM
April newsletter is on finishing what we start: fightweek.substack.com/p/the-deep-end
Last call to register for this 2 session class on character! We will talk craft, read, write, Q & A. We will do deep dives into what characters need to do & do not need to do & what allows a character to feel alive-alive on the page. www.eventbrite.com/e/kinderhook...
Kinderhook Books | The Rough Notes Craft Talks | Laura van den Berg
Join Laura van den Berg for her two-part fiction Craft Talk—"Discovering Character"—and write your novel with us!
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March 25, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Last call to register for this 2 session class on character! We will talk craft, read, write, Q & A. We will do deep dives into what characters need to do & do not need to do & what allows a character to feel alive-alive on the page. www.eventbrite.com/e/kinderhook...
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A reminder that this magic is happening on Saturday in New Orleans. Come see @kristenarnett.bsky.social & @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social talk books & life & clowns & how to be a dirtbag and more!
March 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
A reminder that this magic is happening on Saturday in New Orleans. Come see @kristenarnett.bsky.social & @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social talk books & life & clowns & how to be a dirtbag and more!
"Your Second Wife," a story from my last collection, is getting adapted! deadline.com/2025/03/max-...
Max Developing Soapy Erotic Thriller ‘Your Second Wife’ From Jamie Rosengard, Adele Lim, Sugar23 & Jessica Rothe
Max has taken in for development Your Second Wife, a soapy, erotic thriller series based on Laura Van Den Berg's short story of the same name.
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March 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
"Your Second Wife," a story from my last collection, is getting adapted! deadline.com/2025/03/max-...