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
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
"One of the many things a genocide does is reshape what a culture is — by destroying it and by forcing what has not been destroyed to deal with the destruction. The destruction itself becomes a key component of our lives and histories. So literature, I think, remains very important."
Palestinian Literature and the “Recurring Nightmare” of Occupation — The Dial
A conversation with Karim Kattan, whose short story “Burial at Sea” was published in our Fiction issue. A previous story, “Salt Air,” translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, was pub...
www.thedial.world
August 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"One of the many things a genocide does is reshape what a culture is — by destroying it and by forcing what has not been destroyed to deal with the destruction. The destruction itself becomes a key component of our lives and histories. So literature, I think, remains very important."
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literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now
August 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now
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literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now
August 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now
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BWDR is one of the last real places on the internet, developing and publishing the kind of expansive, rigorous criticism and essays that have sadly become all too rare. their work & existence is incalculably valuable, support them with a subscription (or perhaps in an even bigger way if you can?)
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August 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
BWDR is one of the last real places on the internet, developing and publishing the kind of expansive, rigorous criticism and essays that have sadly become all too rare. their work & existence is incalculably valuable, support them with a subscription (or perhaps in an even bigger way if you can?)
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In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
August 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...
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lol who gives a shit
How well does Zohran play in the suburbs of New York?
-19% favorable
-50% unfavorable
-32% don't know/have no opinion
-19% favorable
-50% unfavorable
-32% don't know/have no opinion
August 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
lol who gives a shit
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☀️ New review today
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
The Long-Drawn-Out Finale in which We Now Live | Daniel Saldaña París' The Dance and the Fire
By Cory Oldweiler
southwestreview.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
☀️ New review today
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...
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A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
August 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.
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Just saying that if Trump can come into my city and just lie about crime, call it a national emergency, and take us over - he can do it anywhere. It’s easier here, but look what he did in LA - just saying I’d care about DC if I was elsewhere in the country because this is bad
August 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Just saying that if Trump can come into my city and just lie about crime, call it a national emergency, and take us over - he can do it anywhere. It’s easier here, but look what he did in LA - just saying I’d care about DC if I was elsewhere in the country because this is bad
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My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/
very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."
Body/Work: A Correspondence
Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further south, on Foster Avenue, perhaps on his way…
truemag.org
August 12, 2025 at 1:44 AM
My spring correspondence with @richardscottlarson.com — online & offline & between lines — was so bountiful & energizing ! ❤️🔥 & now you can read it in full @truemag.bsky.social @wvupress.bsky.social & @uwiscpress.bsky.social 📚⚡️ https://truemag.org/2025/08/08/body-work-a-correspondence/
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very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."
Body/Work: A Correspondence
Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further south, on Foster Avenue, perhaps on his way…
truemag.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."
very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."
Body/Work: A Correspondence
Since we’d never met in person, I had to picture Richard taking notes, making observations as he walked around Brooklyn’s Cortelyou Road or maybe further south, on Foster Avenue, perhaps on his way…
truemag.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:11 PM
very grateful to be in conversation with @chriscampanioni.bsky.social for @truemag.bsky.social: "I think the body is always the place to start when it comes to personal storytelling, because to me the body is always a narrative, or at least the inevitable starting point of one."