@k-e-c.bsky.social
writing about culture and the outdoors, which is kinda writing about everything. words in nyt mag, the believer, orion, etc; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com
@k-e-c.bsky.socialwalking down canal street from the subway, i saw a pigeon lay down in a puddle and die, and it was just a little too on-the-nose
@k-e-c.bsky.socialalso i think about this part of anne carson’s paris review art of poetry interview at least once a week / every time i sit down to work on an essay
@k-e-c.bsky.social♥️
@k-e-c.bsky.socialjay!!!!!!!!! any time you want to come over and watch hell in a cell… my door is open
@thebeliever.netReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.socialDerek Drexl and Amira Lukens, two of the wrestlers featured in @k-e-c.bsky.social’s new essay “The Work,” went on @opb.org’s “Think Out Loud” to talk indie wrestling and share match stories: www.opb.org/article/2026...
@k-e-c.bsky.socialhow are we celebrating, is it wandering on the moors
@k-e-c.bsky.socialhappy anne carson nobel day to all. queen of poem that is an essay.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48636/...
@katzish.bsky.socialReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.socialThis was my reaction too and I don't even know whether the "we" is humanists, women, people with the ability to read, Canadians, fans of Sappho, fans of Emily Dickinson, translators, classicists, or people who appreciate the feelings of sad red monsters. Either way, yes
@k-e-c.bsky.socialseems like a good time to repost my @essaydaily.bsky.social piece about pro wrestler mick foley's autobiography HAVE A NICE DAY: A TALE OF BLOOD AND SWEAT SOCKS (and also about belief, and being santa when you can no longer be a heel)
@k-e-c.bsky.socialor, as a talking head put it in one made-for-tv wrestling doc I love: "wrestling's real; people are fake."
@longreads.comReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.social"Cannonball, world’s strongest slam, dropkick, Boston crab, lion tamer, some dozen or more slaps into a powerbomb. And then, dropping knees-first onto Amira’s shoulders, Johnnie leveled her." Katherine Cusumano for @thebeliever.net www.thebeliever.net/the-work/
@thebeliever.netReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.social“The Work,” @k-e-c.bsky.social’s “literal tour de force” of independent wrestling in the Pacific Northwest, is a Longreads Editors’ Pick!
Thanks to @longreads.com for recognizing Katherine’s work. Read their writeup here: longreads.com/2026/10/01/i...
@raynewman.bsky.socialReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.social"Once you penetrate so much as an inch beyond the fakeness... [you] understand that 'winner' and 'loser' don’t matter much in the traditional sense. They matter as narrative categories serving the stories and the characters and the awesome physical feats they execute."
@k-e-c.bsky.socialwhat!!!!!! thank you @longreads.com
longreads.com/2026/10/01/i...
@k-e-c.bsky.socialpls read my essay, which has roland barthes and elementary school-age girls screaming FUCK YOU BITCH from the front row and about a million drop kicks and a lot of other things
@k-e-c.bsky.socialI wrote about professional wrestling — and about ambition, and success, and how you measure those things for yourself in a sport lacking inherent competitive stakes — for @thebeliever.net
@k-e-c.bsky.socialthis is thrilling and depressing and wildly empathetic, loved
@tkdano.bsky.socialReposted by @k-e-c.bsky.socialI’ve become obsessed with the disappearing night sky. I miss going outside wherever I was and seeing the stars!
Glad to be able to write about this for @us.theguardian.com. Thanks to the kind readers who have already sent me emails about their own night skies.
@k-e-c.bsky.socialan oldie that is just so so good
oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...