And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social bookshop.org/p/books/jerk...

Monmouth orchards shipped apples to cash-strapped NYC in Oct 1975 as part of a marketing ploy to get people to buy NYC bonds. Drop that knowledge when you’re apple picking at Delicious Orchards this weekend. 943thepoint.com/monmouth-app...

Chatted with my brilliant friend Ivy Pochoda about her horror novel ECSTASY in The Brooklyn Rail brooklynrail.org/2025/10/book... #bookthreads

Passed 40k on the new manuscript with a 4k bender this weekend. 3 cheers for being late on the writing group submission deadline that got me here! 🥂

All the Sora videos just remind me of when my dad discovered Elf Yourself that one year

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Please check out my interview with @ambersparks.bsky.social which ran initially at The Brooklyn Rail. Boom. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/09/a...

Hudson Valley gets a fringe festival hudsonvalleypost.com/newburgh-fri...

Connor Kennedy, Lee Falco and Brandon Morrison are fantastic local musicians, so this was excellent news to report. hudsonvalleypost.com/connor-kenne...

‘The Devil and Daisy Dirt’ got a plug from the Pope of Jersey himself, Kevin Smith, today: "The Devil and Daisy Dirt is a spooky, spellbinding spectacle!” 8-Foot Jersey Devil Takes Center Stage at NJ’s Hottest Theater Ticket 943thepoint.com/jersey-devil...

A forgotten Henry Hudson landmark is hiding in Atlantic Highlands, NJ 943thepoint.com/henry-hudson...

Congratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social) whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

📚 7 indie bookstores to check out the next time you’re down the Shore 943thepoint.com/jersey-shore...

Beaches, nuclear weapons + pirate treasure: Sandy Hook, NJ is my happy place because it’s one of a kind 943thepoint.com/sandy-hook-n... #newjersey #jerseyshore

Excited to see what’s in store for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music when the building opens up in 2026, if this jam-packed event schedule for the 50th anniversary of Born to Run is any indication of what they can cook up. nj1015.com/ixp/393/p/bo...

The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

Thanks for the linkage @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social!

Every time I do a reading and read from paper instead of a phone, I smile to myself and think, “not today, Satan!”

This revision had 71k words going in. 15k words yanked out. 19k words added in. Ending with 75k words and left everything I had for this round on the field. #writersky

Upstate NY black fly season making a prominent appearance in GOD OF THE WOODS and I’m nodding my head vigorously. Those little irksome bastards.

Video from the Silent Book Club of Monmouth County went massively viral w/over 2M views #jerseyshore #newjersey 943thepoint.com/jersey-shore...

I drink from the tap no matter what city or state I’m in. That’s the kind of dangerous life I lead.

What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Married conservative family values BOE member in my hometown of Middletown, NJ arrested with 4 guns, allegedly planned to shoot girlfriend’s husband. nj1015.com/middletown-b...

Me to radio coworker: I’m confessing this because I think you won’t judge me. I bought a beginner mandolin and banjo on Amazon Prime Day. Radio coworker: Pete Seeger would be so proud of you. (Which is all anybody wants really. 🪕)

Chatted with Paula Bomer over at The Brooklyn Rail about her exceptional new novel THE STALKER #booksky brooklynrail.org/2025/07/book...

“A knockout novel . . . Exhilaratingly ghastly.” —The Guardian Read the full profile and review of Paula Bomer and her new novel THE STALKER by award-winning author Megan Nolan for @theguardian.com now. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

There’s a radio saying: “one thought per break.” I’m coming to this novel revision I’m working on with that as a guidepost: “one idea per scene.” Been super valuable and clarifying.

My home decor aesthetic is I-Don’t-Give-A-Shit-Core

If you always look for the longest day of the year and then miss it, today’s your day! And Daisy Buchanan’s.

Continuing my coverage of historical dead bodies buried in Monmouth County 943thepoint.com/john-colman-... #jerseyshore #newjersey

Gift article to the Bruce Springsteen article in The NY Times with all the awesome Freehold NJ pics www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/a...

Amazing how many novel writing problems can be solved with, “oh, I could just lose that scene.”

Best gift ever! Evil Clown of Middletown shirt 🤡 #jerseyshore #newjersey

Kingston, NY was part of an early fluoride study that demonstrated its efficacy but misinformation and conspiracy theorists kept it out of the water supply. Fascinating read for local history nerds. #hudsonvalley #kingstonny kingstoncreative.net/kingston-ny-...

There should be a cheese fairy for adults so that when you drink 64 oz of water or eat protein at every meal or express gratitude or whatever stupid thing you’re supposed to do, you get a wheel of brie in your fridge. Or manchego. I’m not picky.

Did you know if you stand in your kitchen after 10PM eating peanut butter off a spoon, it doesn’t count? Follow me for more nutrition tips.

My fiction writing mantra: any asshole can write 250 words a day, and I am that asshole. ✍️

We’re having a literary Jersey Devil moment, @tobiascarroll.bsky.social informs us in @reactorsff.bsky.social reactormag.com/the-jersey-d... #newjersey

How were people in Jazz Age America so awesome without knowing about self care? 🤔

The facial hair of the Civil War generals is under appreciated.

Hell yeah! www.npr.org/2025/05/25/n...

The way characters who’ve been kicking around your head for 10 years can still surprise you. Magic, that thing. #writing

Agent: How are revisions going? Me: My house has never been cleaner! #writing

Found the most Connecticut museum ever. Thanks, Ralph Nader!

H/t to @ddouglasgoody.bsky.social for this novel revising tip: have Microsoft Word or some other software read your manuscript to you. You’ll hear the pinch points. Super helpful. #writing #writersky

Lighthouse content for @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social 943thepoint.com/sandy-hook-l...

Nothing but views (and black flies) at the Mount Beacon casino ruins ⛰️ #hudsonvalley #beaconny

I want to build a chihuahua army so that when combined with Mickey Rourke’s, we dominate the world.