Sharing my favorite Christmas themed podcast episode as I’m listening to it for the millionth time (get to the end it is worth it). overcast.fm/+AAVy3rfIN2I

“If commerce is completely unfettered and unsupported by watchful governance and culture, it easily becomes crime…” Stewart Brand THE CLOCK OF THE LONG NOW. Brand et al looking at 2025 from the lens of the late-90s.

Horror and thriller writers, Amazon lockers can pick up and broadcast radio signals!!!

I have not mentioned this person, but I want to throw my support behind Olga Ravn. Go read The Employees and The Wax Child

Submit to the Driftwood Annual Anthology: Use the link in our bio to submit your best short story or poetry for a chance to be published and get paid! #callforsubmissions

The savagery as these two associatiative memories merge! From Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson

“The imagination is revolutionary or it is nothing at all.”

I loved this book. Everyone should read!

“The mind can only poke at a text a little bit, further poking breaks the surface tension and then the mind is just poking at the ripples…when the mind/text relation gets ripply I experience a corresponding disturbance to my instrument, my writing soul, that I have learned to treat as dangerous”

No one will make a lot of money in the process. But it's fair and feels less extractive than more corporate models. Authors need to abandon the linear thinking of being "promoted" to big 5--do your big books with big publishers and give their weird, less sellable stuff to smaller places.

A massive thank you to @samsanders.bsky.social for giving me a new obsession, which is the first song (Big Mike’s) on this video of Dijon’s Absolutely album youtu.be/FEkOYs6aWIg?...

Big news for authors with out-of-print prose books looking for a new home: We're opening up submissions to our Lost/Found imprint on 9/3! We were so happy to rehome Brooke Shaffner's COUNTRY OF UNDER last year + now we're ready to rehome more. Full details forthcoming, but the pertinent ones are:

Danger zone III: 113 outside. Your chest in perpetual state of near cardiac emergency. A dog runs at you from across the street and you actually pause and calculate what would be worse—to get bitten or to run—before you run.

Danger zone II: 110 outside, you walk into shade and blurt out loud “that is fucking amazing”

You know you are in the danger zone when it’s 113 outside and a hot wind blows and your body thinks “oh, that’s a nice spring breeze!”

This timeline just gets more and more dystopian every day: www.bbc.com/news/technol...

It's here! An enlightened summer reading list ✨ with fiction, poetry & creative nonfiction recs from ASU English's creative luminaries, including Mitchell Jackson, @kclichty.bsky.social‬, @nushpowell.bsky.social‬, @beelzebebout.bsky.social + more. Peruse the list: ow.ly/7I9S50W5B08 #ASUHumanities

Writers: before you sign a contract with a publisher, make sure AI isn't replacing your illustrator, your translator, your editor, your jacket designer. Readers: if you're thinking of buying a book, do the same. Refuse. Resist. If AI garbage doesn't sell, people will stop making it.

Our Adrift Short Story Contest is OPEN! Guest judge is Kelly Link, author of The Book of Love. Use the link in our bio to submit! #writingcontest

The third has finally come to join the others. I can’t wait to see how the Weft expands in Waterblack @galleybeggars.bsky.social @alexpheby.bsky.social

This benefactor’s mustache game is strong:

Desert spring

LAST CHANCE: In honor of AWP, we'd like to offer 10% off books in our shop! Use the code 'AWP2025' to get your discount + we're now offering free shipping on orders over $100. Thank you for supporting our small press! #shopsmallbusiness

Don't sit on that novella or poetry collection — send it to Driftwood Press instead! Use the link in our bio for details. #callforsubmissions

I’ve often said William Gibson was my gateway to literary fiction and this ending to “Fragments of a Hologram Rose” is a great example—the quietness of the moment, technology as both connection and disconnection, the lyricism of the moment—one scarcely realizes they are a reading a dystopic future.

20th Century archeology. South Phoenix, 2025

Year four of only buying books from small and independent publishers and using the libraries for the rest of my reading. Here is my list for 2024: AT THE HOUR BETWEEN DOG AND WOLF @taraisonwriter.bsky.social IG Publishing Abracadabra, Sunshine Dexter L Booth Red Hen Press

In Phoenix, every day of October has set a new record for heat so far…

When I heard Percival Everett wrote a retelling of Huck Finn I knew I had to read it; and it’s every bit as good as I thought it could be and more. Just a masterful reexamination of the source material.

This piece taught me that there didn’t have to be any space between fiction and poetry and The Bulb Collective graciously is giving it a second home: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/this-mo...

This is one of the first stories I ever published. So happy for it to get a second life here: www.bulbculturecollective.com/read/ode-to-...

A car just like mine behind me. It is like looking at the past of myself in my own rear view mirror.

The 2yo grooves out to Toots and the Maytals and there is still hope in the world.

After having finished all of Frank Herbert’s Dune books two thoughts: 1) if he had stopped after Messiah I would not be upset and 2) the less explained and more mysterious the world the more I am engaged I am with it.

This quote from Jesse Ball explains how I feel every day: “…you will be disdained and misunderstood for years on end, perhaps the entirety of your career. You will be thought stupid. You will be understood by the entire class as a whimsical jackass…”

If you know anyone who is looking to get into literary non-profit work this is a great opportunity (and it is remote minus one festival): www.cantomundo.org/post/apply-t...

“Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past…it is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.” —Paul-Muad’dib (aka Frank Herbert).

Woke up this morning to a message from my university that they disbanded an encampment that had showed up on Friday to protest. And there are just such better ways to engage with student protesters than telling them to leave and then calling the cops to come in and arrest a bunch of students.

Shots fired: “we have replaced mythology with politics,” Claude Levi-Strauss

Heard it’s subscription night. In our case, card-carrying Westie night. 10 titles in 2024. 8 books (3 of them #antiwrimo novels) and 2 chapbooks. $100 a year; $12/mo. Plus bonus swag and exclusive events. We need people to get us to Year 10. Start now: www.thirtywestph.com/shop/twsubye...

LoTR: it takes 100 pages to rev the story up and 100 pages to wind it down.

Resurrecting this thread while we’re at it. Give your favorite indie publishers a follow 🙌

If you have a novella or a poetry MSS looking for a good home, Driftwood is open for submissions: www.driftwoodpress.com

Our February issue is live! [FICTION] Meera Rohit Kumbhani Gwen E. Kirby Max Kruger-Dull Felicity Landa [NONFICTION] Olga Katsovskiy Deb Werrlein @debwerrlein.bsky.social Lisa Thornton @thorntonforreal.bsky.social Philip James Shaw [PROSE POETRY] N. Cuzzi [COVER] Anthony Carrasco

Does anyone else have a book that is just too precious for you to watch an adaptation of it? I tried to watch All the Light you Cannot see and realized that Anthony Doerr’s language-world was just too precious to me to watch it and turned it off after 5 minutes.

In case you escaped this on the Other Place, I’m starting a bookstore called The Lynx in Gainesville. We have an Indiegogo. And today’s featured perk? A first edition Zora Neale Hurston! Donated by the great The Second Shelf. www.indiegogo.com/projects/the...

So excited to be in the December issue of @pitheadchapel.bsky.social pitheadchapel.com/volume-12-is...

[Shamless plug] it is my book’s first bookiversary this weekend and it would love it if you celebrated with it by inviting it over for conversation, maybe in your favorite reading spot? Here’s their contact info: www.driftwoodpress.com/our-books

Tomorrow is this semester's ASU Worldbuilding Initiative Distinguished Lecture, with @connoralexander.bsky.social, creator of the tabletop RPG Coyote and Crow! The event is free and accessible in-person and online. Please join us by registering at the link below!

We can't pin posts over here in the sky, so we'll just have to repost over and over (*sorry*): we're open for essay collections, memoirs, and nonfiction-hybrid book manuscripts through December 1, and we'd love to read yours! splitlippress.submittable.com/submit