I love to search for online products and then, before clicking, replace the query parameters with fanciful key-value pairs

Bought your book and am looking at the up-to-date graph!

publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Thanks! I already bought (and have nearly finished) The Largesse of the Sea Maiden. But I'll be reading Jesus' Son for sure, based on how much I like this one.

What Denis Johnson book should I read first?

Footnote of the year. #2023inreview

I think this is my last MRI. How did you get my medical records?

All beauty, resonance, integrity,
Exist by deprivation or logic
Of strange position.

- John Ashbery

Prompted by a couple of posts I saw yesterday, a thread about how it's really tough being a creative writing freelancer right now. Please read and share if you can. (1/13)

Very cool - thank you! I'll read that article on your site.

Has there been any analysis done on prevalence of first-person narration vs. third-person narration over time? (Maybe @tedunderwood.me knows?)

An erotic thriller set in the publishing industry titled MUCH TO ADMIRE

naïve people spell naïve naive

Now that we’ve settled this, I’ll put on my goggles and descend into my pun dungeon

I agree. It does seem like some puns are rare birds spotted from afar before zipping away, while others are wordganisms bred so monomaniacally that they can't survive in the world for more than a few seconds.

A potentially vapid question (for @benwurgaft.bsky.social): Are puns more like wild animals that we momentarily trap, or are they like domesticated animals (and if so, what are their wild forebears)?

4 famous folks I’ve met and 1 lie

Michael J. Fox
Cory Booker
Samantha Bee
Colm Toibin
Laurie Anderson

Kimchi in a burrito is nice too!

Thank you, Melissa, and yes, I wish the same.

My story, "The Only Way Out," is in the new @emergejournal.bsky.social -- please take a look at it and all the fabulous other pieces!

emergeliteraryjournal.com/the-only-way...

My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:

www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...

Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!

Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback

The Juxtables?
Juxte Pour Rire?
Juxt To Be You?
Juxt Et Veritas?

Watch out, the perfect form is irregular

Perhaps less so in Scotland

Hi, everyone! Here we are, on Bluesky!

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‎The American Vandal: Criticism in The Conglomerate Era on Apple Podcasts ‎Show The American Vandal, Ep Criticism in The Conglomerate Era - Oct 17, 2023

Very excited to be making a repeat appearance on The American Vandal pod! Talking ‘bout agents as literary critics and “pre-literary criticism.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Novel Excerpt Contest Submissions Open Through November 12! Add to Calendar Each fall, The Masters Review hosts a call for novel excerpts! Writing a novel can be an arduous and lonely process, but we’re here to champion ...

For my birthday, I want to read the novel you're working on! TMR is taking Novel Excerpts for our contest judged by @salesses.bsky.social through Nov. 12:

mastersreview.com/novel-excerp...

Wow, thank you for the kind words, Joel, and thanks for sharing!

I got so much encouragement on this one from my group. It was so nice!

My story "The Kid from Out West" is in the new issue of Peatsmoke:

www.peatsmokejournal.com/fall-2023-fl...

Have a read, & read the other amazing authors too!

Thanks to Wendy Wallace for believing in it, and thanks to my workshop buddies in @smokelong.bsky.social Fitness for the great feedback