Iconoclast conformist, name on a few book covers. Passions: motorcycles, GQPers behind bars. Proud Akronite and Vassarion. Mistakes will be made
Joined August 2020
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12 Jan 2024
Normally I keep this stuff inside. Today, seeing this for the hundredth time, I reached the point of wanting to scream. This is a canal aqueduct designed by J.A. Roebling, years before the Bklyn Bridge. Right out in the open. Few people know or understand what it is.
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New Play “The Perfect Vehicle” Powers into The New Theatre, 24–28 March 2026 takeyourseats.ie/readme/news…
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12 Sep 2025
"In all guises — mother, biologist, poet, Japanologist — Larson looks for commonality, itself a form of repair. 'We are the world’s body. There is no separation'": @PerfectVehicle on Katherine Larson's WEDDING OF THE FOXES @Milkweed_Books @On_The_Seawall bit.ly/48fYKT3
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27 Aug 2025
I was so happy to get the chance to write about Joanna Pocock's profound examination of America's ailing heartland. One more in my list of proofs that it is publishers like @softskull putting out the most daring and accomplished writing today.
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
2 Feb 2025
La frase es de Melissa Holbrook Pierson, @PerfectVehicle en su prólogo a la edición española que publicamos de su libro "El Vehículo Perfecto".
Su frase completa es: "Las motos salvan vidas"
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10 Dec 2024
This is where I will henceforth be doing my usual frequent lurking/rarely posting; the venue changes but my social anxiety does not.
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15 Nov 2024
I'm halfway out the door here, so let my farewell be this admiration of the deliciously complex "An Image of My Name Enters America" by Lucy Ives, incomparable writer and mind. @GraywolfPress Thanks to @RonSlate for the opportunity. ronslate.com/on-an-image-of-…
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
1 Nov 2024
That half the country wants to give the presidency to a convicted felon awaiting sentencing who wants to shoot migrants in the leg, shoot BLM protesters, use our military against our us (those Trump doesn't like), and is clearly dragging his leg due to a stroke, is insane.
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
29 Oct 2024
White Media: We make endorsements all the time
Democracy: Endorse the Black lady.
White Media: If we endorse the Black lady people won’t trust us so we’re no longer making endorsements
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
15 Sep 2024
They are looking for a way to stoke fear of Black Caribbean immigrants because Kamala Harris is herself of Jamaican descent. Watch for conspiracy theories about her family next.
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11 Sep 2024
Yet another proof that only the finest of thoughtful prose is allowed on the pages of @thedrift_mag
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10 Sep 2024
Hey lookee! My lil @wapo review on the paperback cover of this extraordinary book.
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
10 Sep 2024
Nuestro primer libro en español.
De alguien que ama tanto las motos como la escritura: Melissa Holbrook Pierson @PerfectVehicle Y además una amiga. Un auténtico clásico de la literatura sobre motos. No se lo pierda si le interesan esos vehículos perfectos.
16 May 2020
Primer libro a la venta: "El vehículo perfecto". (1997). Melissa Holbrook Pierson. El descubrimiento de la motocicleta y de todo lo que este mundo lleva consigo, por parte de una escritora americana. Indispensable para quien ame las motos.
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6 Jul 2024
"Revising Reality" by Chris Gavaler and Nat Goldberg has some trenchant things to say about our political reality, and all the other realities too. Thanks for the space to review it @hyperallergic @BloomsburyAcad
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4 Jul 2024
On the eve before what I hope is not the last celebration of our democracy, I'm reprising my appreciation of Peter Schjeldahl, a writer who knew how to put on a great show, whether in the sky on the Fourth or on the page. Via @lithub lithub.com/master-of-ceremon…
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22 May 2024
The Perfect Vehicle: What It Is About Motorcycles @PerfectVehicle #other #motoguzzi #motorcycle Bikers Bookshelf bikersbookshelf.com/2023/10/…
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
15 Apr 2024
Haven’t we done enough to whales already without pestering them with small talk??
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Scientists have a ‘conversation’ with a humpback whale —which they hope will help mankind communicate with aliens trib.al/BIMhoGq
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23 Mar 2024
Only a few years late to discovering a small work of big genius. Ironically, I'm applauding a work about the insidious personal cost of social media on social media, oops. Felicity Fenton's art/essay hit home, hard. @FutureTenseBook
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
9 Mar 2024
Melissa Holbrook Pierson is not just a motorcycle enthusiast; she's also a world-renowned author. She has very graciously contributed to our current issue, reflecting on her life and journey as a motorcyclist, and more.
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Melissa Holbrook Pierson retweeted
6 Mar 2024
The automotive world has traditionally been male-dominated, but thankfully this is changing. We’ve had the privilege of being among the few publications that has had a number of women in our ranks over the years, and we're proud of this fact. (1/7)
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