a candid one and a posed one, but the smiles are real. what a night w elle nash Saskia Vogel Ryan Ruby

does chuck wendig know he’s going down in history as worse than lars ulrich versus napster for this. hope you enjoy your netflix style subscription services to all forms of art for the rest of your life!

It started with Randell Jarrell and landed near Christina Tudor-Sideri. oceanstatereview.org/2024/09/06/ali…

View from Assisi

in rural italy at a haunted train station, a cappuccino costs €1.30 and the man making it will apologize because it’s troppo caro

my friend literally found a kissing manual on the street in a village in italy. i cannot leave this place

hey let me download ten years of promoting my books and my career in marketing into your brain next week

Written in the 1950s (Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye)

more than 11% of new york city public school students are homeless but thank god the nypd got 11 billion dollars in 2024 so they could shoot four people over $2.90

The dark side of having respect for your readers is they might be capable of wounding you. But this is the bright side. He said it feels like the ocean

May you know when praise contains captivity and an insult is a doorway to freedom

Louise Glück wrote one of the absolute best lose-my-number breakup poems. you ever want me, don’t 🥵

SAVE THE DATE. October 26. Berlin. Free event. All about your man Walter. Star guests. Open submissions. More soon

i'm really floored by this.... Deliver Me has been longlisted for Scotland's national book awards 😭

I like the way many German parents patiently let their kids lose their shit a lil in public, trusting that they’ll get ahold of themselves

Fredric Jameson taught me that the texts and ideas I fear are likely just folded over a few times and will yield to patient investigation; and that the pleasures of analysis reach far beyond the professional categories of "criticism" or "academia" RIP a true king