James Yeh
@jamesyeh
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Writer, editor, journalist, @Columbia writing prof. @mcsweeneys, @believermag, @VICE alum. Words in @nymag, @nytimes, @guardian, @thedrift_mag, @NOONannual.
Brooklyn by way of SC
Joined December 2008
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:
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✨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
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Telling voters that they don’t belong in NYC is totally going to work. Keep it up
One of these campaigns looks like New York. The other… doesn’t. We’re the campaign of working people, real neighborhoods, and real progress. Receipts below:
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gonna be a long hot summer (of Democratic establishment figures going insane because they all just realized how vulnerable they are)
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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!
This is why NYU is denying him a diploma: “The genocide currently occurring is supported politically and militarily by the United States, is paid for by our tax dollars, and has been livestreamed to our phones for the past 18 months.” https://t.co/iRnfJmLlx6
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Right on! ✊🏽
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.
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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.
Fiona Apple releases first new song in 5 years, written in support of mothers affected by the cash-bail system
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Come write and edit with me next weekend at @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.
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Chuffed to be chatting on a noon Zoom with the incomparable @glossitis for @TheBrooklynRail! Next Wednesday, April 2. Hope you can join.
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Author Lynne Tillman joins writer James Yeh for a conversation.
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Thanks so much to @briangresko for inviting me to participate in—and more importantly—for facilitating this meaningful project.
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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).
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Be my question plant this Monday!!
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!
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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!
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(Call it Lish Yourself. Or, maybe, Pulling from Life and Lish.) Anyway, please share with anyone whom you think might be interested!
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In Person | Feeling stuck? Don’t know where to go, or what to try next? Uncover radical, imaginative, and accessible approaches to editing ourselves and generating new work from life.
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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!
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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.
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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
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The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.
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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" https://t.co/4i8d2CczYS
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"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
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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.
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How dare you claim to stand beside rank and file while actively help UAW leadership bust our union. Rank and file are behind us, why aren’t you?
Our firm is proud to have spent another week working alongside the incredible rank-and-file members of @UAWRegion9A — from their negotiations with NYC movie theaters to their contract enforcement with universities.
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