Michael McSweeney

Missing out

Red states get unquestioned support, blue states wait to be punished. A federal decline so clear one should assume it's on purpose.

Michael Palin's travel shows

Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show

Ceremonial Congress alert www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...

A weird kind of goofy but ultimately earnest game about death was never going to fly in the wake of the incredible run that was FF6-FF9

Day two of Elvis' gospel records and yeah he really was the best to ever do it

It's good to make time for friends

Thanks for taking my call today

Whew

The Corbyning will continue until morale improves

Banger cover

Pushing health networks further into the hands of private equity is the point, sorry gang

Writing about the economy

*Falconer, his fourth, my brain is melting in NYC

His first, The Wapshot Chronicle, is excellent and its follow up is pretty solid, too. But Falconer, his first, is fucking phenomenal and where I'd start if you didn't want to go chronologically. I still need to read Bullet Park.

Swift remedies required

Have you read Falconer?

Oh good, you got the 10th one back

Support your local bookstores

The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees by Mitchell Nobis | Books | Match Factory Editions The Size of the Horizon explores parenting, uncertainty, and injustice, weaving nature, gun violence, and joy into poetry that embraces life’s chaos.

It's publication week for my first poetry collection. If you read poetry, you might dig it. If you don't but still want to support me and my press (the wonderful @matchfactoryeds.bsky.social), your library might want it.

You say heatwave, I say firefly paradise

Damn this is grim

So much of war is storytelling

I'm sure the strategy of trying to break Iran into more easily controlled pieces will go well

There is always one more time

Blessed by a strong mountain breeze, yes, please, come right in through my wind tunnel apartment

Lemmingway

I don't miss alcohol

Congrats on the engagement

I have three new prose poems over at Thirty West, all inspired by dreams

Here's one of them

thirtywest.substack.com/p/three-dreams

@thirtywestph.com / @mpmcsweeney.bsky.social