My essay on lost things is featured on LitHub this month. Originally appeared in New England Review. bsky.app/profile/lite...

Yes, it was pretty wild. What brilliant form of guerrilla art and protest. I loved the underground tunnel filled with suspended figures, too.

This week, I’ve been thinking about when The Misfit shoots the Grandmother. It’s right after she reacts not in fear or anger, but with compassion. It’s just too terrifying for him and he shoots her. So many Misfits creating mayhem right now and a lot of good people looking down the barrel of a gun.

Heading to DC for a workshop and reading at George Mason University tomorrow. So nice to just hop on the train from NYC rather than all the hassle of air travel.

It’s a good idea!

I like this, Aaron. I’d like to see your template for this if you wouldn’t mind sharing. I’m teaching a comp class and might like to use something similar.

Looking forward to my reading tonight and conversation with Amy Margolis at my favorite bookstore!

I guess I must be a funny guy (or funghi) if Jane Curtin and Mike Doyle read a story of mine for Selected Shorts!

It’s a wonderful book!

Thank you, Beth! I’m glad I was helpful.

Thank you, Renee. That makes my day.

A person in a mask holding a painting that says “hands off my transgenic mice”

At @standupforscience.bsky.social and the signs are statistically significantly excellent

Thank you, Renee! I hope you enjoy it.

My musings on memoirs-in-essays on the UNP blog.

How to Change History: A Salvage Project A Salvage Project

Today is the publication date of my new collection of essays, HOW TO CHNAGE HISTORY: A Salvage Project. This one took only 25 years to write. bookshop.org/p/books/how-...

Never forget this day, February 28, 2025, when an American president abused and betrayed a democratic ally in the midst of a barbaric war with Russia. This grotesque stain will never wash away.

Pass it on.
#StandWithUkraine

If you want to buy something tomorrow, buy books from indie publishers and university presses. Not from Amazon of course.

Cabaret is great.

Currently appearing at UK bus-stops.

More of this pointed ridicule, please.

I guess there were a lot of us who commented and I guess it hit a Google nerve. I’m switching to Duck Duck Go as my search engine.

It’s probably completely logical to him. He thought, “it’s a strip like Las Vegas. A few casinos. Maybe a boardwalk like Atlantic City.”

AOC: I don’t care what Elon Musk is doing behind the presidential seal, but in this country we hate Nazis. Kind of like a foundational defining thing. Two of the foundational things about American history is that we beat the confederates and we beat the Nazis.

That would be fantastic. Thank you. I’ll keep you posted.

Thank you so much! I’m going to be in Reykjavik in early March launching my new collection of essays. Will you be there?

Great magazine! Congratulations!

One thing I love about Iowa City is that my doctors almost always want to read my books. My eye doctor who will performing a surgery on me in early January just asked me for my “best nonfiction book” for him and a book of fiction for his wife. I’m going to ask him for free surgery in return!

Haldor Laxness! I once stayed in the room where he wore one of his books and on this trip I took a tour of his house. Really interesting story about how he won his Nobel, too.

It’s come a long way since’89. And now the place caters to the wealthy. It’s super expensive. My former student Kendra Greene wrote a great book about Iceland and its wild museums.