A few years ago there was this thing publishers were doing where they were top-binding certain novels/prose books like a reporter's notebook. Does anybody remember what that was called? Or have any articles about this handy?

A cool thing about cleaning your house is that when you're done the cat will vomit in the living room to make sure you didn't miss that spot.

I got tired of pasting the same stupid bio into Submittable so I made a little to-clipboard utility to make that a little faster. Also I needed a new Python project to pin to my GitHub for *reasons*. Please enjoy. github.com/delfanbaum/t... pypi.org/project/tmpl...

Sometimes things are not, in fact, what they say on the tin.

You should listen to @escapecollective.bsky.social's Wheel Talk podcast because it's awesome and the TDFF is great this year (as it is every year), but especially for the audio diaries – such a pleasure!

"...one of the cool things about living in New England is the pretty immediate and physical access to history and these historical places, so the narrative really started to make sense to me once I decided to visit some of the sites I was learning about." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/10/u...

I had a chance to talk to @bobsykora.bsky.social about his WONDERFUL book, Utopians in Love, and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social was kind enough to publish that conversation. Check it out below!! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/10/u...

Vauquelin is going to get a good contract next year.

"I'm a sprinter now!"

Thanks @delfanbaum.bsky.social for creating such a great, low-key literary community!

EB is the best.

I like a Caleb Ewan redemption arc.

In my "adding emojis to all meeting agendas because I'm bored to tears and it brings me joy" phase.

Thrilling.

The women's Classic Brugge-De Panne *thrilling*

My cat, she snores so loudly.

Just got the notification that @bobsykora.bsky.social ‘s book has shipped and is on the way to my house. VERY exciting!

Turns out it's not that hard to replace a watch battery.

New release of `asciidocr`, includes various fixes and a better path forward for docx generation (behind the docx feature): crates.io/crates/ascii... #asciidoc #rust #clitools #lightweightmarkup

Unix piping is a very satisfying thing.

I want a song that's like "Reinventing Axl Rose" but instead of a show it's about the Internet.

Ah yes: the bi-yearly "node.js streams make my brain hurt" week. Wonderful.

Music: youtu.be/1wcNkHeLDiU?...

If you add enough maple syrup to "adult" cereal it can, in fact, still taste like what cereal *should* taste like (which is to say: marshmallows).

Additionally, what great essays in THE AGE OF SUSPICION. Now I kind of want to reread FOR A NEW NOVEL for comparison.

Finally getting around to the Sabrina Carpenter Tiny Desk, and like, she's a country singer, right? I mean, I dig it.

NEW EPISODE THE LINE BREAK IS THE PODCAST FOR POET LAUREATES WE GOT @melissaferrerand.bsky.social CHECK IT OUT podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

And here grad students are worried about downloading a handful of (often) out-of-print books, sheesh! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Tonight! I have confirmed there will be French Fries!

Tomorrow! Poetry! Prose! Community! French Fries (probably)!

And, also, you know, it's, still, amazingly, pretty (really really really) bad for the environment, too! Amazing!

While holding one cat, the other jumped onto my back. They both got their claws stuck in my sweatshirt and were crying about it. I'm not entirely sure what resolution they were expecting from the situation. Anyway, they're now chasing each other up and down the stairs.

VLADIMIR: Well? Shall we log off? ESTRAGON: Yes, let's log off. They do not log off.

For God’s sake thrust him down stairs. I cannot endure such a fustian rascal.

My favorite thing about doing remote work on the east coast is when my west coast colleagues sign on with "Good Morning!" and I'm, like, eating lunch.

Either way, I always advise writers that anything higher than $25/$1000 advance/prize is probably a bit grifty. Also be aware of presses who are always. operating. contests. That's a good indicator that they are supporting themselves on sub fees.

It's yet another month which means there's yet another Two Page Tuesday! If you're around Boston next week come join us in Dorchester -- we've got a banger of a lineup (as usual, to be fair).

I've never met Bob, but I know people who like Bob, and his podcast is nice, and I'm excited about this book.

An LLM trained exclusively on the corpus of Dr. Bronner.

Holy shit, though: this was so, so good.

March to the Arch, Midwesterners. Missouri is gonna experience some literary fury. Because Kyle’s new collection will indeed be an inflection.

It's good to get together with friends to share work and swap stories and be together. It's good that when it needs to this can happen on a video call so folks who can't make it out right now can participate. It's good, it's good.

Frank Lepold, [“Kasse II, portato”]

More literary publications should be *local*, by which I mean: I want to pick up, say, a Chicago lit mag and see what the writers in Chicago are doing. Or Savannah. Or St. Paul. In other words: "Just give me a scene, where the music is free / and the beer is not the life of the party..."

If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way.

My official position is that Nathalie Sarraute is fucking rad.

Mostly I think writing software is just "fine" but then sometimes you get to ship something that makes somebody's job a lot easier and I like that part of writing software.

Whatever it is, this certainly isn't Under the Volcano