Thinking of your potential audience is sometimes useful when writing, but the probably worst thing you can do is think of other writers

Part 7 of my Publishing Field Report series unpacks considerations of design, distribution, promotion, compensation, & aura w/r/t publishing with an indie press vs big 5 - link in bio

This entire series is worth subscribing to Blake's substack by itself.

my favourite video on the internet

The "Molly" audiobook narrated by me is now available for preorder from Audible audible.com/pd/Molly-Audio…

Shitty writers gossip, great gossipers write

4 of fav NYRB classics

How Long Gone #685: themjeans and I chat with blake butler about his book, a shellfish ranking, Limp Bizkit live, M*cklemore and K*ller Mike, biscuit-eating bitches, bootlicking, Bennington, taboo humor, media and the publishing industry, and Substack — howlonggone.com/685-blake-butl…

Had a blast talking shit with the How Long Gone bros howlonggone.com/685-blake-butl…

blake butler x How Long Gone • podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how… • Chris Black themjeans •

Loving every page

In his new memoir, “Molly,” Blake Butler faces the life and death of his wife, the poet Molly Brodak. “The question of allowance, of permission to expose, bubbles beneath so much writing, but it is at the very heart of memoir,” Alexandra Schwartz writes. nyer.cm/RoRmFg8

Internet Archive Responds to Appellate Opinion in Hachette v. Internet Archive "We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to

What is the point of a book review that spends 80% of its space describing the reviewer’s inherently patchwork recollections of the narrative of the book?

It’s a dark room in a dark world Bernadette Mayer

Why are there so many hall monitors on the internet

Are you ready for VOID CORPORATION? The ne plus ultra of blake butler's fictional oeuvre and a prescient vision of art in our dystopia, for the first time in paperback, with the original title, iconic cover art by Seymour Rosofsky, and a new preface by the author. Out 11/19.