Kyle Beachy

Michael Silverblatt, 'genius' host of KCRW literary show 'Bookworm,' dies at 73 Silverblatt’s 30-minute show, which ran from 1989 to 2022, included interviews with celebrated authors including Gore Vidal, Kazuo Ishiguro, David Foster Wallace, Susan Orlean, Joan Didion and Zadie S...

When in an interview long ago I mentioned Michael as a polestar, an inspiration for me, he called me out of the blue (I still have his message saved) & for hours shared stories, wisdom & advice with me. May your memory be a blessing Michael Silverblatt. It already is www.latimes.com/california/s...

The Bookworm's Rules | Reading advice from Michael Silverblatt biblioklept.org/2026/02/16/t...

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Agree, but let's go ahead and cut "college professors," "students," and "seminar room," and say "anyone can give to anyone, including themselves" instead

thank you!!

i'm looking at @fulmerford.com especially here...

friends...best options these days for submitting a short work of literary horror?

didn't sleep much, got a little twisted in the old noggin. went skateboarding. recalled the world beyond the noggin.

i started a business with my friend five years ago this month and we're still standing heaux! i'm coming to chicago this weekend to party about it

we made a zine to give out and bought a bunch of coffee and snacks from our homie's palestinian bakery. you can come if you like ❤️

Agreed, but also, what of this impulse, man? Like, who is nearby the people to flick their ear and be like, Hey you don't have to do that, nobody asked for that, choose common decency over whatever algorithmic brain disease you've been conditioned by

I do feel compelled to mention that there was a time when meaningless people uttered awful things and we simply were not alerted to it, that we've made "look at this asshole" into a regular fixture of our days, and that perhaps doing this to ourselves, to one another, is *super* within our control.

If you haven’t already, delete your TikTok

Cyberstalker by James Tadd Adcox I collected a collection of bitters, not that I had any particular interest in bitters, but I thought that perhaps this would make me stand out, that it would make me of interest, that people would…

love a story that keeps digging itself in deeper...

"I collected a collection of bitters, not that I had any particular interest in bitters, but I thought that perhaps this would make me stand out, that it would make me of interest..."
— James Tadd Adcox
https://www.havehashad.com/tdprg

come on this is about to start come on

concerned some of you might have missed this. it's very good.

look i am not sorry

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If you are able, The Post's union has started a layoff fund for those fired by the world's fourth-richest man today. gofund.me/a310d0286

wow hey the rich people are sure failing us, huh

Thinking about literary “hype,” I shared some practical tips for writers publishing a first book. But the most important advice is this. garthgreenwell.substack.com/p/some-thoug...

somewhat small and fairly massive poem on #smallpoemsunday

Currently querying agents about a new novel, so if you know or are one of those & want to read a book that includes powerpoint presentations, horrible geese-based accidents, Elizabethan dialog, formal proofs of the existence of fathers, and a rewritten version of Hamlet involving coyotes, hmu

Roosevelt Institute Fellow Jess Calarco really zooms right the hell away from skateboarding here and back to motherhood, but if anyone wants to discuss a 60-year experiment in unorganized play that equally centers the developing individual self and the group in which that self exists, holler.

why am i posting. sorry. never again.

great argument here for avoiding organized sports and buying a skateboard instead.

it has come to my attention that some of you are using AI for anything

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i'm in the first writing group of my life. it's with two extremely lauded and award-winning women writers and one pretty lauded woman writer who is likely to win an award soon. i am terrified of these three women who are my writing group, it's so rad. 5,000 words they want. i'm actually shaking.

blue no matter who the rules are rigid & exacting in the matter of the state versus everything the rules say—suffer i say burn

very cool and handsome of @burialmagazine.bsky.social to publish my tiny, furious poem

blue no matter who by Kristin Lueke the rules are rigid & exacting in the matter of the state versus everything the rules say—suffer i say burn

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