Did anyone answer no to this question? 🙃

Catch Patrick O'Dowd at Barnes & Noble Paramus this Saturday at 1 pm to get your signed copy of A Campus on Fire! B&N Paramus stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/97800621…

A glad cry of recognition--this is how I spend all my Sunday mornings! Including the oranges and coffee.

How to restructure the humanities: insidehighered.com/opinion/views/… Shit Academics Say

Thank you very much to Robin Helweg-Larsen for featuring my poem "A Nightingale to a Sad Poet" at his blog Form in Formless Times! Birds deserve to get a rebuttal to annoying romantics getting drunk underneath their tree: formalverse.com/2025/07/28/dou…

"My brush handles are adorned in dried-up colors: startling navy, temperate teal, muddy ochre." Prismatic and cinematic, a layered coming of age story from Sudha Balagopal | doesithavepockets.com/fiction/sudha-…

Come here and come hear David Galef read from his fourth novel, Where I Went Wrong Saturday, August 23, 1:00-2:00 Montclair Book Center 221 Glen Ridge Avenue, Montclair, NJ MontclairBookCenter

Funny because the chickens always say, “No one here but us!” 🙃

How is it possible that out of the wash come not two but three mismatched socks with no partners? I’ve looked all over. What are the odds?

If you're in North Jersey on Saturday afternoon, September 27, and also happen to be interested in writing a novel, by all means come to the Fort Lee public library! fortleelibrary.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/how-t…

Pertinent passage from a tremendous book:

For anyone interested in the sweet, self-inflicted pain of writing a novel.

For The New Yorker, I wrote about my daughter's transition at age 26--the initial surprise, and the long, edifying period of adjustment, which has transformed us both (and which isn't over yet). newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

We are so excited to celebrate the release today of Susan Coventry's TILL TAUGHT BY PAIN, "A true-to-life love story that illuminates an intriguing woman’s life, the life of her brilliant physician husband, and the wretched secret they share." …al-house-publishing.mybigcommerce.com/till-taught-by…

Hooray our amazing micro writers!

Been a lot of talk recently about "restructuring" the humanities. FYAmusement: insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

My latest novel, Where I Went Wrong, just got shortlisted for the Somerset Book Awards and snared a spot in Shelf Unbound Top 100 Best of the Indie Presses.

Vestal Review 67 has just hit the stands, so to speak: vestalreview.net 18 flash fiction stories and a book review. Recommendations for specific stories, based on your astrological sign and whatever else we know about you, upon request.

My latest (quite short), in the new issue of Ghost Parachute: ghostparachute.com/issue/february… I assume you've suffered this, too, right?

For all yr marig counslg needs