This book is fantastic! I'm not much of a film buff even & I still loved this. So sharp, well crafted, absolutely fascinating. I want to shove it into everyone's hands & shout "Read this! Read this!" So yeah, read this. @autofocusbooks.bsky.social @ferrifrigida.bsky.social #smallpressseptember

This pins down exactly what this administration has been doing all year, and I only wish I’d been able to phrase it this well. It’s fake, shammy authoritarianism, but in sheer execution it becomes the real thing.

as a minor update, the Holiday Inn isn’t kidding about the Express part - I’m sitting in bed less than half an hour after the car dropped me off

I am in the back of a fleet car on my way to the Buffalo airport at 9:45 pm. I think I’m going to tell you how I got here. 1/

Okee, so the BBC has interviewed me for print & radio recently, & is set to interview me for TV in a few hours. That’s great, but also, this is the 2nd time that a national station has interviewed me hundreds/thousands of miles away from my professional microphone & attractive zoom bg setup at home.

Francesca Woodman

I have hinted that I would

YES, someone needed to say this

FYI, I will be in Dallas this Thursday with the one and only Mike Nagel. Hope to see you there!

Paul Verhoeven believes nuance is for cowards and he’s right! he’s been proven right!

not sure if very sad or Ethel Cain’s new one is peerlessly good

unspeakable horror

I'm just getting started on JUNK FILM by @ferrifrigida.bsky.social and holy shit, I feel very seen in her introduction and how she looks at bad movies and their worth. She explains it more concisely than I have and I feel like I'm going yo tear through this once I settle down with it.

Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, Milan Polk reviews Alex Higley's latest novel, a sharp diagnosis of delayed adulthood, out now from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. Take a look: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/true-fa...

I completely agree with this. I am mostly on FB these days, but I know that terminally tweeting in the late 2010s advanced my writing a great deal in the world - and being mostly me with some promo was the key.

Okay it’s at 6:30 pm!

Happy 15th anniversary of the peak achievement of literary criticism, to all who celebrate

Not sure what time this is happening, but it definitely is, in #Baltimore, next Wednesday! With the delightful @crabmoney.bsky.social.

Next Tuesday! See you there, #Philly friends!

Poured my heart out on Patreon about quitting being a career writer.

Valuable at the time and infinitely more so in the time since.

Lindsey Drager interviewed me for @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social. Some choice excerpts:

Today is my favorite day in the book release cycle: the day I post my acknowledgements to publicly thank those who contributed to my book existing! Books are not as collaborative an art form as movies, but they do require a lot of support from a lot of people. I owe you all so much. 💜

This was the Rivoli in NYC. 50 years ago this AM I was in a car with the nervous director of “Jaws” and Albert Brooks heading over there. The director wondered whether there’d be a line. There was. It went around the corner and far beyond. He really hadn’t known this could happen. What a day!

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

For @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I interviewed the brilliant @ferrifrigida.bsky.social about her new book, Out There in the Dark, about film and perspective and truth and fiction: lareviewofbooks.org/article/if-t...

I try all things; I achieve what I can.

Kat's incredible book, OUT THERE IN THE DARK, is ~officially out today~ and I adore it and think you should all read it. I'll be sharing an interview with her tomorrow but for now, go buy it! And come tonight to her virtual launch!!! autofocusbooks.com/store/p/out-...

Tomorrow night (Tues, June 17), I will be launching my new book on my YouTube channel at 6 pm PST. There will be reading, raffle, and Q&A! 1/2

me (yesterday): no one has ever written anything worse than this paragraph me (today): I wonder if I can thank a spotify playlist in my National Book Award acceptance speech

Wrote about Jean, Marilyn, Wikipedia, and doom. www.patreon.com/posts/128889...

Sound on. Narration is from my essay on JEANNE DIELMAN, “Staying Clean,” in OUT THERE IN THE DARK, coming from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social in June.

I interviewed the miraculous Lindsey Drager for Michigan Quarterly Review. Get her books from Dzanc, asap sites.lsa.umich.edu/mqr/2025/04/...

Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @christinadaub.bsky.social reviews the dual-poet project Q&A FOR THE END OF THE WORLD, which I bought based on this review. Will you, too?: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/qa-end-...

rewatched the Hulu Fyre doc, which contains two incredible quotes: "If you've never been out on bail before, that's the time in your life where you want to be committing the *least* number of crimes" and "You can hope all you want. More frequently you have to sue."

Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, @cdeskilson.bsky.social examines Elizabeth Galoozis's debut, LAW OF THE LETTER. Peruse: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/law-let...

Today at @barrelhouse.bsky.social, Adam Straus reviews Kyle Seibel’s HEY YOU ASSHOLES, new from @clashbooks.bsky.social. Check it out: www.barrelhousemag.com/blog/hey-you...

Small number of ARCs going to #AWP. Find them at the @autofocusbooks.bsky.social table. 🎥👁️

Something I have learned from watching too much true crime is that if you don’t want your weeping to be part of the show, get up from the chair before you do it

yeah, well, I wrote about William Shatner, because life is pretty dull rn otherwise www.patreon.com/posts/but-is...

Coming June 17, 2025 from @autofocusbooks.bsky.social: OUT THERE IN THE DARK, a collection of hybrid essays about film and me. You can preorder it right now. #coverreveal

Thanks to everyone who's following me over here. As the publicity cycle for my next book ramps up, I'll be posting news and links and things here, but otherwise...the way I got involved with Twitter wasn't good for me, and I don't want to replicate it. 1/

Guys, I starting to think commodifying every single aspect of existence into for profit ventures might have some downsides.

Magnificent character description

I’m very sorry to report that “About Damn Time” is still one of the best pop songs of the decade

are we to understand that Norse mythology is not widely known in any way in the Alan Wake universe??

I like getting news of my favorite products & releases from like Rifftrax and Gallery 1988 but I’m on the verge of canceling it all and figuring it out later bc I just get too many emails at too many different times of day