Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

What are you wearing to the rapture? Try to find me I’ll be in pink.

I am thrilled to announce that my book Night Hawk: A Nineteenth-Century Superhero and the Dawn of American Mass Culture is officially in production and scheduled for publication in September 2026 by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Feels like it’s time for Brandon Taylor to have his own imprint right? He’s a born editor. And no one is writing better literary criticism right now. I can’t even choose a favorite sentence here bc each one is just flat out SOLID EFFING GOLD: www.bookforum.com/fiction/stat...

just read this in an Italian cookbook: "Clean the frogs, wash them, and use only the legs..."

If you are over 40 how many different Gmail accounts do you have and why is it like 12?

As a parent I can confirm this is the best No Kings sign

Motherhood: I'm in it for the free art

Right now you are probably writing the shitty thing that you have to slog through before you get to the good part

I eat too much chocolate to really wear white

ADHD is seeing you have 6% and thinking oh that’s WAY MORE than enough to shoot this lil video….

Mistakes are sometimes nice in poems and people

If you want to sound like a real prick use the word “numinous” as often as possible

“I couldn’t have written this book as a debut,” Vuong says. “I didn’t have the chops. I wanted to use humour – and humour is very hard…” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Absolutely not. www.npr.org/2025/05/08/n...

Calling is still the best--but if you're really phone-phobic or can't call today, you can send the letter below to your reps with just ONE TEXT! It's already written! It will take 30 seconds! None of us should be abducted off the street by plainclothes men w/ masks and no warrants!

Few writers make me laugh as hard as my friend @stevendunn.bsky.social and now he’s finally started a Substack! Subscribe now and thank me later… steven358.substack.com?r=1q0sko&utm...

Best bookmark find ever in 1948 Gide’s journals

I wish thrift books would stop affixing sticky labels to the fragile spines of the antiquarian books they sell.

MY SON IS A PHONE FRIEND

In case you need a refresher

Say hello to Al Fresco

I’ve never read a better memoir of life with a difficult parent than this one by the brilliant @alstyron.bsky.social - how did I miss it?

Books are a bomb-shelter. And Jill Lepore is a treasure: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I’ll take out all the adjectives later

No words of wisdom. Just a teenage squirrel.

A dude on my fb page said I better not express political opinions contrary to his parroted dipshittery or I’ll lose book sales. So let me repeat this: You think I write books to be quiet about my opinions? I’m not a hide in the attic type. Art is political. I’ll write something so you don’t have to.

My woodpecker is observing strict office hours.

Oh. OK.

We need to remember that performative ugliness is not a fascist trait in itself– plenty of good, important art is both ugly and shocking– but fascism is largely about aesthetics and those aesthetics are rigid to the point of becoming clownish.

Joy is its own form of resistance. I kinda can’t be mad all the time.

These are not serious people

Wow. Just wow.

Just the messenger www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

I’m honestly amazed at how often this comes up www.audubon.org/magazine/how...

I guess we should probably all be listening to way more Lou Reed

This aged poorly on several levels

Finally a bit of good news. airmail.news/arts-intel/e...

This will be super convenient for all of those folks who have limited mobility. 🙄

My primary loyalty is to my own adventure

Green things

the transcript is up for the conversation with Michelle de Kretser: tinhouse.com/transcript/b...

I miss being carefree

Going to buy it now…