Short story up at Eclectica: www.eclectica.org/v29n2/sizemo...

Peddling copies of my novel God of River mud at the WVU Press booth, AWP.

Remember this all the time!

I'll be at the WVU Press booth (1047) on Thursday 12-1 and Friday 10-11 signing copies of my novel God of River Mud. Stop by and say hello. Or, if you'll be at AWP and would like the reconnect, or connect for the first time, reach out and we can get a coffee or a drink, whatever.

A painting of the assassination of Julius Caesar

Happy ides of march!

Today it is tradition to give the gift of stabbing to would-be dictators 🫶🏻

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial Eng...

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Short live the dictator ! #USA bsky.app/profile/joeh... @nytimes.com @malcolmnance.bsky.social @miafarrow.bsky.social @ushmm.bsky.social

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"I don't think we have any right to obedience. I think we have a responsibility to freedom." Ursula K. Le Guin, from her 1986 Bryn Mawr commencement address

You can read the full speech at the link below, and in the collection Dancing at the Edge of the World (Grove Press, 1989).

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There’s something happening in this country.

“How quickly you would give up for the sake of favor, and what you think is a friendship, with what is known to be a dictator who would eat you for lunch.”

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

"Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense dancing. Those who lack humour lack sense and should be trusted with nothing.” ~ Clive James

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

To Love My Trans Child Is to Be Afraid All she wants is what all of us want: to love and be loved, to do meaningful work, to be herself, to live and thrive.

The current scapegoating of trans people only makes this worse. If you know any trans people, things are not okay for them right now. Reach out and give them some love. goodmenproject.com/featured-con...

Never believe that anti- Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will

When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

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neighbors’ dogs don’t get along

Excited to share that the new StorySouth (@storysouth.bsky.com ) issue went live today and features my creative nonfiction essay “Hazelgreen”. Check out the photos I took at Hazelgreen Academy in January 2020, then read at storysouth.com/stories/haze...

#photography #booksky #southernfiction

“Because It Happened to Me”: An Ode to Anita Hill - Solstice Literary Magazine Friday, October 11, 1991, 11:30am Anita Hill’s voice streamed from the RCA. Dressed in what would become her iconic teal linen suit, she spoke her testimony into a microphone on a table draped with a ...

Take a few minutes and read this powerful essay by my dear friend Marilyn Bousquin.

trigger warning: rape

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