S/FJ

I launched my blog in October 2003, and my style has remained quite consistent over the years. I share digital photos, essays, curated links, audio mixes, messages, and interviews. I handle all the writing myself, except for occasional guest posts, which have been rare lately. Joe Levy and Heidi DeRuiter help edit all of the content. If you want to visit my main website, you can find it here.

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Aug 18, 2024 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

I appreciate you guys following me butsubstack.sashafrerejones.com
January 10 2024

Jan 10, 2024 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

January 10 2024substack.sashafrerejones.com
January 2 2024

Jan 2, 2024 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

Don’t unsubscribe just yet—moving to a new Nazi-free platform as we speak. Mailing list will transfer, so you don’t need to do a thing. See you soon.
January 1 2024

Jan 1, 2024 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

Daniel Saldaña Paris: On January 1st, at 7 am, I left my apartment in Bed-Stuy determined to bike to Coney Island to welcome the new year, but there was a fat, beautiful possum on the stoop, blocking the building’s door. I gently tried to get him to move but he wouldn’t, he just stared at me, half asleep, annoyed by my insistence. That really set the tone for the year ahead, a year of good intentions derailed by wild surprises.
December 25 2024

Dec 25, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

I am grateful to everyone who brought Earlier into existence. (Bring the book into your house.) Chris Kraus said “Yes,” Hedi el Kholti said “Let’s go,” Robbie Dewhurst said “What is this?” and Janique Vigier said “Here it is.” Semiotext(e) for life. Once in the world, Earlier found remarkable readers: Stephen Piccarella in The Nation, Michael W. Clune in Bookforum, Sam Hockley-Smith in Southwest Review, andMs. Briefly Noted in The New Yorker.
December 23 2023

Dec 23, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

I am grateful for all the correspondents sending in texts for the year-end post. What we have accumulated to date is already magical. The whole thing will go live on January 1 or 2, depending on how punctual they are and how industrious I am. Until then, some varieties of gratitude. I am grateful for the unexpectedly big slice of P-Funk catalog available on Spotify. Let’s start there. We have, in fact, already started there. (The thumbnail in that playlist is a photograph of the room I am in now.
December 8 2023

Dec 8, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

In the beginning of 2019, when it was cold and I had become fully suicidal rather than recreationally so, I imagined I might kill myself by getting a cop to shoot me. Problems of the individual and group arise here. My feelings about cops, as a group, led me to believe that individual me could get an individual cop to use a gun in a way that might prove fatal to me because of that individual’s predominant group tendencies.
November 3 2023

Nov 3, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones
September 30 2023

Sep 30, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

A guest entry from the good and great Elvia Wilk, who is in charge of text until the next photograph down there: You’ve seen the biblical deluge in the streets of all boroughs and you’ve seen the fountains of filthy runoff squirting all over the subway tracks—because OnE hALf of NYC subway lines were shut down by a storm that the newspaper of record described as “unremarkable”—you’ve seen the memes saying “Will the cops try to shoot the water?” because we have police instead of...
September 12, 2023

Sep 12, 2023 | substack.sashafrerejones.com | Sasha Frere-Jones

The 1986 release that Joshua Minsoo Kim called “the greatest ambient album of all time” is being reissued. That album is Hiroshi Yoshimura’s Surround, originally titled Soundscape 1: Surround. This is literally ambient music, commissioned by “Misawa Homes, intended to function as an ‘amenity’ designed to enhance the company’s newly built living spaces.” I am practicing abstinence around saying things like “the greatest of all time,” though I understand why JMK said it about Surround.