Delighted to share that NERVOSITIES, my debut collection of short fiction, was published today! Kapow! NERVOSITIES has received advance praise from some of the world's finest writers, e.g., Rikki Ducornet, Brian Evenson, Lance Olsen, Sam Lipsyte, Garielle Lutz, & Michael Martone.

“The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it.” —Simone Weil (J. M. W. Turner's The Shipwreck (1805))

Happy birthday, @BigOtherMag contributor Cole Swensen, a poet of extraordinary perceptual fluidity and experimental adventurousness! bigother.com/2026/10/22/from…

On October 24, 2026, join us in person or online for an evening of readings celebrating @BigOtherMag and the writers who make literature such a vital space for connection, discovery, and conversation! nyimc.org/event/big-other/

Read Marcus Pactor's superb interview with Lance Olsen about AN INVENTORY OF BENEVOLENT BUTTERFLIES, where they engagingly explore Henry Darger, experimental fiction, identity, memory, and the art of reading, and more. heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/… Media inquiries: please message me.

Thanks, @LargeheartedBoy for featuring Lance Olsen’s music playlist that explores the music behind An Inventory of Benevolent Butterflies, his reimagining of artist Henry Darger’s life and work. Read the feature: largeheartedboy.com/2026/10/… (For media inquiries, please message me.)

Happy birthday, Ursula K. Le Guin! bigother.com/2026/10/21/ursu… Cc: @bigothermag

"I is another." —Arthur Rimbaud

"I want to be a poet, and I'm working to turn myself into a seer...It has to do with making your way toward the unknown by a derangement of all the senses." —Arthur Rimbaud

“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.” —Arthur Rimbaud

"True alchemy lies in this formula: Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse.” —Arthur Rimbaud

With whom did you have a face-to-face conversation today? How did it go?

"When you are not seduced by trivial situations, there is a natural sense of uplifted mind and vast vision." —Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche (Image: René Magritte's Le faux miroir (The False Mirror), 1929)

From William Carlos Williams's PATERSON:

"Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face—for me that would be deserving of an award." —Elfriede Jelinek

"The impossible is the least that one can demand." —James Baldwin

Looking for recommendations for solo female audiobook narrators, especially those with a strong literary sensibility and a knack for capturing a novel’s voice, rhythms, and tonal shifts. Who are your favorites? Please share names, samples, or links. Thanks!

"Authentic presence is genuineness that radiates both gentleness and brilliance to others. Cultivate inner authentic presence by letting go of selfishness and by regarding other people's welfare as more important than your own." —Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

"To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures, to feather the arrows of our enemies, to lash ourselves with the scorpions of our foes, and to resolve to sleep no more." —Sir Thomas Browne

"A voice that calms, movements that calm, eyes that quiet—dreams that also do the same, and enliven, too. Be a precious donor of peace and hope. Give love to all you meet, for so many in this world are being torn apart.” —Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī

"Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand." —Henry Miller