"September. It seems these luminous days will never end." Happy Salter day to all who celebrate.

Very grateful to @ferrifrigida.bsky.social--a writer I really admire--for wrangling so thoughtfully w/ this novel. Esp. pleased that she considered the sentences themselves since they're what I care most about, but are least often featured in reviews. Such a gift to be read so closely.

Heavy Feather Review@hfr.bsky.social · 4w ago

Endeavor to remember at the link in bio 👼 Fiction Review: @ferrifrigida.bsky.social Reads Morris Collins’ Sophomore Novel The Tavern at the End of History #babyeatbooks heavyfeatherreview.org/2026/08/06/t...

I’m reading @morriscollins.bsky.social entrancing book “The Tavern At The End Of History” and I can only read the character Eli with the voice of Billie Crystal doing Miracle Max in Princess Bride.

Just listened to this interview. One of the most honest and inspiring conversations I've heard about heritage, friendship, and making art (and a life in art). I felt like it was 2009 again (a good thing).

brad listi@bradlisti.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today on the program, I’m in conversation w Scott McClanahan, whose new novel FIGHTS! publishes today on Rose Books. This is Scott’s third time on the program. He last appeared in 2017. FIGHTS! is about the two great loves of Scott's life. 🎧 Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

"As for Bacchus (God), he should, if possible, be very handsome." Margaret Yourcenar's stage directions for her play To Each His Minotaur:

"If you call fucking making love, I'll kill you in your sleep." Diane Seuss, from "Rhapsody"

Found that my story (a silly, fairy tale-ish thing), "The Names of Birds" that was published in a recent Lake Effect is now online...A mix of Hansel & Gretel and OCD, maybe: behrend.psu.edu/school-of-hu...

Read "Fictional Exits," a very short story by Alasdair Gray biblioklept.org/2026/07/21/r...

Read “Fictional Exits,” a very short story by Alasdair Gray

“Fictional Exits” by Alasdair Gray Because of a mistake (though I do not know whose) someone was shut in a windowless room with nothing to look at but a door which could only be opened …

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They're fighting over on the other site about whether the Hobbit is a children's book, which it obviously is. Real lunatics do this with Red Shift by Alan Garner which, as the cover of the edition my dad gave me when I was a kid shows, is a children's book. Iykyk. @backlisted.bsky.social

Heat-wilted in Saint-Lizier on the Santiago de Compostela Pilgrim's route. Ordered a glass of wine w/ bad French and worse pointing and accidentally got a half-bottle. Many forms of grace. Didn't make it far and didn't want to.

from my essay on Kafka & Scholem & also an inspiration for my novel The Tavern at the End of History, which asks what use are our accounts of our experience. What can the novel say/what can be expressed? 1/

Dubyedee@wdclarke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Also, this passage about our non-identity with those wishes/desires tutelary angels might have for us, instantly brought mind Todd Friendly’s backward-facing and - living Soul in Martin Amis' novel Time’s Arrow

Kafka's birthday is prob. a good time to repost this essay about Kafka, Jewish mysticism, and the difficulties of knowing how we should be living...

Dubyedee@wdclarke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A superb meditation on how our imaginations mysteriously lead us on, through lives non-identical with those visions of ourselves which we cannot help but harbour (+ a phantom skeleton key to @morriscollins.bsky.social 2nd novel, The Tavern at the End of History?!) substack.com/home/post/p-...

"I wanted to think ... about dreaming correspondences between the aural and the visual that would open up into new zones of thinking about embodiment and voice ..." An Interview with @laurenelkin.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/06/02/s...

“[S]ome voices stay with us”: An Interview with Lauren Elkin — Cristina Politano

Lauren Elkin is a UK-based American writer who has recently followed up her cultural study of the representation of the body in art history, Art Monsters (Chatto & Windus/FSG, 2023), with her h…

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On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

I think one thing the AI age has taught me is how many of my colleagues: 1. genuinely hate writing. 2. are bad at writing. 3. are bad at assessing writing. 4. really do not care about how the writing gets done. Which seems bad, because writing=thinking.

UCI has, alas, become one of the sector leaders in Ponzi austerity bullshit. Hiring EdTech execs with no HigherEd credentials as Deans of Continuing Education (for just one instance). @trevorgriffey.bsky.social in Remaking The University.

From Community Benefit to Rent-Seeking Scam: UC Irvine's Division of Continuing Education (Guest Post)

510 E. Peltason Dr, UC Irvine   by Trevor Griffey, School of Humanities, UC Irvine The idea of continuing education— sometimes also ...

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Weekend reading. @sarabandebooks.bsky.social

There are lies, there are damn lies, and then there are pandering faux anti-elite justifications for drinking Miller Lite.

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I promise you, there has always been some bullshit in the pages of The Atlantic.

Feeling nostalgic for a good ol diasporic grifter: born in Łódź, survived the Holocaust via a fake baptism, emigrated thanks to a bogus foundation, married an heiress, and killed himself after leaving a pretty droll note. And wrote some great novels.

"Your body spreads across my brain/ Like a bird-filled summer..." I'm starting summer now and summer doesn't start in New England until we read Rexroth's erotic love poems to the crows and finches and all the seabirds. From "When We With Sapho":

About this time last year I was doing edits on this & reading Alina's My Heresies in the Pyrenees. The best part of publishing is being read by other writers I love to read.

Alina Stefanescu@alinaetc.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fantastic book.

"This place is gorges!" *Kills suitors

the Dem tendency to malign academics as a cheap and lazy populist gesture, at a moment when Republicans are destroying academia while deploying cheap and lazy populist rhetoric, and while the main discernible Dem promise is not being Republicans, is neither great messaging nor great substance

Sorry, you’re telling me that something that doesn’t feel pain, doesn’t have lactic acid build up, doesn’t need adequate hydration or electrolytes, doesn’t need to pee, and doesn’t get tired is only 6 minutes faster than humans? you’ve fucked up a perfectly good Roomba.

CNN@cnn.com · 4mo ago

Lightning, a running robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, finished a 21-kilometer (13 mile) run in Beijing in a stunning 50 minutes and 26 seconds, beating the human world record by more than six minutes. https://cnn.it/4mLRxQ8

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Reporter: “How would it not be a war crime to strike Iran’s bridges and power plants?” Trump: “They’re animals.”

The GOP Congress could stop this genocidal horror at any moment & they are responsible every moment that they haven't, & don't. This is their voice echoing out of the moral necropolis at the heart of our republic. "The end of a civilization?" You're alreadty seeing it, here.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Trump: “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will … We will find out tonight, one of the most important moments in the long and complex history of the World. 47 years of extortion, corruption, and death, will finally end”

Really gratifying to be read so well, by such a good writer, in such great company. I esp. appreciate the mention of the book's prose--it's what I care most about...and what seems to get mentioned least in reviews. Thank you, Caleb!

Caleb Michael Sarvis@cmsarvis.bsky.social · 5mo ago

On Mark Z. Danielewski, @morriscollins.bsky.social, @avnerlandes.bsky.social, @legroff.bsky.social, Camille Bordas, and Brock Clarke. open.substack.com/pub/calebmsa...

"There were no books."

Olga Nesterova@onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6mo ago

DOGE employee, who, in his twenties, made decisions to cut aid based solely on personal judgement, according to him.

Jewish Book Week is a literary festival in London, held annually in February and March, that explores Jewish literature, ideas and culture. Here are Jewish books for adults being published in 2026. Book lists in ALT text. #jewishbookweek #jbw #jewishauthors #jewishbooks #bookpost #booksky #books

What do The Tavern at the End of History by Morris Collins, Hide by Carolina Ebeid, Frog by Anne Fadiman, and The People Can Fly by Joshua Bennett have in common? They’re just a handful of the noteworthy titles included in our latest #PageOne installment. Read on: at.pw.org/PageOne2026x2