So excited to have a new piece in Bright Flash. Thank you, Kristen Henderson, for including "Pete's Tie Quilt" in your beautiful journal. Here's my flash, if you want to check it out, friends: brightflash1000.com/2024/08/06/pet…

For The Baffler, I wrote about Ayşegül Savaş’s The Anthropologists, the pleasures and possibilities in writing about the everyday, Georges Perec, social class, and how we might use our attention to better inhabit our own lives thebaffler.com/latest/infra-o…

My good friend, John Barrett, passed away a year ago today. Here's the essay that I wrote about him and our friendship and all that he gave me. Joyland Magazine joylandmagazine.com/nonfiction/by-…

My book comes out in two months! I'm so grateful to these incredible authors for their kind words! Pre-order (Stillhouse Press): stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto…

I'm looking forward to co-hosting two workshops in San Diego and Tijuana this coming weekend as part of the 2024 World Design Capital series of events. These sessions aim to convene Friendship Park community stakeholders to discuss the design of an archive for this historic site.

Feeling very lucky to have an advanced copy of Amy Stuber ‘s stellar story collection, SAD GROWNUPS, which I’ve been devouring this week! It’s out officially Oct 8, but you should pre-order a copy now! Highly recommend!

I am such a fan of Andrew Porter's fiction! Thank you so much for reading and sharing my book, Andrew - it means a lot! (sharing the pre-order link, if anyone is so inclined - I'd be grateful!): stillhousepress.org/stillhouse-sto…

A beautiful, powerful story by Aaron Burch! 👇

So excited for this! 😍

Volume 2 is here! It’s amazing to hold it in my hands. We’re so proud of this collection of plays. 🩵

Thrilled to see my first book still getting some love! Thank you to The Korea Herald 코리아헤럴드 and Choi Young-jin for selecting The Theory of Light and Matter as a Summer Read! m.koreaherald.com/amp/view.php?u…

i just read Andrew Porter's THE DISAPPEARED & am wowed at the tiny rituals of living. coffee at the kitchen table, wine on the porch, knowing what kind of day your partner has had from how long they stay in the shower. i wanted to stay in these stories for another 200 pages.

San Antonians, mark your calendars! The 19th Poet Laureate of the United States, Natasha Trethewey, is coming to Trinity University to give a reading on Tuesday, October 1 at 6:00 pm in Ruth Taylor Recital Hall! Free and open to the public! Sponsored by the Stieren Arts Enrichment Series

I'm honored to have a 53-word story included in Press 53's new anthology, WHAT DWELLS BETWEEN THE LINES. (Available at press53.com.)

Delighted to announce this year's terrific recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award, A. Muia's A DESERT BETWEEN TWO SEAS. She captures "a world in which love and violence, survival and hope, live side by side." Congratulations also to the four finalists! #shortstories #fiction

This collection is GREAT and everyone should preorder it.

Richard Mirabella on Blood Ties lithub.com/richard-mirabe… via Literary Hub It was so wonderful to speak to Lindsay Hunter (whose work I love!) about my novel.

Love this passage on keeping a journal from Jhumpa Lahiri’s recent interview in The Paris Review and especially love this idea for a course!

One of my favorite mail days of the year! Big congratulations to Jai Chakrabarti caroline kim Morris Collins Allegra Hyde Madeline ffitch Jess Walter, and all the other O, Henry Prize winners! Excited to read!