The book is almost here! Book Launch on Nov. 21 at Books Are Magic with Mary Gaitskill. Details are in the post!

Bleak House by Charles Dickens: Day 7, Chapter 9 open.substack.com/pub/apstoget...

And this…Friday morning Poetry in Canoes! A Brooklyn Book Fest event. #BKBF2025

Saw Ibsen's "Wild Duck" at the Theater for a New Audience through Sept. 28: no frills set and a great cast, including Alexander Hurt, William Hurt's son. Theater seems more important than ever right now

Thanks for the repost! Excited about this...

Exclusive Cover Reveal of “What Mennonite Girls Are Good For” by Jennifer Sears: Electric Literature is pleased to reveal the cover of What Mennonite Girls Are Good For by Jennifer Sears, which will be published on November 25, 2025 by the University of Iowa Press. You can pre-order your copy here.…

Book News: What Mennonite Girls are Good For Post in which I talk a bit about process of my forthcoming book and about the cover reveal on Electric Literature! open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...

NANO: New American Notes Online is happy to join Bluesky and to announce the publication of issue 17: The Interview. nanocrit.com nanocrit.com/index.php/is...

Wrote this last month after another harrowing #APStogether read. This one led by Honor Moore. open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...

Brooklyn morning….

This essay went straight into my bones. Hauntingly beautiful and tragic.

Reading The Odyssey in 2025 open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...

We arrived at the end of this 40 day odyssey reading the the Odyssey by Homer. A great group read with A Public Space and #APStogether open.substack.com/pub/apstoget...

On Reading Nabokov. Everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...

Yes! I need to put this back on my syllabus…..thanks for the reminder.

Details of a Sunset, Feb 27

Please join us on 24 March for the latest MLA webinar, on legislative encroachment into higher ed:

The group read of Odysseus landed on Ithaca in today’s pages. Kind of longing for Athena’s mist for these times we’re in now. #APStogether open.substack.com/pub/apstoget...

I think about this sentence, pulled from a NYTBR, kinda all the time.

On reading Ernaux in Paris…. open.substack.com/pub/siomniaf...

Be well, everyone.

“Funny….and unbearable.” Odysseus begs the poet to stop in the narratively stunning Book 8 of the Odyssey. Reading along with #APStogether The Odyssey by Homer: Day 11 open.substack.com/pub/apstoget...

Such a great interview with the always brilliant Lance Olsen. From his jungle years in Venezuela, to collage writing theory and creating an “action painting in prose," to the rushed list of loved books at the end…

“Poems can break our hearts.”Stefania Heim. This reading group of the Odyssey (of pain) is one way to survive right now. #APStogether The Odyssey by Homer: Day 10 open.substack.com/pub/apstoget...

From The New Yorker exhibit opening soon at the NYPL: “Author’s Cries are in Handwriting”

“One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.” Gertrude Stein. (Thanks, John!)

A great resource here #writingcommunity #litmags

The men in my life actually read voraciously, but I’m heading to this episode for a listen.

Such a great list. Very happy to see Lucy Sante mention Drew Hubner. Read Your Way Through New York City www.nytimes.com/interactive/...