I find it pretty interesting, to say the least, that in these brain-rot TikTok times, with attention spans getting increasingly shorter, both editors and readers are still betting more on novels than on short story collections.

“Good fiction is partly a bringing of the news from one world to another.” —Raymond Carver buff.ly/TRuSoIL

I've just reread "Morella" by Poe and it has to be one of Poe’s most perfect short stories... 🤯 #americanfiction #fiction #shortfiction #americanshortfiction #americanwriters #edgarallanpoe

Even though I know jack shit about Bob Dylan's poetry, I still think the fact that Philip Roth and Paul Auster kicked the bucket without a Nobel in Literature is one of humankind's biggest fuckups. Note: I just finished The Music of Chance by Paul Auster. Masterpiece.