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maximalist! operatic! also, funny!

I wrote about Millennials for The Baffler thebaffler.com/latest/millenn…

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I’ve got a new short story in the latest issue of the Paris Review. This one is called “Skyhawks”

I wrote about my experience as a teenage opioid addict — a casualty of the opioid epidemic — Measure 110 and how we can address this crisis for The Baffler. Easily my most personal piece of writing and my favorite. If you haven’t read, give it a shot! thebaffler.com/salvos/america…

i reviewed patricia lockwood’s latest novel, “will there ever be another you,” for The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/books/2025/09/…

“wry”! “laconic”! “subtle”!

all four of my classes this term are low tech (unless students need accommodation)—no AI, no laptop use, all note-taking is manual, readings all print, assignments designed and scaffolded to discourage AI use outside of class, even for brainstorming. another world is possible!

Finished copies of ALL GIRLS BE MINE ALONE by Sophie Strohmeier are in, and it's almost time to celebrate. Join us October 14 at Unnameable Books and on October 15 at Honey's. We hope to see you there! bit.ly/allgirlslaunch

“The photographer creates a kind of stuttering self, revealing the subject to be inherently multiple and impossible to grasp from a single vantage.”—Margaret Sundell reviews “Alix Cléo Roubaud: Correction of perspective in my bedroom” at Galerie Buchholz 4columns.org/sundell-margar…

Herculine is out! Leah Abrams interviewed me for BOMB Magazine bombmagazine.org/articles/2025/…

I would only add: my wife’s starting salary a couple years ago as a new social worker tending to hospice patients in Brooklyn paid about this much. She has a masters degree and was in her late 40s.

forgot to post my recent reccomendations for the creative independent

Very good piece by Na Zhong on the Chinese Google worker murders, and what they portend for China's relationship to the American Dream, in the very cool new magazine Equator equator.org/articles/murde…

Co-moderating this panel for Joyland editions on Monday! Come see me and Michelle Lyn King talk to this dream line up of writers!!! Including (?????!!!!!!) Robert Glück! mcnallyjackson.com/event/contempo…

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If you’re in nyc you should come to one of my book launches this month…