Great Jones Street
I spent the last few weeks corralling previously published short mystery/crime fiction for a new smartphone app, Great Jones Street. I don't know if this sort of thing is the key to finally reviving...
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Some junk
Hey, I'm back!Let's see...1. Here's some footage of Trump working on his rhetoric for tonight's debate:As I said on Facebook: I think Trump will win tonight's debate because Clinton will be all "womp...
View ArticleThe Big Tweet
And that's the story of how Billy Bush saved the world from nuclear Armageddon.— Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) October 8, 2016This tweet of mine really took off, thanks to retweets from Popehat, and then...
View ArticleTomorrow Night, LitQuake
Short story writers read from their works, and discuss the challenges and rewards unique to short-form fiction. With Daphne Gottlieb, Kait Heacock, Vanessa Hua, Martin Pousson, Anne Raeff, Sumiko...
View ArticleSome Stuff
The latest issue of the surprisingly energetic New Haven Review is out. In addition to its print edition, it releases its issues as a big long PDF, which means that you get to read my new short story...
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Apptastic
Two of my stories are being highlighted today in the new Great Jones Street app for short fiction.Arbeitskraftand Thy Shiny Car in the NightCheck 'em out!
View ArticleWell, Well, Well...
Between the election result, and Brexit, and Scotland's IndyRef result, and Greek elections, one thing is clear: polling is no longer functional.So Trump won! Terrible, to be sure, but it could have...
View ArticleWhat Happened?
In the 1990s, the anti-globalization movement was left-wing, anti-corporate, and internationalist. Today it is weak and has been largely replaced by an anti-globalism movement that is right-wing,...
View ArticleIs it three things that make a post?
1. This tweet took off:Apologists for H.P. Lovecraft can stop saying that he "was a man of his time" now, as he is qualified to work for the Trump White House.— Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) November 14,...
View ArticleHome again
I went to BizarroCon in Portland, and then New York for a week, and boy is my brain tired. While I was gone, this happened. That is, my first book publication, Kwangju Diary, which fell out of print a...
View ArticleMIXED UP table of contents reveal
Here is the complete table of contents for the fiction element of MIXED UP: COCKTAIL RECIPES (AND FLASH FICTION) FOR THE DISCERNING DRINKER (AND READER), which I am co-editing with libations editrix...
View ArticleFive Books I Loved This Year, And One I Hated
The now traditional list of five books I read this year that I loved, plus one I really disliked. These are books I read this year, not necessarily ones that came out this year (though several...
View ArticleYear In Review
On the last day of 2015, I tweeted:May 2016 finally be the year you get what you deserve.— Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) January 1, 2016Well. Sorry about that, everyone.My own year was mixed. The most...
View ArticleRogue One: A Star Wars Story
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is an awful movie receiving good reviews and kudos from fans because it is much like fan-fiction or a role-playing game in the visually spectacular setting of the series....
View ArticleWhat year is it?
Did lots of traveling with little ability to do anything but tweet. Anyway, what year will 2017 be?It'll be the year where everything will be worse than you think.
View ArticleInauguration Links
Over at the Jewish Mexican Literary Review, I have produced a shopping and lifestyle guide for the Trump years. Check out Consume!You may have seen the inexplicably viral poem written for Trump's...
View ArticleThe Most Important Thing in the World
My 2010 poem, originally published on this LJ, has new life as a one-post Wordpress, since people often ask for it. Under the Trump regime, I'm likely to be asked for it even more often, so here it...
View ArticleMarch + Punch
We went to the Women's March in Oakland. I put up some pics on a rare Facebook post (a number in the comments). Check them out here.I am a big fan of punching Nazis and was very pleased to see Richard...
View ArticleA Desperate Plan to Save 2017!
Minor in the grand scheme of things, but if Trump is driving you to both distraction and to drink, you should pre-order my latest book, the anthology Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for...
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