It’s likely you’ve heard all about myself and my organization from a corporate media only too willing to enact the agenda of our oligarchic overlords. It’s time Humans for a Safer North American Tree Octopus Future set the record straight at MQR: sites.lsa.umich.edu/mixtape/2021/0…

New issue is live! waxwingmag.org

A hearty thanks to Audrey Bauman for helping bring "The Diaphragm Must Expand" to a web browser near you. It is without a doubt one of the very favorite stories I've written and representative of why I do what I do. waxwingmag.org/items/issue32/…

Hello! Good morning to literature-lovers worldwide! We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with the University of Rochester, and we welcome Open Letter Books as the newest member of the Deep Vellum family. More info available from Publishers Weekly publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/in…

I'm starting a little press "La Barba Metafísica" – actual books with actual spines! These two (our first trade paperbacks) are out in June. Drop me a line if you're a bookseller or reviewer interested in learning more/supporting this venture. Distributed by Asterism Books

This was fun: substack.com/home/post/p-15…

did the design for my friend mike's book. it's inspired by keith shore's illustration, lorraine louie's design for vintage contemporaries paperbacks, susan kare's icons, andy warhol's jazz album covers, and nyc parking signs. more: double--negative.com/001-new-paltz-…

BREAKING: Zeteo has released, globally, the film the BBC so controversially refused to air. "Gaza: Doctors Under Attack" is now available to watch in full at gazadoctors.film and zeteo.com. Here's the trailer:

Sean Evans: so Tom, in the 17 years between Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland, you reportedly slunk around Northern California, addicted to TV, sending crank letters to a local newspaper under the name "Wanda Tinasky"-- Thomas Pynchon (choking on NUCLEAR ASS hot sauce): holy fuck

did some more book design, this time in collaboration with author & illustrator mads gobbo. double--negative.com/002-double-bla…

“Be it resolved that the highest aim of criticism is to complete the work of art by providing it with general social and historical significance.”—Ciarán Finlayson’s manifesto on the future of arts criticism, from this week’s summer missive 4columns.org/finlayson-ciar…

Submissions for WANTED [whatiwanted (dot) org] are now open exclusively to writers seeking their 1st publication

do you think Peter Thiel cried when he heard about Hulk Hogan

🚨 LOS ANGELES 🚨 To celebrate the publication of DOUBLE BLACK DIAMOND, Mads and I are hosting an event for the sickos at Stories on 8/3. Featuring: Alison, ashley ray, Nick Greer, Amelia Gray and Molly Lambert. We’ll be selling the book for dirt cheap!

I've had thoughts on so-called AI since 2016 (when I wrote this) because I was aware of Effective Altruism and found their perspective on art/life itself equally grotesque & contemptible: folioliteraryjournal.com/samuel-rafael-…

Looking to place a few poems from my debut collection, Southwest Reconstruction (Noemi Press, out 12/1). Editors, let me know where to reach out. Thanks!

Pauline Kael has expressed some of the most ludicrous opinions I’ve ever come across in any genre of criticism (in particular with Kubrick). But I’d take a million wannabe Pauline Kaels over this influencer culture we’re stuck with

i am the detective who is revealed to be the killer

Krasznahorkai is, of course, awesome

FOR LK In this translation you will look in vain for a full-stop, Stops are there, but hard to find. Keep searching. Oh look, there is one! He must have taken breath. Time can stand still for the blink of a whale's eye. Then the whale goes down, spouting as it dives.