Congrats to julia kornberg!! Check out a wonderful excerpt from her new novel ‘Berlin Atomized’ in Electric Literature, with a few words of intro from yours truly.

How dare you claim to stand beside rank and file while actively help UAW leadership bust our union. Rank and file are behind us, why aren’t you?

Videos show the moments opposition fighters opened jail cells in Syria's notorious regime prisons to free detainees, including women and children. One man says he was scheduled to be executed today.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: 404media.co/declassified-c…

"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks" 404media.co/zuckerberg-say…

Doing a free Zoom Q&A Monday 3/10 at 3 pm ET/12 pm PT with Austin Nguyen at Kaya Press about the art of editing fiction and nonfiction, along with a close look at Francisco González's O. Henry Prize-winning story "Serranos," originally published in McSweeney's. Hope you can join!

Be my question plant this Monday!!

Chuffed to be chatting on a noon Zoom with the incomparable Lynne Tillman for The Brooklyn Rail! Next Wednesday, April 2. Hope you can join. brooklynrail.org/event/2025/04/…

Come write and edit with me next weekend at The Center for Fiction!

This weekend, in person, at the The Center for Fiction! centerforfiction.org/group-workshop…

An important component of this song is that Fiona Apple spent years as part of a community group just watching what judges, prosecutors, and police do in court. My mother also did this when she retired. It's an incredible service to the possibility of a democratic society.

I’m proud of this student and ashamed of the institution with which I am affiliated. What else do we teach them if not to principled? If not to speak against evil? This is the humane part of the humanities. Give this kid his diploma!

Right on! ✊🏽

gonna be a long hot summer (of Democratic establishment figures going insane because they all just realized how vulnerable they are)

Telling voters that they don’t belong in NYC is totally going to work. Keep it up