Speaking of authors not making money, is there still a source for manuscript boxes? If you're unfamiliar: 20th c. artifact, gray cardboard boxes mostly used by publishers and agents. They're buggy whips by now, but an old writer I know just called (on his landline) and asked where he could get them.

I never thought inflation would make *my* food cost more.

I've read this twice and can't find anything suggesting the Author's Guild is "going after" anybody. The article cites on a study that found the ease of borrowing ebooks from the library is one of the reasons authors are making less money, something that is obvious to anyone who thinks about it.

I want to move on from grieving, but I think I need to adopt a crow or a squid or something first.

My new campaign slogan: Fewer Nazi Tattoos than the Other Guy!

"Everything happens for a reason," he said, causing me to stomp on his foot.

Buddy, I had a folksy narrative when your consultants still thought they were gonna write novels.

Do join us this Thursday or even turn up just to try and stop us!

Don't worry about quicksand they said. That's only in cartoons they said.

The special Irish edition of Everything She Didn’t Say has red sprayed edges and you can order it here! smarturl.it/ESDSIreland

Delighted to announce that I am the new editor and director of BUNNY, an imprint of Fonograf Editions, which will now publish "queer writing out of bounds--fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and the uncategorizable"🌺🌸🐇🌸🌺🐇🐇 First two books coming in 2027... Yes, get ready for trouble!!!🔥💥💕🌠💐

They could have made this tighter by cutting "fictional" and "posthumously" in the second paragraph, and also, not an embarrassment.

Two can keep a secret if one is good at keeping secrets and the other one is too.

At some point I gave up on dealing with the accumulation of unread newsletters and assorted crap in my email, which I now understand is a landmark of personal growth, like realizing you're not special, or finally giving away all the size 32 jeans, or accepting that, yep, this is as good as it gets.

You know at some point in the last month Marco Rubio has feigned amazement at the news that "dumb" has a b in it

Supporters now feigning sleep so Trump doesn't stand out.

Whenever I watch any show on HBO I expect the Sopranos theme to begin the second the HBO logo disintegrates

Genuinely impressed with how much more effort this guy put into saying nothing as they go about destroying everything good than we'd ever see from the usual grinning fucks. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Out today! The paperback edition of When There Are Wolves Again 🪶🦫🌱🐾🐺 geni.us/WhenThereAre...

Still find it bizarre that you can legitimately make money from people watching you play video games. Can't believe that I was just giving it away for free to all my bored ex-girlfriends.

I get followed by a lot of attractive young women with new accounts and no posts, which I assume are bots of some kind. I don't usually pay attention, but I clicked through one today and looked at who she followed, so here's another tell: all 151 accounts she followed upon joining were older men.

Hey writers, editors, & anyone who uses Google workspace because there’s no other viable alternative - in addition to turning off Smart features, make sure you toggle off this new mess of nonsense hidden in the Admin settings.

incredible

A brief instance of uplift like this amid the relentless despair of political news now has a Mamdani vibe* ** *my apologies for the neologism, but it works, and the alternative, "Mamdani-coded," is even worse, and not quite as precise **screenshot because quote posts have been wisely disallowed

Can confirm.

First we figure out how to convince the other half to feel the same way, and then we use what we learn on everyone else.

They have to have that immunity because you can't trust the the Democrats not to try to weaponize tax evasion, fraud, theft, and insider trading against them.

It's a great plan, but we just don't have enough time.

‘Larry McMurtry bemoans the fact that readers take his characters at face value and misidentify cowboy selfishness as heroism. “I don’t think these myths do justice to the richness and fullness of human possibility,” he said.’ @jrobertlennon.com revisits McMurtry. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This only makes sense once you realize this is Dostoyevsky's ex.

"Men are naturally more attractive. This is not me being gay. Just look at the statues of the famously not-gay Greeks."

Hey Bluesky! The first excerpt of my book is out! In the New Yorker! Read all about how the religious right fought to keep The Last Temptation of Christ from being released, and how the battle helped them refine the tactics they still use today. www.newyorker.com/preview/arti...

But if you had to, it would the most transparently unrealistic and childish, the one that most appeals to the six-year-old who feels small and powerless, who fantasizes about the strength and invulnerability of GI Joes and cartoon superheroes.

Same guys who say women won't go out with them because they can't handle a real man.

I'm no marine biologist, but I'd pin the blame for this on us for not spending that much time 3200 feet below the surface for the last 110 years.

Morally, I'm a three, but I'm a Republican nine.

These fucking people.

Simple solution to the publishing AI crisis. We just need a law saying any passage, quote, or other text produced by AI or with AI assistance must prominently include the words "Bleep blorp."

More like you are using it one way or another because they are doing everything they can to make it unavoidable.

Love old baseball names. You'd get called Paris because you visited France once www.instagram.com/reel/DXu7z4f...

I Have No Mouth But I Must Podcast

Why does the giant rabbit not have the pearl earring *in its ear*? It seems to have been nailed to the side of its face: that must be painful.

I've been going over my posts with my publisher, and we agree that this one was written for yesterday's readers, so we will be issuing a new edition of this post for today's readers, replacing "age gaps of more than six years" with "age gaps of more than three years."

"A dart gun shoots darts; a shotgun fires shot (small bullets). A footgun does not fire feet (unless you have my warped sense of humor)." New from me, with a nod to @e-briannica.bsky.social: fritinancy.substack.com/p/word-of-th...

I tried to read them again a few years ago, and learned that my frequently tripping nineteen-year-old mind was more receptive to Robert Anton Wilson than it is currently, which I suppose I could have predicted.

And the corollary- disgrace under pressure

With great power comes great freedom from responsibility.

Someday I will use my wealth and high profile to unceasingly, relentlessly, and seriously as fuck pursue my campaign to shout down anyone on the internet, no matter how obscure, who says a hot dog is a sandwich.

Going through my old books with my publisher, replacing outdated details with contemporary references, like swapping out "trying out for the team" with "injecting scrotum filler."

As a kid, half the fun of reading old books was getting glimpses of how things once were and building a (sometimes spectacularly mistaken) model of the past, like reconstructing an entire dinosaur from a fossilized tooth. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/b...