Recently I feel like I've been much more into exploring syntactic weirdness in writing rather than content weirdness, which, unsurprisingly perhaps, turns out to maybe be a harder sell

In many ways the Velvet Underground were the Beatles of the 60s

Now at AC: "Written," a labyrinthine interactive writing/failure simulator by JI Daniels www.alwayscrashing.com/current

Check out this story on ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY ✨️Contributor @inauthenticity.bsky.social has a piece on friendships and secrets in @bulbregion.bsky.social 💙 buff.ly/0Q1tQko

Re-upping this now in the brief lull between (larger) horrors

Friday Bandcamp grab #1 weatherornot.bandcamp.com/album/come-in

The longer I live, the more I become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the (more or less less irrational) shamanism of a book, i.e. that the writer is first of all an enchanter. - Nabokov to Edmund Wilson, 27 Nov. 1946

poets: if you don't feel it your readers don't feel it me:

Re-upping this now in the brief lull between (larger) horrors

Perhaps the most accurate account of grad school I've seen on film

evergreen tbh

hello. I am now the editor of South Dakota Review, a bonus job that came with my job. people keep asking me about "submitting" (huh) "poems" (hmm) but I only want to read about the weather. southdakotareview.wordpress.com

The issue here is that you ideally need at least 3 rats

Sending my stories, once more, into the void

Honestly more Christians need to be doing the Kierkegaard bit of yelling loudly for the fall of Christiandom

Hey, y'all should come to this! It's on the internet! It'll be fun!

Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.

"I tried to ignore it, but it wouldn’t go away. The tedium of that, you can imagine." >>> "A Story of a Shirt and a Man" by Meiko Ko (@meikoko.bsky.social) / featuring an evil shirt, fabric abuse, the Actual Devil (in stain form) / New today at AC

New work at Bulb Region this weekend--many thanks to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social for all his work on this!

TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

“The secret she told him was nothing scandalous or horrifying, nothing that would destroy lives or cause a reassessment in anyone’s mind of his friend were he to reveal it […]” Find @inauthenticity.bsky.social’s astonishing micro, “The Secret,” in The Bulb Region. bulbregion.com/The-Secret-b...

"His best friend of many years, who had been living for as long as either could remember across the country from him, had told him a secret which he had promised never to reveal; and now she had died." "The Secret" at @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social's excellent new journal, @bulbregion.bsky.social

Analog Communication, 2016 by Natalia Petri www.instagram.com/natipetri/

Find myself working on a series of craft essays recently Would love any suggestions about who is publishing such things (didn't find like, a ton via Chill Subs)

Reupping my theory that odd numbered decades are, for various reasons, better than even numbered teens are good twenties kind of suck thirties, great forties, ugh why are you still trying to be cool fifties, actually cool somehow sixties, you're going to die seventies, great, haven't died yet etc

Okay, sure: A passive-aggressive number of books that shaped me. City Life (Barthelme) Blood and Guts in High School (Acker) Repetition (Kierkegaard) The Making of Americans (Stein) Ficciones (Borges) Todos los fuegos el fuego (Cortazar) The Devils (Dostoevsky) The Story of My Wife (Fust)

Got a longtail bike so now I'm just fully committed to Dad Life (TM)

Our Lady of Perpetually Online

They had to put a DO NOT USE ON FRANKENSTEINS warning on the Tabletop S'Mores maker ($49.99) after...an incident.

New work from Robert Kloss / updates on @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social and Daniel Romo / plus a report from this year's AWP alwayscrashingmagazine.substack.com/p/convincing...

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Didn't hate The Bride. Mostly kept getting distracted by the fact that the movie spent so much time in the old Bed Bath and Beyond

Didn't hate The Bride. Mostly kept getting distracted by the fact that the movie spent so much time in the old Bed Bath and Beyond

Find myself working on a series of craft essays recently Would love any suggestions about who is publishing such things (didn't find like, a ton via Chill Subs)

Just saw a post disappear in front of my eyes and desperately want to know what it was about

❤️Submissions open until April 15: INCH --our little journal with a big heart-- is accepting manuscript submissions; read all about it: buff.ly/jGeTkNA

"I don’t need to dig up her grave to know she isn’t there. She was never there." New today at AC // an excerpt from HOW THE OLD MAN TRAINED HIS ASSASSINS by the inimitable Robert Kloss If you know Kloss's work, you have an idea of what you're in for if not, head's up

Pretty into this piece by Harshit Singh at @remediatelitmag.bsky.social remediatelitmag.xyz/issue5/

It's nice that the second-best Pynchon adaptation won an Oscar

Not watching the Oscars and you can't make me

YOU CAN'T ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE FOR SHARED SACRIFICE FOR AN ILLEGAL WAR THEY DIDN'T ASK FOR, YOU SHOULD BE BEGGING THEIR FORGIVENESS SO THEY DON'T [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]

wait, hamnet is a real movie? i thought that was a joke someone did playing on the defector ham truck thing

you turn and see this on the treadmill next to you. how do you open?

INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED

Listening to the good Neil Young album

The thing about the antichrist is, I assumed significantly more people would be fooled by him

Currently listening

There's a slyness to the voice in these that I really like. There's something sneaky going on between the narrative voice and the "authorial voice" or the voice of the story, somewhere behind the narrative voice, if that makes sense

Some trivia: Two of my previous books featured kinda blurry pictures of people on the cover which WorldCat identified in its metadata as "photograph[s] of the author." Of course neither was.