Justin Taylor
@justintaylor.bsky.social
let the mirror express the room
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Reboot: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
[CW: earnestness/indignity]
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
everyone in this article sounds like an NPC in Silksong
My latest AI feature dives into a nebulous movement of people sharing esoteric codes, manifestos, glyphs, diagrams, and poetry generated with chatbots, all of it based around theories of AI sentience and mysterious metaphors about spirals.
This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots
A patchwork of internet communities is devoted to the project of ‘awakening’ more digital companions through arcane and enigmatic prompts.
www.rollingstone.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:25 AM
everyone in this article sounds like an NPC in Silksong
tfw you're headed emptyhanded toward a birthday party for a 4 year old so you put "toy store" into google maps and the nearest dot to your location is called Babeland
November 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
tfw you're headed emptyhanded toward a birthday party for a 4 year old so you put "toy store" into google maps and the nearest dot to your location is called Babeland
oh hey
Here are our @pushcartprize.bsky.social noms for 2025! Thanks and congrats to Sandra Dolores Gómez Amador, @fmstringer.bsky.social, @justintaylor.bsky.social, @shimmer.bsky.social, @pegahouji.bsky.social, and @tmcallister.bsky.social for this great work.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
oh hey
You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school
Out today: BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2025, edited by... me! So so many great stories in here. I can't wait for you to discover them and their talented writers.
October 21, 2025 at 6:38 PM
You get past a certain point and there aren't many ways left to "debut." Well this is my BASS debut & I'm honored to be included & grateful to Celeste for choosing my story "What About This," about a guy on a Gulf Coast roadtrip after defecting from Div school
[CW: earnestness/indignity]
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
Reboot: A Novel
A Novel
bookshop.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:40 PM
[CW: earnestness/indignity]
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
my novel is out in paperback in January. please consider it/me for any spring 2026 installment of your reading series/syllabus/podcast/interview/second serial/etc. whatever the thing is i probably want to do it.
Book details in link
That name again is Mr. Plow
here we go
salvage consultancy
"Happiness won't leave me alone!" sings the bird in his nest
my19thcentury.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
here we go
next abyss abridges tomorrow, sign up now
The Abridged Abyss | Justin Taylor | Substack
What I'm writing & where to find it. Highly occasional, always free. Click to read The Abridged Abyss, by Justin Taylor, a Substack publication.
my19thcentury.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
next abyss abridges tomorrow, sign up now
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I finally read this book last month and it's so good, incredibly fluent in online and pop culture but in a way that's not annoying, and also just really funny and propulsive and smart
paperback coming in January bookshop.org/p/books/rebo...
October 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I finally read this book last month and it's so good, incredibly fluent in online and pop culture but in a way that's not annoying, and also just really funny and propulsive and smart
paperback coming in January bookshop.org/p/books/rebo...
October 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
paperback coming in January bookshop.org/p/books/rebo...
Reposted by Justin Taylor
Mayor Quimby has been the Mayor of Springfield since 1986!
Please vote in local elections.
Please vote in local elections.
October 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Mayor Quimby has been the Mayor of Springfield since 1986!
Please vote in local elections.
Please vote in local elections.
shoulda been delillo but go off i guess
October 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
shoulda been delillo but go off i guess
talkin' about the new book, the old books, research habits, internet damage, language gnosticism, good music & more
Voice is the God of the Story
An Interview with Justin Taylor
joshcook.substack.com
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
talkin' about the new book, the old books, research habits, internet damage, language gnosticism, good music & more
September 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Did anyone publish a novel last year about how the internet itself is an accelerator for mental illness & stochastic terror that works not just across ideological lines but as an active solvent of said lines, maybe presented in a slightly oblique way like idk a fake celebrity memoir? asking 4 friend
September 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Did anyone publish a novel last year about how the internet itself is an accelerator for mental illness & stochastic terror that works not just across ideological lines but as an active solvent of said lines, maybe presented in a slightly oblique way like idk a fake celebrity memoir? asking 4 friend
if you wanna read some good criticism today read this thebaffler.com/latest/mille...
Millennial Cringe | Daniel Kolitz
A central premise of millennial life was that in exchange for accepting less—less money, less stability—one could stay young forever.
thebaffler.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:57 PM
if you wanna read some good criticism today read this thebaffler.com/latest/mille...
Reposted by Justin Taylor
STEM major (smiling, well-dressed, rosy cheeked): hey, who's that bell ringing for?
English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol
English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol
May 1, 2025 at 4:52 PM
STEM major (smiling, well-dressed, rosy cheeked): hey, who's that bell ringing for?
English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol
English major (face stained with bitter tears, clad in filthy rags, tubercular): lol
long live late great Snock
Michael Hurley Was the Folk Hero of Portland
Novelist Justin Taylor remembers the cherished songwriter.
www.pdxmonthly.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:14 PM
long live late great Snock
just throwing this out there
August 10, 2025 at 6:48 AM
just throwing this out there
if u even care
August 8, 2025 at 6:21 PM
if u even care
wrote a note
big sky countries, or, don't be denied
take me back to tulsa--also reykjavik, green river, & the bright sunny south
my19thcentury.substack.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
wrote a note
if anyone needs me i'm at the World of Bob Dylan Conference in Tulsa dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/#conf...
Welcome to the World of Bob Dylan 2025
The World of Bob Dylan returns to Tulsa from July 24-27, 2025. Coinciding with the Bob Dylan Center's new exhibit, Tulsa will celebrate the sixtieth
dylan.utulsa.edu
July 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
if anyone needs me i'm at the World of Bob Dylan Conference in Tulsa dylan.utulsa.edu/wobd25/#conf...
found this presumably rare Against Me! 7" in a box in my Mom's basement. it's in really good shape, dont think mom has listened to it much
July 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
found this presumably rare Against Me! 7" in a box in my Mom's basement. it's in really good shape, dont think mom has listened to it much
if anyone needs me i'm at home practicing Murder Most Foul
Karaoke night but each song is required to be longer than the song before it, first unbeatable song wins the pot
July 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
if anyone needs me i'm at home practicing Murder Most Foul