Of note to @bkbookfest.bsky.social attendees: @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social has signed copies of REEL and IN THE SIGHT at their booth! (Adjacent to the center stage.)

In which @tobiascarroll.bsky.social discusses his new essay looking at Alan Moore's new novel, The Great When, and its exploration of imaginary Londons... Subscribe now to read this & other essays: AUD30/yr (~USD19/GBP15). www.speculativeinsight.com

Today at 1 at @bkbookfest.bsky.social — I'll be moderating a panel with @sgj.bsky.social, @ambersparks.bsky.social, and Christina Li! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/if-the...

Always intrigued by the connections between different authors. @tobiascarroll.bsky.social joins dots between Alan Moore and others through their books about London in this new essay. Subscribe now to read this & other essays: AUD30/yr (~USD19/GBP15). www.speculativeinsight.com

Set It Off.

This is a nifty write up of both sets of novels—go read GENERATION LOSS!—plus an interview with me about why Aud, with her “slivers of strangeness” is a “unique character who could enliven a book in any genre”. Quite right!

240 6th Street in Gowanus with some of the sharpest literary minds .

Really enjoying this new Kieran Hebden/William Tyler collaboration. fourtet.bandcamp.com/album/41-lon...

Thanks to @speculativeinsight.bsky.social for letting me go long on books set in other versions of London, with nods to the work of Alan Moore, Helen Oyeyemi, Iain Sinclair, and @steveaylett.bsky.social.

Really need to do something with the wind-up Krasnogorsk lurking on my shelf behind me.

Tomorrow, I'll be reading in Gowanus with some fellow @whiskeytit.com authors! Details here... www.instagram.com/p/DOwtjrojIdQ/

Got my covid and flu boosters yesterday, and today I got to learn about how my body would process them both. Probably the closest I get to the experience Superman had in Silver Age comics where someone would hand him Puce Kryptonite and he'd turn into a giant salamander or something.

God bless her. The days when small cities like Grand Forks had papers that could afford dedicated food columnists, sports columnists, and movie critics were better days.

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

I'd totally missed that Tani Oluwaseyi moved from the Loons to Villarreal last month, and I literally watched Villarreal play Spurs yesterday. Good for him.

Trans rights are human rights.

Bought myself a ticket to see this group on Sunday, which means the day should involve both books and music. mississippirecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-co...

Know Your Enemy You Must Remember This Cancel Me, Daddy Across the Movie Aisle Unclear and Present Danger

Just checked out the @kierongillen.bsky.social & @stevelieberart.bsky.social collaboration CLOSER. Nicely unsettling, great body language, and a concept that reminds me a bit of Chris Adrian's novel The Children's Hospital despite being nothing like The Children's Hospital. Good stuff.

Always weird to edit something you wrote and think, "Shit, who IS that person who did this? Surely not me."

Guys, I could NOT be more excited to have a story published at Short Story, Long, and I honestly really love this story in a way that I think you love just a few stories you’ve written. Maybe it’s the encroaching nostalgia, maybe it’s just the fun I had with the form, but I hope you’ll read it!

Ugh this is so upsetting. Adore Loyalty.

Farewell to a legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwPO...

Just saw the Archway Editions news — made my head spin a little bit.

I had missed that Penguin Random House is among the defendants in this. [shudders]

More tomorrow, but now might be a very good time to consider subscribing to What’s Alan Watching? alansepinwall.ghost.io

Checked out @jasondiamond.bsky.social's book launch this evening at Books Are Magic, then wandered downtown Brooklyn, eventually purchasing a Max Beerbohm collection and eating soup dumplings.

“Remember the last time a rabid government didn't let reality get in the way of a long-sought agenda once a crisis provided an opportunity?” asks @attackerman.bsky.social

My book, "The Museum of Future Mistakes," is listed among Tobias Carroll's "Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for September and October 2025" at Reactor Magazine! Check out the full list here: reactormag.com/cant-miss-in... @tobiascarroll.bsky.social @reactorsff.bsky.social #books

New byline! For Stop Caring, I spoke with @jeannethornton.bsky.social about her novel A/S/L and its roots in the ZZT community

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

Interviewed myself about my new book for my newsletter, v easy assignment philipchristman.substack.com/p/publicatio...

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Seeing a listing for an Integrity show took me down an "I wonder what ever happened to One Life Crew" rabbit hole. Gotta say, I should not have gone down that rabbit hole.

Make a band singular: Chvrch

Ideal late-night listening? I think so. tompkinssquare.bandcamp.com/album/luke-s...

Reminder that my debut collection was reissued almost two years ago with three new stories, kinda like how Dischord would package LPs and 7"s onto CD editions in the 90s. bookshop.org/p/books/tran...

This is obviously not the only society-wide problem contributing to contemporary horrors, but I wish there was more acknowledgment that the accelerating commodification and devaluation of the arts is a major factor in the current empathy crisis. That's the void internet nihilism is filling.

At the Arts Center for the first time in 30 years for the Outlaw Music Festival. Warms my heart that I've now seen Waxahatchee both here and at 285 Kent.

One of a few new horizons for the Tit:

Ok who’s going to the Brooklyn Book Fest next week? I somehow magically get to be a panel with Stephen Graham Jones @sgj.bsky.social and Christine Li, moderated by @tobiascarroll.bsky.social - I truly do think it’s a gonna be a banger if you’re around! brooklynbookfestival.org/event/if-the...

Watched OPUS. Probably should do a podcast episode on it, huh. Related: I need to finish editing another podcast episode.

Terriers & Rubicon.

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for spotlighting @thomasha.bsky.social's UNCERTAIN SONS over @reactorsff.bsky.social among so many great titles. reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

Chatted with fellow @whiskeytit.com author David Scott Hay about his next novel, horror imprints, and more. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/09/12/d...

Happy to see Giorgio De Maria’s The Twenty Days of Turin - inspired by the Years of Lead - finally making its way into the world in paperback form. Wrote about it for @electricliterature.com in 2017. electricliterature.com/ghosts-exist...

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social for highlighting Tomás Downey’s Diving Board, publishing Oct 7 in a beautiful(ly disturbing) translation by Sarah Moses (Die, My Love, Tender Is the Flesh, Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird, and The Unworthy).

Hauntings, regional gothics (maybe near you?), and worlds almost too distant to dream of... @tobiascarroll.bsky.social is highlighting the September and October 2025 Indie Press books you won't want to miss! reactormag.com/cant-miss-in...

Wrote about Ron Currie's ambitious, tautly-plotted new novel for @pressherald.com. www.pressherald.com/2025/09/10/b...