"I never enter into a story with any kind of map; rather, I’m constantly dowsing for discovery." —Bret Anthony Johnston bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

This is the money paragraph for me.

The Spring 2026 issue of BOMB is also the 25th issue of @bombmag.bsky.social that I've had the pleasure to edit.

Christian Coigny, Switzerland, 2010

Same here, little sadness-eating bee. Same here.

I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not going to cry over this. I'm not...

Heads up, procrastinators: The deadline to enter @bombsfall.bsky.social's poetry contest—judged by the incomporable Richard Siken—is just two days away! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

As someone who really liked what MCD was doing, this is incredibly depressing to hear. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"Failure is a beautiful thing. When you write, the joy is in coming up against what you can’t do. And then you and the work have to be reconciled together." — @legroff.bsky.social speaking with @rumaan.bsky.social in the spring issue of @bombmag.bsky.social bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Welcome back to Do-I-have-a-cold-or-is-this-just-allergies Season.

20 years ago, while commuting from campus to the city, I heard @wilcohq.bsky.social’s “Jesus, Etc.” for the first time. Some celestial alignment had me back on campus last weekend to speak on a panel about internships just weeks after editing an interview with Jeff Tweedy for @bombmag.bsky.social.

The classic car designation on this vanity plate is the masterstroke.

Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he'll ruin the ecosystem.

BOMB’s Spring 2026 issue is here and features a mixed media and collage work by Deborah Roberts on the cover. The spring issue will be available to BOMB members online starting March 16.

“AI giant Anthropic ran a massive program called Project Panama where they spent tens of millions of dollars to hoover up used books, which they then sliced, scanned, and pulped.”

I’m adding “Olympic hopeful” to my bio. I have no athletic talent, look terrible in spandex, and would be considered a geriatric competitor by the next Olympic Games, but one can always be hopeful.

Please beware of scammers using my name. They are offering artists interviews in BOMB as a pretense to get them to download some sketchy AI software called NexBee. More details in the image below. Stay safe out there!

Emergency supplies for the snow storm?

You know what's actually a threat to "masculine values"? Claiming that a Boy Scout with a rainbow-colored neckerchief slider is "detrimental to national security."

“Every time someone walked in, they commented on the smell, as if it were off-gassing depression.”

Helped my daughter finish a hidden picture worksheet, and now I'll never sleep again.

Saturday was a doubleheader of kid birthday parties. I decompressed at the jewelry making station.

"Is it broken, or is it still unbroken?" Still wrapping my mind around this koan from my 5yo during a game of 20 questions, but I'm pretty sure the answer relates to our current democracy.

"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!) www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Closing out the week with @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell! Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore. bookshop.org/p/books/good...

The fall issue of BOMB launched today, and it’s a stunner! bombmagazine.org/magazine/173/

Be still my heart.

For BOMB's staff picks, I recommended THE RED HANDLER by Johan Harstad (@openletterbooks.bsky.social), a supremely inventive crime novel—or maybe it's fictional meta-crimefiction? Find more excellent picks from my wonderful colleagues at @bombmag.bsky.social! bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

I’ll never be a stage mom, but I am proud to be a pizzeria-napkin-dispenser dad.

Did artificial intelligence make these chips?

One time, when I was a kid, Teddy Ruxpin told me he loved me. ... That took me by surprise. That felt... vulnerable and deep.

Everyone needs to read BOTH/AND from @thedennemichele.bsky.social and @electricliterature.com, and I'm thrilled to recommend it as a Staff Pick for @bombmag.bsky.social. bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

I recommended FLOWER, Ed Atkins's "anti-memoir" for @bombmag.bsky.social's staff picks! bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

Man making trillions off his fraud and theft and lying machine warns of people using his fraud and theft and lying machine to commit fraud

👏 👏 Many congratulations to @mattweinstock.com, the winner of @bombmag.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Contest, and of our extraordinary finalists! 👏 👏 bombmagazine.org/articles/202...

One of the most embarrassing things about parenting is when you’re asked to sing the ABCs for the 10th time in a row, and you decide to jazz it up a bit.

The real kicker is that all this stuff will ruin lives and kill people, but the billionaires it's enriching won't even have a discernable quality of life difference because they already have infinity money.

I’m in a doctor’s office waiting room where they’re playing a jazzy piano rendition of “Stairway to Heaven” and I think it qualifies as malpractice.

"Men were created in order to destroy everything, and women were created so there would be one thing they couldn’t destroy." — @catherinelacey.bsky.social‬'s The Möbius Book bombmagazine.org/articles/202... @fsgbooks.bsky.social @bombmag.bsky.social

"Optimism is an important accomplice." — architect Gabriela Carrillo in BOMB's summer issue @bombmag.bsky.social

“A well-controlled, nature-like garden is filled with human sin.” —Hiroshi Sugimoto in @bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue.

Here is an excellent, incredibly touching reminder of how important -- life-saving -- LGBTQIA+ books can be for readers. Everyone deserves access to them. #PrideInOurBooks

Come celebrate with us! bombmagazine.org/events/summe...

Truth or Dare should replace Q&As at book launches and readings.

"I’m a Bronx girl. Trump should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully." — @aoc.bsky.social

Happy pub day to Sebastian Castillo's FRESH, GREEN LIFE! Read Crow Jonah Norlander's review in BOMB's summer Editor's Choice section and then get your copy. @sebastiancastillo.bsky.social @crowjonah.com @bombmag.bsky.social‬