I have a new piece in TNR on Melanie Anagnos’ *Nightswimming* which you should check out after reading my piece. metropolitanreview.com/the-good-cop...

Happy one year anniversary to The Hotel Egypt! Buy it here or anywhere, or DM for a copy. www.spuytenduyvil.net/The-Hotel-Eg...

Keith Gessen says the same in “Money (2014)” from MFA vs: NYC: “In fact what I most wanted was to be told, by a writer, that I was myself a writer, that I had it.”

I showed up on a podcast promoting The Hotel Egypt. Thanks to Danny and the UnTaking!

When you're such a bad-ass writer Anna K. and Sabbath server as "soothing reminders"

New writing: substack.com/home/post/p-...

New writing in da stacks

“The only time a writer receives his due reward is when someone comes to him burning with this flame which he fanned in a moment of solitude. Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.” — Henry Miller

Mountainhead proves Succession wasn't that good.

The most terrifying part of scrolling is getting to the untranslatable Japanese word we need in English.

The Trump administration makes no sense unless we're in the streets.

if i could snap my fingers and force all journalists everywhere to implement one linguistic tic i think i'd mandate "cars (which kill more than 3,000 people every day)"

So weird to me ppl pretend it takes two years for a book to come out when you could just post the PDF to a dropbox and be like, here's my book.

The Lucy Dacus to Cranberries cafe background noise transition. Makes me want to listen to their child, Julie Doiron.

Robert Graettinger composed in poverty and seclusion and was soon forgotten after he died in 1957. Aspects of his works’ internal struggles would preoccupy Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane. open.spotify.com/track/14BeJC...

You’ve been in the house too long she said, so I naturally placed a Starbucks mobile order for an Impossible sandwich without cheese.

People would be more interesting if they weren’t always trying to get so much “quality sleep.” I wish I had more hair on my calves. I take the arrival of a cat on my lap as a sign of humility. I wish Juan Soto were still on the Bombers. pebbleculture.substack.com/p/race-book-...

New fiction, "Ambivalence, Indiana (French Lick)" on something I've always wonder about: when movie stars fly to Indiana for playoff games, what happens to them in Indiana? substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/peb...

If Dave Eggers blurbed a book I know it’s probably good and I know I’m probably not going to read it.

It’s weird that New Yorkers sit in FDR traffic staring at a gray river and Chicagoans sit in LSD traffic staring at the cerulean blur of Lake Michigan.

Tik-Tok is the most desperate app in the app store.

“But I couldn’t help wishing its author took more risks. ‘Great writers of fiction,’ Arnold Bennett tells us, ‘are by the mysterious nature of their art ordained to be amateurs.’ The author of The Sleepers is many things, but an amateur isn’t one of them.” Great review by a great writer!

Alice Notley, Bolinas, California, 1971.

“Right wing literature, amirite?” content is the Banana Republic Factory Outlet Henley of our time.

Everyone has read everything. The craft question becomes, can you write about everything that you have read.

"Shoefly girls, you gotta work for it Emo kids, you don't tip for shit Grad school groupies, you can wait another year 'Cause it's bad when you go, but it's not as bad as when you're here." The Eames Era - "Dear Gabby" (2007) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3rY...

Alice Notley (1945-2025) on poetry.

More writing on The Sleepers. You won't want to miss this. A piece a little bit more vulnerable than I usually am. pebbleculture.substack.com/p/new-york-g...

Those of us forever changed by the non-internet-novel second half of Patricia Lockwood’s *No One Is Talking About This* reach booming levels of sympathy for the families in stories like this. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/27/ad...

Grimes/DeJohnette/Henderson/Tyner's "In N' Out" Live at Slugs, once located on E. 3rd St between B & C, in '66. Equal to anything unsurpassed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Xh...

Write what you know's older, wiser cousin, "don't write what you don't know."

At The Metropolitan Review I reviewed Matthew Gasda's new novel, The Sleepers. Thanks to Ross Barkan & company for siring TMR, one of the more exciting places for new writing on the web right now. www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-new-yo...

Every time I see an old punk on a computer I wonder if he’s typing a Facebook post on what’s punk and what’s not.

Feel like there should be an outdoor pant called The Geoff Dyer.

When you live in a weekend tourism hood there's something baller about lugging a 9=36 package of toilet paper through its busiest streets.

The revolution will not be brought you by THC-infused drinks.

Array in Brown, Dan Phillips Trio. Killer. danphillips1.bandcamp.com/album/array-...

First issue release party for the pub at Dovetail this Sunday. www.dovetailbrewery.com/events-and-t...

Mike Reed/Jim Elkington/Hunter Diamond at Hungry Brain last night spitting some Ayleresque joy.

Deborah Shapiro (@bside-editions.bsky.social) in conversation with Matthew Specktor (@specktor.bsky.social) at Exile in Bookville last night. Lovely! Specktor: "There are no minor characters."

Reading this Sunday!

Reading this Sunday!

Join Kenyatta Rogers and me at Hungry Brain in April to see @carrieetter.bsky.social, @myskypager.bsky.social, and @christyprahl.bsky.social!

Some Benzedrine-fueled content on my trip to SoCal and my one day at #AWP25. (Wish I’d actually had some Benzedrine, but Blue Bottle coffee is excellent.) Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

My book, THE DELEGATION, is out today. Everyone shows the cover, and I’ll show you that, but the first page will tell you whether you want to read the thing or not.

Me and my friends, we miss dodecaphony most of all.

Some Benzedrine-fueled content on my trip to SoCal and my one day at #AWP25. (Wish I’d actually had some Benzedrine, but Blue Bottle coffee is excellent.) Enjoy! substack.com/home/post/p-...

It's time

Isn't it kinda weird how this is just a bullet in a stock briefing now.