sometimes a teeny tiny micro hits me jussssst right, and today's from Tania Ravaei is exactly that. hope it hits a bunch of you just right too. https://www.havehashad.com/994qo

impossible to over-emphasize the power of reaching out to an author whose stuff you enjoy. i don't do it nearly often enough, but i've made some really wonderful connections this way. and it's good for your dang heart!

massive bug alert

bought this african violet like 5 or 6 yrs ago and it was among my favorite plants for a long time. maybe 3 yrs ago we moved and i left it on the porch too long and it got all scorched and it hasn't bloomed since....but i noticed these little guys peeking out the other day 😎

randomly decided to check the traffic on my website.......which one of you losers was it?

they should invent a way to just mute specific meme formats.

read 3 evenson stories from "windeye" earlier today and the first sentences of each really knocked my socks off.

uplifting the homies + a little self-promo: my buddy patrick mcginty has a new novel coming out! he's got some reading events coming up, including one with moi in cleveland on oct 18.

recent bangers that i have rented on dvd from my local library:

fuuuuck i just remembered the band angel hair youtu.be/R0gTGP0pW4Y?...

for people too young to have lived through it the whole internet used to be stuff like this, other than pages about linux development or porn, but otherwise, all stuff like this

totally insane that there is a brand of diaper disposal bins called Diaper Genie.

Hmm. publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-fi...

Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, U.N. Inquiry Says [Free NYT article].

i haven't been to awp since 2012 and i have a new book out, how do people go about getting themselves on the bill for cool readings at awp in baltimore

every reader is different but i dunno man, i've got like a dozen brian evenson collections on my shelf.

friends in and around pittsburgh: consider getting involved with casa san jose's ICE rapid response team: share.google/WRt4fI7gUbim...

i kinda feel like this comic isnt gonna make any sort of narrative sense....but i know it'll still be cool cause there's a bad guy whose word balloons all look like this:

With many families looking outside of Pennsylvania for gender-affirming care, TransYOUniting has a mutual aid fund to help offset travel and medical costs.

I really enjoyed getting to read and draw stuff for this new @ambersparks.bsky.social story. Thanks for having me once again, @aaronburch.bsky.social!

i haven't been to awp since 2012 and i have a new book out, how do people go about getting themselves on the bill for cool readings at awp in baltimore

enormous thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for having me as a part of their "self-interview" series today! i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.

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Here are all of the September 2025 debut books that caught our eye. What ones are you picking up? Learn more about each book 👉 debutiful.net/2025/09/15/2...

just finished drawing page 51 of the comic i've been working on. longest story i've ever drawn by a longshot.

“what are you doing tonight?”

i've long said that if i ever have enough money to start a press, i'd bring back full full-back-cover author photo. so glad to see this is coming back in style!

spent a couple hours today walking around outside and picking up trash with my neighbors. feels good to be so pure of heart 🙏

"The Gaza ministry statistics do not distinguish between civilians and fighters, but leaked Israeli military intelligence data on casualties until May this year suggested that more than 80% of the dead were civilians."

shoutout to everyone who came to my book launch last night. it was very fun and cool!

i would definitely listen to a band called Trans Ideology

When the journalists at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette brought home the Pulitzer, they’d been working without a contract for more than two years. The family that owned the paper sneered at the idea of negotiating a replacement. It was a sign of things to come.

niina's other 2 books, Dead Horse and Path of Totality, are way up on my list of best poetry collections of the past decade. super excited for this confluence of excellent writer + excellent press.

he's been a part of my household for almost 5 years but i have only just recently observed that my cat does this thing where he organizes his litter box with all the poop on one end and all the pee on the other.

Also, debut launch party in Pgh w/ Bill Lychack is today! 7pm Events | White Whale Bookstore share.google/VjzRn3oiCq1D...

new UFO vid dropped yesterday

today would make an awesome don delillo novel.

The family-owned newspaper is an increasingly rare breed, but as the strike at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reveals, there are serious drawbacks involved in working for a family like the Blocks.

re-reading two favorites for class tonight: "gling gling gling" by bud smith and "to hell with dying" by alice walker. i don't think the walker is online anywhere but i highly recommend reading the bud smith over at joyland: joylandpublishing.com/fiction/glin...

quick reminder for friends in pittsburgh: my book launch is tomorrow!

approx 1/3 of the way through september and submissions being open this month for Short Story, Long I pay contributors, pay artists for original art to pair with stories, nominate for awards, and generally rave a bunch on social media about the stories I love (and I LOVE all the stories I accept)

hey now this is news you can use!

I think if you listen to a podcast with fake AI people saying AI generated words you are functionally dead, you are basically a phone to me at that point

i learned earlier in the summer that the neighborhood i moved to in the spring is colloquially known as "Hunky Hollow." it's called that cause this is where all the slovakian immigrants lived back in the day and "hunky" is an antiquated slur against them......but i think it's cute!

“We have such a tremendous amount of talent in the city and a lot of incredible publications, but there’s not anything that’s quite like this.” Thank you to Virginia Linn at Pittsburgh Magazine for chatting with our EIC Ed Simon about PRoB! www.pittsburghmagazine.com/pittsburgh-r...

enormous thanks to @debutiful.bsky.social for having me as a part of their "self-interview" series today! i got to ask myself (& answer) a handful of questions about MY PRISONER AND OTHER STORIES, & hopefully got a little bit further away from the beaten path in terms of talking about the book.