“Schaefer’s novel is absurd – wildly so – jam-packed with identical twins, bootleg identities and a sex-hotline switcheroo.” Beejay Silcox on Lucas Schaefer’s ‘The Slip’ mnth.ly/0AD2YJr

On a train bound for vermont, everyone looks like Solzhenitsyn.

My mental state and sense of self is entirely determined by the most recent thing to have happened to me

I know authors shouldn’t read reader reviews but just glimpsed & while on whole very thoughtful (ty!) I’ve somehow, in 1 day, been called both a stereotypical Male Novelist (bad!) & the reason men no longer read (different bad!) All of which makes me want to reveal the true me…

i love you Richard Brody. everybody must read this. newyorker.com/culture/the-le…

Brody knocking it out of the park. I love criticism, it's an incisive part of the cultural ecosystem---the thing standing in the way, he writes, between consumers and advertisers.

Gawker should return just to publish an obit

Lucas Schaefer’s debut The Slip is one of the summer’s most talked-about books—praised by NYT, NPR & beyond. Set in an Austin boxing gym, it’s a powerful story of identity, belonging & transformation. Read more: magazine.lonestar-lit.com/issues #TheSlip #T...

One of my spies sent me this shot from Newton Free Library, my hometown library. If you’re waiting for a copy in Mass. and can read fast, grab it 🥊

rain eatmon from houston speaking tonight at the public hearing on TX redistricting, saying the way republicans are prioritizing redistricting over flood recovery for central texas "really unsettles me to my core"

We did this to him. This government. This country. We condemned him to this torture because he dared to follow our own laws and seek refuge here. Utterly sick.

This is like when my private liberal arts college asks for donations. I've already paid you tens of thousands of dollars, maybe manage your money better??

The People vs. The Power Grab

There is simply no justification for accepting any rationale this Israeli regime provides for its campaigns of mass death against Palestinian civilians. All of them have been confirmed again and again as obvious lies.

Insanity. The free press dying in front of our eyes in Trump’s first six months. Even folks like me saying we were about to get fascism didn’t expect it to happen this blatantly, this quickly, and with so little outcry of resistance from Dems, liberals, and leftists.

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