Delighted to share that NERVOSITIES, my debut collection of short fiction, was published today! Kapow! NERVOSITIES has received advance praise from some of the world's finest writers, e.g., Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, & Michael Martone.

167,000 people die every day, many from preventable causes. Yet a minor celebrity dies of fentanyl and gets wall-to-wall coverage. Every death is tragic. Why does fame determine which ones matter? (Image: Gustav Klimt's Death and Life (1915))

I’m delighted to be part of Seven Spouting Devils—One Night, an evening of fiction and poetry presented by Spuyten Duyvil Press at this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival. The free event is at Young Ethel’s in Brooklyn tonight at 8:00 p.m. brooklynbookfestival.org/eve… Cc: @BKBF

"You can’t depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus." —Mark Twain

Lance Olsen’s An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies (Dzanc Books) gets an enthusiastic review in @PublishersWkly, which calls it “admirable” and an “arresting portrait of a troubled figure.” (Message me for a review copy, etc.) publishersweekly.com/9781938…

"The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions, and to all people, experiencing everything totally without mental reservations and blockages, so that one never withdraws or centralizes into oneself." —Dilgo Khyentse

"Chaos should be regarded as extremely good news." —Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"Utopia signifies not the unrealizable, but the unrealized. Yesterday’s utopia could turn into today’s reality." —Théodore Monod

"Images contaminate us like viruses...They are not informative images which inform us in the sense of feedback, and of comprehension, but in the sense of the epidemic, in the sense of contamination." —Paul Virilio

"It is, in fact, impossible clearly to distinguish economic war from information war, since each involves the same hegemonic ambition of making commercial and military exchanges interactive." —Paul Virilio

"All of us are already civilian soldiers, without knowing it…The great stroke of luck for the military class’s terrorism is that no one recognizes it. People don’t recognize the militarized part of their identity, of their consciousness." —Paul Virilio

Delighted to publish Ann Lauterbach's "Prelude & Consequence" in @BigOtherMag! It's a marvelous poem where shifting clauses generate and disrupt meaning within a world of historical rupture and uncertainty. bigother.com/2026/09/18/prel…

"I write, as I said before, to untie myself, to stand clear. To extricate an absence, The ultimate hush of language, (fricative, verb, and phoneme), the silence that turns silence off." —Charles Wright

Happy birthday, William Carlos Williams, whose radical proposition placed imagination at the heart of reality: a way of seeing the world with greater intensity. bigother.com/2026/09/17/will…

R.I.P., Annie Dillard, one of the great writers of attention, astonishment, and wakefulness, a lyrical contemplative who spent her life teaching us and showing us how to look harder, see more, and remain open to the mystery of being alive. bigother.com/2026/09/16/r-i-… #AnnieDillard

Next time someone says you're getting "carried away" with the language in your writing, tell them, "Well, how else is it supposed to happen?"