“…But when you went, a streak of reality broke in upon the stage through that fissure where you’d left: green of real green, real sunshine, real forest.” - Rilke, from "Death Experienced" ❤️

“It’s 5 below zero in Iowa City tonight. This year I found a warm room That I could go to be alone in & never have to fight.” - Ted Berrigan, from "Anti-war Poem" ✨

No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one’s heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes. - Cormac McCarthy, from "The Road"

"There is a gold light in certain old paintings..." ❤️ Donald Justice

It was my good fortune to get to talk with Tyler Kline at @adroitjournal.bsky.social about Great Disasters, movies, Mad Men, Midwest mythologizing, and I snuck in a couple book and movie recommendations as well ✌ Full interview here: theadroitjournal.org/2025/12/03/a...

still have a headache from weeping thru the last ten minutes of Hamnet 🥂

Much respect to the Olive Garden ad team that signed off on these existentially ominous commercials that end with, “try it all while you still can.” 🥂

Very grateful to @literaryhub.bsky.social for giving me the chance to shout out Four Loko circa 2011 and speculate a bit about the swirl of things that gave rise to Great Disasters 🤩 Full interview here, replete w recitations of questionably sourced Jewish proverbs: lithub.com/lit-hub-asks...

Twin Cities folks: if you're able, come out next Wednesday to Open Book, where I'll read from Great Disasters (@tinhouse.bsky.social) and be in conversation with Aamina Ahmad 💥💥💥 Presented by @milkweededitions.bsky.social, the event is totally free, but pls RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/milkweed-p...

My great thanks to Wendy J. Fox and @electricliterature.com for these words about Great Disasters 💥💥💥 Full article here: electricliterature.com/15-small-pre...

Chicago--I'll be reading from Great Disasters (@tinhouse.bsky.social) tonight at Volumes Books in Wicker Park, and will be joined by dear friend, bringer of literary insight, and outstanding writer Ben Hoffman. Come on out if you're free and in the mood. Hope to see you there, or soon! 💐

It is one of the truest joys of my life that Great Disasters is officially out today from @tinhouse.bsky.social 💥 I am profoundly grateful to the press, and to editor Elizabeth DeMeo, whose wisdom and insight did so much to help this book become. tinhouse.com/book/great-d... ❤️

Phila > New York > Chicago > Los Angeles > San Francisco > & more! as they say. GD comes out next week (🤩) - if I’m coming to your city, I would so love to see you / meet you, and there’ll be some kind of afterparty for each to continue the revelry. gradychambers.com/upcoming-rea...

Totally thrilled to have an excerpt from Great Disasters published at Lit Hub today 🤩 The book is out NEXT WEEK from @tinhouse.bsky.social & follows 6 friends growing up in Chicago against the backdrop of 9/11 & the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Hope you enjoy this lil preview 💫

It's a true honor to have GREAT DISASTERS (out this month from Tin House!) featured in the Chicago Tribune's Fall Book Preview ❤️ Set in Chicago in the wake of 9/11, the book follows six friends as they navigate changing relationships to the country and one another. tinhouse.com/book/great-d... 💫

I looked up from my life to realize today is 3 weeks until the publication of GREAT DISASTERS, coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social on Tuesday 9-30 ♥️ The novel follows six friends coming of age in Chicago in the wake of 9/11. For upcoming readings & more info: gradychambers.com/upcoming-rea... ✨

Vicariously living through the person stuck in traffic with CSNY's "Ohio" absolutely roaring from their speakers 🥂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOFN...

It is such a special thing to see this write-up on GREAT DISASTERS in @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social's Must-Read Books of September list. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/02/1... GD is out from @tinhouse.bsky.social on September 30th! More on the book at tinhouse.com/book/great-d... 🌺

I looked at the one today and was reminded of the other, for whatever reason. Both incredible to me 🙌

Good job with the fall-ish breezes here in Philly, Lord, now how about some clouds 🙌

Thank you so much to @debutiful.bsky.social for the love for GREAT DISASTERS, out September 30th from @tinhouse.bsky.social 🤩 "...breathtaking prose brimming with empathy and soul as friends navigate through the pitfalls of life (heartbreak, addiction, a country falling apart) in 2010s Chicago."

Thanks to @tinhouse.bsky.social for this spotlight on GREAT DISASTERS 💫 🌺 💫 Set in Chicago against the backdrop of 9/11 & the start of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it's an intimate story about friendship, love, protest, & diverging paths. Coming your way Sept. 30th! bsky.app/profile/tinh...

🎶"Just got [spayed], it's Friday night, party huntin', feelin riiiight"🎶 Johnny Kemp - "Just got Paid": www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl1m...

When I saw that "Fox and Friends" was trending this is where my mind went: (@criterion.bsky.social 🥂)

Tomfoolery. Revelry. Chicago Bulls Hats. Malort. Chicago-style hot dogs (or Philly's closest approximation). The to-be-published version of GREAT DISASTERS has arrived (coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social , 9-30-'25) and I took a very Chicago-inspired journey in celebration 🍻

This next song is called “I Sliced My Hand Open Trying to Free the Hot Sauce From Its Packaging and Now I’m Suing Cholula” 🥂

Over on goodreads, @tinhouse.bsky.social is giving away 50 free copies of GREAT DISASTERS 🌟❤️🌟 The book is set largely in Chicago in the wake of 9/11--sign up at the link to win a free copy, or pre-order from Tin House 🥂 www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... tinhouse.com/book/great-d...

Great Disasters is coming 9-30-2025! Get a free copy at the link if you're interested in reviewing the book, doing an interview with yours truly, or are a bookseller 🌺 I can't wait to share the book with you, specifically : ) 💫 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

"For a moment I fell asleep, right while I was driving...Glaciers had crushed this region in the time before history. There'd been a drought for years, and a bronze fog of dust stood over the plains. It felt like the moment before the Savior comes." - from Denis Johnson's "Dundun" ❤️

Black Sabbath - "Orchid" ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cc-6...

My great thanks to the editors of Flaunt Magazine for including the opening paragraphs of GREAT DISASTERS in their summer issue 💫! Check out their sweet compendium of fashion, photographs, art, & interviews at the link. GD coming from @tinhouse.bsky.social on September 30th 🌸 www.flaunt.com

From Jacques Rozier's beautiful "Near Orouet" ❤️

Me, who does not have the day off, responding to my boss's email:

Katherine Lewis, "Swimmers" 🌺

Routinely astonished by the sheer quantity of ice my cousin the bartender utilizes from my freezer to concoct us two very modest, extraordinarily frigid, yet entirely iceless cocktails

So happy to see Great Disasters (coming your way from @tinhouse.bsky.social) featured on @literaryhub.bsky.social 's list of the fall's most anticipated books ❤️ Great Disasters is available for pre-order at tinhouse.com/book/great-d... - Coming September 30th

My great thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for featuring GREAT DISASTERS on their list of most anticipated books ⭐ Here's page one from the book as well--coming September 2025 from @tinhouse.bsky.social --preorder info at the link : ) tinhouse.com/book/great-d...

James Wright ❤️

Spent 10 minutes this afternoon admiring the aesthetics of men in Renoir paintings and now I own a straw hat 🤦‍♀️

A small joy of writing the "Visit to Riverhead" section of Great Disasters (@tinhouse.bsky.social, September 2025) was finding a way to bring my great love of “Ulysses” into the book. “Hate. Love. Those are names. Rudy. Soon I am old.” Happy Bloomsday ❤️

Gerhard Richter - Lesende (Reader), 1994 ❤️

Charlie Parr - "Portland Avenue" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLhv...

From Mitya’s Dream in “The Brothers Karamazov” ❤️

Soundtrack for a little trip to the south 🥂 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wsU...

My thanks to Philly Loves Poetry via PhillyCAM for revisiting North American Stadiums (@milkweededitions.bsky.social ) with me. I ramble a bit about Louise Gluck, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and read a handful of new poems in the last half hour of the show 🌺 www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

“Every day I buy a can of pineapple with an expiration date of May 1, because May loves pineapple, and May 1 is my birthday. I tell myself that if May hasn’t come back by the time I’ve bought 30 cans, then our love will expire too.” ❤️ (from Chungking Express)

Takes literally one noontime walk in 8 months, decides he’s a “flaneur”

Great Disasters, coming 9-30-2025 from @tinhouse.bsky.social, and now available for pre-order at the link 😍 tinhouse.com/book/great-d... Also hugely grateful & humbled to have words in support of the book from these true lights of mine, whose work has shaped my own...more at the link 💫

"Mrs. Kroller called this still life 'sublime.' For her it signified 'the quiet reverence towards every event.'" ♥️ painting by Henri Fantin Latour, 1886, from the Kroller Muller Museum, Netherlands

This woman biking with her dog in her backpack and “friend of the devil” playing from the boombox in her bike basket is very much after my own heart 🥂