Cover reveal! I wrote this book, and it's good, and I'm so excited to share it with you! Pre-orders open today, so grab a rack of tallboys, turn on the bounce house, and let's get this party started:

In case you wondered what I've been doing, it's this

Anyway I'm still alive I'm just writing a book and learning to draw better and getting into birds and ice skating and reading all of Murakami (bc I love a project). Disengaging from the internet has been a gift

My friend and colleague Jenni wrote this story at @FracturedLit, and it was so good that I was obligated to come out of my internet hermit hole to tell you about it:

Thank you Mark. Thank you Peter. Thank you student editors. Thank you readers of slush.

The day I got a story accepted to @GburgReview, Aleksandar Hemon was visiting my campus. As a result, we had a great conversation about lit mags; I felt like I belonged after a long time of looking in on the lit world from outside. Changed the arc of my life. An enormous loss

I have been thinking a lot about what it means to make art, especially since it seems like humanity is sort of wrapping up as a going concern, and I think for now I'm more interested in cherishing what's here than commenting on it or making more. This is probably my last tweet!

Some of yall take being a person on this earth too seriously

How many pieces of clothing with anthropomorphic hot dogs on them is too many?

This is now a Step Up 2: The Streets fan account

Bye Cormac. Thanks for helping me love books again

Here's my tweet for June

When Cormac decided to own James Franco:

My new thing is I'm only tweeting once a month. This is May. June's will be better

My ear got too wet and now I'm in tremendous pain. Having a body is a mistake!!!

(Repairing wrecked boat village boy approaches with picture from my pack) Bahu bah? {Monster} Me: No bahu bah. Marmaduke…Buha bet {Friend} Boy: Mar-ma-duke…Your? Me: Not mine. Everybodys. {confused look} he is…like Wind. Everyones Boy {grinning} Marmaduke is like Wind

if i were rich, i'd hire someone to take the extra blanket off of me two hours after i go to bed

Me: "Why is [our local arthouse] showing The Quiet Girl for 5 weeks in a row when it showed Women Talking for 8 days?" Jaclyn: "Because people love quiet girls and hate women talking. You've answered your own question." Reader, she got me

One of my favorite genres of movie is "dumb guy's idea of a smart idea": Edge of Tomorrow, Shadow in the Cloud, and now, delightfully, 65

Birdo is just the yassification of Yoshi

My kindle updates pretty much every time I touch it. Why are they still fiddling with "show a book on a screen"