And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Jerks, all glowed up, out today (again) from @tortoisebooks.bsky.social

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When NJ’s Orchards Shipped Apples to NYC During 1975 Fiscal Crisis Monmouth County apple orchards sent fruit to NYC in 1975 to promote bond sales during the city’s financial crisis.

Monmouth orchards shipped apples to cash-strapped NYC in Oct 1975 as part of a marketing ploy to get people to buy NYC bonds. Drop that knowledge when you’re apple picking at Delicious Orchards this weekend. 943thepoint.com/monmouth-app...

IVY POCHODA with Jackie Corley | The Brooklyn Rail With Ivy Pochoda's latest novel, Ecstasy, the author has pivoted from thrillers and is all-in on horror. Ecstasy is a modern reframing of Euripides’s brutal Greek tragedy The Bacchae. We discussed her...

Chatted with my brilliant friend Ivy Pochoda about her horror novel ECSTASY in The Brooklyn Rail

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#bookthreads

Passed 40k on the new manuscript with a 4k bender this weekend. 3 cheers for being late on the writing group submission deadline that got me here! 🥂

All the Sora videos just remind me of when my dad discovered Elf Yourself that one year

I keep meaning to finally read this. Seems like a very necessary time to do so.

Afternoon Bites: Amber Sparks on Writing, Kirkus Prize Winner, California Books, and More In our afternoon reading; an interview with Amber Sparks, an essay by Sasha Frere-Jones, and more.

Thanks to @tobiascarroll.bsky.social and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social! Please check out my interview with @ambersparks.bsky.social which ran initially at The Brooklyn Rail. Boom.

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Newburgh Fringe Festival Revives the Stage Where Lucille Ball Once Performed The festival will feature over 70 genre-defying acts in 3 days.

Hudson Valley gets a fringe festival
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Connor Kennedy, Lee Falco and Brandon Morrison are fantastic local musicians, so this was excellent news to report.

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‘The Devil and Daisy Dirt’ got a plug from the Pope of Jersey himself, Kevin Smith, today: "The Devil and Daisy Dirt is a spooky, spellbinding spectacle!”

8-Foot Jersey Devil Takes Center Stage at NJ’s Hottest Theater Ticket

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Few Know About This Historic NJ Spring Tied to Henry Hudson A forgotten spring tied to Henry Hudson hides in plain sight.

A forgotten Henry Hudson landmark is hiding in Atlantic Highlands, NJ
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Cream background. Black text at top reads: Winner of the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction. In the center is a headshot of the author. Bottom left in script text is the author’s name: Roy Kesey. Bottom right is the white Sarabande logo.

Congratulations to Roy Kesey (@roykesey.bsky.social)
whose collection LORE was selected by Ed Park as the 2025 Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction winner and is scheduled for publication in May 2027!! Learn more here: www.sarabandebooks.org/all-titles/p...

The Complete Guide to Jersey Shore Indie Bookshops Meet the bookstores turning the Jersey Shore into a reader’s haven.

📚 7 indie bookstores to check out the next time you’re down the Shore

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7 Things You Didn’t Know About Sandy Hook, NJ — From Pirate Treasure to Nuclear Missiles This iconic Jersey Shore peninsula hides centuries of history.

Beaches, nuclear weapons + pirate treasure: Sandy Hook, NJ is my happy place because it’s one of a kind

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#newjersey #jerseyshore

We have delicious tomatoes, too, sir! 🍅

How the Jersey Shore is Celebrating Bruce Springsteen's Milestone 'Born to Run' on 50th Anniversary 'Born to Run' was released on Aug. 25, 1975. The Bruce Springsteen Archives have a slate of events to honor the milestone album's 50th anniversary.

Excited to see what’s in store for the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music when the building opens up in 2026, if this jam-packed event schedule for the 50th anniversary of Born to Run is any indication of what they can cook up.

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The missing piece of the equation explaining why so many critic positions are being eliminated is the little AI summaries at the top of Google results, which reduced click-throughs drastically. Once again, a tech company has stolen human labor and monetized it and doesn't care about the impact.

Thanks for the linkage @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social!

Every time I do a reading and read from paper instead of a phone, I smile to myself and think, “not today, Satan!”

This revision had 71k words going in.
15k words yanked out.
19k words added in.
Ending with 75k words and left everything I had for this round on the field.

#writersky

Upstate NY black fly season making a prominent appearance in GOD OF THE WOODS and I’m nodding my head vigorously. Those little irksome bastards.

You’ll Never Guess Why a Hundred People Are Reading Silently on a New Jersey Beach The Silent Book Club of Monmouth County went viral with a beach meetup, drawing 2.3M views.

Video from the Silent Book Club of Monmouth County went massively viral w/over 2M views

#jerseyshore #newjersey

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I drink from the tap no matter what city or state I’m in. That’s the kind of dangerous life I lead.

What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything.

What’s to Love About the New Jersey Turnpike? Everything. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...

Middletown, NJ politician arrested with weapons on way to 'take care of' his lover’s husband, court hears A Middletown school board member faces serious charges after being caught with four weapons while on his way to confront his mistress's husband, escalating a troubled personal situation.

Married conservative family values BOE member in my hometown of Middletown, NJ arrested with 4 guns, allegedly planned to shoot girlfriend’s husband.

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Me to radio coworker: I’m confessing this because I think you won’t judge me. I bought a beginner mandolin and banjo on Amazon Prime Day.

Radio coworker: Pete Seeger would be so proud of you.

(Which is all anybody wants really. 🪕)

PAULA BOMER with Jackie Corley | The Brooklyn Rail Paula Bomer’s work has often taken quiet, interior moments and rendered them explosive. With The Stalker, the subject matter for the dark satire and Bomer’s surgical precision as a writer combine for ...

Chatted with Paula Bomer over at The Brooklyn Rail about her exceptional new novel THE STALKER #booksky

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“A knockout novel . . . Exhilaratingly ghastly.” —The Guardian

Read the full profile and review of Paula Bomer and her new novel THE STALKER by award-winning author Megan Nolan for @theguardian.com now. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...