🚨 BREAKING 🚨 “Fans of Thomas Pynchon will love his new novel, SHADOW TICKET, but those who despise his work won’t enjoy it very much.”

“This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.”—William S. Burroughs

Top secret meeting at the mothership

When he was a teenager, James Joyce taught himself Norwegian so he could read Ibsen in the original. I mean—that’s some level of devotion. I love Cormac, but I wouldn’t learn Viking just to read him.

Should’ve been A.I. in John Doe’s box.

We finish THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in my fiction writing class tomorrow. When I first read it this summer, I detected heavy trace elements of BLOOD MERIDIAN. Couldn’t prove it, but now I’m convinced: 1. Harris’s periodic use of present tense as a “narrative intensifier.”

insane that david foster wallace looked like this

Review of Ezra Pound’s first poetry collection in London’s Evening Standard: “Wild and haunting stuff, absolutely poetic, original, imaginative, passionate, and spiritual. Those who do not consider it crazy may well consider it inspired.” The reviewer? Ezra Pound himself.

Look at this blurb from the great @jordanharper.bsky.social! One week. It’s coming at you with all its righteous anger, fury, and contempt in ONE WEEK.

Nerds of Los Angeles: This weekend, I'm headed your way -- along with a killer lineup of artists and writers -- for LA Comic Con. Come hang out. www.comicconla.com/artists-and-... #lacomiccon2025 #lacomiccon

One week till pub day 👇👇👇

my great grandmother, Ida Fox, baptizing parishioners in the Arkansas River, Pawnee County, Oklahoma, circa 1940 (she’s in the white blouse, second from the right)

Tomorrow, this comes out!

Josh Brolin rules.

Happy autumn! youtu.be/jpzWVh7f4TE?...

Holy shit. bloody-disgusting.com/books/390234...

My favorite film.

Our nasty little horror comedy — VOTE FOR WYRM — has wormed its way into the lineup of the Atlanta Horror Film Festival. #shortfilm #horror #horrorshort #horrorshortfilm #horrorfilmfestival #filmfestival #horrorcomedy #minnesotafilm

Legacy media outlets might consider hiring a few writers who speak Evangelical.

Thinking about something my great grandmother said. She was an Okie sharecropper and Pentecostal evangelist, and she once told us, “Whatever happens, stay sweet in your soul.” That seemed weak to me once. Now, knowing how ravenous the world is, it seems very strong.

Top Four American Guitarists Ranked by Level of Influence on Their Respective Genres + Musical Equipment Industry: 1. Edward Van Halen 2. Jimi Hendrix 3. Stevie Ray Vaughan 4. Brent Mason

My new short story, “Last of the Cowboys,” just went live at Panoptica. Very proud of this one. If you’re interested, you can read it for free by clicking below: www.panoptica.ai/a/last-of-th...

"This is exactly how I believe I would act if I weren’t sure if any stranger I met might suspect me of murder. His behavior makes clear, perfect sense to me."

Holy shit, I have my first mention in a Kirkus Review! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

New Short Story, Long Day! New Amber Sparks Day! It's @ambersparks.bsky.social on SSL day! (w/ some new fave story art from @philmcandrew.bsky.social!)

Ah, very generous review of COFFIN MOON by Stephen Rosenberg over at Horrir Geek Life. Thank you! www.horrorgeeklife.com/2025/09/15/c...

“I feared someone I desired turning their back on me and curling into the fetal position in my own bed... overnight, in the middle of what I had naively thought could be a love affair, or maybe even love itself, and unilaterally deciding it was ‘just friendship’ instead.”

“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violence which precede and follow them.”—Flannery O’Connor

Yeah, the thing about this impending civil war is those types of things require you to get up before noon and the WiFi would be spotty at best. I’ve seen adults suffer complete nervous collapses at Starbucks when the barista forgets the whipped cream on their Frappuccino.

@americangwyn.bsky.social - did some original lino cut prints on vintage look paper of Chigurgh NCFOM - could you do me a share? Available in my shop - pocolocobygary.etsy.com

Been doing some reading in the field of political theology for this new novel I’m writing. Some of it goes way over my head, but I think this book by Ernst Kantorowicz is both insightful and lucid. Have probably posted about it before, but it certainly deserves the attention.

“Little Movements” author Lauren Morrow on how choreography and her own dance training shaped her approach to fiction.

“This doctrine I give you as a parting present: where one can no longer love, there one should pass by.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Passing By,” THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA (translated by Walter Kaufmann)

“We just move around them, as if they are not the most important objects in the room, as if they are not the reason we are here doing this in the first place.”

Those who cheer on violence are often those who have the least experience with it.

“Need I look upon a death’s head in a ring, that have one in my face?”—John Donne, DEVOTIONS

Experiencing the bodily changes of girlhood can feel like crossing uncharted terrain, and these literary works explore exactly that. buff.ly/47qiHZR

I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence — no matter who is hurt — will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.

“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”-- Albert Camus

I'm horrified by the shooting of Charlie Kirk at a college event in Utah. Political violence has no place in our country.

I agree with Gabrielle Giffords. Violence like this is never appropriate.

I’m from rural Oklahoma where people just say, “Mornin’.” We don’t say, “GOOD morning.” We believe in freedom. We’re not trying to tell you what kind of morning to have.

“I was busy trying to assimilate and not be too Black, and he was just himself.”

Herman Melville, Mark Twain, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Flannery O’Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, John Hawkes, Don DeLillo, Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Denis Johnson, Marilynne Robinson, John Williams, Raymond Carver, Barry Hannah, Richard Ford, Philipp Meyer, Percival Everett

Spooky season is here! You can grab my illustrated horror collection, Mad Days: Stories and Curses, which is nothing but October vibes. I also have a haunted house horror novella from @infestedpublishing.bsky.social called Never Leaving! Mad Days bit.ly/4lZImtq Never Leaving bit.ly/3Xu1HJz

Returning, yet again, to this magical book.

Please everyone go back to having affairs.

1. SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) 2. MILLER’S CROSSING (1990) 3. THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES… (2007) 4. GOODFELLAS (1990) 5. THE PROPOSITION (2005) 6. RESERVOIR DOGS (1992) 7. REAR WINDOW (1954) 8. THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) 9. JAWS (1975) 10. HEAT (1995)

I’ve been teaching McCarthy’s NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN and was telling my students how bizarre it is that the Coens cast Woody Harrelson to play a hitman when his father was an actual hitman IRL. Harrelson’s father did hits for a trafficker named Chagra.