This book is great but it’s also sort of confirming to me that I’m no longer a fiction writer, which I guess is fine
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This book is great but it’s also sort of confirming to me that I’m no longer a fiction writer, which I guess is fine
This book is great but it’s also sort of confirming to me that I’m no longer a fiction writer, which I guess is fine
New at true! Writers Chris Campanioni and Richard Scott Larson discuss the processes of their memoirs, touching on topics such as the secrecy of observation, fluidity versus intentional disruption of time in narrative, and horror films as comfort and also construct. buff.ly/zfVZX3r
I first wrote about ICE's use of ruses and misrepresentations — which are explicitly recommended in their training manuals — almost eight years ago. This sounds like a particularly bold implementation but this has been part of their toolkit for a long time
doomscrolling buddy
I wrote a bit about Aoife Josie Clements's disquieting PERSONA (on @littlepuss.net). www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/26/a...
the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light
“Jesse Jackson loved us—sometimes before we loved ourselves.” @thrasherxy.bsky.social on Jackson’s legacy of support for LGBTQ rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
The new Ian McEwan is so crazy, I'm obsessed with these future dystopian people and their love of poetry written in 2014
The emails from AWP increasingly sound like some kind of spambot trying to scam me out of life and limb, but anyway I'll be in Baltimore next week/end and maybe I'll see you there!
deeply fascinating piece: "For much of the genre, there has been little recognizable gay culture in M/M romances. There is more compulsory masculinity, less faggotry. Nor are there any of the fraught aspects of modern homosexuality..."
The new Ian McEwan is so crazy, I'm obsessed with these future dystopian people and their love of poetry written in 2014
Absolutely loving this
The ideal viewer of Darren Aronofsky's AI animated TV series both knows and expects less.
I wrote about this show, the future of AI filmmaking, and D.W. Griffith's wildest dream come true, for @newrepublic.com :
newrepublic.com/article/2067...
NBCC member Omari Weekes reviewed Namwali Serpell's "On Morrison" for Bookforum:
I was at a urinal between Ethan Hawke and his kid after a screening of The Hobbit and they spoke past me arguing about the name of a dwarf who died in the film
I was at a urinal between Ethan Hawke and his kid after a screening of The Hobbit and they spoke past me arguing about the name of a dwarf who died in the film
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.
it's so insane, my dad died in his mid-30s and my colonoscopy at age 40 cost me like $2k despite doctors recommending screening for the past decade... still livid about this
"Better to return to the texts, and to give daring adaptations their fair shake, than to live like Heathcliff — cantankerous and volatile, hoping to coax a ghost of the half-remembered past back into our hearts."
I'm halfway through episode one of this amazing new literary podcast w/ Jarrett Earnest interviewing Darryl Pinckney about memoir, Elizabeth Hardwick, etc and I'm already obsessed
This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
And then he had so many questions
Tabby cat enthralled by men’s figure skating
He could not stop watching 😭
Tabby cat enthralled by men’s figure skating
He could not stop watching 😭
This is exactly what I plan to say the next time I quit a job
When I first reached out to @richardscottlarson.com (The Long Hallway) for an interview, he hesitated. He actually wrote back wondering if his perspective would be valuable to the newsletter because, unlike the full-time dream we’re often sold, he relies heavily on a day job.
And I also reviewed Tash Aw's THE SOUTH (both for @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social) which "explores time’s inevitable effects on narrative and memory, and how each can shape and transform the other" chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/30/t...
2025 was mostly about getting my new manuscript ready to send out, but I published a few things, including this review of @catherinelacey.bsky.social's The Möbius Book: "The reader becomes a detective parsing truths veiled by the imagined and (re)constructed" chireviewofbooks.com/2025/06/18/r...
A graphic with the text "Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device, my phone wrapped in the emotional equivalent of red duct tape while something inside of it struggles against its bonds."
"Sometimes I feel like I’ve trapped him like something dangerous that must be kept under lock and key, a bodiless entity living inside my device..."
@richardscottlarson.com reviews Wes Jamison's MY CORPSE INSIDE in our recent Horror Folio.
Link in thread.