Stick a fork in it. Zohran Mamdani will win the first round of the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. Zero path forward for Cuomo to make up that ground in RCV. A Muslim immigrant democratic socialist is the frontrunner to become the mayor of the largest city in the U.S.

Hope and solidarity won tonight, and will win again in November. Congratulations, Zohran Kwame Mamdani.

Let the rich people leave and give us their apartments with the rent frozen and the heat on all winter.

Leading a Percival Everett reading group this summer at the The Center for Fiction. Four meetings in downtown Brooklyn between July and September. The first meeting is two weeks from today. Link in bio to sign up!

both volumes are flawless

Every aspect of this bill is sickening, particularly the gutting of healthcare, but I don’t really know how to be catastrophic enough about the expansion of ICE, effectively the president’s secret police force that has spent six months abducting people, by orders of magnitude.

"He met up with his second wife in Venice, where they stayed at the Hotel Concordia." From the Joyland archives: "Sex in Venice" by Alec N joylandmagazine.com/fiction/sex-in…

we have two amazing micros by Erin Satterthwaite suburban cutie !! they're really funny pieces about (1) investigating yr boyfriend’s ex online & seething (2) getting invited to a cool party & watching youtube vids on yr phone in the corner - read them ! xraylitmag.com/no-name-and-co…

This was lowkey crazy. Have you read yet?

the LA writing scene with suburban cutie & Britt Menjivar youtu.be/Y8dCxAfnDXM?si…

Never thought I'd say ratio'ing Jimmy Fallon would be my 2nd proudest post of the month, but July 31st I will be opening for art rock god John Maus at an intimate stint. It's sold out because it will be spectacular, but check for future dates, and maybe wait outside to fight us

Listening to the new Tyler album

I wrote about Michael Clune’s Pan.

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well.forward.com/opinion/757549…

I lowkey have a reading tomorrow if anyone wants to come

Nearly everyone praises W.G. Sebald, but by the same turn the way people talk about him is a bit boring: a received idea. Reading his early essays, I tried to think about him—his influences, his strangeness—from the beginning. thenation.com/article/cultur…

I was so...RELIEVED when I discovered that the narrator of Stephanie Wambugu's book was not a 20-something-year-old in the year 2020-something. Really incredible book and I'm glad I got to interview Stephanie for Bustle bustle.com/entertainment/…

I’m in Pitchfork this week on Loe Shimmy, the rockstar junkie lifestyle and the prison of excess! pitchfork.com/reviews/albums…

If Vivian Gornick wrote fiction, it might look something like “Lonely Crowds” !!!!!

Well. It is the big night. Thank you John Maus , to my loved ones who came to the basement shows with broken bathrooms. Thank you God, fate, Syd Barrett. Thank you to the ugly guys who said I'd never be anyone. This is John's best work in the ~16yrs I've heard. I've come prepared