Back in March, Kurt Baumeister launched TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, which is wild and funny and also about fascism and old gods made new.

Reminder: A lot of great books published this year during absolutely bonkers news & world event times. That squashes people talking about them. Keep buying books please, keep borrowing them from libraries, and for the love of all that's good, talk about them. Post about them. 📚

"The pink tissue box served as the altar, and the narrow-figured, blue ceramic Virgin Mary stood in the center cut-out, over the Holy Communion cards. I could read most of the words. Dear. Bronagh. God. Bless. You. Love." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/16/s...

My story, Gravel on the Path, has moved up to #4 on the Godless Top Ten!

My lovely friend @jkrummeck.bsky.social wrote a masterful book - “The Deceived Ones” - based on Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.” I’m gonna plug that book here:

Our 2026 wall and desk calendars are available to order! grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preor...

WHACK JOB, by Rachel McCarthy James and THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK by Deborah Blum

This review! “Happy people really don’t live here. Sorrow floats above them like the cemetery ghosts, unmoored and occasionally angry, everything framed within a madcap murder mystery…Sparks is a clever writer who has, by melding conventions from several genres, created a perfect hybrid”

And, again, if you have remote leads in writing, editing, marketing, teaching, publishing... I'd be very grateful!

Convincing you to read WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON by *also* sharing two paragraphs instead of one sentence. Because I'm a giver. Share yours.

This is out in January and still would be grateful if anyone wants to pitch a review or interview for it!

Vibe Check - Which one are you today?

I'm having coffee and listening to the opening of my book being read on the Books to the Ceiling podcast. It's surreal to listen to someone I don't know reading it aloud. And giving it her own noir-y twist! Thank you to Teresa Trent and Books to the Ceiling. If you'd like to listen: wp.me/pnaIT-dpu

For the Monday morning crowd And thanks for the love, everyone! ❤️ #bottlecappress #amwriting #book #books #writing #smallpress #chapbook #chapbooks #independent #diy #poetrycommunity #poem #poems #poetrycollection #writerscommunity #writingcommunity #newbooks

Houston! Austin! LA! SF! Miami! So many exciting chances to touch hands! Here's my November Tour Card!!!!

Tomorrow it'll be Jonathan Lethem on the podcast. His latest book, A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION: NEW AND SELECTED STORIES (Ecco), was the October book club pick. We last talked back in—I think it was 2013. So it's been a minute. And great to catch up. 🎧 Available wherever you get your shows.

While I cannot vouch for either the lecture or the lecturer being distinguished, I can vouch for the Worldbuilding Initiative being one of the most hopeful things I've come across in quite some time. youtu.be/iUKmJoSwsxM?...

In our weekend reading: an interview with Ruyan Meng, nonfiction from Amber Sparks, and more. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/25/w...

How Reframing My Anxiety Made Me Less Anxious | Psychology Today www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/runs...

Yo writer types @barrelhouse.bsky.social is open for submissions for THE DIRTY ISSUE, an online issue being produced by @mikeingram.bsky.social's Writers at Work class at Temple University. Send us/them your dirty (not in that way) lil stories poems essays! www.barrelhousemag.com/submission-i...

New SpotLIT up at @wcp.bsky.social, featuring @ambersparks.bsky.social and her brand new novel! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7731...

Looking forward to being on KBOO Radio today to talk about my book and old-time radio and other fun things with host @kenjones.bsky.social! 10:30 to 11:30am PT – live online at kboo.fm/ and on-air at 90.7 FM. It'll be archived after the broadcast here: kboo.org/.../129941-g....

In an Ep305 clip, @lesbrains.bsky.social‬⁩ talks about the power of renaming, as her book so brilliantly interrogates colonial land grabs and revisionist and erased histories. Buy Poppy State @timberpress.bsky.social‬⁩: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/myria... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about surreal takes on London from the likes of Alan Moore, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, and Steve Aylett for Speculative Insight:

Because I am working on The Novel I am rethinking about this part of it which was published by @therumpus.net about this time last year

NBCC member Carol Iaciofano Aucoin reviewed two mystery novels, Olivia Blacke's "Death at the Door" and Tom Ryan's "We Had a Hunch," for WBUR's Arts & Culture:

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about some translated books for Words Without Borders:

Great talk w Amber Sparks coming up tomorrow. She returns to the show for the first time in 13 years, celebrating the publication of her debut novel, HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (Liveright). Stay tuned...

NCC member Kurt Baumeister interviewed Amber Sparks for The Brooklyn Rail:

NBCC member Linda Hitchcock reviewed Simon Toyne’s "The Black Highway" for BookTrib:

Happiest of book birthdays to @geminiwahhaj.bsky.social 's KATY FAMILY---a killer collection of stories about the Bangladeshi community in Houston, Texas. Smart, funny, engaging. If you order from the author's own shopify you can snag a signed copy! m0gbty-vd.myshopify.com/products/sig...

Happy pub days live here--can't wait to read Amber Sparks's new novel!

My book comes out today! It’s sad and funny and a little spooky and a lot mysterious and very weird, and you can buy it wherever fine books are sold in indie stores bookshop.org/p/books/happ...

The lion does not concern itself with flexible spending accounts (FSAs)

Yeah, no, it is not good. But it also elicited a *snort-laugh* from me so...

New, from me: Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce 1. Purge - those deemed disloyal 2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military 3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

So excited to have an interview about my book in the Chicago Review of Books! Writer Elisa Shoenberger called Who Killed One the Gun? a "wonderful new metafictional detective noir." Huge thank you to @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/10/10/w...

My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

My books in Powell's. TWILIGHT OF THE GODS now a staff pick from the incomparable Gigi Little! And thanks to Kevin Sampsell as well for stocking my books. Tagging my publisher. @jamesreich.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

Update: there's now a new page for my book on Kill List on @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social's website! www.bloomsbury.com/us/kill-list...

Loved writing this for the good folks at @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Please check out my interview with @ambersparks.bsky.social which ran initially at The Brooklyn Rail. Boom. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/09/a...

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Please check out my interview with @ambersparks.bsky.social which ran initially at The Brooklyn Rail. Boom. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/09/a...

In our morning reading: thoughts on a certain Nobel win, Grand Central gets arty, and more. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/10/10/m...

I took Tylenol after I got circumcised and all I got was this lousy t-shirt

I rewatched and ranked Christopher Nolan's films. Let's fight about it. open.substack.com/pub/calebmsa...

Thanks once again to Gabino for fighting the good fight...

Congratulations to Ben Grossberg, winner of the 2023 James Alan McPherson Prize for the Novel!

Thanks to @bookcritics.bsky.social for picking up on my interview with Amber Sparks. This initially ran at The Brooklyn Rail. A great interview from The Sparks. Please check it out. @wwnorton.com www.bookcritics.org/2025/10/06/r...