Christopher

I have a new story out in @oysterriverpages.bsky.social. It's about Crown Vics and the Everglades and exotic finches and life as a ghost. You can also hear me read an excerpt, if you're into that sort of thing... www.oysterriverpages.com/slough

I worked at the Cheesecake Factory for a year and a half and I can tell you I committed plenty of war crimes

Book 🥳 #100 🥳 of 2026: The Orchard Keeper by Cormac McCarthy. His first, and maybe worst. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

The messenger of autumn https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/the-messenger-of-autumn-1922

I love this guy

Book #99 of 2026: My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. Damn, she's good. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/my-c...

Freedom of movement is the most fundamental human right; everything else is built on top of it. The 20th century was a campaign to smother that freedom and we should not let it win

Dibs

Book #98 of 2026: Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel. Good stories. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/reas...

Book #97 of 2026: John Adams by David McCullough. Two down, 43 to go. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/john...

Book #96 of 2026: Transit by Anna Seghers. Enjoyed this story of refugees lingering in wartime Marseille. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/tran...

Book #95 of 2026: Lies, Inc. by Philip K. Dick. Fascinatingly updated before PKD's death, giving a glimpse into both early and late styles. As a novel, it's a mess. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/lies...

Book #94 of 2026: Passing by Nella Larsen. A reread before teaching. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/pass...

Book #93 of 2026: Nightside the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe. Still chasing the high of the Book of the New Sun but this quartet shows a lot of promise. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/10/nigh...

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

lmao this is such a sick way to conclude that COVID school closures were a mistake www.kuow.org/education/20...

What a very thorough primer

According to a 2013 paper, almost 40% of female homicides globally are due to intimate partner violence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#92 of 2026: Stories in the Worst Way by Garielle Lutz. No one like her. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/stor...

"Before Stonehenge was raised, before Egypts first pyramid broke ground,before the Nazca people drew their famous lines across the Peruvian desert,someone in what is now southern Arizona shaped a 272-foot fish into the earth On April 23,2026,"a border-wall contractor drove heavy equipment across it"

Books #90 and #91 of 2026: You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe and The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-...

Books #90 and #91 of 2026: You Never Forget Your First by Alexis Coe and The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/two-...

Book #89 of 2026: Measurement by Paul Lockhart. Sometimes you have to re-learn high school math. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/meas...

My story "Bertha Greb Day" is in the new issue of Copper Nickel. It's about the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, cell phones, and friendship. Order at copper-nickel.org

100% correct article. It's fine not to have heard a popular song but eight straight weeks of "I've never heard of this!!" is at minimum annoying

Book #88 of 2026: The Marvelous Equations of the Dread: A Novel in Bass Riddim by Marcia Douglas. With the addition of Jamaica, my "Countries Read" list is up to 124. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

I like how the official POV of the Post is that teachers are lazy nutjobs who must be brought to heel, but they deserve free parking

But no more of this.

Let's not say anything we can't take back @theonion.com

Book #87 of 2026: A Void by Georges Perec. A book that never uses the letter E. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-vo...

It's me! Thanks so much to @nffr.bsky.social for publishing my little story!

Book #86 of 2026: I Liked Rex by Diane Williams. Weird little stories that are little and weird. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/i-li...

What would it take to get Blexas this year? What if I told you, Democrats would win in Texas if they got Beto's numbers among non-white voters per exit polls and *Kamala's* numbers among white voters per exit polls?

Book #85 of 2026: The Invention of Curried Sausage by Uwe Timm. A nice little novel about the end of WWII in Germany. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...

Great new story from @brentwaggoner.bsky.social

Book #84 of 2026: Break It Down by Lydia Davis. Her first collection. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/brea...

Book #83 of 2026: Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. The "Great Pacific Northwest Novel." fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/09/some...

sorry, but torturing the omelas kid is just a smart move, polling-wise. i personally wish there wasn't a kid in the omelas hole--of course i do!--but let's not get distracted by purity tests, here.

“One of the things I want to say to New Kings Democrats, ‘Respect Mommy,” district leader Anthony Jones said, referring to current party chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn.

Nancy 9/7/26 … Happy Labor Day 🛠️

No real opinions on AOC meeting with MAHA (or interest in debating it), but as a general principle, there's no way to de-radicalize people without talking to them, and the right often wins over discursive spaces when/because the left refuses or is unable to show up in them and contest them.

Book #82 of 2026: Edo's Souls by Stella Gaitano. With the addition of South Sudan, my "Countries Read" list is now up to 123. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/08/edos...

Gender-affirming care saves lives, respects the rights of patients, and reflects that healthcare is supposed to be between providers and patients, not between providers and the Trump Administration. (1/3)

I think if your political advice is "Threaten to take people's kids away" you're probably not cut out for this

In the USA a parent has the right to kill their kid with measles but not save their life with gender-affirming care

Book #81 of 2026: Father of the Four Passages by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. I'm a fan of this author of modern Hawaiian life, but this one didn't quite land for me. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2026/08/fath...