Little post-launch update to help me decompress, more than anything. #booklaunch #indiepub #writinglife medium.com/@benr.allee/...

Crazy turnout for the Mediac #booklaunch party yesterday! Delightful (& unsettling) readings from satirical food review maverick @nershwood.bsky.social and fantasy phenom Thomas (T.M.) May. Thanks to everyone for getting this @anxietypress.bsky.social joint out into the ether.

Glamor shots. #indiepublishing #booklaunch #shortfiction #shortstories

Was going back through stuff from the last few months this morning and I'm still pretty jazzed about this gross #shortstory and the folks at RJ for running with it. Best read after 11a.m. And wash your hands after. revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...

Latest #bookhaul. Wait--

Exceedingly proud of this well-curated recently played lineup.

No luck breaking top 10 in the contemporary fiction category, but Mediac has taken its rightful place *above* Kazuo Ishiguro and Krasznahorkai on the coveted Kindle Absurdism charts. 'Bout dang time. Feels pretty breezy up here.

Just shy of the top 10 new releases in its category. Let's get this thing to the top-a-da charts, eh?

MEDIAC is out now w/ @anxietypress.bsky.social 🔗⬇️ 15 anxious tales, fit for those who liked: - Aronofsky’s Black Swan - Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler / Velvet Buzzsaw - Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer - Nabokov’s Pale Fire - John Logan’s play Red, about Mark Rothko  And other arty thrills. #booklaunch

Lol, Storygraph AI thinks I might not like the book I wrote #storygraph #writerlife

Book launch party coming up! To celebrate the publication of Mediac from @thinsliceofanxiety, join myself and friends at Buvez on Thursday, 7/17 from 7-9pm. We’ll have readings from local writers and copies of Mediac (& more!) for sale. Free & open to the public (1/3) #indiepublishing #booksky

Updates on Mediac's upcoming launch! Including a breakdown of the last couple months, how/when to order a copy, and details on reading & launch events in July medium.com/p/mediac-sho...

A few of the MEDIACs in my upcoming collection from @anxietypress.bsky.social: - A Brutalist architect’s most dedicated fan - An ad-man desperate for approval - A horror writer who just lost his muse - A photographer who shoots more than he can handle - A very, very talented young painter

Keep your eyes open, folks--a new book of short stories titled MEDIAC is trying to sneak onto your bookshelf and e-reader, and you're the only one who can stop it. Raise awareness to prevent unwanted intrusions of well-curated catalogues around the world. @anxietypress.bsky.social‬ #booksky

Some images just floor you, speaking words across time and space you never thought you'd hear. Nanjing University, Gulou Campus, by Caitriana Nicholson, via Wikipedia.

Athens's transportation grant woes culminate in a grisly end. Quotes from one commissioner calling proposed infrastructure improvements a deal with the devil in October, only to complain about losing the grant in May... athenspoliticsnerd.com/how-acc-gov-...

10 #books I need to read, in no particular order. Bonus points if you can actually read my handwriting.

New review of Athens-favorite Jordan Rothacker's latest novel (by way of @spaceboybooks.bsky.social ). Beware of projectile squash. compulsivereader.com/2025/05/13/a...

Editors washing hands. Submissions dying for our sins. Submittable collecting taxes.

Thrilled to announce I recently swapped to gluten-free toothpaste. Makes all the difference in the world.

I was inspired to write this story while in a brewery bathroom, staring at the drink shelf and event poster above the urinal, wondering what was stopping me from unscrewing everything. This is basically what would have happened if I had

Something special for the sleazeballs--new fiction out today in Revolution John 🔧 revolutionjohnjournal.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/a...

Relatable

It's foggy outside this morning, so here's a picture of my favorite tree in my yard. 🌳

It's an ugly word, but does it have to be? 'Sprawl' is inevitable and necessary, and conversations need to be centered on how to improve upon the process, not how stop it. At least that's what this guy's saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/m...

One of the craziest things I've read. In 2021 a 23-year-old died at Yellowstone, 'disappearing' into a pool of acidic/boiling water after venturing off-trail. A month later, a professor proposed repeating the process as an alternative to cremation. Wild.

There's a seen in Yi-Yi (2000) where Issey Ogata's Mr. Ota performs a magic trick. When the trick's mechanics--the 'solution' to the illusion--are finally revealed, it feels, somehow, more magical than before. In the best possible way, this story reminds me of that.

This got more than one earnest laugh out of me. Best for fans of Umberto Eco and those who think modern lit's rambliest rambles and earnest exclamation points were phased out too soon

#Writing a scene in fantasy-land™ only to realize I instinctively gave the wizard house an open floorplan rather than crooked hallways/segmented rooms The suburbs are in my blood and I can't get them out

Today's writing research rabbit hole: Uses of military dispatches > 2015 WWI forum thread on a British officer's MiD records > The HMS Agamemnon > Mask of Agamemnon > Historicity of the Iliad > ~Bronze Age Collapse Detour~ > Ancient city of Hisarlik. So I wrote maybe 500 words

Today, more #architecture: The impossible-to-conceptualize Dimetrodon, a structure emblematic of the Vermont Design/Build movement of the late 60s/early 70s, influenced by the recently deceased David Sellers. Yeah, this is all the same building. Images via the Fleming Museum.

This assembly goes impossibly hard. Adding Death's Other Kingdom and Pantheon of Thieves to this year's to-reads, and Nosetouch to the feeds!

It's still in the works, but probably overdue for an announcement: My debut short fiction collection, Mediac, is coming out soon with @anxietypress.bsky.social. It's a series of thrilling, connected tales about artists, communicators, and their wild efforts and failures...and I'm stoked. #writing

Between these two posts, this week marks a wild turning point in presidential media depravity

Woke up this morning to see a familiar face in the NYT lifestyle section--a feature on Moshtari Hilal and her upcoming book, Ugliness. Great stuff Check out my earlier review of it with @anxietypress.bsky.social at www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/12/crit... NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/s...

recent comic haul cat not included

After several weeks in USPS purgatorio, finally received a self-care package/late Christmas present with much anticipated work by @dfitzgerraldo.bsky.social, @raviddice.bsky.social, and Yarrow Paisley Team over @whiskeytit.com are MVP's for sticking with this shipment--y'all've earned a fan :)

Unexpectedly, an original picture-poem for you

"Skin-swapping is common enough. Or perhaps the eyes you see belong to different races than their skins project? A street of essences shrouded in chosen flesh. 7.8 billion paranoid frauds and counting." 'The Skin Tailor' from Jon Doughboy www.godscrueljokelit.com/jon-doughboy...

Ah yes, Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows, my favorite children's novel. I had it shelved between 'goodnight moon' and 'boom chicka boom boom,' but recently moved it closer to 'are you my mother' due to its more mature themes.

Libby is a vengeful mistress. Don't tell anyone, but sometimes when I have an unfinished book due, I turn my kindle onto airplane mode for...a little while...to extend the check-out In return, Libby took back a book that was due 'today' at the unconscionably early 10a.m., and I'm now 12th in line.

check it :)

Snow + dipping back into a backburner manuscript for the first time in a year + ethel (the bear-thing on the right) #writing #writers #writingcommunity

All hail the New Yorker copyeditors, who sit on high in ethereal realmes, raining down such arcana from planes beyond our own: platonically perfect spellings of word-essences truer than our minds can comprehend. May we someday learn these things. May we someday write: "Web site".

In cycle 6 of America’s Next Top Model ('06), one contestant, Joanie, opts to have four teeth removed. That was all I could think about reading the new translation of Moshtari Hilal's "Ugliness", releasing this Feb. Full rvw: www.athinsliceofanxiety.com/2024/12/crit... @anxietypress.bsky.social

Fun fact: I think the first time I said the word 'doomscrolling' out loud was over a beer at a Mellow Mushroom. Don't know why I remember that, but I do. Thrilled to see this piece live today, big thanks to X-R-A-Y

Finished the Ring trilogy this weekend--it didn't disappoint. 1. Ring: Spooky, fun, a bit too much 'deduction' for its own good 2. Spiral: Spookier, funner, maybe my fav of the three 3. Loop: What? fun, What? again, What? one more time, fun, but What? 6/10 would recommend, and all hail Chip Kidd.

20 names that would've been better than 'Rufus' for Amazon's useless shopping AI: Addie Albert Amy Allie Bertie Joni Kip Lily Oliver Oscar Preston Price Quincy Reddy Terry Theo Waldo Will Zoey Literally Anything Else

@stringphone.bsky.social heard o' this?