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Pioneer Works builds community through the arts & sciences to create an open and curious world.
Maggie Nelson on dreams, anxiety, and the meeting of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift. “To choose that opportunity to denigrate what so many people are into—You want collectivization? Work with it.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
Maggie Nelson: Compatible Perversities | Broadcast
An Argonauts anniversary interview
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November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Maggie Nelson on dreams, anxiety, and the meeting of Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift. “To choose that opportunity to denigrate what so many people are into—You want collectivization? Work with it.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
Move over, Julia Child. Bring a little soul to your Thanksgiving table with @TheSwampDogg's IF YOU CAN KILL IT I CAN COOK IT, out from Pioneer Works Press. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sw...
A Very Swamp Dogg Thanksgiving | Broadcast
Holiday recipes from a superhero of soul.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Move over, Julia Child. Bring a little soul to your Thanksgiving table with @TheSwampDogg's IF YOU CAN KILL IT I CAN COOK IT, out from Pioneer Works Press. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/sw...
“Every age has its search for healers.” Maggie Nelson on shame blankets, compatible perversities, and what heteropessimism misses. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
November 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
“Every age has its search for healers.” Maggie Nelson on shame blankets, compatible perversities, and what heteropessimism misses. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
“Perversities can be compatible, but then perversities are not static. We all change.” Maggie Nelson talks with Broadcast editor Lucy McKeon about love, sex, care, and The Argonauts, 10 years later. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
Maggie Nelson: Compatible Perversities | Broadcast
An <i>Argonauts</i> anniversary interview.
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November 21, 2025 at 2:53 PM
“Perversities can be compatible, but then perversities are not static. We all change.” Maggie Nelson talks with Broadcast editor Lucy McKeon about love, sex, care, and The Argonauts, 10 years later. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ma...
“People assumed I wanted money, fame, to meet Madonna. They could not comprehend a different sense of desire.” Last year, Laura Albert spoke to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club about trauma, truth, and phone sex at Press Play. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...
Truth or Dare with Laura Albert | Broadcast
The JT LeRoy creator talks to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta about destroying fiction, finding fame, and letting the girls out.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:07 PM
“People assumed I wanted money, fame, to meet Madonna. They could not comprehend a different sense of desire.” Last year, Laura Albert spoke to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club about trauma, truth, and phone sex at Press Play. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...
Labia piercings, phone sex pseudonyms, and the generative power of disassociation: Last Press Play, we got Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club to interview the legendary Laura Albert. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...
Truth or Dare with Laura Albert | Broadcast
The JT LeRoy creator talks to Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta about destroying fiction, finding fame, and letting the girls out.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Labia piercings, phone sex pseudonyms, and the generative power of disassociation: Last Press Play, we got Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta of Celebrity Book Club to interview the legendary Laura Albert. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/tr...
“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“I really do think that as music changes us, we change music.” Mighty critic Ben Ratliff on how his running practice revealed new ways of hearing Sade, Arsenio Rodriguez, Thelonius Monk, and more. His new book, RUN THE SONG, is out from @graywolfpress.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
Ben Ratliff Runs the Song | Broadcast
A mighty critic on running, listening, and how music moves our lives.
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November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
“Music merges you and keeps you separate.” On the heels of the NYC Marathon, Ben Ratliff reflects on Run the Song—his new book about running, listening, and how music helps us find form. @graywolfpress.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
As a critic, Ben Ratliff spent years defining art by its edges. But running helped show him that the truth of a song lives in its middle: “The truth about music is that all of it could potentially go on forever.” pioneerworks.org/broadcast/be...
Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Ende Tymes - YouTube
Founded in the wake of Fukushima, the Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation contemplates the harsh, distorted quality of our age with pioneers of...
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October 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Experience Ende Tymes, the annual noise festival gathering masters and vanguards of sonic destruction. Relive the full lineup on YouTube—featuring Aaron Dilloway, The Rita, Spiteful Womb, Charmaine Lee, and Valise. youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve
Brad Bolman on what curveballs reveal about science, shared reality, and American values.
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October 28, 2025 at 6:11 PM
"Madden’s note positioned the existence of the curve as a metaphor for the susceptibility of modern mass society to fascist delusion."
@bolman.bsky.social for @pioneerwork.bsky.social: pioneerworksbroadcast.substack.com/p/when-baseb...
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Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (@bolman.bsky.social) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...
When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Is Gen-Z killing the curveball, as it has Southern accents and the alcohol industry? For PW Broadcast, Brad Bolman (@bolman.bsky.social) writes about what baseball reveals about science, shared reality, and American values. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/br...
For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from @bolman.bsky.social on PW Broadcast.
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For as long as baseball has been a professional sport, fans and scientists have debated whether curveballs were real. To some, they were a mass delusion, symbolic of everything wrong with America. Read more from @bolman.bsky.social on PW Broadcast.
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The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all
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When Baseball Threw Physics a Curve | Broadcast
Sports, science, and collective delusion.
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October 22, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The World Series is almost here, so something a little different from my usual: I wrote about the surprisingly long debates about whether it's actually possible to "curve" a pitch. Candy Cummings, mass delusion, aerospace engineering, fascism. This one has it all
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Watch @deerhoof.bsky.social's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUh...
Deerhoof Live at Pioneer Works
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October 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Watch @deerhoof.bsky.social's epic live set at Pioneer Works, captured during their 31 Flavours Tour. Since forming in 1994, the San Francisco quartet has fused anarchic energy with artistic precision to become one of indie music’s most influential bands. www.youtube.com/watch?si=VUh...
Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters. @amypedulla.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...
October 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Amidst what he calls “Gowanus Footballs” (bloated, decomposing rats) and “Coney Island whitefish” (used condoms), Gary Francis and @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social track the Gowanus Canal daily—hoping to revive its famously rotten waters. @amypedulla.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...
“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast, @amypedulla.bsky.social reports. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...
Guardians of Gowanus | Broadcast
Along the city’s most polluted waterway, a band of citizen scientists is turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival.
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October 16, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“What can be thrown away can be reborn.” Along the city’s most polluted waterway, the citizen scientists of the @gowanusdredgers.bsky.social are turning daily measurements into a blueprint for revival. For PW Broadcast, @amypedulla.bsky.social reports. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/go...
This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (@chriskraus.bsky.social) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
October 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
This weekend at Second Sundays, Alissa Bennett will talk to the iconic Chris Kraus (@chriskraus.bsky.social) about her new novel, The Four Spent the Day Together—a book that began as a series of stories published on Pioneer Works Broadcast. @scribnerbooks.bsky.social pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house, @parisreview.bsky.social poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (@mattbroaddus.bsky.social), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor Mónica de la Torre. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
How are poems made? This Sunday, at our monthly open house, @parisreview.bsky.social poetry editor Srikanth Reddy will talk process with Matt Broaddus (@mattbroaddus.bsky.social), Jana Prikryl, and Broadcast contributor Mónica de la Torre. pioneerworks.org/programs/sec...
“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from @aaknopf.bsky.social, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we...
The Cooler Jesus | Broadcast
Julian Brave NoiseCat on the myth and mischief of Coyote—and the foolish river pirate who signaled his return.
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October 9, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“Some said Coyote would reappear as a cooler version of Jesus.” Broadcast is proud to share a piece from Julian Brave NoiseCat's latest book from @aaknopf.bsky.social, which we’ll be launching on Tuesday, 10/13 with @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/we...
"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...
October 8, 2025 at 1:55 PM
"These were the days that never existed for most of Europe in 1582." Since then, we've switched to the Gregorian calendar, but it's not perfect either. Read more from Joe Patterson's Big Apple Sky Calendar on Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...
"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...
Big Apple Sky Calendar: October, November, December 2025 | Broadcast
Dramatic highlights from the skies above Earth by intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
"Full Moon. This is called the Harvest Moon, as it’s the full Moon nearest the autumn equinox." 🌕 Read more insights on the skies above from intrepid astronomer Joe Patterson, now on PW Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/bi...
“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...
Tentacle Memory | Broadcast
When heat waves summon jellyfish and prophecy.
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September 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
“You were stung then, and you’re stung again now. It got you in its tentacles.” In new fiction from @madeleinewatts.bsky.social, jellyfish summon heat waves and prophecy. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/te...
How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
Edge of Paradise | Broadcast
In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, the climate crisis is accelerating faster than almost anywhere else in the global north.
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September 26, 2025 at 9:13 PM
How was it possible to slip so quickly from paradise into a sweltering, hellscape of no exit? In Greece, where ancient history meets tourist fantasy, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social finds a harbinger for our warming world. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ed...
Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...
Picture This: Hot Bodies | Broadcast
To be alive is to radiate according to a universal law.
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September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Our existence is predicated on a delicate balance of hot bodies. For PW Broadcast, @jannalevinastro.bsky.social writes on the quantum equation that describes the radiation of your flesh, the Sun, and the universe itself. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/pi...