#8 of 52 Fictions posted today -- my story "Of Two Minds." A story about attention and the present moment. open.substack.com/pub/nickarvi...

I've got a short story up at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social about a cable home renovation show and how it causes a small town to fall, rise, and then permanently fall. Big thanks to Caren Beilin for her wonderful edits on this.

I've got a short story up at @clereviewbooks.bsky.social about a cable home renovation show and how it causes a small town to fall, rise, and then permanently fall. Big thanks to Caren Beilin for her wonderful edits on this.

When the cable renovation show announced it was going to take over a different town for its mass renovation special, the town council called for an emergency town meeting right after the regular one. @molars.bsky.social,Townville, Cityton, Burgborough, Townburgh clereviewofbooks.com/townville-ci...

Reading Balzac in Paris for @bookforum.bsky.social www.bookforum.com/print/3203/c...

On the biggest U.S. stage, Bad Bunny showed why he is so massive, and why his Grammy-winning love letter to his homeland, 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘪́ 𝘛𝘪𝘳𝘢𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘴 𝘍𝘰𝘵𝘰𝘴, resonates across the world—from Latin America to Palestine to China to Switzerland

if u want to subscribe to an independent, worker-owned music and culture pub w/great criticism (and features, interviews, blogs etc) from five ppl you know and love, hearing things launched in october 2024 in the wake of conde nast's pitchfork layoffs :) www.hearingthings.co

Sometimes someone writes to my intermittent @newyorker.com advice column and sets me up in a manner resembling Payton alley-ooping Kent www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Great story from @nickarvin.bsky.social, who's gonna publish a story a week through his newsletter.

Starting 2026 with a couple of announcements: 1. I have a new book coming in spring of '27 via @europaeditions.bsky.social. 2. I'm going to do an insane thing and attempt to send out a story a week for the next year. Check it out at the link and subscribe!

Today‘s the first half-birthday of THE NIMBUS! As good as any time to suggest that it would make an excellent holiday gift for the discerning fiction reader in your life. Order here or at your local indie, and DM me if you’d like a personalized bookplate to go with it: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

"I don’t know why, but there is something about that instrument that makes you want to play slow, melancholic music on it."

Such a treat to find THE NIMBUS on WaPo’s list of the best fiction of the year! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Ping, You’ve Got Whale A new artificial intelligence-powered detection system is giving ship captains real-time alerts when a whale is in their path. by @ashleybraun.bsky.social www.biographic.com/ping-youve-g...

Hi Bluesky friends, I’m giving out a handful of free Audible audiobook versions of my novel, THE NIMBUS. If you’d like a copy, DM me your name and email address. The offer’s good till they’re gone. Learn more about the book here: robertpbaird.com/nimbus/

Nightmares, passing the test, trial period, route assignments— An excerpt from Mattia Filice's Driver, translated by Jacques Houis, is available at @thedialmag.bsky.social

I considered writing a treatise on a certain pop vortex’s song that details her man’s dick with the facepalm yucks of a B-level stand-up from the mid-’80s, but I decided instead to take advice, of sorts, from singer and rapper Shelailai: Don’t need it!

A book of my Creased Comics is coming this spring from NYRC.

The publisher has only five copies left of my translation of Book IV of Vergil's Georgics, titled The Bees. It's a beautifully designed little chapbook, with the classic drawing by Breughel on the cover, and typesetting by the designer Ken Botnick. Get a copy for $10 before they're gone!

Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen talks old scenes and a new tour: defector.com/grizzly-bear...

Tortoise spoke with @theguardian.com about their Chicago roots; the making of their new album, ‘𝐓𝐨𝐮𝐜𝐡,’ out next month; and the special shows they’re performing to celebrate the release of the album, their first in nine years 🦂✨ READ MORE: tinyurl.com/mr46fc7k Photo: Heather Cantrell

Read Anna Gaca’s essay in LARB Quarterly no. 46, where she recounts her journey learning French and immersing herself in the language. “What trust is lost, what intimate connections with language, with culture, with auditory experience itself?” https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/vous-ecoutez-rfi/

TODAY is the deadline to submit public comment on Trump’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, which would expose 45 million acres of national forest to permanent roads and their attendant environmental ills. Register your disapproval here: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... #roadecology

"This will never work": PARCHMENT (@parchmentmag.bsky.social), a literary journal devoted to contemporary Canadian Jewish writing, is returning to print. I joined the editorial board because I don't feel "Jewish writing" needs to mean what it usually means, especially lately. 1/5

"To raise sunflower stars in captivity and release them to the Pacific, however, scientists must first learn how to keep stars from dying. And for that, they must know what’s killing them in the first place." @craigwelch.bsky.social for @biographic.bsky.social: www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

My new piece Untitled/Dreamweapon is out today on Bandcamp. Its based off a recording originally performed by Angus MacLise & Tony Conrad in NYC, 1968, my own take on "Untitled" from the Dreamweapon recordings. Ive been trying to think of ways to make more work with explicit Antifascist intentions…

Incredible article by Jaclyn Moyer in the June issue of @highcountrynews.org about a community in rural Oregon fighting against the expansion of an already colossal landfill: Where the garbage goes - High Country News share.google/bM92q4RqRm8t...

Each William Langewiesche disaster story was an event in itself: defector.com/each-william...

there's been a scandal brewing on nerdy guitar-centric corners of YouTube for the last couple of months about a guy who got caught copying other people's guitar solos and presenting them as his own. i wrote about that bizarre saga here www.hearingthings.co/the-great-in...

Never thought Forth Wanderers would come back. Still listen to their 2018 album a bunch. New songs sound great: forthwanderers.bandcamp.com/track/to-kno...

Last week, we lost the poet, activist, and scholar Joshua Clover. Those who want to pay homage might donate to their local bail fund.

The infamous Toronto '85 live version of "Baby Beluga" is 19 minutes long and features audible cries of anguish from kids in the audience. But Raffi and the band just kept going.

I wrote about trash for @bookpostusa.bsky.social

I wrote about enduring Philadelphia traditions, Wanamaker’s ads that printed the word WANAMAKER 111 times in a row, and taking my son to the department store where I proposed. defector.com/one-last-tri...

‘I have always had a taste for not-quite-novels, but I suspect this would always have been too much of a not-quite-a-not-quite-novel for me.’ Michael Hofmann reads Paul Valéry’s 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘶𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

icymi I wrote about some seriously cool hunting strategies of cuttlefish defector.com/this-is-the-...

sometimes it fills me with paralyzing dread to think that early millennials are the last people in the industrialized world who have an accessible, first-person pre-internet frame of reference, but then i am comforted by the knowledge that someday i will die defector.com/glossy-gunky...

Great story in the @inquirer.com about blueback herring returning to Cooper River in NJ (a river once thought too polluted to support many fish species): share.inquirer.com/8jTAgQ

"We had the temporary community of solidarity. But how much longer?" Sesshu Foster reports from a mutual aid center in the aftermath of the Los Angeles wildfires. lareviewofbooks.org/article/temp...

"I think we need to think about the possible bad outcomes and work to mitigate them; if we do that, we have a chance of preventing them from coming to pass." Great interview with Ted Chiang in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/life...

a calendar, a meditation, a daily fortune, a mystery game 🍥 turnturnturn.me

I wrote about Tahlequah and what we might make of her grief defector.com/tahlequah-gr...

What are we to make of the biodiversity crisis, and the weight that comes w/ knowing our species' role in driving it? My conversation w/ @elizkolbert.bsky.social and Craig Foster (My Octopus Teacher) is a cover story for the latest issue of @atmosmagazine.bsky.social: atmos.earth/elizabeth-ko...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor works hard to hope: defector.com/godspeed-you...

the weather's cold, the going's tough, the year's subsiding—but i'm delighted to share my 100 favourite songs of 2024: www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/bes...

I wrote about a cool new fossil amphibian & how it got its Shoshone name defector.com/how-a-sleepy...

Amazing, beautiful, inspiring conversation between certified legends Jeff Parker & Flea, moderated by Eric Ducker and published by @gqmagazine.bsky.social . Loaded with amazing quotes from both artists, including this gem from Flea: ... LINK: tinyurl.com/5c4c9b76

Wrote about "The Way Out of Easy," the thrilling new album from Jeff Parker and the ETA IVtet out on @intlanthem.bsky.social: www.molarsmolars.com/blog/jeff-pa...

Gorgeous new James Blackshaw album, Unraveling in Your Hands. His first album in nine-ish years: jamesblackshaw.bandcamp.com/album/unrave...