The Pink Stuff
Sara BatkieMonthly recommendations of what's been getting under my skin. Launching Jan. 2025
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The Pink Stuff: April 2026
Hello friends: it’s National Poetry Month! I have never been a prodigious reader of the form myself but I do make sporadic attempts to get reacquainted with it. Often this has meant reading a poem each night before bed. I’ve fallen in and o...
The Pink Stuff: March 2026
I’m sure there will come a month when I don’t start out by acknowledging that things in the world are really terrible right now. I’m sick of writing it, and I’m sure you’re sick of hearing it. But to borrow an inelegant phrase from our (sig...
The Pink Stuff: February 2026
Hello friends. Early this month, I read a brief piece by author Lincoln Michel about how artists, and writers in particular, may need to adopt more of a punk, D.I.Y. ethos in the future as more traditional publications continue to cut or co...
The Pink Stuff: January 2026
Well here I am, back in your inbox again. I know I said it might not happen in my December edition but I came crawling back. Joking aside, it’s been a pretty awful start to the year in the wider world and the news alerts I got often left me...
The Pink Stuff: December 2025
Look, let’s be real here. By most metrics, this was not a great year. It seemed like every day brought some fresh hell from the Trump administration, whether it was funding being pulled from government departments and research, immigrants b...
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Author of the 2017 Prairie Schooner Prize Winning story collection BETTER TIMES. Editor at Large for the Chicago Review of Books. Recidivist Midwesterner. Mom to ornery rescue dog Archie.
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