Welcome to Eckleburg Weekly. The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg have been watching all week, and they caught some marvelous things: new fiction, poetry, essays, art and interviews, gathered here for your Sunday. Here’s everything we published from September 28-October 4, 2026, plus a few literary evenings worth leaving the apartment for. And this week, you choose: vote for your favorite line below before the day is out, and we’ll crown the winner Monday as Eckleburg Readers’ Favorite Line of the Week.
FIRST LOOK
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Check Out Line at All-Eyes On You Ophthalmology and Retinal Surgery Associatesby Wendy BooydeGraaff “Joan : Next? Step right up. Thanks for your patience. Everyone finished appointments at the same time? Must be lunch time. Wow. Thanks for your gracious patience. And how may I help you? [Six people in line behind her, all shift forward one space: one man with walker, left side facial droop; woman with cotton taped to right eye; woman holding glasses with squinting eyes; teenager and mom; married couple (retired?) murmuring about lunch at local buffet.] Joan : Alrighty, Beth, it looks like Dr. Banh needs to see you… |
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FICTION
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From the archive, September 2010 Zero Dark Thirtyby John Emerson “It is the silken hour of morningtide as a fat, polka-dot spider crawls along the edge of a dust and plaster-encrusted windowsill. Briefly, it pauses to examine a vertical, paint-smeared iron bar: one of three that obstruct an easterly view out of a small, broken glass window, above a narrow, rectangular bed, where a short,… |
POETRY
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Letter to the Patriarchy and Other Poemsby Maureen Sherbondy “I carry centuries of women inside my body. |
ESSAYS
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From the archive, September 2018 Crossing the Street in Tibetby Michelle Cacho-Negrete “Do not be daunted by the eight lanes of cars, buses, trucks, bicycles and pedibikes as they weave a snarled braid of traffic. |
GALLERY
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From the archive, April 2010 Openingsby Richard Kostelanetz Openings by Richard Kostelanetz is featured in The Eckleburg Gallery. |
EYES ON: AN ECKLEBURG INTERVIEW
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Eyes On: Ceridwen HallIn this Eyes On interview, we talk with Ceridwen Hall about “Weather Report and Other Poems,” published in Eckleburg, and The School for Danger and Other Studies, along with the works and habits behind them and what comes next. |
FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY
VOTE: FAVORITE LINE OF THE WEEK
Which line from this issue stays with you? Click your favorite. Voting closes at the end of the day. We’ll publish the winner Monday as Eckleburg Readers’ Favorite Line of the Week.
“It is the silken hour of morningtide as a fat, polka-dot spider crawls along the edge of a dust and plaster-encrusted windowsill.”
from Zero Dark Thirty
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“I carry centuries of women inside my body.”
from Letter to the Patriarchy and Other Poems by Maureen Sherbondy
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“Do not be daunted by the eight lanes of cars, buses, trucks, bicycles and pedibikes as they weave a snarled braid of traffic.”
from Crossing the Street in Tibet by Michelle Cacho-Negrete
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LIT UP NYC
Lit Up NYC: October 3-11, 2026
Readings, launches and literary conversations across New York, for the week ahead and next weekend.
Coming up:
- Sunday, October 4, 3 PM, Brooklyn: Our Weird Bodies, an Artmaggedon Festival group reading, with Mansi Dahal, Sylvia Dziewaltowska, May Syeda, Diana Heald and Randle Browning. 477 E. 16th St., Ditmas Park. Free.
- Sunday, October 4, 4 PM, Manhattan: The launch of Chimes: A Monologue by Tom Cole. Parkside Lounge, 317 E. Houston St. Sliding scale from $5. Details
Thank you for reading Eckleburg Weekly. New work appears at Eckleburg every week: poetry on Sundays, fiction on Tuesdays and essays on Thursdays, with Lit Up NYC on Saturdays. Subscribe to Eckleburg Weekly to get it in your inbox every Sunday.
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