Absolutely thrilled to share that my new short story collection, THE LETTERS, will be published by @aaknopf next spring!!! I’m so grateful to be working again with my brilliant editor, Diana Tejerina Miller, and the rest of the amazing team at Knopf!
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As you know, Hampshire College is closing, and hundreds of our wonderful staff & faculty colleagues are facing sudden job loss without severance.
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Garmin running app screen share, showing a treadmill run at 6:02 a.m., with 3.21 miles of distance, in 29:31, for an average pace of 9:12 per mile and a 160 bpm average heart rate
Shitty night's sleep in hotel (loud HVAC at 2:45, then 3:45 fire alarm), so ran a bullshit 5k on a fitness center treadmill just to feel something
screen cap of Barton Fink, showing a long hotel hallway with every room on fire, and a silhouetted figure walking into the distance
Apparently, my hotel at 3:40 this morning. (Everything's fine, as it turned out)
Go read this beautiful eulogy (the deceased is a friend's mom; we got to meet her once at a party and she & my wife bonded INSTANTLY) christietheriotwoodfin.substack.com/p/a-eulogy-f...
Reminder to support the REAL LIFE COMIX: ONLY IN NEW YORK Kickstarter! It's got 51 true NYC comics from 66 creators (incl. me!), so let's get this over the finish line! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
My book baby is an instant New York Times bestseller!! #4
zol lebn der fucking Bund
This achievement owes everything to my friends, my community, the movement, and you
if you want to help keep up the momentum, I’m making a list of easy ways to help 1/6
Just occurred to me that the final #TripOrTreat at @hampshirecollege.bsky.social this fall may be a Woodstock-level blowout
You oughtta help out my pal @hommestead.bsky.social's wife (it's a complicated story, but a good cause) gofund.me/ccacd9ed9
cover of the book THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS, feat. a b/w photo of artists Peter Hujar and Paul Thek in bathing suits on a beach
Go get the book from the publisher us.macmillan.com/books/978037... or your fave bookshop bookshop.org/a/4669/97803...
NOW NOW NOW! It's out today from @fsgbooks.bsky.social
You NEED to go read @andrew-durbin.bsky.social's new #biography, THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek, but first you oughtta go listen to our conversation about it! chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
photo of magnolias in early pink-white bloom, in early morning golden light
morning walkies, golden light
“This is an incredibly painful moment for the Hampshire community, and we are doing everything to support our students in completing their studies and assist our faculty and staff in navigating what comes next.“ — President Jennifer Chrisler
www.hampshire.edu/closure-info...
I owe Hampshire College everything, nearly all of it good. It was a beautiful thing, and we're losing too many of those.
I'm a Hampshire grad, and while this news wasn't unexpected, it hurts.
It's a Good Day youtu.be/zj7092sSw_E?...
“But staggering subsets, fellows—you see what this means don’t you? those Indian mystics and Tibetan lamas and so forth were right all along, the world we think we know can be dissected and reassembled into any number of worlds, each as real as ‘this’ one.”
—Thomas Pynchon, Against The Day
“Everyone knows the work’s call, because everyone has had to answer it. It awakens us at night to make us feel the time passing by, the severely limited time that remains to us for all that remains for us to do.”
—Étienne Souriau, The Different Modes of Existence (tr. Beranek & Howles)
I'll protect you from the Hooded Claw
youtu.be/WtdRv6GT9Zg?...
Photo of tree in a memorial park, with a subsiding grave with a temporary marker in the foreground
Saturday evening w/Dad
Photo of 2 white men in Prospect Park subway station, smiling/smirking at camera
Ditto
(Me & Andrew Durbin after later this afternoon’s #podcast session)
Outdoor sunlit street photos two white men wearing sunglasses; one has an unlit cigar on his mouth, and the other one really needs a haircut and shave.
We Saw You From Across the Bar and Really Dig Your Vibe
(Me & Josh Alan Friedman after this afternoon’s #podcast session)
And go support REAL LIFE COMIX: ONLY IN NEW YORK! We’ve got 51 #comics stories from 66 creators, incl. #RozChast, #RonWimberly, #DrewFriedman, & more (+ me!) www.kickstarter.com/projects/gho...
New #podcast! @deanhaspiel.bsky.social & @douglatino.bsky.social talk about REAL LIFE COMIX: ONLY IN NEW YORK, the new anthology of #NYC #autobio #comics that just launched on #Kickstarter! GO LISTEN:
chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Cover by Peter & Maria Hoey! @peterhoey.bsky.social / @mariahoey.bsky.social
cover of REAL LIFE COMICS: ONLY IN NEW YORK, feat. an illustration of the flatiron building.
Comic panel showing an exterior of he Hi-Life Bar & Grille; the caption reads, "It's east of 83rd from the Hi-Life, where I used to embarrass myself around the turn of the century," and a word-balloon reads, "I'll give you $50 if you eat that ball of wasabi. . . . and I'll take another G&T"
comic panel of a bear trotting, with the caption, "I've spent my whole life 25 miles from the city, int he woods of northern NJ, at what I pretended was a safe distance."
comic panel of a NY policeman in profile; the caption reads, "I stuck around to try to help the cops ID a contact, unaware of how suspicious that made me look," with the cop's word-balloon reading, "Yer sayin' you don't KNOW this guy?"
NEW KICKSTARTER ... AND *I'M* IN IT! Hit tinyurl.com/3m8fk62t to support REAL LIFE COMIX: ONLY IN NEW YORK, an anthology of true stories of NYC! It's got 51 stories from 66 creators (incl. my "HI LIFE AND DEATH")!
