James Yeh

Writer, editor, journalist, @Columbia writing prof. @mcsweeneys, @believermag, @VICE alum. Words in @nymag, @nytimes, @guardian, @thedrift_mag, @NOONannual.

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

In the spirit of the season (i.e., end-of-year publication lists) and what may accurately be described as American "humble self-enlargement," a quick thread of What I Wrote in 2022:

[IJNet @IJNet]

✨Fellowship opportunity✨
AMWAJ is accepting applications for its Early-Career Journalist Fellowship, in which early-career journalists from the MENA region will receive a stipend and more to report on sustainability. Apply by Aug. 31!
https://t.co/WocmIbL4qv

[Brandon Mancilla @mancillabrando]

Telling voters that they don’t belong in NYC is totally going to work. Keep it up

[Alex Shephard @alex_shephard]

gonna be a long hot summer (of Democratic establishment figures going insane because they all just realized how vulnerable they are)

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

I’m proud of this student and ashamed of the institution with which I am affiliated. What else do we teach them if not to principled? If not to speak against evil? This is the humane part of the humanities. Give this kid his diploma!

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Right on! ✊🏽

[RWDSU @RWDSU]

Yesterday, The Center for Fiction Union went public! It’s not fiction folks…real fact workers want voluntary recognition of their union and representation with @RWDSU! Read all about it in @PublishersWkly today: https://t.co/TrL8GrrZOs.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

An important component of this song is that Fiona Apple spent years as part of a community group just watching what judges, prosecutors, and police do in court. My mother also did this when she retired. It's an incredible service to the possibility of a democratic society.

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

This weekend, in person, at the @Center4Fiction! https://t.co/sdm1AL9uX0

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Come write and edit with me next weekend at @Center4Fiction!

[The Center for Fiction @Center4Fiction]

Join @jamesyeh for a weekend writing intensive that offers a radical, imaginative, and accessible approach to editing ourselves and generating new work from life, inspired by writing techniques from literary greats. Register here https://t.co/C9U7uy2NzH.

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

@crulge he's not wrong! burning down the barn!

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Chuffed to be chatting on a noon Zoom with the incomparable @glossitis for @TheBrooklynRail! Next Wednesday, April 2. Hope you can join. https://t.co/uPe6BneNzi

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Thanks so much to @briangresko for inviting me to participate in—and more importantly—for facilitating this meaningful project.

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Wrote about the modest optimistic practices of writing, reading, showing up, and standing with during these dark times for @thewritingcolab's 100 Days of Creative Resistance (while also slipping in some lines from Nazim Hikmet, Lydia Davis, and coworkers). https://t.co/qzpYhmdTxt

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Doing a free Zoom Q&A Monday 3/10 at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT with Austin Nguyen at @kayapress about the art of editing fiction and nonfiction, along with a close look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos," originally published in @mcsweeneys. Hope you can join!

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

(Call it Lish Yourself. Or, maybe, Pulling from Life and Lish.) Anyway, please share with anyone whom you think might be interested! https://t.co/sdm1ALa2My

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

Hardly on here anymore, but just to say: I'm delighted to be teaching an in-person writing workshop at @Center4Fiction in late April. The topic is one that's near and dear to me: getting unstuck by editing yourself and generating work from life.

[James Yeh @jamesyeh]

We'll be discussing the approaches of such greats as Lydia Davis and Samuel R. Delany, and looking under the hood of Gordon Lish's storied/infamous edit of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love" and the Lishian method more generally. Then we'll apply it!

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

https://t.co/qBdp0ZQ66b

[Jason Koebler @jason_koebler]

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

https://t.co/4i8d2CczYS

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Videos show the moments opposition fighters opened jail cells in Syria's notorious regime prisons to free detainees, including women and children. One man says he was scheduled to be executed today.