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

wrote a note

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

found this presumably rare Against Me! 7" in a box in my Mom's basement. it's in really good shape, dont think mom has listened to it much

if anyone needs me i'm at home practicing Murder Most Foul

have 1 hour at my school's listening room, want to give roughly half of it to 1 Phish jam. has to be findable on the lossless streaming service they use (presumably Tidal?) or a CD of my own so think about official releases. leaning toward a classic (A Live One Tweezer, eg) but taking suggestions

I don’t think we talk enough about how Batman lives in the Eyes Wide Shut orgy house

in case anyone wants to read a smart essay in which nice things are said about my book

Dave claims his bread is "killer," and yet on the logo he seems to be playing a C add #5 (muting the low E with his pinky). They should rename it Dave's Jazzy Bread imo

as long as i can buy it at the state-run bodega

so do we think today is the day he became president or

i love the travis mcgee books where the title has absolutely nothing to do with the story so at some point near the end mcgee has to notice some physical detail and have a burst of grim poetic insight about it while in the midst of saving the day "The Dreadful Lemon Sky" might be the best one yet

rope inside the pole got it

but why is the cooking app even talking about the mayoral race

sending this to film agent immediately

I can’t believe someone else achieved my Life’s dream of being fired from The Who twice while also being ringo starr’s son

can’t spell frog without og, that’s right the original glob

hey Adobe FUCK YOU--I *wrote* this

Grok please explain is this attacking the president

folks are mad about this getting press because Trump is so much worse in every way, including on mental acuity. But covering up the president’s mental decline and thus handing the White House to a Nazi should be a national scandal and the people involved should be drummed out of public life.

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