For the latest episode of The Laser Age I coaxed my partner Reveal partner @scotttobias.bsky.social to enter the world of EXISTENZ with me:
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For the latest episode of The Laser Age I coaxed my partner Reveal partner @scotttobias.bsky.social to enter the world of EXISTENZ with me:
I would argue was that the best postwar literary magazine was NEW AMERICAN REVIEW, published in 26 issues fron 1967 to 1977 under Ted Solotaroff's inspired editorial guidance.Here is the cover of Number One, with a clique of assistant profs on the quad in deep discusion about the crises of the day.
I love the smell of consequences in the morning. Thank you, @dragoncon.org
I call this āPooch in the Suburbs.āHappy Labor Day, Bluesky peeps!
All legs
I call this āPooch in the Suburbs.āHappy Labor Day, Bluesky peeps!
Is āThe Wizard of Ozā at Sphere the Future of Cinema? Or the End of It? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/m...
Sandwich shop, London, 1972
Goodnight. āPeople will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to thinkā Aldous Huxley
I actually know way more about unions than birds but no one ever walks up to me at the wetlands and is like "hey sorry to bother you but why were farmworkers excluded from the National Labor Relations Act?"
Another beautiful day to be alive. This is a good time to recharge to be ready for the continuing struggle against repression. Scenes from Sardine Lake in the Tahoe National Forest. The upper lake is at about 6000 feet in the Sierra Buttes.
Hamnet obliterated me. my review: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
from Courtney Bush, āGoats" [ā¦]
I love getting a new book because it triggers an adventure where my brain spins a wheel of fortune to see which of the books I own Iām going to read next. will it be the one I just picked up? the book I bought on my phone on a layover? my friendās novel I keep wanting to get to? who knows! not me!
I pronounced omnipotent as omni-potent for years.
AM I DEAD
Iād like to share my (photo of) tomatoes, itās been a brilliant year, nearly 40 varieties, but a bit of a challenge to use, share but definitely not wasteā¦..
Nature is healing
youtu.be/tXFpXcD3BPk?... This is awesome.
Your presence is still missed and we wish you here. š¢ Continue to Rest in Power, sir. šš½š š¾āāļø #ChadwickBoseman Nov. 29, 1976 - Aug. 28, 2020
Was watching some old Siskel & Ebert Best Ofs today, to get ideas for a long weekend, and one of their top films of 1990 was one I'd forgotten, Barry Levinson's AVALON. A gentle, and sad film about the immigrant experience & the slow dissolution of those families. Haven't seen it since then.
Clearly marriage material!
So exited for this. I think Yorgos Lanthimos is my favorite director right now.
It seems I wrote one of the best books of September. www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/septemb...
I wrote something about writers from Chicago. open.substack.com/pub/meltedch...
Speaking of Chicago. I asked an artist from there Iām obsessed with named Jaz Rodriguez to make a poster for the September 19th event Iām doing at Volumes with @jamiattenberg.bsky.social.
Dog talk
Another infuriating aspect of ICE roaming around D.C. that I hadn't thought about. I just talked to a D.C. woman whose husband is undocumented and whose employer is refusing to pay him for work he's already done -- and threatening to call ICE if he keeps asking for the money he's owed.
Made a tomato tart with farmers market tomatoes. Mmm.
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Made a tomato tart with farmers market tomatoes. Mmm.
25 Books Coming in September www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b... So excited that Sam Sussmanās THE BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is on here! (Maybe you should pre-order? Maybe one for you and one for a good friend? Just a suggestion)
People who read posts but donāt post themselves are blueshy.
Is this can(n)on?
Happy to contribute three entries to The Ringer's list of the best performances of this century. One plays an alien, another plays a courteous Lothario, the third one is really, really sad.
Earnest post alert: I'm working on the books I dreamed of working on when I moved to NYC, I've got my second book in proofs, and I'm writing articles that are solid, yet I'm still wracked with anxiety about "making it." It's a good reminder to just step back sometimes and appreciate the moment.
"Paddington" "Paddington 2" "Paddington in Peru" "Paddington 4: The Legend of Curly's Gold" "Pad 5" "Paddin6ton" "Paddington VII: The Voyage Home" "Paddington vs. Jason"
BREAKING: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are engaged after two years of dating, the couple announces.
People who read posts but donāt post themselves are blueshy.
lol
25 Books Coming in September www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/b... So excited that Sam Sussmanās THE BOY FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY is on here! (Maybe you should pre-order? Maybe one for you and one for a good friend? Just a suggestion)
apnews.com/article/ariz... Good god. And never heard the word haboob before.
The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure letās have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
This article just reminded me of this old tweet
Was thinking similar thoughts the other day. Paint the pictureā¦
If I was an ambitious Democrat, I'd run on the story of what happens post-Trump when I and my allies are in power. At the moment, it's hard to imagine how you would even begin to tackle all the damage he's causing. A believable story that helped ppl picture this would be a powerful thing.
Frank McCourt would have been 95 today. My mentor, my high school English teacher, my friend. I first met him at 15. I was lucky enough to travel to Ireland with him and the McCourt brothers on films ā a memory Iāll hold forever. It only takes one teacher to believe in you. He changed my life.
šØ This oneās going fast. šØ Posted a few days ago & already marked GOING FAST (& not even promoted yet to NAC members). Sept 30 ā¢ 6:30 PM Free! National Arts Club, NYC In conversation w/ Patrick Radden Keefe @praddenkeefe.bsky.social @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/author-lau...
Liberty game!
So hey: I am working on a novel where the main character is involved in indie filmmaking in MN. I have been thinking about all the stuff I don't know, and that I don't know I don't know. I would really like to find someone who is doing an indie film in MN who would let me hang out & watch/work.
Mariam Dagga, assassinated this morning by the IDF
I wonder why you had to return this piece of paper to Virginia? (My mom found it in her parents papers so Iām assuming itās from the 1930s, 40s or 50s.)
Me, listening to a playlist I made: I have impeccable music taste
Can folks do me a favor? I was on Bluesky early & it was great. Mostly. I hit the eject button in January. I came back, many colleagues are here, but still donāt know I am. I co-created Halt and Catch Fire. I write TV & comics. Hereās two favorite set photos. Repost? I am in the wilderness.
Where the Karakoram Highway connects Pakistan with China over the Khunjerab Pass at 4700m above sea level, one of the highest paved roads in the world.
We need a dark comedy movie or psychological thriller starring Patrick Fischler and David Dastmalchian as brothers
Such a great novel.
I've been such a Timmy Olyphant fangirl for so long. But right now I'm especially loving my space dad , aka Robot Billy Idol, aka Kirsch in ALIEN EARTH
This is so cool!!!
Happy birthday, Ray Bradbury. Itās wild how a single short story read in middle school can stay with you forever & spark a new love. I spent most of high school obsessed with reading his stories.
What an unbelievable subtitle.
Copyedits are done and that means it's the end times for making any edits. It's the final countdoooooown AHHHHHHHHHHHHH That means work for me and only one tiny project for you: to preorder the book š Preorders help authors and books enormously š«¶š½ #BookSky www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
25 West Tremont Avenue, the Bronx ā Thomas Hoepker, 1983 The mural is by Alan Sonfist, 1978
Want to watch this.
Democratic Strategists: "Don't get sucked into culture war issues like...uhh...civil rights." Republican Operatives: "It is your duty as a patriot to commit suicide by cop to protect the old Cracker Barrel logo."
Movie Poster of the Day The Grim Game (1919)
Went to Opus 40 today, an extraordinary piece of landscape art in the Catskills that spans seven acres. Highly recommended.
I was just about to write the same thing!
Movie Poster of the Day J'accuse (1919)
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/a... This is so cool. Gifted.
BREAKING: Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
Bookstore owners/bookseller friends, tell me how your store came to be, please.
Hey there, Uncertain Sons comes out in a few weeks. Here's what @premeemohamed.com said about it. And here's what I said about that: holy shit, that's Premee Mohamed. Very grateful she took the time. Pre-order direct/from others: undertowpublications.com/shop/uncerta... books2read.com/uncertain
Success stories/wins are great, but you know what I enjoy? Top tier writers talking about the grind. This is Gene Wolfe in a 1973 interview w/Malcolm Edwards (reprint in Shadows of the New Sun ed. Peter Wright) when he was on the upswing after writing Fifth Head. Selling a story on a 38th sub damn š«
ICE getting routed in my old DC Columbia Heights hood. Public, viral, resistance is the only way to prevent them from selling the idea that we love our red state military occupation are itās a solution to urban ills Trump/Bondi/drunk Pirro are lying. Hereās how to expose the lie.
"I donāt want digital. I donāt want AI. I donāt want simulation. I want old fashioned craftsmanship. I want people painting, building, hammering, plastering. I go in and paint props myself. I supervise the construction of the sets. There is an operatic beauty when you build everything by hand."
ny.eater.com/dining-out-i... Mmmm.
"A Study of Negro Artists" is a silent B&W film created in the 1930s to highlight the development of African-American fine arts. The 37-min motion picture was made by Jules V. D. Bucher and features so many influential Harlem Renaissance artists. Like Richmond BarthƩ. #BlackSky #ArtSky #History
Affluent White Man Enjoys, Causes The Blues https://theonion.com/affluent-white-man-enjoys-causes-the-blues-1819565488/
@nytimes.com doesnāt have ONE story on the unlawful detaining & attempt to police Texas State Rep. Nicole Collier! And @washingtonpost.com only has some tiny piece that you have to scroll several times to locate. This erasure is an outrage! Stop ignoring the mistreatment of Black women.
My name is Graham Platner and Iām running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy thatās destroying our country. Iām a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer whoās seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.
I havenāt tried enough of them to know. But Iām gonna try to go to most of them over time. So stay tuned?
Gorgeous weather in NYC today.
Our new bench is in place! šļæ¼
So beautiful and touching.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/u...
So beautiful and touching.
Rich Eisen gets the classic SportsCenter intro for his return to the host chair
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
Joshua Weissmanās ranking of the best pizza in New York.
Adventureland is such a great movie because basically every character is deeply depressed.
Bring Me the Bed of Alfredo Garcia