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Patrick Nathan
@patricknathan.bsky.social
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author // freelance copy/dev editor // he/him // patrick dot nathan at gmail

twitter's death is a good thing and we don't need do it again
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patricknathan.bsky.social
sort of sad that the whole American project is an attempt to re-enter Eden by eating from the tree of ignorance, only to end up xeroxing hell
December 14, 2025 at 11:01 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
the whole thing loose
cometkins.bsky.social Ian Haramaki 🏳️‍⚧️✨ @FurCon @cometkins.bsky.social · 8h
What’s something you’ve been too stubborn to cut from your WIP even though you probably need to? #WritingPrompt
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
btw I lived in Europe for three months and forgot to tell anyone
Me in swim trunks in mid cartwheel on the deck of a sailboat, the ship’s wheel in the foreground; on the horizon, a few small hills line the Mediterranean
December 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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megapolisomancy.bsky.social
patricknathan.substack.com/p/the-future...
Black text on a pastel pink background: Crucial to criticism is the "public" aspect that Nguyen highlights. In its very existence, literary criticism proposes such a public: Critics I write with the faith that there will be varying reactions to specific works of literature, and that one of the many pleasures of reading a book is to discuss it with others who've read it, and for that discussion to perhaps change or enrich each reader's experience with the book. What's more, as anyone who's ever argued about anything can tell you, part of all of this pleasure is the argument itself, in trying to persuade someone that your way of reading the book is the way they should read it too - which is another way of saying that you crave recognition for the work you've done in reading the book reverentially. All criticism, by the way, is reverential; not with regard to specific books, necessarily, but reverential to each book's potential aspiration toward literature.
September 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
gnawing conversationally on a hot dog like bugs bunny with a carrot
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
I wrote about @somers.bsky.social's The Ten Year Affair, which is not only one of the funniest novels I've read in a long time, but one of the most thought provoking: patricknathan.substack.com/p/the-horror...
The Horror of the Husband
Anna novels, Emma novels, and the original romantasy: fiction about affairs
patricknathan.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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ihatepatriarchy.bsky.social
“The Future Was Color” is a story that is smart, poignant, tender, very vivid and very sexy. A stunning portrait of queer lives, art, 1950s Los Angeles, survival, leaving one place to come to another, and what it means to create an artistic self in an apocalyptic time where violence is a constant.
December 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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somers.bsky.social
I am such an admirer of Patrick Nathan’s writing, so I was thrilled to read his incredible essay about my book and the infidelity novel.
The Horror of the Husband
Anna novels, Emma novels, and the original romantasy: fiction about affairs
patricknathan.substack.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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johnwest.bsky.social
I absolutely loved this essay by Patrick Nathan. patricknathan.substack.com/p/soul-searc...
A quote from the essay: > A genre that used to annoy me but that I now find somewhat charming is the why-I-left-New-York essay. As with most annoying essays, this is all Joan Didion’s fault.1 And as usual, Didion nailed it: Yes, New York is tiring — because people get tired. People get old. The habits we don’t change as we change start to burden us, not support us. One day, it’s unbearable to look around and find your youth — the bars you went to, the lights that dazzled you, the food you relished — not only harder to recognize, but worse: unwilling to delight you, console you, or even welcome you. Unwilling to want you. Going on unchangedly in a city that’s changed, trying to live as you once did with a body that’s changed, is to set yourself up for rejection. That city, that past, that youth — none of it can be recaptured, at least not in life, not in the things you do from day to day. Either you contend with that, consciously, or you leave. Most people leave. > Nostalgia isn’t homesickness, in this understanding — not quite. With its overtone of loss, of irrevocability, and of yearning for the impossible, it’s something closer to time sickness: one can feel, one can see, that youth is gone.
August 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
tragedy in the skies over my hammy
readuction.bsky.social Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · Sep 11
Attempting to moor my dirigible at the dennys and completely fucking up and destroying the establishment
September 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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vidalporter.bsky.social
*leans over your shoulder* What book are you reading?
My copy of The Future Was Color by Patrick Nathan. The cover is a drawing of a man lying stomach down on a pink pool floatie. You can't see his face. He's wearing a green bathing suit.
February 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
patricknathan.bsky.social
watching White Lotus, intrigued by evil Jon Hamm
Press shot of Jason Isaacs
February 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
Btw for anyone wondering why "the left" has become so obsessed with the culture of punishment, exclusion, purity, and disqualification, I wrote a book about the fascist function of social media, including websites like this one. patricknathan.com/image-control
paperback copy of Image Control: Social Media, Fascism, and the Dismantling of Democracy, lying flat on a blonde wood table
February 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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moonpalacebooks.bsky.social
Our friends over at the Paperback Exchange could use a little help www.gofundme.com/f/fundraiser...
Donate to Fundraiser for the Paperback Exchange!, organized by Rachel Pedersen
To our amazing neighbors, community and book lovers everywhere. Early Thurs… Rachel Pedersen needs your support for Fundraiser for the Paperback Exchange!
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February 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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kristenarnett.bsky.social
book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx

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Stop Me If You've Heard This One
A Novel
thelynxbooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
don’t let them make you forget this life is yours and you should enjoy it and have some fun
February 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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thefairybear.bsky.social
“Stop begging for your supporters’ respect and try earning it for once.”

An excellent read with excellent points.
February 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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rpmirabella.bsky.social
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This is the real shit. From @patricknathan.bsky.social.
We Asked for Leaders, Not Influencers
The problem is actually much more systemic and banal: The Democrats think posting is politics.
open.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
Wrote about why the Dems need to put down their phones and come back to the real world patricknathan.substack.com/p/we-asked-f...
We Asked for Leaders, Not Influencers
The problem is actually much more systemic and banal: The Democrats think posting is politics.
patricknathan.substack.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
Blurb Box is my fav blurb joke btw
still from 2018's shit show, Bird Box, with the following phrases surrounding Sandra Bullock's blindfolded face: "luminously dark the result is a haunting isn't afraid shows us what it means to darkly illuminating at the same time a rectangular meditation transcends a volcanic eruption of a new voice in cookbook writing tour d'eiffel it was fine"
February 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
used to make fun of blurbs by saying "darkly illuminating" and I just saw it in some sincere jacket copy so I will be moving to the Mariana Trench shortly
February 17, 2025 at 11:03 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
Ayşegül Savaş, The Anthropologists
Life and Death All this time, we were waiting. For the news of some momentous change; that we were being summoned to serve in real life; that the time for playing games was over. We lived with the abstract shape of the news, informing us that it had arrived. We lived with the imaginary shock. Maybe, I thought, it would also be a relief: Here it was, finally. Here was life itself. I scanned abstractly through the list of things awaiting us, like probing an aching tooth, but I couldn't bear to think specifically about any of it.
February 17, 2025 at 9:55 PM
patricknathan.bsky.social
Just had a guy come in and ask for a philosophy book rec and then just leave with the book I recommended. Chased him down the block but he didn’t give a fuck. Please buy an extra book at your local store today. This shit sucks.
February 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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arielwrites.bsky.social
I've only just started reading Patrick Nathan's The Future Was Color but it's already killing me.

#BookSky
#PatrickNathan
#TheFutureWasColor
Screenshot of the first paragraph of Patrick Nathan's novel, The Future Was Color, which reads: 'WE WANT TO BURN, TO BE DISINTEGRATED, TO WATCH our creations—the towers and bridges, the art, the machines, our babies, our lovers, our dreams and bodies, thousands of years, our ways, our poetry, whatever we want to outlive us—bludgeoned and brained, thrown, crushed, but above all burned.'
February 5, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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misterchrismatt.bsky.social
From the KY dispatch.
February 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM