My chapbook of poems is out with Bottlecap Press. It’s about falling in love, simping, swooning, 🔥 in your DMs, and dating, with a lot of TV, Girls, and many deep cuts. I’m excited/terrified to be putting this out there, and you can preorder it here bottlecap.press/products/bot...

Loved talking to @michaelcolbert.bsky.social for his Referential Substack about being married to a writer, throwing characters from THE SLIP into other work, and my lifelong main character energy. Hope you’ll check it out!

Please join us in welcoming Phil Melanson to present FLORENZER with @michaelcolbert.bsky.social on Tuesday, June 17 at 7pm at Print!

Sometimes I do feel like messaging is a lot simpler than people make it out to be.

Where is everyone submitting work these days? I feel out of touch since twitter ended

is "moving you to bcc to spare your inbox" secure attachment

Can I pitch a novel as Fates and Furies meets A&W?

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Open, Heaven came out last week, and to celebrate the release, Seán Hewitt shared with Referential his reading list of books that excavate memory in evocative ways referential.substack.com/p/remembered...

I spoke with the one and only Elizabeth Kott about Too Niche, The Artist’s Way, and creative partnerships. Check out our chat here referential.substack.com/p/you-are-st...

Essential reading from @michaelcolbert.bsky.social. Also the image he selected to go with it doesn't hurt.

Blair Witch actress doesn’t want people to get lost on the trails www.centralmaine.com/2025/03/25/f...

"An estimated 1,650,000 people could die within a year without American foreign aid for H.I.V. prevention and treatment." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

i love having a heart but i’m not sure if my heart loves having me

"In Denmark, good design and good architecture are seen as part of a broader concept of welfare—designed for people, and crucially, for all people." referential.substack.com/p/were-all-l...

Fun stuff with @jgsteen.bsky.social talking movies at Referential with @michaelcolbert.bsky.social. Thanks for the @unkindrewindpod.bsky.social shoutout (everyone should listen to Jeremy’s eps where we talk Beastmaster.

Looking at my bookmarks on Twitter before deleting my account

The ‘can machines do creative writing’ thing is mostly a distraction from the use of the machines to go through text and images to cancel grants and put people on deportation lists

Guys we literally had the DCOM movie Smart House for a reason

For the properly acculturated, March means one thing: filet-o-fish season! I got to write about Bermuda's spin on fish sandwiches for Plate Magazine plateonline.com/food/bite-we...

Does anyone else find it impossible to read these days

In my first book review for the @pressherald.bsky.social, I discussed The Cliffs and telling stories about Maine www.pressherald.com?p=7426541&uu...

My latest for Decor Maine just might be my favorite story I've written for them. I spoke with Croft's Andrew Frederick's about his eco-conscious build on Owls Head, a Scandinavian wonderland www.decormaine.com/homes/an-eco...

Spoke with Sayantani Dasgupta on artistic process, the writer’s life, and her latest essay collection, Brown Women Have Everything referential.substack.com/p/there-is-n...

Nvm I just started The Leftovers again

"...how is it possible that people are able to make connections and have conversations and learn how to love each other when it seems like we can’t ever fully know or understand another person?" Q&A with Maggie Su about first loves & and canonical blobs. www.interviewmagazine.com/literature/a...

Sad update!

“It's good to have a medium where you're like, this is just for me and absolutely no one's ever going to see it.” Q&A with Kaylie Saidin on surfing, balancing different creative endeavors, and her story, “The Frogs” referential.substack.com/p/this-is-ju...

YouTube and LinkedIn are really gonna take off in 2025

I’m doing my first writing residency in a few weeks. Does anyone have any advice on how to approach it? How many books should I bring to read??

Just saw Wolf Man

So many anti substack takes and yeah it’s cringe and imperfect but also it’s a place for people to publish (and read good stuff) while more outlets close/slash budgets and subscribing is also optional

The expansion of sauna options in Maine reflects a growing interest in wellness and outdoor activities, especially among millennials, and a global effort to promote the health and social benefits of the ancient Nordic ritual.

Rest in Peace David Lynch. One of the best to ever do it #davidlynch

Market research

“What if we don't live in a story but in a poem, or in a photo, or in a painting? It requires a different kind of temporality and approach to how we think of ourselves, the world, family, and our lives.” Q&A out with @bmanuel.bsky.social on Hello Stranger referential.substack.com/p/intimacy-w...

Can someone The Substance me today

Is this Challengers

Omg, homosexual

Writing a novel that’s Melancholia meets Fates and Furies. Uplifting!

Can I write an essay about the special place in hell for Hims commercials

Thought I’d round up my year in writing and share some of the projects I worked on this year. I wrote about The Talented Mr. Ripley and gay panic for @hazlitt.bsky.social hazlitt.net/longreads/my...

The person next to me in the theater downloaded Feeld after Babygirl

Just in time for the year end lists, my conversation wirh @daniellefferts.bsky.social about one of my favorite books this year, Ways & Means, is up at Gulf Coast. We spoke about money, throuples, and my other favorite, The Shards gulfcoastmag.org/online/37.1-...

Ugh Bluesky needs drafts, where are all my best ideas supposed to go to die

where is the me espresso located on the body? is it the skull

Group chat holding space in Rejection @tonytula.com

Evangelizing about novellas for Dead Week on substack referential.substack.com/p/10-short-b...