Had a dream last night about the song Dear Mr. Fantasy by Traffic. It sounded like the best song ever recorded. Pure bliss to listen to. Like I was listening to it on the best drugs ever invented. Completely enveloped me. It’s rare I remember a specific song I dreamed about.

Pluribus is SO good.

Pluribus is SO good.

I am the latest guest on THE BOWERY BOYS, my favorite podcast. Dreams come true! Talking about Amelia Earhart, natch! #ameliaearhart @boweryboys.bsky.social

Oh hell yes

youtu.be/-SzkFgEqB6Y?... Omg

I just watched that WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR trailer. That was like a shot of adrenaline with a line of cocaine chaser. Don’t be between me and a theater playing that motherfucker next month.

Looks like our pal JC is about to have A Moment. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is my all time favorite video ever. I'm not usually a fan of the whole laughing in the middle of your post but that's exactly what made this clip so good. You can't not lose your shit watching it

Heads up #WritingCommunity: There's a scammer claiming to be from The Paris Anglophone Book Club (a real thing, though I'd never heard of it). The email said they're considering my book for their #bookclub. And I was even up for an award! Very exciting for an #indieauthor!

Disgraceful. Shame on the ADL. www.npr.org/2025/11/07/n...

Yes! The photos are fantastic: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/o...

Tuscany is a magical place — warm, sunny and earthy. I toured through this summer and fell in love with the rolling fields, white gravel roads and iconic skinny Cypress trees. Enjoy! TUSCAN RIDE, 16x16”, Acrylic ©2025 Jim Musil

They were just hanging out at Atlantic Center last night, surrounded by cheerful NYPD. This is certainly intimidation in response to the election.

Just got an alert that ICE is showing up today in Park Slope. I have a feeling that their presence is going to grow quickly in retaliation for Mamdani’s win. Chicagoans have learned a lot. I have to think ppl have put together good resources to post about how to effectively resist them?

@ghoward1950.bsky.social and Edwin Frank at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social discussing Gerry’s biography of Malcolm Cowley, THE INSIDER. If you’re interested in the history of 20th century American literature, this one’s for you!

'Women of Punk' 1980 London. (Back row L-R) Chrissie Hynde, Debbie Harry, Viv Albertine, Siouxsie Sioux, (front) Poly Styrene & Pauline Black (photo by M.Putland) #WomensArt

On Netflix today, everybody enjoy!

Publication day for THE INSIDER: MALCOLM COWLEY AND THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Huge thanks to my wonderful publisher, Penguin Press. I'll be at Greenlight Bookstore on November 5th with Edwin Frank and the 92d Street Y with Jay Parini on December 9th.

You heard it here, folks. You won't find higher praise.

Gay Talese is a truly great writer and he deserves all the attention he gets. But this "Last Literary Lion" stuff needs to be given a rest. It is an unconscious but real insult to all the younger writers around who are doing, in their own way, what Gay did back then. Enough with Lastness already!

"Hey, man, what message should we push today as we deliberately deny millions of Americans their food benefits?"

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

Yesterday's sunset was ridiculously gorgeous. Just bonkers. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn

OK, I'd be very skeptical of this except for the fact that Cole Escola is writing it. I saw "Oh Mary" on Broadway--a play that Escola wrote--and it was so righteously funny that I think that they could do wonders with Miss Piggy.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

@gerryhoward.bsky.social and Edwin Frank at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social discussing Gerry’s biography of Malcolm Cowley, THE INSIDER.

news.artnet.com/art-world/al... My favorite thing on earth when I was a little kid.

@gerryhoward.bsky.social and Edwin Frank at @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social discussing Gerry’s biography of Malcolm Cowley, THE INSIDER.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a non-Jewish Democratic politician who has spoken to Jews with more respect and empathy than Mamdani. The fact that many Jewish establishment orgs are going after him while staying relatively mum on resurgent Nazism is a disaster, both for American Jews and in general.

In the wake of Zohran winning Jonathan Greenblatt and the ADL have opened a tipline to report Antisemitism. Everyone should call to report Nick Fuentes, Elon Musk, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens and every other right wing group the adl refused to condemn with the same intensity they save for leftists

How does this happen? You create a character out of thin air, why do they feel they can go off at a tangent and not do as they're told? #amwriting #writingcommunity #writerslife

deadline.com/2025/11/miss... This is pretty much the coolest thing ever.

The Greatest Breakfast Sandwich May Be the One With Pastrami www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/d... Gifted article

The Greatest Breakfast Sandwich May Be the One With Pastrami www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/d... Gifted article

This person took this when they called the race

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Who is wise? One who learns from all people. Who is a fool? One who is content with their own limited understanding of the world. (Pirkei Avot, Ethics of our Fathers)

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Mamdani reiterates his support for trans folks, his determination to fight "the scourge of antisemitism," and his pledge to fight Islamophobia--and throws a punch at the billionaire-funded campaign of lies against him. "In a time of political darkness, New York will be the light." This is a SPEECH.

That man was speaking to the entire nation and he knew it.

Mamdani knocks it out of the park in his victory speech, vowing to protect immigrants, trans people, and people of color…and to fight the dual scourges of antisemitism and Islamophobia.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

Cuomo saying he wants to work with Mamandi LOL my dude you said you were moving to Florida. Just go.

26 billionaires spent over $22 million to beat Zohran Mamdani. Why? Because regular people came together around an agenda that prioritized making life easier for more people. It beat big money. That is how we win.