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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
Slough — Oyster River Pages
www.oysterriverpages.com
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Fascinating to reread this NYT piece from ~3 months ago on how Maduro was willing to give Trump the oil and other economic goodies.

If so, I return to my basic question here: what was the point?
Venezuela’s Maduro Offered the U.S. His Nation’s Riches to Avoid Conflict
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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accidentally murdered a bunch of crows and now I can't figure out how to tell anyone about it
January 2, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Book #1 of 2025: War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. I am on track to read 365 books and 700,000 pages.

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War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
In captivity, in the shed, Pierre had learned, not with his mind, but with his whole being, his life, that man is created for happiness, tha...
fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com
January 1, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Discovered today that the book blog @grnpointer.bsky.social and I started, 50 Books Project, predates Goodreads by nearly a year.
December 29, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Pleased to say my story "Touch Tank" is in the newest issue of @SmokeLong today. It's about getting married to a fish. www.smokelong.com/stories/touc...
Touch Tank - SmokeLong Quarterly
Do you have a favorite, Walter? You won’t believe me, but there used to be a sculpin in this tank that would suck the rings right off people’s fingers. They’d chase him down, but he’d always have his ...
www.smokelong.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Whew, this archival clipping about Greg Bovino’s father
December 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Book #121 of 2025: Olav Audunsson: Crossroads by Sigrid Undset. The third book in a tetralogy that's (almost) as good as Kristin Lavransdatter.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/12/olav...
December 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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We went to Greg Bovino’s mountain hometown and his last posting along the Mexico-California border — and also traced his family tree.

Here’s the American story of an immigrant coal miner’s great-grandson turned scourge of foreigners chicago.suntimes.com/the-watchdog...
Greg Bovino’s the star of Trump’s deportation show. We trace his roots.
As a boy, the Hollywood movie “The Border" set the course for his life. He couldn’t believe the Border Patrol agents in the movie were the bad guys. Now that he’s in charge of deportation efforts caus...
chicago.suntimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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this is like a capsule summary of the problems with a singular focus on quantifiable data
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Book #120 of 2025: Ice Palace by Edna Ferber. Edna's "Alaska Novel" mostly fails to do what she did for Texas in Giant and Oklahoma in Cimarron.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/ice-...
December 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Great story!
December 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Read this story by my friend Chris if you want to feel some stuff!
December 6, 2025 at 2:03 PM
My story "White Ibises" is out this week in storySouth. It's about sex, birds, and being a bad parent. Read it, if you want!

storysouth.com/stories/whit...
White Ibises - storySouth
Ann was a widow, but I sometimes wished she were a divorcee. Divorcee was a provocative word, suggestive of pent-up and recently unshackled sexual longings. It was a word like negligee or risqué, whos...
storysouth.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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I would rather have a world where we all trust each other and accept that a few people will take advantage of it than a world where folks have to perform disability constantly in order to get the help they need. Let kids have an extra 30 minutes on the test, jesus fucking christ
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Book #119 of 2025: Ada, or Ardor by Vladimir Nabokov. Maybe my least favorite of his--like a long joke you have to know three languages to get. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/ada-...
November 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Book #118 of 2025: Knots by Nuruddin Farah. I found this stunningly poorly written, but with the addition of Somalia, my "Countries Read" list is up to 114.

fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/knot...
November 28, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Our government is disappearing people and subjecting their families to unimaginable terror.
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Book #117 of 2025: Owls Do Cry by Janet Frame. An almost Joycean novel from the New Zealand great. One of those books that makes you go "Oh, I have to read everything this person ever wrote" fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/owls...
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked Claude” I asked this horseshoe crab and he said your ass wouldn’t have lasted two seconds in the Triassic
November 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Books #114, #115, and #116 of 2025: Three books I read in (and on the way to) Puerto Rico. Didn't think much of the history, but both Ferre and Lalo's novels gave me an interesting new perspective on the island. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/thre...
November 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Book #113 of 2025: Lili is Crying by Helene Bissette. Oulipo-y. fiftybooksproject.blogspot.com/2025/11/lili...
November 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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they’re forcing kids to read “the caine mutiny,” because of wouk
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM