Happy paperback #pubday to FLOAT UP, SING DOWN by @lairdhunt.bsky.social! Laird Hunt’s “revelatory (NYT)” story collection capturing one summer’s day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist ZORRIE bloomed. On sale now! geni.us/floatuppb

My review of Ian McGuire's new one is in the NYTimes today: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/b...

Board residue from today’s class on @stephengrahamjones.bsky.social THE ONLY GOOD INDIANS…

Cracking up that after switching from giving my first name (routinely transformed into Lars, Lard (hollered at the doctor's a few days ago), Bear, Larry and, even, Javier) when I order coffee, to my last, it too has been alchemized, these last weeks, into Hun, Ha, Hum, Hart and, now, Hoat.

My cat, Artemis, haunting a page of my witch-book sequel…

#cats #christmas #hello

Artemis #cats

Good advice. #nyc

Loved Weatherford’s Pedro Paramo so pretty excited to see what he’s done with the stories… scored at Third Place in Seattle…

Sightings…

Lying here, thinking about the news, with the theme song to the Muppet Show playing on sinister repeat in my head…