My daughter's at summer camp at our local nature center, and every day I get pictures of her playing in the creek and meeting different animals and painting and making crafts and man, I think I just want to quit my job and go to summer camp.

Stephen Malkmus performing Spit on a Stranger at La Fontaine de Belleville (Paris, 2019)

Anxiously awaiting bonfire and pumpkin beer season

This is so damn good

we have a micro by Benjamin Drevlow Benjamin Drevlow ! i'm starting to believe that what most ppl want most out of life is to be rescused from it...this 178 word story embodies that feeling for me. check it out xraylitmag.com/late-to-work-b…

fall weather and new vans 🖤

"I pretended Johnny Cash was my father and my father, like Johnny Cash, was finally dead so I could finally forgive him all the ways that he’d been mean and dismissive to me" Benjamin Drevlow's "The Ghost of Johnny Cash Sings of Fire" trampset.org/the-ghost-of-j…

New episode with Cody Shrum where talk Kansas, Christianity, absent dads, porn shops, and getting the permission to write what you know--oh! plus his amazing collection of stories, OAKAVILLE. Run it up! open.spotify.com/episode/7b8szD…

Turnstile Tiny Desk stage dive

"At the Creed concert" is such a good opening because Creed kills it live and I swear everyone should see them, but the way this one slips into taking your kid to the ER and Chris Benoit's entrance song and so much more is honest and vivid and just *great*

Sat down to write. Cat had other plans.

Hot damn! Cowboy Jamboree Press with all bangers, all the time!

🥜🥜 GO NUTS 🥜🥜 We love our lil onions, but today we’re nutty for ISSUE TWO: NIGHT AND DAY. You can read it now using this link: thebloominonion.com/issue-two-land…

SONGS TO WOODY-CJ anthology call y'all

very proud to share this with y’all today

Keep saying I've been swamped with work and life and house stuff and whatnot, but really my daughter's gotten into Kpop Demon Hunters and I've been holed up in my office listening to "Golden" on repeat

Very stoked to have a new story in Mealarkey! It's about cupcakes and fatherhood and marriage and bonfires and This is 40, and it's inspired by one of my favorite National songs.

letter from v b: [bullshitlit.com/blog/letter]

Really just wanna write the great American beer league hockey novel