I was honored to judge a memoir contest for Publishers Weekly! Here’s a quick Q&A about my own book—urgency, the subconscious, a tight scope, and what I’m working on now booklife.com/authors//aut...

What if the Timberwolves just… didn’t let Scott Foster past security

Getting ready for the Rewind Book Fair on a lovely overcast Saturday

I was honored to judge a memoir contest for Publishers Weekly! Here’s a quick Q&A about my own book—urgency, the subconscious, a tight scope, and what I’m working on now booklife.com/authors//aut...

I was hitting up my buddy who was on prescription pain meds after suffering an injury during a laser tag pro-am tourney & he was kinda out of it, slurring, & he said, “dude I’m so high right now, I feel like a minnow at the bottom of the ocean” & I was like “very funny bro, you’re such an Oxy-Moron”

I know this is normal and even common but one of my fav stories no longer exists on the World Wide Web and I’m devastated! Any lit mags taking flash reprints these days?

Messing around with an 8-bit style delay and some synths. Stick around for the major cat cameo

What’s always a loaded time for me, leading up to the 9 year anniversary of the shooting—it’s brain injury awareness week. I was invited back to my Alma Mater to see the academic work of neurology students who were assigned my book for a project. 1/3

In honor of #BrainAwarenessWeek, students @uofstthomasmn.bsky.social created a Brain Injury & Recovery exhibit inspired by alum Paul Rousseau’s memoir of surviving a gunshot wound to the head: Friendly Fire. @paulwrites7.bsky.social @danafoundation.bsky.social

What’s always a loaded time for me, leading up to the 9 year anniversary of the shooting—it’s brain injury awareness week. I was invited back to my Alma Mater to see the academic work of neurology students who were assigned my book for a project. 1/3

MALARKEY RULES FOREVER BUY THEIR BOOKS

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool. NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

Really juiced for this. Always wanted to join forces with Malarky and my fav dude @danielmiller.bsky.social is providing all the art. Too cool. NEVER NOTHING ships in October. Buy all the books!

Very happy to say that this year we’ll publishing poetry EPs (micro-collections, if you will) by Rachel King, Lotte Mitchell Reford, and Stephan Antoine Viau, @paulwrites7.bsky.social and @lyfaulk.bsky.social. malarkeybooks.com/news/2026/1/...

🧵So 2025 was a lot, but not without good things. On 1/14, I launched WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON. It's a book that helped me work out the kind of person I want to be during interesting times. tinyurl.com/23u99mae

I like guitar!!!

All set for tomorrow 🫡

People always ask to buy my little skeletons but they work very hard and are not for sale

A chapter of my memoir actually takes place at this book fair venue which is a fun little synchronicity!

This weekend—the twin cities book event of the year. Come to union depot in St. Paul. I’ll be at table 317 offering you know what. Make it happen!

Hunting ghosts this weekend with a team of paranormal investigators and let me tell you dreams really do come true

My appearance kicks off Season 3 of the Lived to Tell Podcast, where Caitlin and I discuss the events and fallout of my memoir, FRIENDLY FIRE. “Paul was unintentionally shot in the head by his best friend. What happened after would change Paul’s life forever.”

Am in Spokane for a concert and found this amazing indie where I of course picked up a copy of @ambersparks.bsky.social’ new book!!

Neighbor’s haunted trail is pretty good

Going on tour next week! Come say hi please don’t make me read to myself and that one guy who’s actually got earbuds in

Happy to announce I’m an exhibitor at Rain Taxi’s 25th annual Twin Cities Book Festival. I’ll be slinging copies of my memoir, Friendly Fire. The participating author list is also bonkers good. November 8th at the Saint Paul Union Depot (a location featured in my book!). Give it a gander

Choo choo

Here’s what’s pulling us this weekend

A small portal to hell

Tough to beat this train car

Love visiting book clubs that read friendly fire!!

Cheers!

Friendly Fire turns 1 today! Grateful for every unexpected happening and all the book’s lovely readers.

psst: if you’d like email notice about our next submission period (very soon), please join our NEW mailing list! sign-up link is under the “Future” tab on our website!

If you haven’t read the pieces in this issue, you’re seriously missing out. Also, selfishly, read my piece!!

Issue Fifty-Four is here! Explore new poetry, prose, and art at the link in our bio. 🌺

Hell of a way to close a paragraph!

Tuxedo jam

Teenage cringe and angst? Team Vampire VS. Team Werewolf? Tarot card readings and monumental blizzards? Slow dancing and guitar strumming? Both kissing and distinctly not-kissing? READ ME: theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

In case you missed it, ya dingus!

NEW NEW nonfiction check it

"... for some reason I feel this grants me false permission to be ugly with her and my perceived ugliness adds its own barrier between Kate and I because I feel she is so beautiful and good ..." @paulwrites7.bsky.social in @adroitjournal.bsky.social theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

NEW NEW nonfiction check it

This is so good.

NEW CNF in the mighty @adroitjournal.bsky.social. This one means a whole lot. Hope you dig it! Massive thanks to the editors for including me. Super stoked to see “We Still Don’t Kiss” finding readers other than my cats. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

Front page of the Adroit Journal rn!!

NEW CNF in the mighty @adroitjournal.bsky.social. This one means a whole lot. Hope you dig it! Massive thanks to the editors for including me. Super stoked to see “We Still Don’t Kiss” finding readers other than my cats. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

New creative nonfiction tomorrow in Adroit Journal issue 54. About the most awkward moment of my teens. Hope it finds some readers while I hide away in my basement with a lead blanket trying to ward off the fallout of cringe.

New creative nonfiction tomorrow in Adroit Journal issue 54. About the most awkward moment of my teens. Hope it finds some readers while I hide away in my basement with a lead blanket trying to ward off the fallout of cringe.

I still haven't gotten over the community + support + readership that writers lost when the billionaire destroyed Twitter.