so many more interesting things—and just as many annoying things!—happening in literature in 2025. wtf are we doing here, man?

Rejection was the best book I’ve read so far this year. So great

▶️ NOW PLAYING Had a great and fascinating conversation w @tonytula.com about his superb and very funny novel-in-stories, REJECTION ( @wmmorrowbooks.bsky.social). 🎧 Available wherever you get your podcasts.

This came out a month or so ago and I forgot about posting it then. About carpets, cashiers, and ceilings... www.bridgeeight.com/frenchie-says/

so stoked to have a story up in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for their Sunday Stories www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/13/s...

"So we strolled that evening along the path that winded itself from the park in the middle of the town to the lake on the edge of it." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/13/s...

so stoked to have a story up in @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social for their Sunday Stories www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/13/s...

WE ARE LIVE!!!! www.bloodhoneylit.com

Meet Joseph Linscott, who brings his story “Whether Real or Not” on bar tales and prison experiences at www.unlikelystories.org/content/whet...

Was that a positive gain on first down? For the Texans????

Daniel Jones jumpscare

I spent a large part of 2024 listening to all of Michelle Zauner’s musical projects, so it’s only fitting I end the year having this piece published in the excellent @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-...

I spent a large part of 2024 listening to all of Michelle Zauner’s musical projects, so it’s only fitting I end the year having this piece published in the excellent @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/rugged-...

I’ve got a new piece in this issue!

Alim back on the field announced into a forced fumble recovery hit so hard

How to interpet Goodreads’ ratings Book I like is poorly rated: I’m smarter than most so I just *got* it Book I don’t like is poorly rated: yes yes that’s exactly it, public opinion can’t be doubted

This was what the internet was made for

Kinda forgot that Pederson still has his job so seeing him quoted in this was a jump scare

Time for an uplifting film to escape reality

For sale: Shoes Baby Sock Shoes Baby Walking Shoes Infant Non-Slip Breathable Slippers with Soft Rubber Sole Baby Boys Girls Slip On Sneakers

convinced that there are people who love trump for no other reason than that he gave them a personality, however rancid it might be

Man, that Kendrick album really might be his best?????

The quickest way for me to lose total respect for a person is to hear them brag about the work they were able to push onto an AI program Life is so short, please just fill your human mind with tasks and hobbies that you actually enjoy/find meaning in

hi, i wrote a post - "destroy AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/fuck-up...

The defensiveness/cope of Broncos fans is really admirable when the team is bad and really really annoying when they have any sort of expectations

always satisfying when an article about some stupid assholes includes a photo that’s like “yep that’s them, the stupid assholes”

Nothing as jarring as reading a *Best Of* book of stories where they're all hitting and then one bafflingly bad story breaks the magic

I will not be clicking on any link relating to that LitBro dweeb but thanks to all for the screenshots

"People who like my work like my work for all the reasons that I would want them to like it. And the people who don't like it, dislike it for all the reasons I would want them to dislike it." Here's a golden oldie from Percival Everett: our 2003 interview.

Learned today that “quad” at the local coffeeshop isn’t an arbitrary name for large drinks but instead an explicit reference to the number of shots of espresso in my 2pm latte …so going to be up all night finally reading this beaut @ineluctablequak.bsky.social @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social

Find someone who looks at you the way DeMeco Ryans looks at his players when they do something good

The apple AI commercials ask us to ponder: what if genuine human behavior and communication had an easy button?

Really a weird experience to see some form of twitter eulogy every other day with the waves of people joining over here

Justin Herbert, my god

Discussing Bluesky migration in terms of liberal flight misses the simple fact that most people use social media for fun not influence and this platform, unlike X and cruddified Facebook, doesn’t feel like you’re wading through shit to reach your friends. It’s not that deep.

“Mister Pastor looks at me incredulous. Like: How stupid can you be? I blankly return his stare: Pretty fucking stupid.”

Idk I kinda like it

Every time I listen to BTC I'm flooded with admiration (and a scrap of jealousy) for how thoughtful and incisive @davidnaimon.bsky.social is

If you cant say it in a full thread of 300 character posts, the odds are it wasnt worth saying and certainly wasnt worth hearing

As lush and evocative now as it was when I first read it a decade-ish ago. The exact kind of dreamscape needed right now

Since we’re sharing work with new followers, here’s something I wrote earlier in the year and got to publish with the fantastic @major7mag.bsky.social www.major7mag.com/post/fader-t...

That bittersweet feeling when a draft that's been worked into something better than its previous version opens up several (too many?) new avenues for future drafts that you hadn't intended on writing...

Split Lip has a new issue dropping tomorrow, and honestly, after last week's election, doing literary work suddenly seems more important than ever. The arts feel life-or-death. Powerful. Meaningful. An absolutely essential form of resistance. An affirmation of truth & beauty & our humanity.

"Life is comprised of other people, nature, and art. I think everything falls under these three rubrics and if they don’t, they are not important."

"Congressman Drunk At Dulles Airport" is a level of intoxicated that you will never be no matter how much you consume

getting very worried that this band is more obsessed with covering 80s pop classics and songs made famous from TikTok than playing and writing their own music

BREAKING: Richard Kind is PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive 2024!

Just finished TC Boyle’s story “The Apartment” (@mcsweeneys.bsky.social #74) and am kind of amazed at how I loved it despite several ticks that I typically don’t enjoy in fiction being the exact things that drew me in to this one

Now that @natetice.bsky.social and @robertmays.bsky.social are on this site, I'm begging someone to grab whoever can make this ⬇️ happen and bring them here so that there's no reason to go back