I believe that I could easily assemble a crew to pull off a string of major bank robberies, a crew that would include no loose cannons, no turncoats, no mysterious strangers with secret agendas. Just professionals, no mistakes ever. I simply choose not to do it

it’s Tyler TX, actually, but I get where Ray is coming from

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

Here is the thing. The only thing

they got it right when they named gerbils. little guys over there gerbin'

had the pleasure of writing about this great strange bracing debut novel

For American Theatre I spoke to a whole mess of people in the new play world about what has and hasn't changed over the last two decades since the study Outrageous Fortune sought to comprehensively document the problems in the New Play sector (1/???): www.americantheatre.org/2026/05/11/s...

let the hackers have Canvas, it's fine. Everyone gets a B+

i wrote a pretty good novel about this; out in paperback now

albums, poems, canyons

a corned beef sandwich but the bread is latkes

this is excellent, and so so so so bleak

two from this weekend at Treefort in Boise: Toody Cole & Her Band at Neurolux; Geese on the main stage

hard agree. im a fairweather callahan fan and have skipped the last several but i threw this on last night and found it warm and gorgeous and deeply moving

Hilarious that this is the image on the Black Rider Wikipedia page

It’s a-I, predicate nominative mario

Grammarly's updated Expert Review lineup.

a wine tasting happens every time you drink it

perfect answer, dont ask what the question was

clicked over to @thesunmagazine.bsky.social to see what's new and was happy to see a couple of David Berman poems from Actual Air newly reprinted. then humbled-thrilled-jarred to find myself quoted in the editor's introduction. David's "surreal clarity" yes. Always and forever

i wrote the album bio for this one! (www.subpop.com/artists/iron...)

we finally reached the end of this calendar event i accidentally made 12 years ago

I DON'T WANT TO "SHARE AND CREATE MY OWN STORY" I DON'T WANT A SHARED PLATFORM I WANT YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING COOL, AND THEN I PLAY WITH IT ALONE, NOT IN A SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT HOW IS THIS HARD TO UNDERSTAND

if only those who lived faithfully a hidden life and rest in unvisited tombs knew that one day one might go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights

contemplating, awestruck, the centuries-long geometry of material and historical processes necessary to create the conditions for me to have just sent a text asking “want to go to Margaritaville before Wuthering Heights”

Really dug @justintaylor.bsky.social's review of a newly-translated Halldor Laxness novel. www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

hot damn

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

Love for Katherine Dunn and Halldor Laxness, seven curses on our overlords, Bugonia is a documentary, & a just exactly perfect Bob Weir memorial playlist

wrote about a new Halldor Laxness translation for the Harvard Review www.harvardreview.org/book-review/...

and i still am

have been listening to the grateful dead ALL DAY and i still am

so stoked to see this story, drafted in my fall class at the Columbia MFA, now published at @necessaryfiction.com

i used to make a version of "boy kibble" i called "idiot bachelor slurry." i wrote about it some years back when i was commissioned to contribute an essay to an anthology of writers writing about food. the essay was rejected for being too funny

"democracy dies in darkness" wasn't a warning, it was a vow

If you are a person who cares about books, you’re different from Jeff Bezos. Now would be a good day to stop shopping from Amazon, permanently.

scene from Hamnet where Shakespeare composes "To be or not to be" speech in real time but it's Lindsey Buckingham trying out "Lay me down in the tall grass and let me do my stuff"

Learn to ode.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been asking @ Grok "Is this true?" ever since.

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.