Bill has the chance to do the funniest thing ever.

This man will never taste pierogi again

For the record, I am willing to lend the space laser to Marjorie Taylor Greene should that be helpful.

Here we go

Laughed out fucking loud

I don't know how I heard of @ccohanlon.bsky.social and his wife, Given, but I've been following their story -- of illness, immigration, and an ongoing struggle to maintain their only home, an antique ship called Wrack -- with awe, dread, and admiration. Help them stay afloat: gofund.me/dcc7f3c51

Bubba, huh.

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

November 12, 2025

Seems like a good time to re-up this one: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

teaching philosophy, artist's statement, and guiding line all in one

Cold toes. Must be November.

Live your life in such a way that Joyce Carol Oates doesn't roast you into the core of the sun.

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

Another of my diaristic pieces about the sea and sea-dwelling has just been posted to the Azores-based Sea-Water Amplification project's substack.

Gorgeous essay by @ccohanlon.bsky.social seawateramplification.substack.com/p/unmoored-b...

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

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If you're in our area, NF fiction editor @bookbent.bsky.social will be coming to town next week for an event.

We should all be asking ourselves why we can't do this in the United States. 🌞 🌬 🌞 🌬

MAMDANI!

THERE IT IS

Shut down American airspace rather than extend people’s health care benefits, which their own constituents want, and which numerous House Republicans have proposed?

Big day! Go vote!

EXCLUSIVE: Are You on Trump’s List of Domestic Terrorists? There’s No Way to Know. The Trump administration is using NSPM-7 to compile the names of alleged domestic terror groups. It won’t tell us who’s on the list. theintercept.com/2025/11/04/t...

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“Only a masterful portraitist of the tuned-out could deliver ‘The Passenger Seat,’ a fully tuned-in record of a friendship’s headlong plunge into catastrophe.” In @necessaryfiction.com, Diane Josefowicz reviews Vijay Khurana’s debut novel, “The Passenger Seat” - necessaryfiction.com/reviews/the-...

NBCC member Diane Josefowicz reviewed "Attachments: Essays on Fatherhood and Other Performances" by Lucas Mann for The Providence Eye:

A warm poppy from which fled a yellow butterfly like a frozen bit of honey on the wing… —“Spring in the Forum” by Anna de Noailles, translated from the French by Diane Josefowicz in @lespritlit.bsky.social, is on our #WomenInTranslationMonth reading list: lespritliteraryreview.org/2023/06/14/t...

Writing Advice from My Teachers booksbywomen.org/writing-advi... by Diane Josefowicz

Welcome November guest editor - C.C. O’HANLON!!! @ccohanlon.bsky.social JOURNEYS Physical, Psychological, and Imaginary, embracing words and images, in all forms, as well as complexity, resisting the superficial, algorithmic narratives of social media. Sendx burninghousepress.com/2025/11/01/n...

Quite a sporting event this evening I gather

Search “Christ” by latest. Hilarious.

Book launch, funeral, gala, date night, dinner party, deadline. Life.

Venezuela doesn't produce fentanyl Venezuela doesn't produce cocaine Venezuela produces oil

42 million people will lose their SNAP benefits on 1 November.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

lot of overlaps here The pain falls mainly on the plains.

Let’s all remember the $40 billion for Argentina as Trump shuts down SNAP for Americans.

Today we publish this masterpiece of Italian letters. A revelation, a jolly existentialist nightmare, a comic freakout of the highest order . . . Sean Wilsey’s translation delivers Pirandello’s scary, hilarious delights with a remarkable touch. —Sam Lipsyte archipelagobooks.org/book/one-non...

Fund a reprint of Giono's The Serpent of Stars by Archipelago Books. @archipelagobooks.bsky.social secure.givelively.org/donate/archi...

Please share: If you watch one thing today make it this and ask everyone you know in California to vote YES on Prop50!

Coming in May... Preorders are open! There's a cover & a sell page & everything! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/804471...

all these passing things

Looking good, feeling good, happy to be here!

Are you NATURALLY ENTHUSIASTIC

Getting a real hedgehog theme going today 🦔

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #womensart