wrote this a few years ago but it came up in conversation this morning and i gotta say i'm still very happy with it my19thcentury.substack.com/p/standing-i...

still dont know what a tony dockpile is, not asking

New Reviewing the Contemporary Novel reading list, featuring @tricialockwood.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @appletwigli.bsky.social, and others.

what if i just listened to Spacemen 3 all day

can't stop thinking about how any bus driver can just kidnap a fuckton of people and the only reason it doesn't happen all the time is because what the fuck do you want to do with a busload of people

ok listen the actual best Peggy-O is Penn State 5/6/80 but in all seriousness this is such a sweet way to close out a truly bleak week. and the song is gorgeous. kudos

wrote about Katherine Dunn for @nplusonemag.com www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Huge thanks to mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 Launch stars @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman & ❤️ to our amazing audience! And we were honored to kick off the paperback tour for Justin's incredible novel Reboot!

The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be reborn. Now is the time of Will Stancils.

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Monday, 8pm, at Franklin Park Reading Series: We're thrilled to host @justintaylor.bsky.social for the NYC paperback celebration of his brilliant novel Reboot, w/stellar authors @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden & Ali Kriegsman! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights #Free

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new newsletter: January event dates, vacation photos, music recs, 2025 publishing recap

merry christmas i've been on a plane for ever and have put a lot of thought into this and finally feel like i've got it locked in

Merry Xmas, y’all #SpacemenTree

merry christmas i've been on a plane for ever and have put a lot of thought into this and finally feel like i've got it locked in

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my interview with Watson's editor, Alane Mason, from the issue thesewaneereview.com/articles/int...

had the enormous pleasure of collaborating with my colleagues at The Sewanee Review on a full-issue tribute to the life & work of Brad Watson, which we built around the complete text of his final, unfinished novel thesewaneereview.com

finished vol 1 of in search of lost time if you even care

this is awesome

a book so good she only had to write the one

beat this game in the arcade when i was 13

missed the third anniversary of Mimi Parker’s death, which I’d meant to mark by posting my Low playlist that I made after I heard the news, but I will post it late, because Low makes me want to be late to things anyway open.spotify.com/playlist/3rM...

doing the torment nexus tweet but with Matthew 24:11

Wednesday November 12: "What About This" by Justin Taylor. "Brother, I hit my limit of being alone."

everyone in this article sounds like an NPC in Silksong

tfw you're headed emptyhanded toward a birthday party for a 4 year old so you put "toy store" into google maps and the nearest dot to your location is called Babeland

oh hey

You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school

[CW: earnestness/indignity] my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it. Book details in link That name again is Mr. Plow

here we go

next abyss abridges tomorrow, sign up now

I finally read this book last month and it's so good, incredibly fluent in online and pop culture but in a way that's not annoying, and also just really funny and propulsive and smart

paperback coming in January bookshop.org/p/books/rebo...

Mayor Quimby has been the Mayor of Springfield since 1986! Please vote in local elections.

shoulda been delillo but go off i guess

talkin' about the new book, the old books, research habits, internet damage, language gnosticism, good music & more

Did anyone publish a novel last year about how the internet itself is an accelerator for mental illness & stochastic terror that works not just across ideological lines but as an active solvent of said lines, maybe presented in a slightly oblique way like idk a fake celebrity memoir? asking 4 friend

if you wanna read some good criticism today read this thebaffler.com/latest/mille...

STEM major (smiling, well-dressed, rosy cheeked): hey, who's that bell ringing for? English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol

long live late great Snock

just throwing this out there

if u even care

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if anyone needs me i'm at the World of Bob Dylan Conference in Tulsa dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/#conf...