Fritz and Jonquil. They were a beautiful couple.

Kid Rock and Ted Nugent are gonna have very busy residencies next year. More's the pity.

Nice. Rolling that sponge without breaking it is a gift.

Holiday blessings to all. May your 2026 be filled with everything you hoped for.

Most New Yorkers can’t afford childcare.

Which begs the question: was not Marley a 4th spirit? Almost feels like you can't tell your spirits without your scorecard in Dickensland.

Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)

Pope Leo calls for kindness to strangers and the poor in Christmas message

I've known a lot of Portland strippers and they are absolutely the best people.

ends sometime do justify means

She knows upon which side her bread is buttered.

Not as badly as she should be losing her job.

Okay--but stop slouching

Intellectual carrot cake anyone?

Shh! Don't tell her.

Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.

Keep 'em comin'!

DC residents have been refusing to call that airport anything but National for almost thirty years, we certainly can refuse to call that arts center anything but the Kennedy Center for three

They could all be named Cholmondeley or St. John, so stop complaining.

We bribed your air carrier

First 2 issues just showed up in my mailbox. My postal dude now thinks I’m a survivalist but, what the hey, thank you @badhandbooks.bsky.social

Go ahead and beat this post, Epstein filophiles--you CAN'T.

Samuel Beckett used to say that EVERY Friday ...

C'mon--they're political MadLibs. Fill in the blanks with your own words of choice, then read them aloud at parties.

⭐COVER REVEAL!⭐ WHAT THEY DID: A NOVEL, coming August 18, 2026 from @harpercollins.bsky.social and @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social How far would you go to protect the ones you love? **Available now for pre-order in all the usual places!***

Honestly, between the Make-a-Wish bullshit for a dying oligarch, the announcement of the 2026 Hunger Games, the Mar-A-Lago Marla Maples story, and now the cruel, vicious attack on trans kids, I just... I just can't. That's just one day. So disgusted with everyone facilitating this ridiculous evil.

Y'all are so mad you couldn't make Nuzzi happen.

The implication being that either he sucks, or he bites.

Had to use some of my writing time to get rid of Copilot, @microsoft.com. Fuck you for that trash no one asked for.

A note: Issue 2 of The End Times was mailed on Friday, December 12. It is possible that some copies are hitting now. Please note that some copies of Issue 1 took weeks to arrive. Please be patient. Thank you.

Alert! The e-book of MONGRELS by @sgj.bsky.social is on sale for just $1.99! This is the novel that first introduced me to his work and I've been a fan ever since!

And to each his or her dismissal of their own Darcy.

It's been 4 months of A GAME IN YELLOW, and if all you take from it is that fat is hot, then I've done my job right 😌💛 (also try not to use cursed books to solve relationship problems I guess) bookshop.org/p/books/a-ga...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

A lifetime of "thoughts & prayers" have done JACK-SQUAT to reduce or eliminate gun violence. We need to do MORE. It is the GUNS. #SadButTRUE 💔

The first issue of ‘The End Times’ arrived recently and I just sat down to read it. WOW. I’m glad I signed up for this, it was great. I’m totally hooked! Nice work @benjaminpercy.bsky.social! Can’t wait for the next one.

Whoa--haven't seen one of these since the '70s. And that's a lot of proud spit and polish on it.

Easily one of my favorite reads of 2025: literary, historical, lyrical, genre, mainstream, regional--how many boxes do you have to check off for a novel you would recommend to anyone interested in the state of American fiction?

Hmmm . . . that's a "smile when you say that" look.

The books I read as a kid turned me into a good adult. Books I read now continually transform me for the better. Literature makes us who we want to be, it molds us and shapes us into people who understand and think. The world needs fiction: seconded.

Literature moves the needle. I can see it transforming and mobilizing readers in realtime. The world needs fiction.

Welcome back! (What is it about @datlow.bsky.social giving the Bronx minaret?)

Exactly why I want to add this book to my 11 Honors curriculum.

ON DECEMBER 19th: ship happens. I voice The Flying Dutchman, the most pants-wettingly scariest ghost to ever roam the high seas. THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS. Arrgh you ready?

Signed up a bajillionty and one books @boulderbookstore.bsky.social, so they can go live under trees for a bit. Hope they find y’all.

Just a reminder that if you fancy listening to a ghost story for Christmas, David Longhorn has done a lovely recording of my completion of M.R.James's "The Game of Bear". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2q...

My editor is currently reading the first draft of my AI-related horror novel & she says she has to keep putting it down because it's so bleak. On one hand, I'm like, "I better lighten it up a bit in the next draft." Then, I read each day's bit of AI-related news and I'm like, "MUST ADD MORE BLEAK."

Shout-out to art director Amanda Shaffer (@ahshaffe.bsky.social) for the beautiful covers on Open Road Media's reissues of @sgj.bsky.social's back catalog! It's a thrill these books returning to print and looking so sharp ⭐

oh, nice, hadn't seen them all in a pack like this. absolutely stunning (can say that because I had nothing whatsoever to do with them):