I disagree. Butt Shit is a beautiful town and our mayor isn’t some communist, it’s a really big opossum that moved into city hall and we stopped trying to catch because he’s actually doing a pretty good job

Here’s a well reasoned, pretty accurate piece on Pentax, my favorite camera manufacturer, who are weird and out of touch and make beautiful things and no money

When your dad finds out that your book is available for preorder…

Voters in New Jersey and Virginia who said the economy was their number 1 issue voted 63-35 for Democrats last night. That’s a sharp reversal from 2024, when Trump won economy voters by 60 points www.gelliottmorris.com/p/seven-data...

Thank you to the spiritual home of all Jews- New York- this evening

What in the quivering fuck deformed horrorball are we looking at here

Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer should resign their leadership positions as soon as possible. Their failure to so much as endorse Mamdani laid bare layers of incompetence. They are why Democrats have completely failed to combat Trump. The sooner they are replaced, the better.

wait wait I’m only on the fourth paragraph of my very respectful dick cheney tribute I need more time

Thanks, young people. Sorry I made fun of the gen z stare. More like gen z stare at the polls 😔

This new @dieddisappointed.bsky.social book is astounding. Sorry it’s greasy, blame the snyders pretzel company

I don’t mind this

While I’m complaining about the national dems, Kamala Harris popping out of her bunker to hawk a self justifying memoir and praise war criminal Dick Cheney on the neo-Nazi app is a disgrace and I hope to never have to hear her take on anything again.

Daylight Donuts Nowata, OK

For the Atlantic, I wrote about Christopher Marlowe, romantic ideals of genius, and how Stephen Greenblatt has finally pushed his speculations too far. www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

The answer to shit like this, no matter how politely/sensitively put, should always be a resounding Fuck You

New awareness campaign

If any editor out there is considering this deal with the devil, be sure to get express consent from every single one of your contributors, and be prepared to pay them every cent of whatever pittance you receive, because this work doesn't belong to us, it belongs to them.

Not to pick on EBSCO, who we enjoy working with, because I'm sure all distributors of print and digital media will be doing the same thing. But this is appalling and everyone should say no. For one thing, we don't have the rights to this work after we publish...it reverts to the writers!

hey now

Today on the blog, a new review of Domenica Martinello's poetry collection GOOD WANT, from assistant poetry editor Bridget Huh: poetry "that knows just the right things to ask and not ask, that has the immense and unknowable power to forgive." www.epochliterary.com/blog/review-...

I had so much fun designing my website and writing the copy that I'm now fighting the delusion that I can make money doing this as my fifth side-hustle. www.sarahkokernot.com

pleasant town comics thread because I've just realized I can pin posts now

Untitled by El Lissitzky, 1917 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137536

No cause what do you mean I’m discontinued 1974 McDonald’s menu item, onion nuggets??

When no one at the école noticed your work

my book Are People Out There is officially out today. get it where books are sold, but especially at Future Tense Books: futuretensebooks.com/product/peop...

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.

Thank you to the editors @epochliterary.com not only for giving this story a home but continuing to share it with others!

I'm so grateful to @epochliterary.com for publishing my essay "The Spider's Share" a few months ago, and now for this Pushcart nomination. And in such good company, too.

Thrilled and honored! @epochliterary.com

oh hey

Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.

LFG www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Cookie Monster’s date: Can we talk about something else

Want to break hearts while landing zingers like “adorkable but hotkward?” On Nov 16 at 8PM ET, chat and get craft-y with award-winning author @1demerith.bsky.social & @epochliterary.com editor @jrobertlennon.com about Meredith’s fizzingly witty, disarmingly tender short story “The Best Man.”

Wire, on audiences (New York Rocker, July-Aug 1978)

The Logitech T-CD2-6F TrackMan (1991)

Hey #ithaca #ithacany this is tomorrow! @tmcallister.bsky.social's new book is great, and we'll be in conversation about it, and about whatever else strikes your fancy

You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school

I am back on Windows after a 20-year break and while it's fine, I'm surprised at how hard it remains to type a damn em-dash, a thing I do many times a day, because I am an AI, apparently. For this and other special characters you want instant access to, I recommend the text-replacement app Beeftext

if it has to be explained to you why "wine moms," for example, might be upset by the demolition of the most visible symbol of American democracy, it's time to stop watching Zizek videos on youtube and just talk to a person in real life

About to drive up to Ithaca for a long weekend. You've got two days to figure out how to get there in time for my reading Sunday

Featuring books by Isabel Yap, Kristen Felicetti, Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith, GennaRose Nethercott, Sofia Samatar, Jeanne Thornton, @jedediahberry.bsky.social, @avitusbcarle.bsky.social, Carmen Maria Machado and @jrobertlennon.com, and Helen Oyeyemi!

Holy crap, everyone: new Maile Chapman novel in 2026, her first in 15 years. So freaking excited. Love that cover, too:

It’s good

It's pub day for The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2025, and the whole Best American series. I'm so proud of this book and all the brilliant, beautiful writing @susanorlean.bsky.social selected for it. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

I admire that this graffito 1) clearly articulates the existence of a capybara-based economic system, and 2) takes no position for or against it