Thursday 7/14/22 The number one cause of death for beavers are falling trees. The number one cause of death for squirrels is getting run...

Thursday 7/14/22 I don't think we should be doing this. Heart beats, shirt moves. Could throw up. I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE DOING THIS....

Thursday 7/14/22 There was a wizard who wrote a song called "Ugly Girls Have Vaginas 2." He titled it that way because he loved Prince....

Thursday 7/14/22 Remember how Woody Guthrie painted This Machine Kills Fascists on his guitar? I liked that. Wrote a story Monday morning...

Thursday 7/14/22 C: See this? It's from Vanity Fair. Just a random spot where my eyes fell. C: See the double "to her"? That's bad...

Thursday 7/14/22 I had a nightmare last night. I was in college, about to graduate. My father was still alive. There were so many books...

Wednesday 7/13/22 I have far more important things to get up on here, which are in various stages of development, but I don't want to...

Saturday 7/9/22 * Was pointed out to me today that I have large circles under my eyes, which this person attributed to lack of sleep. I...

Saturday 7/9/22 * On Facebook, people who are bad at writing post screenshots of their book deals. These screenshots contain the...

Friday 7/8/22 * Let's wrap things up here for the week, get ready to create and fight next week. * This morning I wrote an entire 3000...

Thursday 7/7/22 *** Saturday, January 1. Someone once said (don’t ask me who) that to stare at a white page upon which you intend to...

Wednesday 7/6/22 Have a headache, but the News section is finally up to date. Hooray. That was a pain. Go to the News section on the...

Wednesday 7/6/22 Colin: I read the "Guns, publishing, graves" post on the blog. The blog is savage and beautiful fire lately. "Fitty"...

Tuesday 7/5/22 I have been working on updating the News section, which has been slow going. There is just a lot to get up. Nowhere near...

Tuesday 7/5/22 A few things very quickly before I give myself over to my work and the war I am in. Yesterday as I was coming back from...

Monday 7/4/22 The difference between being a pussy and a bitch is if the pussy gets beat up—and we’re being metaphorical here, and not...

Monday 7/4/22 Get yourself a box seat. Lance Olsen, Bradford Morrow, Anitra Budd and Lizzie Davis of Coffee House Press, Sarah Gorham of...

Monday 7/4/22 Chicago Review Press is a mid-level press in, as one would expect, Chicago. They have an editor named Kara Rota who...

Sunday 7/3/22 I have been up since five in the morning yesterday. More than thirty-four hours. In this hell. And I do this as everything...

Sunday 7/3/22 We didn't have a lot of money when I was growing up, but every summer we'd still go on vacation. They weren't what you’d...

Sunday 7/3/22 I have been up all night working, and going through months of the inbox, and I am not in the mood, having seen yet again...

Saturday 7/2/22 Have you ever known someone whose most viscerally true form of interaction with you feels like it should induce a...

Friday 7/1/22 William Staley is the editor of The New York Times Magazine's Letter of Recommendation column. This column appears once a...

Thursday 6/30/22 When Roger Angell died in May, I saw social media post after social media post about how he was the best baseball writer...