So grateful to have my story “Salt” in Ghost Parachute!

An amazing review of The Dinner Show by Michael Mulvihill. failureclasspress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

I got this new book coming out, see? And some people I think are pretty cool think it's pretty good, from what they've said about it. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818453...

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this son of York

I'd love to be directed to books/resources about 1899 New Orleans. I'm particularly interested in daily functioning--level of segregation enforcement by venue and workplace type, road composition, streetcar electrification by street, indoor plumbing status by neighborhood, bicycle prevalence, etc.

Now the merger of Trump's media company with the fusion energy company makes sense: It's hydrogen-boron and hydrogen-moron.

I am still in job-searching hell. If you have any leads in remote work in writing, editing, marketing, publishing, or adjacent, I would be grateful. You would not egret pointing me in the right way

What with ~everything~ I missed sharing this here. This is *peak* for me.

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Nonfiction

BREAKING NEWS! Shane Kowalski has a story in Harper's Magazine. 🪇🎉 This is from @dieddisappointed.bsky.social's spanking new collection, Are People Out There. Check it out here, or read it at your grocery store soon...

“Humanity’s reliance on absolutism seems to be a degenerate response to a natural, legitimate—perhaps even say hardwired—desire for ‘answers.’” Leland Cheuk talks absolutism and Norse gods with Kurt Baumeister. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/theyre-not-simply-phantoms/

Pay what you can. Next Thursday!

Library Journal named FEVER DREAMS OF A PARASITE by @pedroiniguez.bsky.social a Best Book " LJ’s expert reviewers consider thousands of books…(These are the) works they judged as the best, most notable, significant, and important books of 2025." www.libraryjournal.com/story/Stella...

Two of my flash-plays, "Good Times at the Laundromat" and "On Autophagy," appear in the latest issue of NMC MAGAZINE. The digital edition is available for free. nmcmagtc.wordpress.com

Read @kurtbaumeister.bsky.social's "Pax Americana". Finally got around to this after picking it up when "Twilight of the Gods" came out in order to try it first. Liked the opening sections setting up the premise and drip-feeding the alternate timeline (four Bush terms followed by three Cheney 1/2

ones) and really enjoyed the pacing from the fight on the secret island to the final revelations. Personally I got a little bogged down in the middle, but definitely liked the style enough to want to try Twilight. Laughed at the "Casino Royale"/Little Jimmy Bond reference. 2/2

Interested in pitching a review of this somewhere? Or an interview with me?

Books make great holiday gifts! Even if you don't select mine, please consider giving books - and in particular small press books - this season, because it's as much a gift to the author and the publisher as it is to the receiver. #forestavenuepress #whokilledonethegun #noir #cozynoir #oldtimeradio

they do it’s hash browns

Pantone? Pantene? Panettone? What the fuck is even going on anymore? Happy Holidays, y'all!

Oh, gosh, if you're gonna put pre-blurbs in your query letter please please PLEASE spell the blurber's name correctly.

Not often that newsletters feature this kind of valuable reporting. Important work here. Follow the theology…

Belike you mean to make a puppet of me.

voting is still open for 1 more week, and we're not saying we're pinning all of our self-esteem to this vote but we are saying if we don't win we are going to pack all our books on a spaceship and move to Mars

Well...it's really by @pintsncupcakes.bsky.social. I just asked some questions. But thanks to @longtail.news and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social.

NYC dog lovers!

$25 a month to read your Substack as a "Founder?" JFC, this seems a bit...excessive.

"Goblin Seminar" Love this hillariously pointy story by @taracampbell.bsky.social. "The question before you now is: what does success mean to you? You there. Yes, you in the orange loincloth, what does success mean to you?"

If you're looking for a gift for you or the writer in your life, the @barrelhouse.bsky.social DC conference on 4/18/26 is just $95 & includes the full day conference focusing on craft and publishing, 1 book, 1 workshop w an editor, more lit stuff from our partners! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Adult black cats are just $35 and adult black dogs are only $60 thanks to a generous donor who sponsored $100 of their fee! This Friday & Saturday only — come meet your new shadow-colored soulmate! 🖤🐈‍⬛ Don’t miss our PAWS Black Friday Special! @pawspendletonor.bsky.social #AdoptDontShop

lovely prominent placement for @ambersparks.bsky.social at @strandbookstore.bsky.social UWS!

Working on a memoir. Title: 385 Books on That NPR List and None of Them Are Yours.

Happy Chompsgiving!

I'm thankful for loads of things, but I wanted to say thank you in particular, this year, to all the people who have supported or bought or read or reviewed or encouraged my book. You mean the world to me.

😢 MELIA will spend her second Thanksgiving at the shelter. She wants a home for Christmas. She can live with cats, no dogs. Low traffic home, adult only. Needs training. Please adopt her. 😢 Hempstead Animal Shelter (516) 785-5220 [email protected] 3320 Beltagh Avenue , Unit Wantagh, NY 11793

I don't agree with DSA on everything but this clip is pretty baller.

If you’re an indie author, chances are the overwhelming number of search engine results on your book are places selling it. I finally found it mentioned by actual human.

It’s 2026: there are now two moons and poets are cybersecurity threats

NBCC member Britta Stromeyer reviewed "Coming. Apart.," written by Edy Poppy and translated from the Norwegian by May-Brit Akerholt, for Tupelo Quarterly:

Had a wonderful talk about TWILIGHT OF THE GODS with Peter Riehl for the @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social. Other guests this year have included/will include Alex Chee, Myriam Gurba, and Amber Sparks. There's a rundown of what we discussed with timestamps on the site. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Had a wonderful talk about TWILIGHT OF THE GODS with Peter Riehl for the @chillsatwillpod.bsky.social. Other guests this year have included/will include Alex Chee, Myriam Gurba, and Amber Sparks. There's a rundown of what we discussed with timestamps on the site. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Miller as soon as Zohran leaves the WH

NBCC board member Tobias Carroll wrote about Delaney Nolan's "Happy Bad" for On the Seawall:

I don't know if the Epstein vote is a one-off or not, but I've been thinkin of that very thin, translucent sticker film that comes when you order, say, a new monitor. It's devilishly hard to get the first little bit of the corner to separate but once you do, the entire thing pulls off very easily.

Looking for a gift for your friend who loves pie, basketball, and monsters? Want to gift future you a book with a gorgeous cover? A pre-order is perfect. Trust me, I am not biased about this in any way.

"Goblins, I ask you — is this the best life has to offer us?" Check out my latest #flashfiction "Goblin Seminar" up at AntipodeanSF antisf.com/the-stories/...

"Goblin Seminar" Love this hillariously pointy story by @taracampbell.bsky.social. "The question before you now is: what does success mean to you? You there. Yes, you in the orange loincloth, what does success mean to you?"

Y'all, you get a free registration for AWP if you volunteer for ONE SHIFT. That's incredible, considering the $$$ of entrance! conference.awpwriter.org/work_exchang...

ICE employee among 16 men arrested in Bloomington sex trafficking sting, police say. "When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Hodges said during a press conference Tuesday. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

Excited to share Episode 309 with @kailayu.bsky.social. Thanks to her for a generous conversation! Buy Fetishized from @crownpublishing.bsky.social: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738645... Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...