Taxidermied passenger pigeon available for sale 😳 www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2194382...

The lamp instructions told me that if I still feel sad I should spend more time with the lamp

My dad, 79 years old, has decided to get into wood carving. Here is a koala on a book.

We have an acquaintance who asked ChatGPT a question about recommendations for breathing techniques, and it somehow led her down a path where the AI now guides her through psychic readings backed by all sorts of elaborate nonsense, which this person has fully bought into... Seems really bad!

I've been trying to churn out a bunch of short stories quickly for a project I have in mind and to challenge myself, and all of it is difficult, but nailing an ending is consistently the hardest damn thing.

It's still sometimes implausible to me that you can write a novel one word at a time when it requires so freaking many of them.

Obviously not the biggest part of this, but Epstein seems to have been one of these morons who mark all of their own emails Importance: High.

Fabulous skies this afternoon over the Flatirons.

Big bottles of pear brandy at Leopold Bros.

Amazing story idea for you here on ESPN.

Shoe fruit.

Photos by Vivian Maier.

Watched this one last night--it's a terrific film. Vivian Maier was a street photographer, her photos are dazzling, and she was unknown in her own lifetime. This guy bought a trunk full of photographic negatives at an estate sale, and started digging.

Local restaurant (Work+Class) has this indoor hydroponic farm, and nothing has ever so effectively made me feel like I'm on a spaceship.

This Wednesday, at 6 pm EST, I'll be chatting with New York Times bestselling author John Gilstrap about his novels, his writing, and more. Join us! www.facebook.com/events/13576...

Let my memoir be titled How to Have Fun with Marzipan.

All I want for Christmas is the ability to mute reposts from individuals I follow, and this ain't it.

We made a veggie plate!

Love it. Now do the cottagecore garden of forking paths.

AOL jumping on the Coffin Moon business: www.aol.com/articles/ste...

Use of "lays" is incorrect here, yeah? The only reason I'm doubting myself at all is that this is the friggin New Yorker.

An obscene stem.

Wet leaves on a rainy day.

In Michigan for work, and it's a good time to be in Michigan.

Many thousands in Denver, human and T-Rex.

The first rule of Condescension Club is that we're disappointed but not really very surprised that you don't know it already.

Serious question, where are all the lawsuits against ICE for improper arrest, property destruction, etc. Are they happening and I'm not seeing them? Or are they legally insulated in some manner?

Yes, the book tour for TERRY DACTYL is coming right up, please spread the word!!🎉🎉 Starting at the Seattle Art Museum on 10/25, 3 pm & then In conversation w/ @alexanderchee.bsky.social in NYC, Jennifer Natalya Fink in DC, Jeannie Vanasco in Baltimore, & @lenizumas.bsky.social in Portland💎⚡🔥

View today from Matthews Winters Park.

A Good Show Is Hard to Find

I'm honored that the University of Colorado, Boulder, English Department chose my novel MAD BOY for this year's Common Read, and I'm really looking forward to discussing it with students. If you can, come join us for the public event on Thursday 10/16 @ 5:00!

Dreamed last night that I was going to write a book of flash fiction with @duchessgoldblatt.bsky.social, after @elizmccrack.bsky.social suggested it. Then I lost my bicycle. I was still looking for my bicycle when the carbon monoxide detector began chirping because of low battery and woke me up.

An amazing graph, what happens when you destigmatize a behavior.

“A jaunty mix of high and low: of affecting devotion and rough high-jinks, sometimes tender and sometimes raunchy.” Alida Becker in @nytimes.com on THE BOOK OF I by David Greig, out now. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/b...

Yu Hua's CITY OF FICTION -- just finished this novel & I'd say the NYT review by @chrispower.bsky.social is quite fair although I maybe liked it more than he did. I found much of the first third & last third quite beautiful. The banditry in the middle is pretty silly. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/b...

Apparently a praying mantis doesn't have proper eye pupils, but they have 'pseudopupils," which sounds like some of my friends in college. Anyway, this one was on our smoke bush.

roasted peanuts > cocktail peanuts

In case you missed it last night, here's my chat with @jonathanjanz.bsky.social, who I have determined is the Paul Rudd of the horror community

Today's view from Green Mountain.

Made it to Golden Gate Canyon yesterday.

I’ll now think of this every time I hear the Thompson Twins sing Doctor Doctor

The*given name* of the doctor who attended to President Garfield (and botched it) was "Doctor." Like: Dr. Doctor Bliss

Maybe it's just nadirs all the way down.

VULTURE by Phoebe Greenwood is one of The Economist’s Best Novels of Fall 2025! “A supremely accomplished debut full of wit and bite.” If you’re in NYC, join Phoebe at McNally Jackson on Sept 24 for a conversation about her novel with Phil Klay. RSVP: www.mcnallyjackson.com/phoebe-green...

I'm so sorry to hear of Dan Wickett's passing. We worked together for years at Dzanc Books, and I'm so grateful for all he did for me there and elsewhere. He was a great friend, a brilliant reader, a true advocate for writers. He loved books like no one else. I miss him already, and always will.

Sora, we're not watching SpongeBob again. Turn it off, please.

From the WAPO review of She's Under Here. 1/2

Pyramid of TP on exhibit at Black Cube.

I'm happy to say the answer to this is yes... More news to come soon!