no. ugh.

Eileen Myles appears on the cover of Apartamento magazine at their home in Marfa, Texas, marking the first time photographs of their desert outpost have been published. The Chelsea Girls author joins Layla Benitez-James for a candid reflection on their legacy and what it has meant to move through the world ‘as a queer person, as a female person, as a non-female person, as a non-parent’. There’s a moment where the typical performance of a Q&A falls back, and we come up against something special: two people, at even gazes, talking about what it means to experience love and loss in real time. Really grateful to Layla for the immensity of her work, and honoured that we have the chance to publish this piece, which is paired with stunning photographs and a new film by Cole Barash (@cole_barash ). Missed Laura (@laurafradep ) and the new office nephew, baby Khalid, just for this issue, and grateful to Valeria (@valeriatusquets ) for all her care with this latest edition of the magazine. Issue #37 is available on newsstands now! xoxoxo (ty @michaelcukr for the footage)

New interview with @pollybukuro live on the website 💙 What Am I, A Deer? (out now with @fitzcarraldoeditions ) turns a crush into an all-out obsession in Barton’s third book, which looks at the thrill of delusion in romance. @noahtbritton speaks with the author about her writing process, how translation informed her depiction of romance and the influence of music on her work. 🦌🎤 Read in full on the Wormhole,

girls’ trip to bxl, semana santa

tengo miedo toreroo0o00o

@sammy.skidmore (of @diningdeadmusic fame) and I took it out of the DMs and recorded our early (and evolving) reaction to la rosalía’s new album on sam’s substack. link in story to read 🪽☁️✨

APARTAMENTO MAGAZINE ISSUE #36 OUT NOW Cover by Louis Fratino feat. the artist in conversation with @jordanweitzman . @isamayaffrench joins critic and certified ‘Lindsay Lohan scholar’ Philippa Snow for a conversation that spans the future of beauty, the ethics of the Kardashians and their fame, and the rise of a certain ‘Love Island look’. A family reunion backdrops a feature on the Lijadu Sisters, ‘twin princesses of Afro-psychedelic funk’ and forces of resistance in Nigeria’s music scene. Yeye Taiwo Lijadu remembers her sister and musical partner, Yeye Kehinde, in conversation with her niece, the artist @kemkemlij . Rather than prescribe a narrative to the Bloomsbury Group—‘that infamous little circle, loved and hated, obsessed-over and dismissed’—@noreen_masud travels to the collective’s former residence in Lewes to see what resonates. In her lyrical essay, Noreen meditates on the role of a house museum and, most urgently, the ways we memorialise the past. Plus: Simon Costin in conversation with three-time Academy Award-winner Sandy Powell; an interview with Graciela Iturbide that reads like a modern-day Odyssey; Dea Kulumbegashvili, winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, speaks with Zico Judge (@blur__________ ) from her self-imposed exile in East Berlin; @laurafradep reimagines home in a golden sanctuary high above Madrid; Konstantin Kakanias and Joe Pickman come clean with @robbiewhitehead ; and still crying to @johndouglasmillar ’s tender retreat with Anita Vitale. At the centre of the issue, an original story by Mariana Enriquez simmers in the economic turmoil of Buenos Aires at the turn of the century, where a grand apartment slowly succumbs to surprise floods, mysterious gas leaks, and paranormal acts in a tale hauntingly translated by @meganamcdowell . Incredibly proud of this issue and excited to see it out in the world 🫶

missed summers in georgia + back in bcn

It is maybe too easy to frame something as a ‘first’, too flat of a way to render memory. But nearly half a year after I met Robert, I am still thinking about this first chance to talk with someone—across time, in real time—about what it means to inhabit the world in the shared ways that we do. Over the couple of days we spent together, driving along the Florida coast and eating chiles rellenos at food stalls on the outskirts of Sarasota, Robert relived a lot of what I’m encountering now, newly and hazily, in love, in thinking, in writing. Our conversation for me is a template for fulfillment, a question answered in echoes. There’s weight to that, especially when so many of Robert’s peers were denied longevity throughout the AlDS crisis. He turned 80 this month, just a few days before this conversation hits newsstands. There’s weight to that too, alongside the joy. What an honor to learn from Robert, one of the greatest comedic writers of our era. Incredibly grateful to the team at Apartmento for making it happen, especially to Layla Benitez-James and @laurafradep for their edits and encouragement. (This has only ever been a collective effort.) We also had the chance to publish an excerpt from The Divine Art of Living, Robert’s third novel and his first in over three decades, marking the return of a literary legend. The new issue of @apartamentomagazine is out now. Thank you thank you thank you x100oo00oo00o0o (V happy that my first piece for the mag is outta the Southhhhh across the board, including this iconic photography by @jda.usa )

spoke with @thecharlieporter about his debut novel, nova scotia house, which moved me deeply. a little on grace jones, going out, and saying heartfelt things with your chest… thank youuu to the team at @w0rms.w0rld , especially @clompch , and to @arcadiamolinas for the care & edits 🪱 link in bio to read the interview :)

Paul Thek by Peter Hujar Grateful to @johndouglasmillar @garyschneider7 for the chance to commune with Hujar’s work, alongside pieces by David Wojnarowicz. A few days in London I’ll never forget.

whatever that means

let’s ride