This one is extremely American Hippo coded. cc @sarahgailey.bsky.social

It happened to me: Sarah Gailey turned me into a monster f*cker. One of my fave books I read this year TBQH!!!

This is an incredible review of SPREAD ME, both in that it is very kind to the book ("All in all, a deeply unwholesome way to spend an afternoon") and in that it is a STELLAR piece of writing - I will be repeating the phrase "four eyed, fork-tongued viral desert people-eater" to myself all day 😈

This is wonderful and needful and true.

Today's Love Letter is the last one in the series. This has been a full year of essays about the things that keep us going through impossible times, and this last one is about the day two years ago when I decided to live.

Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.

I've been laughing at this all day. All three of these people nailed it. 10/10, no notes.

“And then I laughed.” Absolute winner of today’s One-Line Paragraph Award.

This is a gorgeous piece that I absolutely needed to read today.

It’s the most natural and instinctive thing to push away from pain. Accepting or even embracing it seems not only counterintuitive but foolhardy. But pain, especially the pain of grief, can’t be pushed away, and the act of pushing often only makes us stay in it longer.

This one makes me think of this concept from Buddhism—and, I admit, I’m at best an amateur Buddhist—of non-striving. That is, neither pulling toward the good nor pushing away from pain, rather accepting that both are temporary and both are part of life.

Today's Love Letter is a reflection on the incredible, healing, life-affirming power of pain -- and how good it is to get the chance to hurt.

this entire interview is phenomenal

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

A hedge fund manager can buy you a city council seat, but he cant buy you the ability to conceal your multiple blatant ethics violations! Guess the old saying is true - you can lead a clown to water but you can't make him competent 😔

I wrote about the genuinely galling Oakland City Council meeting I attended yesterday, where our the councilmembers almost unanimously voted to continue a dangerous countract with FLOCK surveillance. Thank you to @sarahgailey.bsky.social who helped me parse my anger into something readable.

*scuttling across the floors of silent seas* man I should've been a guy who can't decide how to wear his pants

Essential reading. This hit hard: “I am, at any given moment, Schrodinger's criminal. So are you. So are all of us.”

Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here. stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/

I got to deliver a talk on the history and legacy of the Hays Code and the Comics Code, contemporary censorship efforts, and the necessity of identifying with criminality. You can watch and read the whole thing here:

There's still plenty o' time to drop your information in here! Each year's eligibility post ends up with a really high clickthrough rate -- it's worth your time to make sure people know where to find your work!

I think it's important not to misunderstand what these social media platforms are. They are not public arenas where we bravely take on reactionary forces in honorable combat. They are apps that expose you to stress and thereby simulate the feeling of having done something useful

Your quarterly nag to donate platelets (yes and whole blood, but I already hit you up for that).You are full of useful juices, share them!

It's why my posts go up to eleven

New blog post! Check out my review of @sarahgailey.bsky.social’s strange and sexy take on John Carpenter’s The Thing—SPREAD ME: www.thegothiclibrary.com/review-of-sp... 💙📚 😱📚

There's still plenty o' time to drop your information in here! Each year's eligibility post ends up with a really high clickthrough rate -- it's worth your time to make sure people know where to find your work!

At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.

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ALL OF THIS by @sarahgailey.bsky.social (resonates with things that, eg, @edidin.bsky.social has been saying, correctly, for years) stone-soup.ghost.io/read-like-a-...

Something it took me until my 30’s to understand is that any rule that is only selectively enforced is not a rule, it’s a weapon

MAKE ME BETTER is my forthcoming novel about the horrors of community. It is about cults, wellness, control, and the things we will do to escape grief. Sometimes it hurts to grow -- but your community believes that you can be made pure. It comes out in May. us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

Putting money in Rowling's pocket is also why we ignore press releases from comics events that include Potter programming. It's funding her hate. I'd implore every creator/publisher/potential guest to consider this when approached by those cons. - Andy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"But I was trying to find your wholeness from your parts. " 😢

I wrote this earlier this year and I still hope it can be of use! www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

This is a stunning read. Book people, you may find it particularly interesting. HT @scsmith4.bsky.social

The director should have had Tommy Lee Jones at the end of the film go "Oh, I am old, and this country isn't for me, i guess!"

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When I talk about having ambitions as a dad, understand that under no circumstances am I taking about my relationship with my children. I am talking about sneezing louder

SPREAD ME by @sarahgailey.bsky.social: A darkly seductive tale of survival from the amazing author of THE ECHO WIFE (also at the book fair!) Find a signed copy at the Brew&Forge Book Fair through 12/3! www.brewandforge.com/bookfair/p/s...

“Get out of here, tiger! You’re…you’re in the wrong place!”

If you need to find some small satisfaction tonight, I wrote you a story about a lawyer who makes a difference.

this is going to be a fucking shitshow, lmao

Yes. Legit-sounding book clubs (with web pages and Etsy merch shops and all) say they want to do your book, waste your time with 2 rounds of planning emails, then say they need your headshot, bio, and the “standard $212 administrative fee” or whatever. Scam scam scammity scam scam.

🚨 New scam alert 🚨 Scammers are now impersonating representatives of Silent Book Club to target authors by pretending they've been nominated for a reader award. The screencapped email here was followed up by a request for a video, press materials... and a "submission fee."

Thread to keep bookmarked, in case ICE or CBP is coming to invade your town

At the end of each year I publish a community roundup of awards-eligible work for folks to check out! Go add your information so I can put you on the list for 2026.

Foundling Fathers, by Meg Elison Hamilton meets The Boys from Brazil 1776 meets Clone High All the Presidents' Heads meets Jurassic Park 6.23.2026 It's the satire America deserves for her 250th. tachyonpublications.com/product/foun...

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

Work hours remain scarce. I am once again short on funds. 😞I'm going to need at least $167 by tomorrow. Anything beyond that will go to groceries. My Venmo is @Mary-Lowrie and my Cashapp is $MaryLowrie1. In the meantime, I shall apply for unemployment, and see what retail jobs there are.