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I have a new story out in
@oysterriverpages.bsky.social
. It's about Crown Vics and the Everglades and exotic finches and life as a ghost. You can also hear me read an excerpt, if you're into that sort of thing...
www.oysterriverpages.com/slough
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Slough — Oyster River Pages
https://www.oysterriverpages.com/slough
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Book #3 (actually #2) and #5 of 2026: The Removed and The Devil is a Southpaw by Brandon Hobson. I was so impressed by The Removed I ordered a class set to teach next semester. Hobson's new novel is something much more strange and unsettling.
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Book #2 of 2026: The Master Butchers Singing Club by Louise Erdrich. At least I think I got the year right this time.
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My story "Ice Man" is up at
@mrbullbull.bsky.social
today. It's about mothers, memories, miracles, and why you shouldn't stow away in the landing gear of an airplane. Many thanks to BULL for publishing it:
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Dan Silverman
15 days ago
Fascinating to reread this NYT piece from ~3 months ago on how Maduro was willing to give Trump the oil and other economic goodies. If so, I return to my basic question here: what was the point?
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Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/world/americas/maduro-venezuela-us-oil.html
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Fibonacci Sequins
16 days ago
accidentally murdered a bunch of crows and now I can't figure out how to tell anyone about it
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Book #1 of 2025: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I am on track to read 365 books and 700,000 pages.
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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, tha...
https://fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/01/war-and-peace-by-leo-tolstoy.html
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Fibonacci Sequins
21 days ago
Discovered today that the book blog
@grnpointer.bsky.social
and I started, 50 Books Project, predates Goodreads by nearly a year.
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Pleased to say my story "Touch Tank" is in the newest issue of @SmokeLong today. It's about getting married to a fish.
www.smokelong.com/stories/touc...
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Touch Tank - SmokeLong Quarterly
Do you have a favorite, Walter? You won’t believe me, but there used to be a sculpin in this tank that would suck the rings right off people’s fingers. They’d chase him down, but he’d always have his ...
https://www.smokelong.com/stories/touch-tank/
about 1 month ago
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Joshua J. Friedman
about 1 month ago
Whew, this archival clipping about Greg Bovino’s father
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Book #121 of 2025: Olav Audunsson: Crossroads by Sigrid Undset. The third book in a tetralogy that's (almost) as good as Kristin Lavransdatter.
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Dan Mihalopoulos
about 1 month ago
We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree. Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners
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Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
https://chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdogs/2025/12/12/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-deportation-elcentro-california-blowing-rock-boone-north-carolina-migrants-immigration
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jamelle
about 1 month ago
this is like a capsule summary of the problems with a singular focus on quantifiable data
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beetle moses
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Book #120 of 2025: Ice Palace by Edna Ferber. Edna's "Alaska Novel" mostly fails to do what she did for Texas in Giant and Oklahoma in Cimarron.
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Andrew Bertaina
about 1 month ago
Great story!
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Fibonacci Sequins
about 1 month ago
Read this story by my friend Chris if you want to feel some stuff!
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My story "White Ibises" is out this week in storySouth. It's about sex, birds, and being a bad parent. Read it, if you want!
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White Ibises - storySouth
Ann was a widow, but I sometimes wished she were a divorcee. Divorcee was a provocative word, suggestive of pent-up and recently unshackled sexual longings. It was a word like negligee or risqué, whos...
http://storysouth.com/stories/white-ibises/
about 1 month ago
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Michael Hobbes
about 2 months ago
I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
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Book #119 of 2025: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. Maybe my least favorite of his--like a long joke you have to know three languages to get.
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Book #118 of 2025: Knots by Nuruddin Farah. I found this stunningly poorly written, but with the addition of Somalia, my "Countries Read" list is up to 114.
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about 2 months ago
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Gravel Influencer
about 2 months ago
Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
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Book #117 of 2025: Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame. An almost Joycean novel from the New Zealand great. One of those books that makes you go "Oh, I have to read everything this person ever wrote"
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Colin Carlson
about 2 months ago
“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
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Books #114, #115, and #116 of 2025: Three books I read in (and on the way to) Puerto Rico. Didn't think much of the history, but both Ferre and Lalo's novels gave me an interesting new perspective on the island.
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about 2 months ago
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jamelle
2 months ago
it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
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Book #113 of 2025: Lili is Crying by Helene Bissette. Oulipo-y.
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about 2 months ago
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andy™
2 months ago
they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
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Muted this. Y'all fight it out without me
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Aubrey Gilleran
2 months ago
It's hard to describe how disorienting it is to see this many students absent. My only mental reference point is the weeks leading up to school getting canceled due to COVID-19, when students were starting to stay home due to illness or out of precaution. CBP/ICE is a plague.
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Anti-Christ
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This is what guys like Yglesias, and everybody else making hay about Kamala supporting transition care in prisons, want to happen everywhere.
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Book #112 of 2025: Baltasar and Blimunda by Jose Saramago.
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Book #110 of 2025: The Nenoquich by Henry Bean. Really enjoyed this book, which came from my McNally Editions subscription.
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Jeremy Littau
2 months ago
Christianity Today is an influential magazine in Evangelical circles, and it's a noteworthy signpost that they're doing stories like this because it's the kind of story that pops bubbles.
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They Led at Saddleback Church. ICE Said They Were Safe. - Christianity Today
A Colombian couple prayed with neighbors and raised their children in one of America’s most influential churches. What did we gain from their deportation?
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Book #109 of 2025: Mouthful of Birds by Samanta Schweblin. Does anyone remember how to write a short story
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onion person
2 months ago
andrew cuomo ran one of the worst political campaigns in modern history but i think my favorite part was in this ai ad, the pregnant bill cited chatgpt as a source and a chatgpt phone walks onto the screen and goes “that’s right”
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Kat Abughazaleh
2 months ago
I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.
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Mike Pielocik
3 months ago
TRIBECA ALREADY EMPTY. THOUSANDS OF PATAGONIA VESTS ABANDONED. SOHO HOUSE TAKEN OVER BY EXOTIC ZOO ANIMALS. BATTERY PARK SHAKE SHACK NOW A BISEXUALS-ONLY CERAMICS STUDIO
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Free tattoo ideas
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This is a bit from a Naipaul novel btw
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mattie lubchansky
2 months ago
also while we’re at it a bodega is distinct from a sheetz! fuck you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
3 months ago
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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émile zoloft 🪖🦅🇵🇸
3 months ago
zohran: good morning rama my wife rama: hello mamdani
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Book #108 of 2025: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa. With the addition of Peru, my "Countries Read" list is at 113. I've also now read 58/128 Nobel laureates. This was good.
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William Meikle
3 months ago
18 years today since we moved into this house here on the shore in Newfoundland. The view out the front window hasn't changed in any way
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Greg Sargent
3 months ago
Why yes I think driving down Trump's approval would be helpful in the midterms! If Ds had let the hazy concept of "salience" cloud their thinking, they might not have engaged on Abrego Garcia, missing the chance to bring his
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jamelle
3 months ago
noteworthy that rather than funding experiments into challenging conservative message domination on the local level or building between-election outreach capacity at the state level, centrist donors are throwing millions at what amount to online factional battles among a couple dozen people
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One important thing about this analysis is that nobody gives a shit what's in a party platform.
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Kevin Collins
3 months ago
My main takeaway on the “moderation” debate is that Democrats would be better served by other debates besides left-right positioning, like how to develop new valence issues (corruption!) as wedge issues, and how to get attention for their policy proposals in the first place
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