Saturdays are for the boys to effetely fail at doing minor repairs on their Hamptons beach house

Just learned that my former professor, friend, and mentor Stephanie Vaughn, has died. For those unaware, Stephanie's book SWEET TALK is one of the greatest American story collections, up there with the likes of JESUS' SON. This is the justly famous intro of her story "Dog Heaven"

Not big on generation discourse, but 18 year olds wearing Nirvana t-shirts does still give me a flash of adolescent "this is my band" rage—get a Geese shirt you little dork

Really great review of what seems like a truly unpleasant book, from the person who called Lauren Oyler the Renata Adler of looking at her phone a lot: thebaffler.com/latest/flat-...

I really hope they run with the "If there's grass on the field, play ball" strategy, seems like a winner

Very exciting news about Elisa Gabbert's next book forthcoming from @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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Relieved to be on the other side of a four year Iris Murdoch jag. Love Queen Iris, but I need to be able to write my mediocre bullshit without shivering abashed in her shadow

"Scared of Charlotte" is a whole new level of "scared of cities" that I'd never even considered possible

There should be a fiction anthology of Short Kings. Sadly I'm too tall to be included (5' 8.65"), but I think it would be nice for them

Next, JCO should tell Elon he's a joyless shell of a human being for not doing what normal people do everywhere: drinking sulfuric acid

Lots of people comparing Senate Democrats to Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, but that analogy only works in a version where Lucy has told Charlie Brown she's going to pull it away, and also that afterwards she's going to have Snoopy executed in a foreign prison

Going through copyedits on forthcoming book and humbled, as always, by the reminder that I have absolutely no idea how commas work

My god…it worked…every ride is coming back to me now…in a flood of memories…overwhelming my senses…some going up, some going down…some smelling like piss, some smelling less like piss…

Froggy went a courtin? Disgusting

If you're not reading the New York Times you're missing out

NBA’s new “The Diff” statistic is catnip for dataheads like me

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

that’s right beg you miserable worm

People are really worked up on both sides of the AI issue in academia, but the main thing you really need to learn in college is "out first, in second"

Renowned cryptologist Robert Langdon waited by his phone. Surely, the French authorities would call him, a renowned cryptologist, to solve this mystery he thought in italics.

This whole Graham Platner thing is making me question the ancient Hindu symbol I got tattooed on the small of my back

if you want me to extend grace to a schlubby white millennial man with questionable tattoos and a history of incoherent social media posts he better be slugging 40 homers in the bigs every year that's all i have to say

At last, a wearhouse for the fellas

I don’t know what is going on with people, whether it’s a Covid thing or what, but it feels like everyone – drivers and pedestrians alike – could use a refresher course on how crosswalks work

I hate when people do that thing where they QT and just say "This" but man, this this this this

One of my favorite things as a teacher is encouraging talented students to take more creative writing classes and pursue their dreams of being a writer. Amazing to think that they might look back at my encouragement, years and years down the line, as the moment their life was ruined

Perfect posting from Tim Heidecker, 24 hours apart.

"Artificial intelligence?" I say to my students, "more like fartificial insmelligence" (wild cheering)

Once again Laszlo Krasznaorkai wins a prize that is rightfully mine—Krasznahorkaied again, I cry out upon reading the news

There are too many books. There should be like 30-35 tops

Really starting to get the sense that some of those who work forces are the same that burn crosses

It's cool that the world's only remaining superpower is run by guys whose main shared thing is that they are insanely bad at posting and homicidally desperate for a laugh. The Flop Sweat Regime

The thing is, it isn't just on these shitheads to not play Riyadh—now the ethical responsibility shifts to the audience, to not go to their shows or listen to their podcasts, to banish them from polite society

Greatest NFL quote graphic ever made

Feel like writers (like myself) who still care about third person are like that Japanese soldier in the Philippines who continued fighting for 30 years after the war was over

Out on the road today, I saw a Deadhead sticker on a medical bed

Wow look at this email I just received from the New Yorker

me (utterly deranged, writing on bullet casings): I STRONGLY DISAGREE WITH FASCISTS

Does Tylenol cause childhood autism? We asked an elderly man dressed as Uncle Sam who drove 2100 miles to attend the Charlie Kirk memorial stadium event.

Starting a Led Zeppelin cover band with a bunch of other mediocre musicians and calling it SOSO

I black out with rage for 3 to 5 seconds every time someone rides by on one of those motorized unicycle things

Don’t yuck my yum (ELO voice)

I wonder if what we’re seeing in punditry isn’t exactly class solidarity but the outlines of a truly heinous group chat

extraordinary performance by leading media figures today in the very new field of inventing a guy to not be mad at

Not to be all JCO but can we stop with the fucking year-round yard skeletons

Sorry, this old saw is really the equivalent of people dismissing SF as dudes having sex with hot alien chicks in space. What popular or award winning--or even just existing--literary fiction books from the last 30 years fit this "trope"?

Feel like this is a strong future contender for one of those viral Worst Of threads