Here is a new short story called, Natural Selectors. In it, a man looks back at his parent's generation and recounts the atrocities of the gang they had in their youth.
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thank you so much! that's very kind of you to write to me about it. I hope it's been a great winter for you, happy new years
Here is an essay I wrote for @parisreview.bsky.social about building a desk for a pickup truck
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I wrote an essay called “Summer’s Over” for Zona Motel. Topics covered: art making, impending demolition, an innocent mistake
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Sergiu Ciochina
Just remembered a dream I had last night where I was in a recording studio w/Tom Petty. He was dead, a skeleton, but up & about & sounding great on guitar. He was recording “You Don’t Know How It Feels” & wanted me to sing the vocals. I explained that was bad idea & eventually he came around. Whew!
It’s in the print issue or behind the paywall at this link — but, hit me up in a DM if I can help you read it other ways ❤️
Have a new story called “Skyhawks“ in the fall issue of the Paris Review. t.co/LFMR359iCc
Vlad Mag #6 (Part Two): “Bummer Summer,” edited by Brian Alan Ellis, is OUT NOW on the website! New work by @eyerarat.bsky.social (@filthyloot.bsky.social), @malsmart.bsky.social (@maudlinhouse.bsky.social), @budsmith.bsky.social, @formermissnj.bsky.social and others 🦩
Sitting here listening to Bat Out of Hell, as always.
Join us on Friday, 7/11, to celebrate the release of our latest issue, “Player Haters.” We’ll be at the Francis Kite Club on the LES for an evening of drinks, dancing, and good sportsmanship. Featuring DJs Jamison Lung and Paula Martinez.
I’ve got a new short story up at Joyland today. This one is called “Shades” t.co/9FXFxW2ApU
How do you build a writing group? Who knows. A great place to start looking is your local reading series. Go to that. Talk to the organizers. Read the work of your 'neighbors' --zines, or online magazines, or anything. See who lives around you. Find your people. Make something cool w/ a few of them
I meet people all the time, bummed because they only make art sporadically. I say that's great. Who cares about volume? Just make one thing you love this year. One thing. But then again, if you baked in deadlines, face-to-face meetups, fun, constructive arguments ... the thing usually glows gold
Other night I met a person in publishing, who misses the writing workshop group they had in grad school. Haven't written much since then. I said, Well you can change that, find 3 gifted people, w/ same goals (a novel/story collection) and be the leader, drive the thing, do it, meet in person monthly
saw a young dog walk by with the face of Skeletor
you can pick up the UK magazine, INQUE here: www.inquemag.com/issue-3/
Oh and I forgot, I've got a new story called "Our Father" in a UK magazine ... the story is about a son who disappointed his father by not becoming a surgeon but then the terminally ill father keeps dying, resurrecting, dying, resurrecting, and so the son decides to cut him open to see what's wrong
I've got some new short stories--the most recent issue of FENCE has one called "Nightsky", tomorrow I'll share a link to one coming out in Joyland called "Shades." This fall I've got one coming into print again at The Paris Review
How bout a little #sports chat on here? Where are the BlueSky bowlers? #bowling #tenpins
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just got this in the mail and it's 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It is Disney canon that Huey, Dewey, and Louie moved in with Donald Duck after killing their biological father by putting fireworks under his chair and lighting them while he was sitting in it.
🦌🏎️🗡️💋
I have a new short story in The Baffler, called “Chipper” thebaffler.com/stories/chip...
Here’s a new short story called “After Passaic” @farewelltransmiss.bsky.social
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I have a new short story in The Baffler, called “Chipper” thebaffler.com/stories/chip...
Never let your enemies give you a ride to the mall on the handlebars of their bike
been working 14 hour night shifts for the past five weeks, sometimes with Sunday off, but it’s almost over, just another few weeks, and then I can return to my real life again, as a semi-professional doer of nothing
Flyer for a reading featuring photo of cat trying to eat a Christmas light. List of readers names + importantly location and timing: Wed, 2/26, 7 PM, Tattooed Mom in Philly
Hope some Philly folks will stop by Tattooed Mom on Wed for readings by the extremely talented and cool Rutgees Camden MFA 2nd year students (I will also be there)
