This editorial I wrote for the Oklahoma City Free Press is out now. I appreciate the invitation to try to pull together these swirling thoughts, such as they are. freepressokc.com/the-vocabula...

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

Spotlight on Low April Sun over at Silver’s Reviews today! silversolara.blogspot.com/2025/03/spot...

Hey, Low April Sun is in week three on the bestseller list for Oklahoma! Thanks SO much, OklaHomies! #lowaprilsun #bestseller #okcbombing

So happy to see LOW APRIL SUN debut at #1 on the bestseller list in Oklahoma! Heather Levy’s This Violent Desire is right there, too. Thanks so much, friends! #booksky #books #lowaprilsun #bestseller

So excited to see that THIS VIOLENT HEART is an Oklahoma bestseller! Also excited to see my friend @rankoutsider.bsky.social at the top! Thank you to everyone for showing my book so much love! 💜

First of two campus visits next week, at Pittsburgh State nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Y’all, the event tomorrow had to be rescheduled to 3/13 at 5:30 pm due to the weather. Come see @rankoutsider.bsky.social and me for a reading followed by Q&A/signing. In the meantime, go show @thefloatingbookshop.com some love and grab a book or twelve! 📚

RESCHEDULED We’ve moved our evening w @rankoutsider.bsky.social & @heatherlevy.bsky.social a couple weeks to Thurs, March 13 @ 5:30pm! Make plans to come join us for readings from both of these novels, conversation and questions! Come celebrate these powerful writers at downtown OKC’s bookstore!

Magic City Books, 4/17–save the date! www.instagram.com/p/DGRniM7SfA...

Low April Sun gets a nice mention in Tulsa news😊 www.newson6.com/story/67b363...

Happiest of publication days to @rankoutsider.bsky.social. Thrilling and poignant in equal turns, LOW APRIL SUN is a smart, searing take on 1995's Oklahoma City bombing and its aftermath. I'm appearing with Connie several times during March-April. Please come see us in New York, OKC, or Santa Fe.

@rankoutsider.bsky.social at her book Low April Sun debut and signing! Yeah Connie!

Come see me and @rankoutsider.bsky.social read (with signing afterwards) next Thursday!

Join us 5:30pm next Thursday 2/20, to see @rankoutsider.bsky.social & @heatherlevy.bsky.social read from their latest novels, followed by a conversation and signing! This event is free and open to the public (space permitting) The Floating Bookshop 3 NW 9th St OKC

Today's self-soothing thought: Just remember how things turned out for Rasputin in the end... and for the Tsar who let him in

I can’t believe the Supreme Court said the president was above the law and now the president is acting like he’s above the law.

#lowaprilsun #newfiction #okcbombing

Kind words from one of my favorite writers, James Reich. #lowaprilsun #booksky #books #newfiction #okcbombing @jamesreich

Trump is taking over the Kennedy Center board, appointing himself as chair. No president has ever done this. The last time the arts were forced to align with government messaging? WWII Germany. This is a power grab, not culture. Speak out. #HandsOffTheArts thehill.com/blogs/in-the...

Some good news—https://statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-interim-order-locks-elon-musk-out-of-the-u-s-treasury/

Something actionable on behalf of a greater civil society: Boost your local library by getting/renewing a Library Card this week. 🔥If you haven’t been in a while you’re going to be seriously astounded by the digital access & free streaming media platforms available w/a simple card. #Booksky #Books

Book launch countdown continues with the mighty Rilla Askew— @rillaaskew #rillaaskew #lowaprilsun #okcbombing #booksky #okc

Counting down to the launch party for LOW APRIL SUN a week from tonight with blurbs from writers I admire and thank! #booksky #lowaprilsun #novellaunch #okcbombing

Counting down with advance praise: One week to LOW APRIL SUN’s release. Preorder now! #booksky #lowaprilsun #newfiction

Black history month starts today and this administration would like us to forget it,

I love FRAMED AND BOUND, this podcast by @tobiascarroll who talks with writers about films centered on the literary world. We just had a great conversation about a not-so-great film that will be out (the podcast, not the film) in a couple of weeks. #framedandbound #filmpodcasts #litpodcast

This week the ROCK IS LIT podcast features a replay of the episode I did with Christy Hallberg last year on my second novel, LIVE FROM MEDICINE PARK. Check out this great show, which I look forward to returning to soon. #livefrommedicinepark #rockislit www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislit

January 6th was born on April 19. This is what I became aware of as I researched LOW APRIL SUN, specifically the prosecution's choice to focus exclusively on McVeigh and Nichols (bird-in-the-hand) and ignore the rest. Jeffrey Toobin arrives at the same conclusion in HOMEGROWN. I recommend the book.

The internet

This spring marks the 30th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing. In “Low April Sun: A Novel,” a richly imaginative work of literary fiction, @rankoutsider.bsky.social explores how those events shaped lives in unexpected ways.

My feeling is that it's not unserious to spend time on the question of whether someone about to be hired for one of the most powerful jobs in the world drugged and raped a woman (as she alleges and he denies) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...

I love this idea from philosopher Marshall McLuhan, found in a New Yorker profile of Lorne Michaels: “whenever a new mass medium emerges, it frees up the medium that preceded it, allowing it to innovate.” (The commercial novel could be awfully free by now, if it wasn’t always trying to be a movie.)

I’m so glad Joe Biden called it what it is, not that it’s going to stop anything from happening

A review by Ben Arzate that gets it right about my friend, James Reich's latest, SKINSHIP. James knows how to build a story, but the first joy of reading the Reich oeuvre for me is at the sentence level, where I am stopped by pure admiration again and again. open.substack.com/pub/benarzat...

In honor of carrie underwood performing at that man's inauguration I am going to continue my tradition of never listening to carrie underwood's music.

The book tour for LOW APRIL SUN so far. More dates coming. I’m so excited! #lowaprilsun