just reread this for an essay I’m pretending I’m going to write and it’s both revelatory and infuriating - I recommend it

if I wanted to know why men supposedly didn’t read literary fiction I’d probably ask myself what would happen if the industry stopped marketing literary fiction as a fashionable and aspirational lifestyle accessory

some first sentences are timeless

Solmaz Sharif

I guess everyone’s a terrorist when you’re a cowardly little bitch

Except life is much easier in many other countries than here. The actual difference is that they are afforded non-commercial time – time to not think about money. Thinking about money in America has become a totalitarian endeavor. The tyrant offers an ecstatic, wasteful, irresponsible alternative.

a doctor should be able to prescribe socialism and reparations and revenge

Listened to this new @nybooks.com podcast earlier today and @joycecaroloates.bsky.social continues to be multitudinous podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

the pup community is gonna be so indignant about this

eight years, somehow – ty for reading and sorry for making everybody sad

Here's a review of Patrick Nathan's novel THE FUTURE WAS COLOR, out now in paperback from Counterpoint Press, by assistant editor Miklos Mattyasovszky. "[A] tender triumph of a novel, which had wrapped me in its anxious arms from the very first line."

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.

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)