Thrilled to write about @waynekoestenbaum.bsky.social and his new novel, an immersion in gay sex, erotic yearning and religious self-knowledge unlike any I've ever read. Glad @nymag.com and @vulture.com let me wax rhapsodic on this one. www.vulture.com/article/wayn...

Had the good fortune to talk a bit about Oldster Magazine with Kasia Pilat at The New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

Thank you to the folks at @literaryhub.bsky.social for publishing this essay about, among other things, what I learned from my teacher Louise Glück, and from reading @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

again these people don’t act like they believe in hell

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

As Bezos's Washington Post announces sweeping layoffs this morning ...

Definitely worth noting since it wasn't announced in that way.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

An extremely beautiful and devastating piece.

I had an election night stress dream in which I was really happy Biden won (embarrassing), and also he had a mullet (very cool, actually)

Thanks to @thebaffler.com for publishing “Pt. Reyes,” a poem about love and microdosing with friends it’s drawn from ATRIA, out next month w/ @liveright.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...

The Ten Year Affair is NPR’s Book of the Day. Thank you, NPR!!!

At this point, anyone—a university, a law firm, a corporation, a Democrat—bending the knee to Trump is doing it because they want to, not because of any political reality.

The goat

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

I talked to Emily Gould for NY Mag!! link.nymag.com/view/636d507...

“Here was how it worked in the world of the affair: there was a big, anonymous hotel one town away.” Read from @somers.bsky.social’s new novel, The Ten Year Affair.

give people the sequel they actually want (Second Cow)

Kate Colby on drawing inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod Morning and how poetry can save the human brain.

What a lovely message from @bookshop.org. Glad to see them growing and growing. We CAN claim back what has been taken from us by these monstrous corporations, and it starts with things like this. Grab some books these next couple days!

“At seven o’clock in the evening, Gideon and Phoebe stuck a list of emergency contacts to the fridge, gave their sitter the usual spiel about bedtime, beseeched their kids to please, for God’s sake be good, and left to go have sex with the neighbors.” @somers.bsky.social in @grantamag.bsky.social 🔥

I feel very lucky that I got to talk about my Homeland-Security-mass-detention-Asian-American book on The Daily Show

Thank you NYT 🙏

Shocking for people who haven't been paying attention to disability as a main target of this administration, I suppose, but evil either way.

Once more for the night crew! I'm really proud of this book. It deals with being a parent at A Time Like This, and NC ecology, and risk, and so much more. Also there is funny stuff because life is fucking absurd. Poetry contains multitudes

at no point did we defund the police. it's important when we talk about defunding the police to note it never actually happened. would it work? we don't know! but merely phrasing the idea succinctly incited a reactionary backlash that put fascists in charge of all 3 branches of government. curious!

i don’t know what to tell you guys if you genuinely still believe in ‘fuck you, you have no choice’ as electoral messaging except that it sounds like you’ve got it figured out and you don’t need my vote!

Party of pro-life stops monitoring for listeria, a food-borne bacteria known to cause still birth.

I'm curating this books reviews series in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social ... Everything we're soliciting is here on this page ... www.sandyernestallen.com/announcements

The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities

Another review in this Sunday's @bostonglobe.com is @hamiltoncain.bsky.social's smart take on THE GOSSIP COLUMNIST'S DAUGHTER by the masterful Peter Orner. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/12/a...

Joining an increasing number of people publicly demanding RFK’s removal as HHS Sec: Dr. Bill Foege, a literal (6’6”) & figurative giant of public health. He served as a CDC director under Carter & Reagan, & is credited with designing the ring vaccination strategy that enabled smallpox eradication.

“But without reliably insightful book reviews, literature risks becoming “an unweeded garden that grows to seed.” We’re left depending only on the whisper network of our own clique, exchanging the same tuna casserole back and forth.” @roncharles.bsky.social 🎯 📚

"This website uses cookies" bro me too it's fine

Ludicrous though it is, we need to tell the EPA that carbon dioxide is in fact dangerous. Please join @thirdactorg.bsky.social in filing public comments--for the historic record if nothing else thirdact.org/act/urgent-t...

The world's highest court declared greenhouse gas emissions a human rights violation. A week later, the EPA said it plans to rescind the government's legal assertion that GHGs endanger the public. America's most catastrophic form of exceptionalism. A gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Parent stepping on unseen Lego gets a lot of mileage, but parent stepping on unseen stuffed animal is hands down the greater jump scare.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

We could have had cancer vaccines, and instead the United States will contribute nothing whatsoever to mRNA research, condemning millions of people worldwide to unnecessary illness and death

i continue to think that “family annihilator” is a useful frame for the trump administration futurism.com/white-house-...

These ppl absolutely love suffering and death

Weird how herd immunity is desirable if attained through massive sickness and death but not so desirable if achieved through safe and effective vaccines

“California, the fourth largest economy on planet Earth, is this summer using 40 percent less natural gas than it did two years ago to generate electricity. If you wanna know why the fossil fuel industry is freaking out and sponsoring every bad politician on Earth, that's why.”

Being embarrassing and corny by loving and existing as a human who wants to see the earth continue