not cool of those art thieves to steal the one painting i was planning on standing in front for hours, shaken to my core by the Sublime, right after i was planning on being banned from Home Depot

Help some elders rebuild after a fire!!!

but srsly behold! the! freaking! cover!

Hi! Huge news! COVER REVEAL!!! 📖 SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME is a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.

really can't be said enough that this case was decided by the same court that decided plessy v. ferguson. if they could have found a plausible rationale to limit birthright citizenship they would have done it. but there is none! the text is as clear as constitutional language can be.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is John Cheever’s “The Swimmer”

literally everyone who raved on about Álvaro Enrigue’s YOU DREAMED OF EMPIRES was so freaking right—funny, grotesque, rich w trivia, easily my fave historical novel since Mantel’s Cromwell books

Did you know Significant Objects has been revived? Selling miscellany on ebay with literary narratives instead of listings. I love this project. tucsonessayclub.org/significant-...

Man with his dog flees from bombs in Tehran. (Photo by Pooria Hatami)

Look: If your name is John Llewellyn Moxey you better be directing a MURDER, SHE WROTE episode guest-starring Martin Landau.

If you pick up & read novel there is an end to novel, but if you pick up & read phone there is no end to phone

Current* conditions near Frankfort, MI:

— They disputed that Miller yells at Lyons directly, with one saying the deputy chief of staff is “passionate” and another saying he asks “very pointed questions in a very assertive tone.” —

::nods grimly:: “yes, Fortunato for fuck’s sake” ::finishes mortaring last brick::

“For fuck’s sake, Montresor!”

we’re here

Love this piece on Hughes and Mexico; for a broader/deeper picture check out my former colleague Harris Feinsod's THE POETRY OF THE AMERICAS: FROM GOOD NEIGHBORS TO COUNTERCULTURES for his extraordinary reframing of how cultural diplomacy shifted art in the US, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

oh no, i hate* to do the thing where you pop in some sideways eyes emoji & tell u to watch for cool news for this Monday 3/30 12pm EST but 👀 this Monday 3/30 12pm EST! 🔥 *& by hate i mean LOVE ❤️

A precursor to his iconic Vampire

Peep this beaut from a *2017* release event at WCF for BEST WORST AMERICAN

we started an inexplicable war in the Middle East & gas prices are through the roof but I remember that at least the Dow is over 50,000 right now

Juan's drawings, on post-its and lunchbags and in signed books, over YEARS, are a gift to every single one of us

Absolutely love this interview with the wonderful @fulmerford.com

A different quartet of retired ladies have taken over the same table and are playing Mahjong at the dying mall.

Behold! The world’s most dangerous forest.

Loved doing this interview with the great JoAnna Novak! open.substack.com/pub/feastsce...

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the world’s most dangerous tree.

Chicago Over Everything

Seriously, they just want to talk.

The geese at the dying mall want a word with you.

Four retired ladies with impeccably shellacked hair are playing contract bridge at the dying mall.

Join us on April 3 at Haymarket House for Poets for Chicago: A Night of Art & Community Benefiting ICIRR @joseolivarez.bsky.social / @fulmerford.com / @haymarketbooks.org

Fully did a deep dive to remind myself if the most dangerous trees were accompanied by the same bird

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the world’s second most dangerous tree.

hey babe what’s wrong, you haven’t asked about the green ribbon I wear around my neck as of late

Forgot to mention the teeny UFO I drew on the back of this lunch bag a week ago

The house is innocent, and the housekeeper is ineffable, and the girl is rabbit-minded.

I love Angela Lansbury’s denim toggle coat in this episode of MURDER, SHE WROTE

Do you like to cook or do you just like to put things into a bunch of little bowls?

if you walk these stairs and follow this carpet pattern you’ll find a John Mellencamp cassingle on the floor, & if u play it you’ll open a portal to 1996.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the world’s third most dangerous tree.

Hi, friends! So excited to be part of the Midwest Mystery Conference! See you there? It's an all-day thing on Sunday April 11 I'll moderate a panel on the author/agent relationship & super excited to talk w/ Joanna Topor MacKenzie, Lina Chern, Marcy Posner, Amy Meyerson, and Christina Clancy

my wife just asked the 10yo to please stop singing the SpongeBob SquarePants theme song in a minor key

Current* conditions near Grand Haven, MI:

Not a cell phone in sight just a bunch of guys pulling a steamship up a mountain.

we’re exposing our 4yo, a youngest sibling, to this classic piece of youngest sibling cinema: youtu.be/3w5gzi68BZA

finished @sgj.bsky.social ‘s KILLER ON THE ROAD & freaking loved it: gory, fun, generous with trucker lore—but also continues SGJ’s tradition of excellent Acknowledgements full of love for family, vans, other writers.

A reminder to authors: yell about your books! And often! I follow several authors, who I adore, and had no idea they had books up for preorder!

mall security guard at the dying mall just told two tween boys that they cannot, under any circumstances, throw their Crocs over the second-floor railing

IMPORTANT NOTE: a kind Substacker sent me a reference photo of the world’s fourth most dangerous tree. If anyone has a photo of the third most dangerous tree, pls post below ty