Book #47 of 2026: The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover. A bizarre piece of metafiction that manages to predict fantasy baseball, Dungeons and Dragons, and the nature of God. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Book #46 of 2026: The Orchard Thieves by Elizabeth Jolley. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-...

Book #45 of 2026: Nothing by Henry Green. His late dialogue-heavy style makes me miss the earlier more modernist stuff. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/noth...

Books #39-44 of 2026: six books I read about and in Australia, including one of my all-time favorites, Voss by Patrick White. Also Robert Hughes' history of penal Australia, Marcia Langton's guide to aboriginal culture... fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/04/six-...

Book #38 of 2026: The Lord by Soraya Antonius. Really fascinating story about a magician in pre-World War II Palestine. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

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🐴Welcome to Issue Fourteen! We hope you find something that makes you feel right at home.🐴 View it here: susurrusthemagazine.com/issue-fourteen 📸: Tyler Malone

Thanks to @susurrusmag.bsky.social for publishing my story "Graveyard of the Atlantic" in their recent issue. It's about shipwrecks and best practices in the motel business. Read it, if you want: www.susurrusthemagazine.com/graveyard-of...

Book #37 of 2026: The Stars at Noon by Denis Johnson. He really did want to be Graham Greene. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Anybody want to explain why this is necessary?

My story "Plum Scarf" is out now in Midway Journal. It's about holding a grudge. You can read it here if you want: midwayjournal.com/plum-scarf/

Book #36 of 2026: The Carpathians by Janet Frame. What a weird writer. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Will they really make it anti-woke or will they pussy out?

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

Book #35 of 2026: Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright. What a weird writer. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/prai...

Book #34 of 2026: The Good Life Elsewhere by Vladimir Lorchenkov. A funny satire of the Moldovan desire to emigrate to Italy. With the addition of Moldova, my "Countries Read" list is up to 119. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Book #33 of 2026: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. Like the Handmaid's Tale if it were good. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/i-wh...

Book #32 of 2026: The Price of Their Toys by John Loonam. A great new collection of stories by my talented friend John. Available NOW fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

Book #31 of 2026: Sister Carrie by Lauren Fairbanks. Too avant garde for the likes of me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/sist...

Being against gender-affirming care isn't just like MAHA, it is MAHA, a worldview that boils down to medicine being an elite conspiracy

I don’t choose that word lightly. The idea that an entire field of medicine, as well as numerous academic journals, systematically suppressed evidence that gender-affirming care doesn’t work is a conspiracy theory. Meanwhile, none of these people can provide a shred of evidence for their core claim

Book #30 of 2026: Airships by Barry Hannah. Extremely dense and funny yarns fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/airs...

Book #29 of 2026: You Glow in the Dark by Liliana Colanzi. A nice collection of stories that are short in length but broad in scope. With the addition of Bolivia, my "Countries Read" list is up to 118. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/you-...

Book #28 of 2026: An Imaginary Life by David Malouf. An inventive but, for me, too-slow story about Ovid in exile on the Black Sea. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-i...

Book #27 of 2026: Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer. A brutal little knife of a novel. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/kill...

Book #26 of 2026: In the United States of Africa by Abdourahman A. Waberi. An interesting thought experiment by the Djiboutian writer imagining a world in which Africa and the West switch places, culturally and economically. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Book #25 of 2026: Entering Fire by Rikki Ducornet. I just love her. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/ente...

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Remember Yglesias and others making a big deal out of Kamala supporting standing law about trans healthcare in prisons? Well, this is the alternative.

Book #24 of 2026: Zama by Antonio di Benedetto. Also really enjoyed the movie by Lucrecia Martel. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/zama...

Book #23 of 2026: A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid. A searing indictment of the exploitation of the island of Antigua. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-sm...

Book #22 of 2026: Norwood by Charles Portis. Funny as hell. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/norw...

Book #21 of 2026: The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Some great moments, but didn't add up for me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

“…the disjunction between mass media’s conjuring of a college cancel-culture epidemic and the all-too-real impact of one wealthy predator’s billions in specialized funding is glaring…” www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

"Correct natural trajectory"! Transphobes believe in teleology, confirmed a million times over. It's a basically pre-modern worldview that gets a lot of cover from the fact that it accords with our erroneous common-sense. The scientific-world-conception is pro-trans, pre-modern mysticism is TERF.

When people hear "it saved my life", there’s a presumption made that we mean without it we would quite literally die. And for many of us, that's absolutely true... But for those of us who rely upon it regularly.... it means our lives are made so much better now that they actually feel worth living."

Book #20 of 2026: The Seers by Suleiman Addonia. Really enjoyed this lusty refugee story. With the addition of Eritrea, my "Countries Read" list is up to 116. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Book #19 of 2026: Weather by Jenny Offill. Didn't work for me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/weat...

The intention of policies like this proposal is to introduce so much friction, so much pain, so much discomfort and humiliation, that a child desists rather than continue to assert their true identity. It is nothing less than conversion therapy being written into school policy.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Book #18 of 2026: Transcription by Ben Lerner. A minor book, but he sure makes this stuff look easy. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/tran...

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Book #17 of 2026: Emily Dickinson Face to Face by Martha Dickinson Bianchi. A lovely little memoir about growing the niece of the queen of all time. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/emil...

Book #16 of 2026: Sugarcane with Salt by James Ng'ombe. The book was fine, but more importantly: with Malawi, my "Countries Read" list is up to 115. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/suga...

Book #15: The War by Marguerite Duras. A collection of memoir pieces about Duras' experiences in the French resistance. Shocking and powerful. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Book #14: The White Bear by Henrik Pontoppidan. #59/122 Nobel winners down. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Book #13: Duplex by Kathryn Davis. What a blast. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/dupl...

Heading to 🇦🇺 next month. Does anyone have reataurant/bar/coffee/park/whatever recs for Sydney or Melbourne?

Book #12 of 2026: Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather. Flop era. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/02/sapp...