Mark Dery

I've launched an Insta channel for my writing coach/developmental editor business. (www.instagram.com/markderywrit...) Once a week, maybe more, I'll post about the Spooky Art of writing, drawing on my deep knowledge of craft. Here's hoping you'll follow, comment, spread the word. #writingcommunity

This godless atheist has finally seen the light: Woke Jesus, wielding His vorpal sword against Christofascism, sworn foe of human progress and brain-eating virus of the mind. (Hammer & Sickle symbol and other factory extras not included.) #ATHEISM #CHRISTOFASCISM #CHRISTIANNATIONALISM

Scratch a prude, find a perv. If I had a buck for every time a self-appointed Reichsminister of Public Morals, televangelist, or Republican pol who greased the skids of his ascent to power with moral-panic alarmism, then got caught, I'd be Elon. #CULTUREJAMMING: It never gets old.

no amnesty

Will I ever visit the Cerne Abbas Giant and not remember the shaman I met who told me her friend had recently climbed over the fence and slept on the Giant’s 36 feet hard-on and had “the most erotic night of her life”? It seems doubtful.

There's scarcely been a day's writing when I've not had cause to recall my favourite ever quote from an author about their own work, from a Paris Review interview with John Banville in 2009.

"We live in a world ruled by fictions of every kind... For the writer .. it is less and less necessary .. to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality." -J.G. Ballard coaching.markdery.com #JGBALLARD #WRITING #WRITERS

TAKE ACTION AGAINST TRUMP'S POLICE-STATE INTIMIDATION OF COURAGEOUS POLITICIANS WILLING TO CALL HIM OUT FOR THE TINPOT DICTATOR HE IS. SIGN THIS ACLU PETITION NOW. action.aclu.org/send-message... #ILHAN #ILHANOMAR #POLICESTATE #TRUMP

The Pollock Jackson Pollock never painted: a palimpsest of posters and handbills, random wall, NYC. #STREETART #NYC #NYCSTREETLIFE #GRAFFITI

This fucking guy backed the WB merger, is vehemently anti-trans, militarized California's war on unhoused people, and backs this terrible legislation which will block the necessary solution to solving inequality. He is 100% with the billionaires. I will never vote for him under any circumstances.

This year, Kathy Hochul was able to prevent NY's governing-power Left from passing #TaxTheRich because too many Dem Assembly members were unwilling to hold the line. Next year, with 7 new allies in the Assembly, we can win it. But to make it happen, we'll likely need unprecedented alignment. 🧵

I stand with @repilhan.bsky.social

This. #ILHANOMAR #ICE #ABOLISHICE

Immigrant New Yorkers belong here. ICE does not. If you need help, call our free, confidential Immigration Legal Support Hotline at 1-800-354-0365 or dial 311 and say “Immigration Legal.” Help is here in your native language, no matter your immigration status. More info: nyc.gov/knowyourrights

This, in which business guru-turned-men's empath bro and self-styled "October 8 Jew" @profgalloway.com reveals himself as yet another Sh*tty Media Zionist. (Why isn't there a whisper-network spreadsheet for *that*?) www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFRG... #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #ScottGalloway

"No future left to lose." — Ray Brassier, philosopher, living under threat of Israeli drones in Beirut as I write these words. #OCTOBER7 #GENOCIDE #ISRAEL #RAYBRASSIER

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Working on this reported essay, just published, increasingly took over my life for the last two months. PEN America did a terrible disservice with its sloppy reporting about American Jews and Israelis in publishing in July. Josh Lambert and I tried to do better. jewishcurrents.org/what-pen-ame...

“Years of propaganda had prepared Americans to accept invasive state surveillance as a necessary evil. Since the jihadis were so widely hated, it was easy to manufacture consent.” Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru.bsky.social) on art and censorship after 9/11. buff.ly/Bh7iV5c

BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...

Just when you thought the craven, capitulating, parasitic managerial class at Columbia couldn't get any more loathsome:

When my father was faculty at Cornell he was stopped by the police chief in the street & asked who he was & where he was going. When he balked at the fact that no one but him, an Arab man, was being asked, the chief said “I’m just protecting students” Same guy failed to investigate 7 rapists.

Artificial Intelligence and Creative Writing: A Policy of Sorts. I've posted versions before, but I update this each term following conversations with students. Here's my Fall '26 edition. In no way definitive! Learning as I go.

#UNABOMBER #TEDKACZYNSKI

This guy is a hero 👏 That ending was peak unnecessary police overreach.

Mike Pompeo has been rewarded with a teaching fellowship at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. The same school that canceled my class on media, race and international affairs. @columbiasipa.bsky.social share.google/KEvTy5yER71U...

It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.

“There may come a time where we are one of the only, if not the only, option for the nation.”

Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...

Calling all NYC artists — painters, filmmakers, poets, musicians and more! Did you know our city provides grants to support your work every year? And this year, we're DOUBLING the amount — from $5,000 up to $10,000 per artist! Deadlines are approaching fast — apply today at nyc.gov/artistgrants.

Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.

With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.

U-M has posted Orwellian signs on the public square this semester, cautioning against public protest. This week, the real leaders of U-M are GEO, @reprashida.govpeeps.us, and Amir Makled, speaking loud and clear on our Diag: “you can’t policy us from free speech” www.facebook.com/share/v/1Euj...

the experience of COVID really drove this home for me. It wans't the apocalypse, life went on, but a million people died and there were enormous social costs, some of which continue to this day and then when it was done most people were like "let's never think about that again"

On a walk this morning, my kid and I watched from the sidewalk as an unmarked car cut off a driver, another unmarked car behind, three masked ICE agents got out, removed the driver from his car and put him in theirs, left his car on the side of the road. As if nothing had happened in five minutes.

Welcome to the Misanthropocene. #MISANTHROPOCENE

Culture jamming lives! #CULTUREJAMMING

Mind Cleanse for Summer's End. Edward Gorey, Cape Cod, July 1961. In my Gorey bio Born to Be Posthumous, I note that he began summering on the Cape in the 50's, "having great fun observing Old New England in the person of my fantastically typical relatives." Photo (c) Ken Morton. #EDWARDGOREY #GOREY

Holiday tips for the Zone of Interest.

Even the crickets were embarrassed.

My book on 68 is out! Wounded Galaxies 1968 Geopolitics and Culture Wars by Joan Hawkins now out via IU Press iupress.org/978025307607...

"And you think you're so clever and classless and free But you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see." - John Lennon, "Working Class Hero" (1970) Happy Labor Day, comrades. Class War Now! #LABORDAY #WORKERSOFTHEWORLD #WORKINGCLASS

New post on my Insta channel, markderywritingcoach: www.instagram.com/p/Dc6GlwiEfC... #PAULWILLIAMS #PHANTOMOFTHEPARADISE #WRITING #WRITERS #WRITINGCOACH

NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

Fetterman text to aide: “Why do I have to keep having to meet with [Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia]?” Aide: “Because they are worried about vaccines and Medicaid cuts.” Fetterman: “Well I’m not.” @wsj.com #PAsen www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

The right claims Abdul El-Sayed's past comments constitute evidence of him being a “terrorist” and “radical Islamist” or a “jihadist sympathizer” who is “infiltrating from within”. It has also targeted El-Sayed’s family.