I love to search for online products and then, before clicking, replace the query parameters with fanciful key-value pairs

publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

What Denis Johnson book should I read first?

Footnote of the year. #2023inreview

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position. - John Ashbery

Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)

Has there been any analysis done on prevalence of first-person narration vs. third-person narration over time? (Maybe @tedunderwood.me knows?)

An erotic thriller set in the publishing industry titled MUCH TO ADMIRE

naïve people spell naïve naive

A potentially vapid question (for @benwurgaft.bsky.social): Are puns more like wild animals that we momentarily trap, or are they like domesticated animals (and if so, what are their wild forebears)?

4 famous folks I’ve met and 1 lie Michael J. Fox Cory Booker Samantha Bee Colm Toibin Laurie Anderson

My story, "The Only Way Out," is in the new @emergejournal.bsky.social -- please take a look at it and all the fabulous other pieces! emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...

My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke: www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl... Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too! Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback

Hi, everyone! Here we are, on Bluesky! If you haven't heard of PUBLIC BOOKS, we're an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship. Check us out : www.publicbooks.org Pitch us: www.publicbooks.org/submissions/

Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

For my birthday, I want to read the novel you're working on! TMR is taking Novel Excerpts for our contest judged by @salesses.bsky.social through Nov. 12: mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...

My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke: www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl... Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too! Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback

Three dramatists from the little free library. Which one did he go with?

There’s a nice thing that happens about 80% of the way through writing a novel. The ideas start playing with each other, unsupervised.

The greatest.

If you’re not already subscribed … why not subscribe? The latest Doom & Gloom Dispatch is live! doomandgloomfromthetomb.substack.com

Good morning. The seemingly bottomless demand for free commentary on the culture is a symptom of being priced out of the culture itself. Concerts, theatrical performances, museums, & even movies are increasingly out-of-reach.

You know you have a nature kid when it's forest school day, and they say "I'm really excited to see my ______" and the next word isn't "friends," it's "toads."

It’s taken a minute to sink in, but Julie Byrne’s The Greater Wings, released earlier this year, is a total masterpiece. Check out a beautifully filmed Takeaway Show with a few of the album's songs ...

The act of writing is not contingent upon the act of others reading

Once upon a time, I made music (with @evankindley.bsky.social ): thepathways.bandcamp.com/track/produc...

A novel written in 1978 by my (late) father. Excited to communicate with him.

"When I realized ruining my life was the easiest thing to do I had woken up crying. It wasn’t a sad crying, really. It was the way people cry when they have a revelation." Read "The Museum" in @smokelong.bsky.social www.smokelong.com/stories/the-...

NEW STORY⚡️🐸 “Recollection” by @bexlong.bsky.social is now up! Art by @audrakerrbrown.bsky.social flash-frog.com/2023/09/25/r...

If I could read only one Lewis Mumford book, what should I read?

"Some 73 percent of the calories we consume globally come from rice, wheat, corn, and manioc alone." An interesting fact from Ways of Eating! Although if I were @benwurgaft.bsky.social's editor, I would have insisted on a manioc pun here.

John Ashbery’s “Pantoum”

Following someone on Bluesky that you also follow in the other place is like renewing your vows

Today’s purchase: Doppelgänger by Naomi Klein

Today my new book, Ways of Eating, co-authored with my Mom, Merry White, is officially out. Lifted up by many hands, stained by spattered sauce, and a really long time (13 years!) in the works. A quick thread: www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520...

Birthday dog

My first post will not be a food pun. My first post will not be a food pun. My first post will not be a food pun. My first post will not be a food pun. My first post will not be a food pun...zanella.