If you ask for book recommendations for a specific month or season, you will get recs for everything *but* that specific month or season.

Come and see me in the four greatest American cities — NYC, Chicago, Chapel Hill, and Spartanburg.

I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.

I will forever be obsessed with the aesthetics of The Lakeside Press, my favorite piece of Chicago history. Here's their 1915 holiday card, with a view of Dearborn Station's original pitched roof through the windows.

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The AFL-CIO should start throwing some money towards labor journalism. If it was done right (i.e. with them accepting that journalists must have full editorial control over what’s published, whether or not union leaders like what they have to say) it could really have such a hugely positive impact

Yesterday, 12+ Conde Nast staffers went to Stan Duncan, Head of HR, to ask questions about the Teen Vogue cuts. Duncan told them to "return to work." Hours later, 4 were fired for the "extreme misconduct" of ... trying to ask Duncan questions. www.semafor.com/article/11/0...

Going for a walk at 4pm Standard Time.

Finished copies are here. 🥹

For Alderbrink, I got a hands-on look at @foliosociety.bsky.social's A CANTICLE FOR LEIBOWITZ, "a must-have for Foliophiles and discerning sci-fi collectors alike." alderbr.ink/2025/11/03/f...

During Daylight Saving Time I'll go see a movie at 10pm without giving it a second thought. During Standard Time leaving the house after 4pm gives me anxiety.

The 1933 theatrical release poster for Universal's THE INVISIBLE MAN (left) is an all-timer, but the teaser poster (right) is just unbelievably good. There's something anachronistically modern about it, like the guerilla marketing for a period horror that came out last year.

Need another week or two of October. Went by too fast.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Hot 1931 take: Universal's DRACULA is still mesmerizing but FRANKENSTEIN is a slog.

I have such good taste! Or @thefrontlist.org does! or both of us. I blurbed and highly recommend two excellent books on this list — @thelincoln.bsky.social‘s METALLIC REALMS and @annanorth.bsky.social’s BOG QUEEN. and my SEARCHES is on there too! 🎉

For Esquire, I updated my best books of the year list to include 7 new titles that have dropped since May. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

This is great news, particularly after the destruction of the NEA. www.mellon.org/news/coaliti...

Worth it.

Same problem in publishing and film. Everyone gets paid long before the writer, and then it's pennies on the dollar, if we're lucky. People can't create like this. We shouldn't have to create like this. There's no product without us, yet we get told it's more important to pay everyone else.

Huge thanks to The Millions for putting A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS on their fall book preview. themillions.com/2025/10/the-...

Honored to be included on this list of great fine press publishers!

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

The Folio Society dropped its Christmas Collection this week and I'm drooling over SHOGUN and HAMNET in particular. @foliosociety.bsky.social alderbr.ink/2025/10/02/f...

These new fine press editions of N. K. Jemisin's THE OBELISK GATE are gorgeous (and copies are still available). @curiouskingbooks.bsky.social alderbr.ink/2025/09/30/c...

If you make and show me a Sora 2 video I want you to know I think of you as infinitely less important than a worm, whose movements and excrement nuture the soil, whereas a Sora 2 user is a creature that asks robots to despoil the world out of boredom.

SEATED.

Harper's is hiring an assistant editor at $40,000/year and you have to live in NYC...

Collector's Editions of Isaac Asimov's FOUNDATION just went live at Conversation Tree Press three minutes ago — and they'll probably sell out fast. alderbr.ink/2025/09/26/c...

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

"A lively biography of a bold woman." Thank you Kirkus for a nice review of A DANGER. 🥹 www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Ted Chiang's "Story of Your Life" just got a gorgeous letterpress edition from @subpress.bsky.social. Signed limited edition copies are still available as of right now! alderbr.ink/2025/09/25/t...

I fucking hate writing sometimes. It's like somebody hands you a tree and an axe and says "I need a table by dinner time, and make it pretty." Like, fuck you. Who the fuck does this for a living? It's fucking stupid.

"I was feeling that I really wanted to go back to my mom's womb." For Esquire, I spoke with Sabrina Impacciatore (!) about The Paper, White Lotus, and improvising the "dead reporter" song. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

For Alderbrink, I spoke with the artisans behind Morning Bell Edition — an Italian fine press that does everything by hand. Their second book is a gorgeous edition of the original, uncensored 1818 FRANKENSTEIN text. alderbr.ink/2025/09/22/e...

My first bookbinding attempt: single-signature, hand-cut, hand-sewn pamphlet journals. Excited to learn more and make hardcovers.

It's true — thanks for the coverage, @publisherswkly.bsky.social!

A starred review from PW 🥲

The folks at @foliosociety.bsky.social revealed their fall collection this week — and for my money it's one of their best drops in years. alderbr.ink/2025/09/18/f...

A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS is one of NPR's 12 books we can't wait to read this fall! 🍂📚 www.npr.org/2025/09/18/n...

For Alderbrink (!), I rounded up the 12 best fine presses you should know in 2025, including @foliosociety.bsky.social, @beehivebooks.bsky.social, and @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social. alderbr.ink/2025/09/13/1...

Almost 10 years ago, I founded @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social to serve as a forum for literature in the Midwest. Today, I’m launching Alderbrink — a new online magazine and the first ever dedicated solely to fine press books. alderbr.ink/2025/09/17/w...

Huge thanks to NPR's Book of the Day podcast and Andrew Limbong for naming A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS one of the books they're most looking forward to this fall!

Re-upping this because we still need some help 🙏

“A great book review can be just as rich, entertaining, and insightful as a great short story.” What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US. @thefrontlist.org‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

it’s possible to 1) note that the shooting of charlie kirk is the direct result of a culture and politics that he spent every single day of his adult life cultivating, without 2) celebrating the act of violence itself. but some people are going to do 2, and also anyone doing 1 will be accused of 2.

screencapping this now and never looking again

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

people used to read magazines to learn about cool and interesting things from people they assumed were cooler and more interesting and more informed than themselves. now the roles are reversed, and why would anyone want to read something reiterating the obvious

“Editing according to traffic is not editing; it’s engineering,” nymag.com/intelligence...