Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

Meet the American pika! This small North American mammal is a relative of rabbits & inhabits rocky slopes at high elevations. In preparation of winter, it spends the warmer months foraging for plants that have more protein & are higher in water content. Photo: ​​dbond, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist

Three years ago, on this day, I turned in the first draft manuscript of my book, BLACK CAESARS AND FOXY CLEOPATRAS: A HISTORY OF BLAXPLOITATION CINEMA. That feeling was almost as great as seeing the finished product in the wild for the first time.

What a journey. From a Seattle courtroom to the National Book Awards! An honor I would not have dared to imagine. Thank you, literary agent superstar @stephanierostan.bsky.social. www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

Pretty happy about this @claudiarowe.bsky.social (!!!)

Damnit A. Bartlett Giamatti, you got me again.

@sjeffgreenstein.bsky.social that Brian May of the stereoscopic images is THE Brian May from Queen. Not only does he have a PhD in Astrophysics, he’s also a huge fan of/advocate for stereo photography. He’s done a bunch of books.

If you think the world is all bad, meet some middle school teachers.

Saw a Curtis Sliwa for Mayor lawn sign planted in a road median in the Bronx. Sign said “Fighting for Queens”

Nice to see the announcement up for @nickgreene.bsky.social ‘s delightful new book!

‘HOW TO WATCH SOCCER LIKE A GENIUS’ ON SALE MAY 2026 www.abramsbooks.com/product/how-...

“Maybe Eric Adams has made mistakes—he’s human”

Extraordinary.

@affisher.bsky.social makes her television debut talking about Pioneer Summer. And she bloody killed it! Watch below. katu.com/amnw/am-nort...

This is incredible. Spotted in the Bronx.

Thank you to @sophianguyen.bsky.social of the @washingtonpost.com for her excellent interview with #pioneersummer coauthors Elena Malisova and Kateryna Sylvanova! “Then the book went out into the big world,” Malisova said, “and we discovered things were really way worse than we thought.”

You love to see it

Just so unbelievably cool. Deluxe edition of PSYCHO by Robert Bloch, on sale September 2nd. Yes that is a semi-transparent shower-curtain-esque acetate jacket, with debossing that mimics tile. Not visible, printed endpapers and "blood stained" edges.

Just sitting here thinking about how "a dependably contrarian voice" is such a subtle indictment.

Reminder that Father's Day is barely two weeks out and I have a great idea for a gift! bookshop.org/p/books/gand...

In 2022, we started @hellgatenyc.com with no money & the idea that New Yorkers hungered for local news coverage. Tonight, we're hosting a mayoral forum, and have a staff of nine making incredible local journalism. Get a subscription to Hell Gate during our new sale! hellgatenyc.com/vote-hell-ga...

Coming for you Friday night, Whitefish! Thanks to @thepulp.org for publishing an excerpt of THIRTY BELOW ahead of the Whitefish reading. Montana love is the best kind of love. thepulp.org/thirty-below...

Today is pub day for @jasondashbailey.com's GANDOLFINI: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend. You (yes, you) should read this book. I don't know you (maybe), but I know you'll like it. It's so smart, sensitive, insightful. A gem.

We are incredibly proud to present an excerpt from the excellent "Gandolfini: Jim, Tony & the Life of a Legend" by @jasondashbailey.com. Read on:

And just in time - excerpt number two! Thanks to THR for running this excerpt on the making of THE SOPRANOS' final season: www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/ar...

Thankful for everyone who’s shown their support today — incredible start to this race. But we’re just getting started. We can’t do this without you, so please chip in if you can at abdulforsenate.com/go

Brad Lander looks like Tim Robinson. He should be leaning into this.

Good morning! GANDOLFINI is on shelves two weeks from tomorrow and I'm proud to present our first big excerpt over at @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

As if you needed another reason not to vote for Cuomo.

May I never make such a stupid suggestion.

So very thankful to the lovely Mark Olsen over at @latimes.com for writing up next week's GANDOLFINI-adjascent L.A. screenings and chatting a bit about the man himself and his considerable gifts! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

waste, fraud and abuse are such deeply perverted rallying cries for an industry that's spent a quarter trillion on a technology that bakes the earth to convert oceans of water into wikipedia that can kill you

Want to catch up on all—yes, *all*—the #HandsOff protests this weekend? @donnermaps.bsky.social has collected Bluesky posts of photos from more than 1,100 cities great and small on this interactive map -->

GANDOLFINI is out FIVE WEEKS FROM TODAY, so to mark the occasion, I'd like to tell you about the audiobook - MY FIRST! Excited about this milestone and ESPECIALLY about our narrator: Edoardo Ballerini, one of the rockstars of the audiobook world. Read about him here: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Manhattan Tesla protest. March 22, 2025.

MZS.press is accepting preorders for the powerful & sensitive James Gandolfini biography signed by author Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey.com) The book will be published in April. Reserve yours today! mzs.press/PRE_ORDER-SI...

Zelenky stood in front of the American government, in the seat of our democracy, and thanked our entire nation. Every farmer, teacher, engineer, nurse, and cop. Thanked us on behalf of his entire country. youtu.be/7gjwlCe5T6M?...

Sometimes folks ask me, especially in this anti-Amazon atmosphere, where they should buy the book. This is the answer: buy it from the independent arts bookstore owned and operated by our pal @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social!

I don’t have a Washington Post subscription to cancel, so instead I finally got my act together and am supporting @thecity.bsky.social and @hellgatenyc.com

Do it! It’s a swell book!

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

had fun trying to work through some hard feelings about paddington bear for Slate slate.com/culture/2025...

“They even took down the memorial wall at our headquarters honoring the USAID personnel who have died in service to our country,” a USAID employee, who has requested anonymity for fear of retribution, writes at @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

In 2019, the council passed a law that upped the fine for using a fraudulent parking placard from $250 to $500. But an analysis of more than 20K violations issued from 2020-2024, not a single driver has been hit with a $250 penalty, let alone a $500 fine