With a spouse like this, who needs a campaign manager? 😁

As the latest literary debates have shown, English is up its own ass. Instead, consider the 700 other languages of NYC, most of them near-extinction. My interview with linguist Ross Perlin, author of the brilliant 'Language City,' in Bookforum Magazine: bookforum.com/print/3004/ros…

What if we sent a cruise ship to live as a writer for a week

We're so back

What about also providing a map of US armed forces located in the Middle East?

In solidarity with the writers boycotting the PEN America World Voices Festival; PEN America United; Writers Against the War on Gaza; and all the other writers who have declined PEN awards this week––

(Person who has only skimmed twitter today) I can’t believe OJ Simpson got a Guggenheim

I have an essay in the new Granta about Danny Franzreb's photos of crypto miners (and what a line-up!)

After a powerfully and pettily negative discourse ends, all you can do is look at your life and admit you have done nothing.

THE SPOILED HEART by Sunjeev Sahota is 'fearlessly contemporary and flawlessly observed' according to Karan Mahajan and we couldn't agree more! ✨

Learn more about this riveting story of ambition, love, and family secrets before it goes on sale next week: bit.ly/3Tu1jYV

Last week I read Nicholson Baker's The Mezzanine and while I was reading it I had a shoelace break, so did my wife, and so did a friend while he was at our house. Occasionally, life is beautiful.

“If you waste your time in the right way for 14 years, you might end up with a book at the end.” - Shiela Heti. Truth. interviewmagazine.com/literature/she… Interview Magazine

The The Polis Project newsletter outlines all the work that we have been doing and the special projects we have lined up for the year.

I urge you to take some time to read, subscribe and share it with others who might be interested. We will also share in-depth updates on various…

How many of you became writers because you’re lazy? No lies, please.

It feels safe to assume that most US wars have looked a lot like Gaza.

Agreed. The writing in this review by Lisa Borst approaches Nicholson-Baker-level deliciousness. Bookforum Magazine

When I encounter a bad character in a novel, I immediately stop reading and call the publisher demanding answers. Do they have documentation verifying that the author does not believe the same things as the bad character? If not, I call the author and ask them to take a polygraph

Some good, honest moments in this essay about why it sucks to be an IITian: 'One of our previous IITian tenants had scribbled this on his cupboard before vacating his room: 'I spent the worst years of my life in this room. It’s your turn now.'' scroll.in/article/735239… Scroll.in

novelists: people whose best work are their interviews

someone on here described contemporary politics as 'restorationist,' a struggle between two kinds of conservatism, one that would like to return to a recent past and one that would like to return to a more distant past. holds well, it seems to me, for contemporary aesthetics too.