If I hear someone say “meeting in Bronx” I will kick them in nuts

get your tickets!

I reviewed Julie Buntin's FAMOUS MEN for @defector.com—a delicious, thorny novel that read me right back. Many thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for edits and for bringing more book reviews into the world! defector.com/famous-men-a...

god this is such good writing @tajjaisen.bsky.social

great review of a great book!

feeling almost unbearably seen by these tags defector.com/famous-men-a...

I reviewed Julie Buntin's FAMOUS MEN for @defector.com—a delicious, thorny novel that read me right back. Many thanks to @brandyjensen.bsky.social for edits and for bringing more book reviews into the world! defector.com/famous-men-a...

really great work here from @tajjaisen.bsky.social

One of my favorite games while I waited for publication was imagining which celebrities should narrate which chapter/agent in my book. 🧵

got a new book review dropping next week

seven years ago catapult published my essay Love Peace and Taco Grease and changed my life ✨ magazine.catapult.co/people/stori...

if readers take the time to email me at @thenarwhal.ca, I take the time to reply 💕

"If I have to do a day job that's not writing, I want to make a lot more money. And I just want to be frank about that." This is so good, and so infuriating: www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...

Surprised to see this piece having a divisive life—I read the book, was confused about the finances, and this piece clarified exactly what didn't make sense to me. www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

Love this, and it's relevant to some uh news I'll have soon: hyperallergic.com/the-painted-...

Did she ask ChatGPT about those dreadlocks too

if anyone has a useful link for how to turn these features off as comprehensively and as permanently as possible, I think that would be a great resource to share for people like me who have minimal technical knowledge in this field but do have a massive amount of their work stored in google docs

WIDOW'S BAY is Matthew Rhys' best performance since The Americans. Creator Katie Dippold knows exactly how to use him, and how to do everything else, too, it seems. I wrote about the best new show of the year: newrepublic.com/article/2100...

Really feeling the culture-industry churn of "do more with less" this week. Exhausting, disheartening, unsustainable and yet somehow still going.

I’m so thrilled to share the news that my new novel PENITENT will be published by @doubledaybooks.bsky.social, with Thomas Gebremedhin editing! Thanks as always to my agent Kirby Kim for his wise advice and for finding my book its best possible home. Coming Spring 2028! I can't wait.

We need to talk about the fact that the nonfiction stacks at Barnes & Noble are no longer alphabetized. I went in today to find a book that I knew was in stock.The bookseller and I walked around the store for 15 min before we found it. I've done some digging, this is on purpose.... 1/x

I have a new story up @electricliterature.com about art, childbirth, and being the mouth of the world. Grateful to have been edited by Halimah Marcus one more time! electricliterature.com/oh-no-by-adr...

amidst all the doom and gloom re: the state of nonfiction, the morale boost I get seeing great books published by great colleagues win big can’t be understated

The Walrus has earned twenty-five nominations at this year’s National Magazine Awards, a remarkable honour that speaks to the strength and range of our journalism, art, and client work. Congratulations to all of the nominees! https://thewalrus.ca/the-walrus-leads-national-magazine-awards/

Thinking a lot about solidarity today and how much amazing support from other worker owned coops we’ve gotten at @weareravenous.com, and how excited we are to share what we’ve learned with anyone. Comrades not competition is the way forward!!!

We are rapidly losing the outlets where new writers can learn to shape a voice, where they can cultivate skills beyond quick news hits and PR with the guidance and mentorship of strong editors and the benefit of a trusted name, and it’s such a loss for writers and readers alike.

Another year, another wonderful roundup of talent in the NMAs noms. @nickhunebrown.bsky.social! @royinori.bsky.social! @arnokopecky.bsky.social! @marcellodicintio.bsky.social! @alisonmotluk.bsky.social! @tajjaisen.bsky.social! @juliesobowale.bsky.social! @patkanephoto.bsky.social! + so many more...

Thank you to everyone who shared this piece yesterday, subscribed to Scratch, sent us a note, etc. The responses to it have been overwhelming. We hope to continue this reader-supported work for as long as possible. www.talkscratch.com

Early reviews consistently say things like ‘this book fucked me up’ perfect this is going exactly as I planned, please preorder so you can be fucked up in July! (And I can feed my living cats.)

Still think about this by @tajjaisen.bsky.social a lot & if you haven't read it yet, you should: "Right now, when the industry is especially skittish, the obsession with finding the next blockbuster hit privileges the survival of the few at the expense of the many." thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Thrilled to share that my publishing essay is nominated for Best Essay at the @canadamediaawards.bsky.social. Huge congratulations to all the nominees, especially @thewalrus.ca, with a whopping *25* nominations! magazine-awards.com/en/2026nomin...

So grateful to @rahawahaile.bsky.social for this piece on the catch-22 of hardcovers, the expensive gauntlet a book must run before it gets a chance at paperback. I'm pushing for my next book to come out as a paperback original for many reasons described here: www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

For my fellow writers and publishing people, I went long on how mad I am about nonfiction authors not getting paperbacks + the NYT moving its nonfiction paperback list from weekly to monthly. www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

Listen I read a lot, and a lot of it is dull as hell, and I’ll tell you one thing I’ve learned: tedious writing is almost always a product of the writer conveying, rather than discovering. When a writer is discovering, or sharing discovery, no editor on earth can scrub out the vividity & joy.

I'm grateful my publisher asked my opinion on jacket copy when I'm literally the guy who wrote this thewalrus.ca/the-case-for...

Helen DeWitt is a genius writer whose books everyone should read. That's my only contribution to this discourse.

As someone who really liked what MCD was doing, this is incredibly depressing to hear. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

on the cover of @theglobeandmail.com arts section today, my profile of the incredible @tanyatagaq.bsky.social; the original draft of this piece had a lot more "fucks" so you'll just have to use your imagination: www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/musi...

MIDDLEMEN will be published one month from today! Celebrating this countdown milestone with the book's first big review, over at HARPERS.

This essay is incredible and this recognition so very well deserved!!!!

The nice people at Playboy asked me to write something about the good parts about being married, and I was happy to. :)

This is really smart and thoughtful and satisfying: defector.com/fanfictions-...

I can finally share that my next book will officially publish in 2027, and that the good folks at @unmpress.bsky.social will be the ones to bring it out in the US! Thrilled and grateful that I get to keep doing this. More soon!!!!

First trade review! Thrilled to see some pre-pub praise for MIDDLEMEN from kirkus.

Just a few spots left in this memoir workshop, which runs from February through November 2026 and is my favorite class to teach. Now holding off on new acceptances until the deadline so I can consider every application that comes in. Apply by Jan. 24! @thewriterscenter.bsky.social

I read American Canto and I think it’s wonderful. haha jk

I need a cross-show supercut of Walton Goggins saying "yo daddy"

This is *so* good.