I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

The GOP Congress could stop this genocidal horror at any moment & they are responsible every moment that they haven't, & don't. This is their voice echoing out of the moral necropolis at the heart of our republic. "The end of a civilization?" You're alreadty seeing it, here.

Really gratifying to be read so well, by such a good writer, in such great company. I esp. appreciate the mention of the book's prose--it's what I care most about...and what seems to get mentioned least in reviews. Thank you, Caleb!

"There were no books."

Jewish Book Week is a literary festival in London, held annually in February and March, that explores Jewish literature, ideas and culture. Here are Jewish books for adults being published in 2026. Book lists in ALT text. #jewishbookweek #jbw #jewishauthors #jewishbooks #bookpost #booksky #books

What do The Tavern at the End of History by Morris Collins, Hide by Carolina Ebeid, Frog by Anne Fadiman, and The People Can Fly by Joshua Bennett have in common? They’re just a handful of the noteworthy titles included in our latest #PageOne installment. Read on: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2

my 26 most anticipated books of 2026 😊✨ 💙📚 #booksky

New episode of Books Up Close is out now, with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and @johannawinant.bsky.social about their @princetonupress.bsky.social book Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. Subscribe and listen now, wherever you get your podcasts! zencastr.com/dashboard/Bo...

Did you know you can preorder my book? You should go preorder my book. "An intimate year-in-poems capturing the joy and dread of getting older, growing a family, the world’s news … and the miracles—no bigger than a child’s hand—that keep us going." www.publishinggenius.com/catalog/apri...

In my experience the process of putting work into the world is full of frustrations, but imagine waking up to this: such a great pleasure to be read so generously by a writer I've read so admiringly for so long. so. Wildly grateful!

iambic tetrameter ass stick

Forthcoming on April 16—An Absence of Sea—a letter across time woven from dreams, intimacies, lived fragments, and remembered voices, where the self meets its double and those who echo within it. www.erratumpress.com/an-absence-o... My gratitude to @ansgarallen.bsky.social @erratumpress.bsky.social

It's pub day for my new novel, The Tavern at the End of History. When writing I imagined it like The Magic Mountain­, but shorter & with Jews. (& also angels, a dybbuk, & stolen art). Looking forward to sharing it with you all!

One of my favorite writers comparing me to one of my favorite writers (- wallpaper descriptions). I'm delighted!

"She said, hwaet?"

I've been out of work since October so this could not have come at a worse financial time for my ability to help my family. So, I really really appreciate everyone who has donated or shared this!

Sorry to see that James Sallis has died. Sallis was a formative writer for me & modeled an outlaw career, as he phrased it, that was inspiring in its freedom. He’s best known for his tight little crime novel, Drive, that later became an even better movie—1/

My novel, The Tavern at the End of History, comes out next week. In the meantime there's another excerpt (about bad curators, worse museums and who actually lives in Maine) up as one of Literary Hub's daily fiction offerings. lithub.com/title/

How terrible & beautiful not to know ourselves:

Birthday dram

On the eve of MLA, a model of collegiality worth considering. (From @keironpim.bsky.social 's stunning bio of Joseph Roth) "Anyone who insulted them would be challenged to a duel...unscarred cheeks and a nose without a nick in it were unworthy of an academic in the genuine German tradition."

Chag Sameach

Important not to even stock other books.

I'm a huge fan of Angela Woodward. More people need to read her strange, hilarious sui generis work. AFTERLIFE is my most anticipated book of the spring...

Can't wait to hear the trolling re relative stress and caesurae in dactylic hexameter...

I reviewed Gabriele Tergit's THE EFFINGERS, a mighty and brilliant and extremely readable book out now in English thanks to a cracking translation by Sophie Duvernoy >>> www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Happy to see my forthcoming novel,The Tavern at the End of History on @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social recommended winter reading list. A great book for all the readers in your life who dig dybbuks, art, unhelpful baseball references & diasporic longing! www.jewishbookcouncil.org/pb-daily/jbc...

Pretty good company...

Sure, I’m out of a contract, struggling to finish this novel, and have no clue what’ll happen next in my career, but I’m writing exactly the kind of dark, sad, weird, violent, magical mosaic of a book I want to write and that’s what this whole gig is really about.

In case you, like me, have not yet found this incredible resource/s by @annakornbluh.bsky.social and a few others, IT IS SO GREAT!!! 🙌🔥🙌 against-a-i.com

@annakornbluh.bsky.social (a scholar I've long-admired) is a hero in my dept for her Against AI website as we try to stem our collaboration w/ apocalypse Meanwhile, my own (v. Jewish) new novel about how the stories we tell about the past shape the future www.dzancbooks.org/all-titles/p...

Ah, yes. The "3-women-per-day" school of narratology: "The scenes in Balzac or in Dostoyevsky (the last great Balzacian of the novel form) reflects...a beauty that is very rare...that everyone has known (or at least glimpsed) in the course of his own life." -Kundera, The Curtain

Big mistake. No good mornings, here.

did anyone else know pedro pascal was john ashbery

Started cobbling together the nonfiction and arts sections of the holiday catalog. First time in a couple years, & you better believe we’re coming back hard.

We’ve progressed from watching the baseball game to being held hostage by the baseball game.

Confidence goals 🪶

Northampton, MA #NoKings

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

The 1970s (widely defined: '66-81) were the single greatest decade for the American Novel. Also, most short novels should be a lot longer.

Getting in on the Rothko discourse since 2021. (The Tavern at the End of History from Dzanc in February 2026). Also, always nice to be read by a great writer...

"...caught like a message on an electric wire, between who was seeing whom and how..." —The Tavern at the End of History, the next @morriscollins.bsky.social novel, forthcoming in 2026 from Dzanc

I've always been fond of my own signed copy of All Souls, with post-reading message. In that it turned up secondhand, maybe Javier's prophecy was correct!

in the company of many many bsky.app/profile/anna...

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga... @ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

just gonna have to keep saying, in company of so many others: we are jewish faculty against the astroturf antisemitism persecution of jewish faculty by our own universities, by online hate groups, and by the regime www.thenation.com/article/soci...

They shelved my novel next to some book I never heard of.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is to normalise retreating to your library to produce a volume of digressive, idiosyncratic essays that remain an essential repository of humanist thought and skeptical inquiry 400+ years after your death.