gm, this story I wrote is now online at @fallowmedia.bsky.social if you wanna spend some time with the wisest shih-tzu in literature www.fallowmedia.com/journal/01/b...

the gift of gab

relaunching The Future Was Color as “like Heated Rivalry but written by someone who’s actually had sex”

Thank you! Yes, I am now doing a monthly feature recommending books for the @thegailyshow.org! This month I featured The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan, Blue-Skinned Gods by @sjsindu.bsky.social, and Confidence by Rafael Frumkin!

when The Fragile came out in 1999 Trent Reznor told an interviewer that he wanted to make an album that everyone would hate the first time they heard it and I’m happy to say I have written the novel version of this

became a 35mm person while I was gone I’m afraid

sort of sad that the whole American project is an attempt to re-enter Eden by eating from the tree of ignorance, only to end up xeroxing hell

the whole thing loose

btw I lived in Europe for three months and forgot to tell anyone

gnawing conversationally on a hot dog like bugs bunny with a carrot

I wrote about @somers.bsky.social's The Ten Year Affair, which is not only one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time, but one of the most thought provoking: patricknathan.substack.com/p/the-horror...

“The Future Was Color” is a story that is smart, poignant, tender, very vivid and very sexy. A stunning portrait of queer lives, art, 1950s Los Angeles, survival, leaving one place to come to another, and what it means to create an artistic self in an apocalyptic time where violence is a constant.

I am such an admirer of Patrick Nathan’s writing, so I was thrilled to read his incredible essay about my book and the infidelity novel.

I absolutely loved this essay by Patrick Nathan. patricknathan.substack.com/p/soul-searc...

tragedy in the skies over my hammy

*leans over your shoulder* What book are you reading?

watching White Lotus, intrigued by evil Jon Hamm

Btw for anyone wondering why "the left" has become so obsessed with the culture of punishment, exclusion, purity, and disqualification, I wrote a book about the fascist function of social media, including websites like this one. patricknathan.com/image-control

Our friends over at the Paperback Exchange could use a little help www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...

book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

don’t let them make you forget this life is yours and you should enjoy it and have some fun

“Stop begging for your supporters’ respect and try earning it for once.” An excellent read with excellent points.

open.substack.com/pub/patrickn... This is the real shit. From @patricknathan.bsky.social.

Wrote about why the Dems need to put down their phones and come back to the real world patricknathan.substack.com/p/we-asked-f...

Blurb Box is my fav blurb joke btw

used to make fun of blurbs by saying "darkly illuminating" and I just saw it in some sincere jacket copy so I will be moving to the Mariana Trench shortly

Ayşegül Savaş, The Anthropologists

Just had a guy come in and ask for a philosophy book rec and then just leave with the book I recommended. Chased him down the block but he didn’t give a fuck. Please buy an extra book at your local store today. This shit sucks.

I've only just started reading Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color but it's already killing me. #BookSky #PatrickNathan #TheFutureWasColor

From the KY dispatch.

every writer needs a network of spies who report back with shit like “saw your book on table”

ever grateful for the work editors do.

when the essay idea hits

This piece is paywalled but it’s worth the money. @pempem.bsky.social’s point that the entire internet has come to be right-wing technology is indispensable for thinking about what genuine agency is, and genuine community. There is no “leftist” social media. mentalhellth.xyz/p/a-nation-o...

more and more these days, I find myself thinking that you can accept the discipline of your political goals or you can accept the discipline of your resentments.

it was bad when the worst poster on my favorite website bought that website and made it terrible but it has been worse having that person also buy my country that i live in

this is why they’re obsessed with turning culture into data btw (looking at you, goodreads)

feel like a defining characteristic of the new fascist is that he treats life like a video game to beat

you can still call them tweets, it’s just the kleenex of awful little thing to say

I guess it’s not a surprise that a beat in which one is choosing to be lied to does not attract the cream of the crop

can’t wait to use my cereal

The “reader effect” is not a thing. The audience that witnessed Rushdie’s stabbing acted nobly, but that had absolutely nothing to do with them being readers of fiction.

The Guardian is saying that people saved Rushdie because they were readers and books gave them empathy, so it’s a good time to peddle my anti-fetishistic wares patricknathan.substack.com/p/faithless-...

Euthanasia by neglect is gonna be their whole thing, from border camps to pharmaceuticals.

I talk a little bit about the book in this piece I wrote about storytelling and the importance of narrative in collective action: patricknathan.substack.com/p/taking-bac...

I do recommend David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, fwiw, for ideas on how life could restructure itself without government supervision, now that the government is committing suicide. It’s an empowering read. And most people here are huffing the fumes of powerlessness.

starting to think Bluesky is the Matrix for democrats – it’s always 2017 here and hashtag resist and whatever else, all while the real world is ash and gruel

I talked w Patrick Nathan about a single sentence from The Future Was Color--& also about meaning-making, the work of memory, & why so much current American sex writing is abject. Link here: garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/the-story-...