Kept waiting and waiting for someone to write about polyamory, but nobody else seemed interested so I did it myself yalereview.org/article/brandy…

Totally knocked out by this, one of the best new novels I've read in recent memory nyrb.com/products/loved…

Good morning! It's not the biggest thing going on in the world right now, but I had a fun time profiling the inimitable Will Stancil for New York Magazine. He's running for the Minnesota state legislature and testing whether the posting-to-praxis pipeline is real. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

My Columbia Journalism students are out reporting non-stop: working sources they've built over months, navigating the campus unlike any outsider, and adding much-needed context, humanity and depth to coverage.

If you're an editor looking to commission them, get in touch.

Famously, one thing about young people is that when you condescend to them, and demand they do what you want, they go 'I never thought about it like that — thank you, changing course immediately'

Naomi Watts in MULHOLLAND DRIVE, what a performance... playing the sweetest girl you know, the craziest girl you know, and the sweetest girl you know who is also the craziest girl you know

For this zine I wrote a very short story about a funeral gone terribly wrong, among other things....

imagining it’s 1992 and every media outlet is running identical articles titled “Hi How Are You: Who Is Daniel Johnston, the Bipolar Singer Songwriter Mentioned By Kurt Cobain?”

In college, I took a poetry writing class with a poet who (unbeknownst to me, an 18-year-old idiot) was incredibly accomplished ... the only piece of instruction I remember was something like, 'However satisfied you are, you should always revise more.' Pretty helpful, ultimately

Long week — fortunately, the next episode in my Mad Men rewatch is the one where Lane hangs himself

My guess is she is spelling out 'Taylor Swift'

I think about this every now and then

Inflate your numbers by exclusively reading novellas

We're back!

The next Interval Series event will take place on Thursday, 4/25, at KGB Bar Literary Journal with readings from Jeremy Gordon Alexandra Tanner Emily Hall Jack Hanson Hannah Gold and more!

Doors at 7, Readings 7:30. Free!

Thought this was a beautiful sentiment... performing your own self-awareness can be such a mood killer

DARK WATERS (Haynes, 2019)

As time goes on, I basically forget 92% of the details of any book I read once, whether I liked it or not — and what I do remember about Magda Szabo's THE DOOR, years later, is 'that was pretty fucked up'

Every person on TikTok talks like what they're saying is the most relatable, obvious thing in the world, which makes me feel there should be a law against self-expression