Man, Sam Lipsyte sure is good at sentences.

you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser you will always be a loser www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM1s...

Today read an Etgar Keret story in hebrew: woman loses her husband to suicide and starts talking to her AI computer, seems to be hitting it off, asks the AI it's better to be alive or dead, after thinking for several minutes the computer turns off and won't turn back on, all tech turns off forever.

Dear Charles Manson

There is a website I use sometimes for making worksheets called literally "graph free" that has now introduced a paid tier.

It's a comfort food sort of evening in my headphones. www.youtube.com/watch?v=izyL...

ouch

This album is something else. I wish I had a good way to describe what his sax sounds like. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8Nc...

Grateful that I get to help platform some of that great writing

Love this story so much!

Today is a great day to read Etgar Keret's "Siren."

I have decided what is wrong with my draft. I have not yet figured out how to fix it. Will keep you updated.

Ugh have to go get ready to teach and am only halfway through this thing. Don't be like me, read it when you have time to finish it. So good so far.

Oh wow, this is something, sad/beautiful/precise/word-perfect. www.vestalreview.net/the-groom

Couldn't be more excited to get to share that @amystuber.com's Short Story, Long story, "Swans," was selected for The Best American Mystery and Suspense 2026! This was not only one of my fave stories I published last year, but one of my fave stories of the year, period. Congrats, Amy!!

John Ashbery

'physicality' is a word I hear constantly and exclusively on sports broadcasts.

My son wanted to buy something expensive, so he saved up his allowance for about six months, then had me purchase the item and paid me back with the money I'd once given him, now my wallet is fat with my own cash -- I feel I've been tricked.

Yeah this is awesome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBYp...

"Infinite patience" is not a quality ingredient for a good education, nor is it something we should continue to extend to the education "revolutions" of Sal Khan. biblioracle.substack.com/publish/post...

Read a review of this today and got access through my library. I'm pretty interested! "I am taking aim at the individualistic model of biblical authorship. The view of biblical authors is anachronistic. It transports modern views of writing and authorship back into the distant past."

It would rad if they opened up the strait of hormuz to jet skis.

Loved this interview with the guys from Hotel Art Thief. www.humorism.xyz/a-conversati...

feeling extremely lucky and grateful for my book having found its way to @mpershan.bsky.social. it's such a weird, delightful feeling knowing that someone connects with it like this. if you're reading this post.....you should take michael up on his "strongest possible recommendation"!

To overcome my fear of people laughing at my work, I've learned to imagine a louder group laughing at me for being such a coward.

Yessir

Let's go quiz the crap out of some children.

I finished @tyler-m.bsky.social's collection and I give it my strongest possible recommendation. "Blindness" is the second to last story in the collection and I love it. www.havehashad.com/web_features...

Part two in a series on the principles (not rules!) of fiction plotting countercraft.substack.com/p/the-princi...

Nobody’s ever had it easier than the guys who came up with the Pangaea theory. “Oh look South America and Africa fit together.” No fucking shit they fit together.

Turbotax should make an app where fans can meet and discuss the latest Intuit products.

link will work in just under an hour! havehashad.submittable.com/submit/35341...

On the one hand these guys are going to break our piano, on the other hand once they patent the sustain pedal we will be rich beyond belief.

I even made a little column that counts the days since submission, am tempted to combine that with typical response time to make an "almost rejected" label.

My son is trying to open up his water bottle with his tongue, do I intervene yes or no.

She* said yes**!! *an editor at a litmag **to a flash fiction story

Cool!

Over the past 15 years few people have been wrong more frequently than Sal Khan.

Good read on how digital marketing works in indie rock. www.wired.com/story/geese-...

Woah, @benjaminjriley.bsky.social in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/w...

Repetitions-themed stories I selected beginning today @havehashad.com Here's a thread starting with @zacsmithtweeto.bsky.social walk. www.havehashad.com/hadposts/the...

I'm up to "The Storyteller" and this one is so intense and awesome! Definitely the Cheeveriest of the stories I've read so far. Originally appeared in The Baffler: thebaffler.com/latest/the-s...

Every book is an audiobook if you call me up and have me read it to you.

I think it would be fun to pitch short stories to editors instead of handing in complete work.

I didn’t know you then. I didn’t know you then. I didn’t know you then. I didn’t know you then. I didn't know you then. I didn't know you then. I didn’ tknow you then. I didn’t know you then. youtube.com/watch?v=JZ6SbadGOwo&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack.com%2F

Started reading Vollmann's "Rainbow Stories" and I'm not sure I like the skinheads material as much as the methadone clinic or "Red Hands" but I'm VERY into the sentences and whatever he had to learn in order to write them.

Is the Authors Registry a real thing?

we're hiring!

My review of the super-fun thriller WHALEFALL, about a grieving teen who goes searching in the ocean for his father’s remains and is consumed by a whale: