Archive - Everything Is Horrible

"It's really hard to be optimistic right now"

An interview with Amran Gowani, author of the bleak high finance thriller *Leverage*

20 hrs ago •

New Free Chapbook: Goose Ears!

also a free anthology download with me in it

Aug 18 •

The Greatest Movie Criticism Ever

James Baldwin and the Devil Finds Work

Aug 17 •

This Week's Writing 8/15/25

40% off sale ends THIS WEEK

Aug 16 •

The Loosey-Goosey Judaism of Howard Wolowitz

Or...how I was right on the internets.

Aug 15 •

What Science-Fiction Books Should Kids Read First?

Whatever they want.

Aug 13 •

Trump’s Invasion of DC Is Not A Distraction

Fascists build power by targeting the powerless.

Aug 12 •

Rahm Emanuel Is Not the Fucking Future of the Democratic Party

No, Democrats are not clamoring for more bigotry and triangulation

Aug 11 •

Sydney Sweeney and ‘Phantom Lib Syndrome’

Noah Berlatsky on the right wing’s need to invent liberals to argue against

Published on Flux • Aug 10

1:15:23

This Week's Writing 8/9/25

Why Stephen Miller isn't a kapo, and more.

Aug 9 •

Out of Nothing At All

A cheer or two for the inauthenticity of Air Supply

Aug 8 •

Meritocracy (In Dating) Is a Myth

Pretending the left can get young men laid just exacerbates patriarchy.

Aug 7 •

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