Well I just got the OK so I am doing MY OWN DANG COVER REVEAL WICKHILLS has a cover now! Illustrated by Tom Roberts and designed by Russell Trakhtenberg! Which I copied and pasted so I would not make a typo! Anyway, BEHOLD! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

At the Portland Press Herald, I spoke with Tilar J. Mazzeo about her book The Sea Captain's Wife. It's a terrific nautical yarn; if you dug The Wager and would like to read about a very different voyage around the tip of South America, this aptly fits the bill. www.pressherald.com/2026/03/25/m...

The next edition of The Book Supplement is coming this Sunday, March 29th!

Tonight is the @bookcritics.bsky.social finalists reading! Tomorrow night are the awards themselves! If you're interested in tuning in... www.wildboundpr.com/nbcc2025awards

"Does a novel need to actually have fantastical elements to be considered a fantasy novel?" @tobiascarroll.bsky.social considers Anna Kovatcheva's She Made Herself a Monster as a story more fantasy or horror than the sum of its parts. Read the review:

Reviewed Meghan Lamb's new book for @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/25/f...

Seven of wands reversed. "Lack of self belief." Ah yes, that fits.

A poem: Cybertruck parked illegally blocks fire hydrant. The fuck?

The Reactor reader flips through a file cabinet labeled "Indie Press SFF March/April 2026 collected by: @tobiascarroll.bsky.social" Which file do you open? - GHOSTLY - FUTURISTIC - FOLKLORIC - SURREAL - ENTRAINED

I saw the original post in a screenshot and thought that an alumnus of The State was commenting on AI. Apparently I was incorrect!

Pulp covering Johnny Cash, eh? pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-ma...

Around the time the film adapation of Die My Love was released last year, some of the press around it shared that Martin Scorsese has a book club, and....I would love to know more about that, I have to say.

A few months ago I pitched Reactor an article about SFF around the world focused on translations, and @cxorlando.bsky.social came up with the loveliest idea to expand it into a column. We start this month with Hiroko Oyamada's The Factory, a great little novel about the irreality of office jobs.

Well, guess who just went down a Philip Glass/"Knee Play" rabbit hole?

Probably preaching to the choir here, but: this Paul Elie piece on the importance of nonfiction is good reading. newrepublic.com/article/2076...

Gotta say, I would 100% pay cold hard cash for an actual physical release of Daniel Blumberg's "The Testament of Ann Lee" soundtrack.

BARRY and WONDER MAN. Not necessarily the entire MCU, but: I am convinced that Gene Cousineau and Trevor Slattery have a decades-old beef.

Was impressed by Friday and Saturday's Bill Orcutt & friends concerts at Roulette. Chuck Roth's set was especially haunting — songs had the quality of being both complete and elliptical, which is no small feat. (Plus Michael Imperioli is thanked on the LP!) chuckroth.bandcamp.com/album/waterg...

....has anyone else who edits online literary magazines seen a significant uptick of traffic from overseas in the last few months? I've seen this at Vol.1 & am trying to figure out if it's organic or something AI-related.

night 2 of @roulettenyc.bsky.social's instantly legendary @billorcutt.bsky.social fest: delirious "louie louie" maximalism on "the four louies," duo with chris corsano on elemental stone-skipping fire drums, & solo sets of prismatic electric fingerpicking by cyrus pireh & shred-melt by ava mendoza.

Making it my mission to get the following phrase into wide use: "All bangers, no wankers."

Today’s Panel Syndicate’s lucky anniversary: 13 years since BKV, Muntsa and myself launched the first issue of The Private Eye. We’ve been awfully quiet lately but that doesn’t mean we don’t have anything cooking… So Happy Birthday to us and thank you all!

Just a stunning body of work here. One of my favorite voices to read on art of all kinds. www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

this is hard. he wasn't perfect, but he deserved better than being J*ss's problematic alter ego. as much as we all hate Xander now, I didn't hate him then. we all knew this guy in the ’90s. we all wanted more from him. I love "The Zeppo" as much as anyone. I love that he held Willow the way he did.

Yes, hello, I'm the middle-aged dude sitting alone and reading The Quietus at the Bill Orcutt show.

Discovered the vaccuum cleaner that I'd thought I'd destroyed cleaning up after my first self-administered haircut in the early days of the pandemic still works, so: small victories.

The US House Committee on Education and the Workforce recommended passage of HR 7661, a bill that would censor books in schools nationwide, sending it to the full House for a vote. The ABA has put together a resource to make it easy to contact your House Rep demanding they oppose the bill

Some thoughts on what the cancelled AI novel means for publishing and writers countercraft.substack.com/p/what-it-me...

I couldn't be more excited to announce something I've been working on for a long time - Please welcome Belltower House Artist Residency, a multidisciplinary gift of time in my erstwhile home in southern New Mexico, now accepting applications for 2026. belltowerhouse.org

It was today that I learned that there is a Facebook group called "Goths Against Cancel Culture."

wrote about an 80s safety video tape directed by Stuart Gordon and starring Andrea Martin as a self-destructive adult child woman 1900hotdog.com/2026/03/lear...

"The vision Kat was offering wasn’t about carving the electorate into pieces and deciding which ones to fight for. It was the radical (apparently) idea that a better world is possible for everyone, and that a political party should be in the business of trying to build one." Bingo. And great essay.

Having a quick "wait, do I want to go to Newark tomorrow for the FC Motown/Hartford Athletic Open Cup match?" moment.

For @defector.com, I wrote about the Nitehawk Workers Union, "saving movie theaters," and why humans respond to other humans defector.com/fair-pay-fee...

I interviewed certified Good Dude Geoff Rickly of the band Thursday. He told me the music industry is a canary in a coal mine for what's happening to news media. I think he's right, and I wrote about why. www.readtpa.com/p/theyll-go-...

This is so long and very good. www.gq.com/story/americ...

....I kinda want "TURNED ON YET, FELLA???" from this as my ringtone. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxgM...

The NBCC is proud to announce that the winners of the Toni Morrison Achievement Award are NPR and PBS!

SINNERS OSCAR-WINNING MOVIE!!!! While we're all celebrating last night's wins, we'll recommend some essays, book recommendations, and behind-the-scenes info about Ryan Coogler's masterpiece 🎶🩸

Gotta say, I was wholly unaware of the last movie for which Amy Madigan was nominated for an Oscar, but good lord, the cast of this one. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouON...

Had reason to allude to the party game Jolene in something I'm writing today, so....that's a plus. furtiveshambles.itch.io/jolene

I don't have many Oscars takes, but I do wonder if Jordan won because, well, the other nominees also did terrific work playing a single character. Jordan did all of that...twice. Often playing emotionally complex scenes opposite...himself.

that thing where you can't find your stories in progress and then remember that you deleted them from google docs in a fit of pique last night. now, to find the 'trash' folder in google drive.

Subculture kids have been fighting fascists for decades.

And sometimes, you go down a "yeah, Grant Morrison's Seven Soldiers was really good, wasn't it" rabbit hole.

At @reactorsff.bsky.social, I wrote about @acwise.bsky.social's novel BALLAD OF THE BONE ROAD. reactormag.com/book-review-...

Was lamenting that there'd never been a Hellbender reissue campaign, then did a quick web search and revealed that, in fact, there has been one! Related: "You Gutted Me With a Switchblade Shaped Like A Telephone" is one of the all-time great song titles. deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/con-li...

ELECTRIC SHAMANS AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE SUN is one of our most anticipated releases of 2026! Read what @tobiascarroll.bsky.social has to say about it here: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...

Our episode on Orlando is up! We tell Frances she's wrong, she tells us she doesn't care -- all in a day's work.

Now live! @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social judges today’s match at the 2026 Tournament of Books presented by @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social → www.tournamentofbooks.com/2026/katabas...