
Dan Sinykin's Quarterly Results
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Author of A Day in the Life of My Mother's Pickle (self-published 1991), Catnip Catnip (self-published 2002), & My Life in Scott Stapp's Gazebo (Atria 2026)
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Susan Bernofsky New Directions #62. LESSER RUINS by Mark Haber. Haber's best; a contemporary writer who is only getting stronger with each new output. Lost for words in the minutes following completion. Will come back with more to say once I've sat on it for awhile. That's a hell of a bookend to the year.


"So what, in the face of horror, are we supposed to do? The answer Haber’s novels would prefer is art, but art is never exactly an answer." For MTC Ryan Lackey reviews LESSER RUINS, the redeeming power of mediocrity & Haber's deeply weird, obsessive men. mid-theory.com/2025/02/10/uto…



great piece by Dan Sinykin. also close reading is p much the crux of every workshopburi workshop -- not at all a skill that was taught to indians in CBSE, unless you studied the humanities at the +2 and college-level in my experience defector.com/close-reading-…



Harvard has officially revoked tenure from Francesca Gino, whose splashy work in behavioral science relied on data manipulation. As maybe: leif weatherby explained last month, the field stands on a weak foundation—it’s bullshit all the way down. thebaffler.com/latest/fashion…




The first story I edited for Joyland Publishing. I think it's very good. Also very smart and very funny. Sarah is doing something special here, I hope you give it a read :)

I didn’t know how to pronounce the word “tentacle” [crowd boos] because I’d only ever seen it spelled in books [crowd cheers] from my extensive hentai collection [crowd boos] that I am trying to censor [crowd cheers] before I teach it in my ENGL 300 class Intro to Hentai [crowd b






Reading my first Malamud… love these 50s guys. Every book is like “the second I saw her I knew I had to have her. You couldn’t believe the figure on her. But she had the depression. Spells so bad she’d crash the car if you didn’t keep an eye on her. And I had baseball to play.”
