Baby spinach has almost wholly supplanted spinach in Brooklyn groceries. I haven’t seen spinach in ages. Baby spinach is for babies I’m an iron deficient man

My nephew just said boys can’t marry boys

There are two other gay novelists who live near me and literally every time I leave the house I see one of them. Today I told one of them this and that I’m worried we don’t all actually exist, that we might all be shades of the same person. He agreed this is worrisome

I am at a quite nice or at any rate very expensive restaurant in manhattan and there is a couple here with their DOG? American society is sick about pets but if you have to take your dog out to dinner I’m sorry but get a fucking life

hamnet was a very confusing movie?! first of all it's pronounced hamLet. second why does shakespeare's WIFE act like she's never been to the live theater? third why does paul mescal not take his shirt off more

My older teen was describing something bad and said it was “federal” presumably derived from federal offense but wow

Chatting with a friend I said “chihuly is kaws for baby boomers” and it was so apt that I wish I had occasion to publish this statement so I’m sharing it here

when people express disbelief that my children are teens i say "well i was a young father" and wait for them to affirm that i look young though of late people have not been... biting. anyway if you see me at a party pls express shock that i am old enough to have teens thanks

I went to a party tonight in fact and worked this into THREE different conversations? My god I’m so boring

I loved Gerald Howard’s biography of Malcolm cowley which I read just after Mary Dearborn’s bio of Carson McCullers, which I also loved. Unfortunately all my small talk now involves McCullers or Cowley sorry if you run into me at a party

I like how every day I pay Apple $3.80 for something but what I have no idea, and then periodically Apple is like oh actually today you paid is $17.45 thanks

Hello! Today is the publication day of my new book, A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction. To celebrate, I have already received an email from a fake book club, offering to feature it in their Saturday Showcase. (You can order it here: bookshop.org/p/books/a-lo...)

I'm doing something revolutionary. Something no one has done before: A NEWSLETTER! Yes, I'm throwing a party and I'd love for you to come.

when i read nonfiction about midcentury life i simply cannot believe how much people drank and how much they cared about communism

i watched a depressing gay movie (the history of sound) then read a depressing literary biography (carson mccullers) and now i'm depressed, way to go

Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

I took my child to see wicked and I hate that shrieky Broadway shit but my takeaway is that Ariana grande kind of has a Madeline Kahn thing going on

Pointed out to my teen that by the time his little cousin is 16, my child will be 32. He grew serious. “Not me. Me… an unc…”

I hate the show I’m watching (the morning show) and the book I’m reading (this side of paradise) and am somehow determined to see it through with both of them

all morning i'll be like wow can't wait to get to work and do some WORK and then i sit down at my desk and think huh could i wear a BOLO TIE and then i spend an hour wondering about that. i hate myself

i like joan didion but i think ive heard enough about her

"When they were much younger the two friends often went dancing together. Here, in their jangly movement, a faint memory of that past rises to the surface, this time animating far older bodies. It is surprisingly lovely..." (I saw this this weekend. Rebecca Hall is incredible.)

for a long time i thought i wanted to make a podcast about the novels of anita brookner but eventually i realized i just wanted a friend who liked anita brookner. i wanted to have like 23 conversations about her work. that's not a podcast it's just sadness

When I watch tv shows I really imagine myself in their fictional universes. Perhaps all people do. I watch tv and think I could do that, I could bake a Victoria sponge or host the today show or be the ambassador to the court of st James

I saw rami malek in a movie today. He is so beautiful and thin and strange. He made me think of some animal, maybe a cat or a kind of small but lovely rodent

it would be so sick if we actually did replace taxis with camels. camels are the most whimsical animal. new york would be so charmingly surreal with tens of thousands of camels wandering about

in this intervew i conflated amy odell's biography of anna wintour with tina brown's vanity fair diaries. SORRY! it was the former who watched 9/11 with kissinger. thank you for your attention to this matter. anyway this interview is my lament for expertise and taste and magazines....

I’m taking my kid on a high school tour And there’s a girl here who’s being such an unbelievable pill to her mother that both me and my child started laughing and had to move seats

Chloe Sevigny should win an Oscar for the scene in after the hunt in which she reacts to hearing “the last of the famous international playboys”

there should be a VIP new yorker festival wherein mary gaitskill comes to your house and reads you a fucked up bedtime story

A key part of my process (the process of being gay not being a writer) is watching that clip of Diane Keaton singing “seems like old times” from the end of Annie hall

Just to point out the obvs but this is what the Nobel prize is! Just some random rich (also dead) guy being like yeah this is good. Prizes are meaningless but wealth redistribution is real

the days have an increasingly 'children of men' energy and i dont know how much more i can take

my takeaway from being a judge for the national book awards is that it would be SUPER FUN to be rich enough to endow a prize. imagine you just read a bunch of books for kicks and then were like, yeah this is the best one, and sent the writer ten thousand dollars? i think rich people should do this

i have been reading ratner's star. i'm not sure i've ever understood a novel less. i hope delillo wins the nobel this month

“Elizabeth Bowen,” she said, “was so condescending. She looked at me and said, with a stutter: ‘You are quite mad. Quite mad.’ She was right.”

for @newyorker.com i wrote about Cate Le Bon's new record, Michelangelo Dying, an extraordinary work.

was a great privilege (and daunting challenge) to be among the judges charged with assembling this list. i'm proud of where we got, and i hope these ten writers are pleased

“It’s a very romantic image,” Reither says, projecting it onto his mind’s eye. “It was the possibility of stepping out of your life, your shit job. To just step out for a moment. And enjoy the sunrise.” www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

this morning at the gym the woman working out beside me was eating a bag of nerds gummy clusters. there are heroes everywhere if you look

this fawn hall thing is so perfect. like jerry hall marrying rupert murdoch. like the end of a shakespeare comedy. truly love it

i have told like three people what my new book is about. yet somehow my phone knows what it is about. it is constantly showing me things that relate to this book very specifically. i can't figure out how it does this but it is so moving how much my phone knows and loves me

Paperback pub day really illuminates something about how birth order affects the psyche. The finished paperbacks arrive and I’m like oh this stupid thing again. I’m the second child in my family in case you were wondering

I think watching the gilded age is making me more gay, something I’d not have thought possible

V learned helplessness/masc of me but lately i absolutely lose my mind at the grocery store. Lose all language comprehension and logic. Dissociative state stuff. Emerge with hundreds of dollars of nothing

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An experimental novel about contemporary marriage told entirely in links to the nytcooking app that the couple send to one another

My Little came back from sleep away camp and is now fully a teen. I have two teens pray for me

I can no longer hear anything about j Epstein. Him and Patti lupone. Pls do not mention either of them around me thank you

Being depressed in the summer feels off somehow yet here we are