Well she’s written her own sketch shows, co-created and co-written TV shows, co-written an audio book, co-written screenplays and more than a few TV pilots along the way . . . but, drumroll please, this is my wife’s first proper book and it sold at auction in the spring ✨

Come live and write with us in Sewanee! The Department of English & Creative Writing's is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry position! Apply by Nov. 3.

If you're nearby . . . I'll be reading from a new play www.uab.edu/news/arts-ev...

Our Fall Issue is here! Explore new stories, essays, poems, conversation, and art from a dazzling breadth of interests and styles. Read Issue 130 (or subscribe) at zyzzyva.org

The moment demanded something expert and eloquent. Jimmy Kimmel met it, and then some [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Join us Monday to celebrate our new Issue 130! We’ll be @citylightsbooks.bsky.social with pizza, wine, and a reading from Issue 130 contributor @keenanthewriter.bsky.social

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

reminder: Jimmy Kimmel is enough of a mensch that he devised a segment on which actors who are just short of having enough work to qualify for union healthcare come on his show and deliver a single line of dialogue deadline.com/2024/07/jimm...

I'd been wondering how things were going with Patrick; glad to hear he's doing well.

Might appeal to some writer pals who enjoy money. You must show but not tell your CV.

Excited to visit the University of Alabama at Birmingham next month to read in the BACHE Visiting Writers' Series calendar.uab.edu/event/dan-ob...

“Beautifully told, heart-wrenching.” Thanks to @carolahuttmann.bsky.social for this review of my novel, The Orange Notebooks. Out now in the UK with @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social and North America with @pressassembly.bsky.social. bookmunch.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/b...

Another book birthday — Survivor’s Notebook is two today. Thank you to @acrebooks.bsky.social & to readers 🙏🏻 “[A] deeply compelling portrait of life as a cancer survivor . . . [O’Brien] understands how our human songs are ‘made melodic with pain.’” ― Plume Poetry press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

"leap-frogging straight to "joy" while bypassing clear and present permacrises is a recipe for disaster"

In the Sunday Times today—thanks for reading & for the kind words 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“It will take decades to recover from this, if we ever do.” America’s cancer research system, which has helped save millions of lives and is in one of its most productive moments, is under threat by the Trump administration.

In the Sunday Times today—thanks for reading & for the kind words 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“We’ll never know with certainty that carcinogens in the smoke, dust and ash from the World Trade Center caused my wife’s cancer and my own,” writes Dan O’Brien.

My second poetry collection ‘Scarsdale’ is 11 years old today. Still available from @cbeditions.bsky.social in the UK, and Measure Press in the US. www.cbeditions.com/obrien2.html www.amazon.com/Scarsdale-Da...

Incredible essay -

I’m grateful to editors @sternbergh.bsky.social, Vanessa Mobley, @dansaltzstein.bsky.social, and the design team at the Times, for publishing so beautifully my essay about catastrophe, luck, resilience, and hope. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What a terrific piece by Dan, and amazing work by the Opinion team on presentation. Read it.

this is a moving inmersive essay from playwright and poet Dan O’Brien, who experienced both 9/11 and the LA fires firsthand, on the increasingly suffocating sense of ambient catastrophe, and what we might need to survive www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I’m grateful to editors @sternbergh.bsky.social, Vanessa Mobley, @dansaltzstein.bsky.social, and the design team at the Times, for publishing so beautifully my essay about catastrophe, luck, resilience, and hope. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Happy book anniversary to Acre #poet @bydanobrien.bsky.social! 🎉🎉🎉

A starry launch of three books, somehow two years ago today 🙏🏻 @acrebooks.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social youtu.be/KVQgoNAZB6s?...

Excellent book highly recommend

From ‘metadata from a changing climate’ by @ianletourneau.bsky.social @gaspereaupress.bsky.social — an elegiac, haunting, vivid collection … “At the river’s edge, we ask why. / The river whispers why not.”

Please join us as we celebrate the publication of @marthasilano.bsky.social's posthumous collection. Friends and admirers will read via Zoom from TERMINAL SURREAL Tues, Sept 2, at 8 p.m. Register at tinyurl.com/b4vvc6ju. Hosted by Acre's #Poetry Editor @lisaampleman.bsky.social. 📚🎉💜

Such a powerful writer. North American edition of The Orange Notebooks publishes tomorrow!

Many thanks to Nadia Vikulina for her thoughtful and insightful review of Sovetica in the latest issue of Tears in the Fence ed. David Caddy. The book is available here: www.cbeditions.com/clark

I delivered the Jannetta Lecture in 2019 at the US Air Force Academy with an essay that was highly critical of Trump. Some stood to applaud, some sat silent. But I was invited, and allowed to speak my mind. This cancellation projects weakness and fear. gazette.com/military/a-b...

I delivered the Jannetta Lecture in 2019 at the US Air Force Academy with an essay that was highly critical of Trump. Some stood to applaud, some sat silent. But I was invited, and allowed to speak my mind. This cancellation projects weakness and fear. gazette.com/military/a-b...

that NEA "we cancelled the creative writing fellowships program because we prioritize fostering AI competency" letter is a really good example of a genre of what we might call found horror

It's cultural insanity that Americans choose to live like this.

Prepping for my chat with @davidcollard.bsky.social later this evening on his essay collection, A Crumpled Swan. Enjoying his essay On 'Poet Voice.' Sound advice from @bydanobrien.bsky.social

Very much enjoyed Zooming into Richard Skinner’s Faber Academy Life Writing Reading Group today to discuss A Story That Happens, a book that in many ways I continue to write 🙏🏻 @cbeditions.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @faberacademy.bsky.social

“My heart aches. Does your heart ache too?” In excerpts from his book 40 QUESTIONS ABOUT A POLITICAL PLAY, playwright Dan O'Brien insightfully contemplates the meaning, challenges, and rewards of writing political plays.

Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)

Delivery of some more pamphlets. Publisher says it’s a bit of a bestseller for them. Thank you to everyone who’s been ordering & reading 🙏🏻 If you’re curious, check out the excerpts in American Theatre magazine and The Arts Fuse (@calquepress.bsky.social)

Remembering Edna O'Brien who died a year ago today.

‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻

‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ (published by @calquepress.bsky.social) excerpted in @americantheatre.org — many thanks to editor @robkendt.bsky.social 🙏🏻

Pick'n'mix: CB editions July newsletter archived on the Sonofabook blog: sonofabook.blogspot.com/2025/07/pick...

Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social

Thank you to @csvich.bsky.social for featuring ‘40 Questions About a Political Play’ on her podcast Day for Night 🙏🏻 @calquepress.bsky.social

Thank you Caridad 🙏🏻

My copies have made the transatlantic and transcontinental journey and arrived safely on the west coast. My thanks again to Calque Press, aka James & Marian Womack, for publishing the pamphlet so beautifully. calquepress.com/products/pre...

Playwright Dan O'Brien offers an excerpt from his latest essay, "40 Questions about a Political Play," published as a pamphlet by Calque Press. The subject is political plays: what they are, and how and why we write them. artsfuse.org/313135/arts-...

It’s nice to see copies of the pamphlet arriving from across the pond. Thanks for ordering, friends 🙏🏻 calquepress.com/products/pre... @calquepress.bsky.social