I'm talking to Moira McCavana next Thursday at Unnameable Books! Come hang out with us!

We apologize for the interruption

originally REJECTION was going to be stories and a long essay. I ended up cutting the ~20K word essay from the book but have resuscitated about 6K of it for the The Paris Review :-D

'If the romance plot sets up an enticing question—Will they or won’t they?—the rejection plot spoils everything upfront: they won’t. There the story stalls; but, strangely, continues.' Tony Tulathimutte on The Rejection Plot

theparisreview.org/blog/2024/04/1…

It's a pretty good day in Brooklyn, new York for listening to this band called The Grateful Dead

“I like the ashes on Ash Wednesday.”

An essay by Sophie Haigney. buff.ly/3SZTD1e

This is awesome

Finally someone on my team

NEW BETTING MARKET:

What will be the cheapest ticket available for an unobstructed view seat for any May performance for Dead & Co at The Sphere?

manifold.markets/JosephWeisenth…

I get the incentives but the totally pervasive instinct to reclaim every single outdated cultural object as the key to understanding contemporary life ('prescient,' 'prophetic,' etc etc) makes me totally insane

went on a pilgrimage to britney’s bedroom for ⁦The Paris Review⁩ theparisreview.org/blog/2024/01/3…

A cool book of poems you can preorder by my friend Kelan Nee (no Twitter good poetry)

tamupress.com/book/978157441…

This is true and I know it for a fact

Wrote about reading Fosse’s Septology over the darkest week of the year The Paris Review

theparisreview.org/blog/2024/01/2…

“Rolling a star market over in Malden for a box of quarters” is so evocative…..perfect dialogue……

Horrible horrible horrible

Tomorrow the only thing on my Gcal is “spaghetti”

'The texture of my whole life experience is colored by the sense that I am talking to all my friends, all at once, almost all the time — or at the very least that I could be talking to them all, always' nytimes.com/2024/01/16/mag…