My liver is not going to survive this presidency.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

haha I love this disclosure:

Book Mail today! Got my copies of @pahoehoe.bsky.social's story collection, THE DIVIDE, which I highly recommend. Give him a follow and check out his books at www.evanmorganwilliams.com

The audiobook of @nikwalk.bsky.social's How to Plant a Billion Trees is excellent. Give it a listen!

I'd hate to see what not caring looks like.

Can vouch for this excellent anthology. Sure, I'm in it, but I'm in damned good company. The audiobook pairs some remarkable writers with stellar narrators for a great listen.

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

This is so nauseatingly Un-American

Happy Friday! Your assignment for the weekend: Tell a favorite author how much they mean to you. Find 'em on socials, hit up the contact form on their website, email their agent. It's rough out there & these little moments of connection & validation help us keep our heads up. Thank you!

REACHING "He knew he was in trouble when, in the middle of the poem, he found himself reaching for his thesaurus and then Webster's in that order." —Raymond Carver #5amwritersclub

The wonderful folks @highcountrynews.org are hiring a Partnerships Editor:

An unconstrained ego, an uninformed fool.

Giddy & dizzy that Publishers Weekly calls Cool Machine “the greatest New York City novel in years.” www.publishersweekly.com/9780385550505

Shot, chaser

Ooo. This is awesome. If you ever wanted to know of a book was translated into your language, a new resource:

Spoiler alert: it was a copy of my last novel, ORDINARY BEAR, and you can have one too....

Some people clearly need someone to sit them down and tell them that COULD, without much effort, possess such a rich & fulfilling interior life that a television remake of a film adaptation of a series of novels would hold absolutely no fascination for them, even setting aside its repugnant origins.

Barnes & Noble is doing its 25% off pre-order sale for members. So, you can get WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON's new look for a song with code PREORDER25 tinyurl.com/48fny9hm

Helluva 2026 pic by Megan Varner.

Last night while cooking I listened to a Today Explained episode about people making money betting on the Iran war on Polymarket and an episode of The Daily about someone named Clavicular and the whole looksmaxxing thing back-to-back, and oh my god the internet was a huge mistake.

These need to be handed out at every No Kings rally on March 28. Millions of them.

"The occupational hazard of making a spectacle of yourself, over the long haul, is that at some point you buy a ticket too." —Thomas McGuane

"We are strange creatures, and writers are stranger creatures than most." —Wallace Stegner, "Crossing to Safety" #5amwritersclub

Called Doggett to oppose the Nationwide Book Ban Bill, called Cornyn and Cruz to oppose the SAVE act (pedro pascal laughing then crying dot gif). The woman who answered at Cruz's office didn't ask for my address and when I asked if she wanted it said "no," which was weird! anyway call your reps

On Friday, I'll be hosting @nikwalk.bsky.social's Phoenix launch for new memoir HOW TO PLANT A BILLION TREES, and probably also asking Nicole questions about her recent craft book on writing about trauma, WRITING THE HARD STUFF. Join us at the Tempe @changinghands.bsky.social, Phoenix-area friends!

When you look too long at your WIP, your WIP also looks into you. #5amwritersclub

First horror story of the day. www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

If Trump can do 1600 words, you can meet your writing goals today.

A total collapse. The National Institutes of Health went from 756 funding announcements published to 14 in two years. One example of the effects: emerging threats will become harder to address quickly. Response to future health emergencies (like Covid) will be slower and less coordinated.

"Bugs in my zoot suit Been scratchin' like a dog I can't stand no water And I stink like a hog Give me a five dollar bill And an overcoat too... A five dollar bill and a Florsheim shoe." —Frank Zappa, "Wonderful Wino"

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

republicans are in charge of everything and they are getting everything theyve ever wanted and doing everything theyve ever wanted and the world is on fire and the global world order is collapsing. is there a correlation? who can say

"Changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war." --Rebecca Solnit on "The Interview" podcasts.happyscribe.com/the-daily/th...

Do I have any North Slope followers? Specifically anyone from Utqiavik, but anyone up there would be helpful. I've got a question about terminology and I'd like to send a DM. Thanks!

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

So proud to be a part of this project, and to have worked with so many excellent writers. I hope you love it. Thanks, @sandyernestallen.bsky.social for having me.

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

Our Strategic Gaslight Reserve is overflowing, so there’s that.

No greater metaphor for America

Less "can we do it" and more "why the hell would we do that" from now on, maybe.

Criminal to put this cold lump of mashed potatoes in charge of anything.

Today is the first birthday of my novel, THE MEMORY WARD. For those of you who did take a chance on this novel, I can't thank you enough. And for those of you who neglected it, I will never, ever forgive you. An awful fate awaits you.

we have saved daylight but at what cost

10/10 take. no notes

Predicting a return to reading books. It will be on the frontier of resisting subjection.

This makes no sense and it is disgraceful and incomprehensible that this is the president of the United States, with lethal force at his disposal, communicating in wartime. It’s hackneyed now but it should never be: don’t normalize this.

Congrats to @vincentledvina.bsky.social for getting national attention!