Alyse Burnside

Alyse Burnside is a writer living in Brooklyn. They’re working on a collection of essays about queerness, work, and attachment. Their work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere.

Mary Ellen Solt, 1980.

The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt The Concrete Poetics of Mary Ellen Solt

Her writing toed the line between fine art and poetry, asking readers to think of language as a multidimensional tool of communication and politics.

Mar 25, 2025 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

A man fights a losing battle with insomnia by counting sheep, 1940.

A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless” A Dispatch From the Land of the “Sleepless”

A French writer’s memoir of her insomnia tries to understand how central sleep is to cultural and intellectual history.

Mar 28, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

Author Kathy Acker

Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker Strange and Intimate Encounters With Kathy Acker

In Philosophy for Spiders, McKenzie Wark revisits Acker’s work to fashion a different kind of literary theory—one more personal and erotic.

Jan 13, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Alyse Burnside

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