Scott Stein
@sstein.bsky.social
Latest novel: THE GREAT AMERICAN BETRAYAL "Best Comedy Books of 2022" —Vulture
English professor, novelist, satirist, editor, father, husband, dog owner, gardener
https://scottsteinonline.com
English professor, novelist, satirist, editor, father, husband, dog owner, gardener
https://scottsteinonline.com
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Scott Stein
@sstein.bsky.social
· Dec 3
If you're a literary/film agent or work in animation, television, streaming, comics, video games, my novels are available for adaptation. They've been compared to Douglas Adams, Twin Peaks meets Futurama, Monty Python meets Sam Spade. See reviews from Publishers Weekly (starred), Vulture, Kirkus.
Sorry to stress people out, but Saturday is Valentine's Day. "I don't want anything" might be true, but your significant other could be an unreliable narrator who doesn't know their own wants. Cook dinner, at least.
February 11, 2026 at 9:33 PM
Sorry to stress people out, but Saturday is Valentine's Day. "I don't want anything" might be true, but your significant other could be an unreliable narrator who doesn't know their own wants. Cook dinner, at least.
Things are so fucked up, I read Kafka for an escape from absurd tyranny.
February 11, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Things are so fucked up, I read Kafka for an escape from absurd tyranny.
Reposted by Scott Stein
Someone must have slandered Scott S., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he had Kafka papers to grade.
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Someone must have slandered Scott S., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he had Kafka papers to grade.
Reposted by Scott Stein
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
February 11, 2026 at 1:11 PM
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
To newish followers: besides teaching, writing novels, etc., I sometimes write silly satirical lists. You can find an archive here if you might enjoy very short nonsense.
whenfallsthecoliseum.com/author/sstein/
whenfallsthecoliseum.com/author/sstein/
February 11, 2026 at 3:30 PM
To newish followers: besides teaching, writing novels, etc., I sometimes write silly satirical lists. You can find an archive here if you might enjoy very short nonsense.
whenfallsthecoliseum.com/author/sstein/
whenfallsthecoliseum.com/author/sstein/
Reposted by Scott Stein
And this duology of mysteries by @scottstein.bsky.social
is downright hilarious. The narrator is a sentient coffee machine/service robot for a gumshoe; the setting is a mall that people live inside that's full of silly hypercommercialism. The footnotes had me laughing nearly every page.
is downright hilarious. The narrator is a sentient coffee machine/service robot for a gumshoe; the setting is a mall that people live inside that's full of silly hypercommercialism. The footnotes had me laughing nearly every page.
February 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
And this duology of mysteries by @scottstein.bsky.social
is downright hilarious. The narrator is a sentient coffee machine/service robot for a gumshoe; the setting is a mall that people live inside that's full of silly hypercommercialism. The footnotes had me laughing nearly every page.
is downright hilarious. The narrator is a sentient coffee machine/service robot for a gumshoe; the setting is a mall that people live inside that's full of silly hypercommercialism. The footnotes had me laughing nearly every page.
I have just closed all airspace over my house. Updates as circumstances warrant.
February 11, 2026 at 2:23 PM
I have just closed all airspace over my house. Updates as circumstances warrant.
I'm only asked to show ID when I buy beer at the supermarket (not at the beer store, where they don't bother) and when I buy medication for allergies or sinus congestion that requires it.
like americans actually do not spend much time at all showing ID. i might be asked for mine *maybe* once every other week or so, and that’s because i travel by plane a lot for work
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
I'm only asked to show ID when I buy beer at the supermarket (not at the beer store, where they don't bother) and when I buy medication for allergies or sinus congestion that requires it.
My son works at CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) and this morning there’s a guest speaker about infectious diseases. He sent this pic of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
February 11, 2026 at 1:22 PM
My son works at CHOP (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia) and this morning there’s a guest speaker about infectious diseases. He sent this pic of Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Someone must have slandered Scott S., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he had Kafka papers to grade.
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
February 11, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Someone must have slandered Scott S., for one morning, without having done anything wrong, he had Kafka papers to grade.
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
February 11, 2026 at 1:11 PM
As Scott Stein awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed into a professor who had to read student papers about Kafka.
In 2007, as part of the process of creating the book I conceived, The 33rd (an annual paperback anthology of Drexel student and faculty writing produced by Drexel Publishing Group and used in our First-Year Writing courses), I started two writing contests: 1/2
February 11, 2026 at 12:54 PM
In 2007, as part of the process of creating the book I conceived, The 33rd (an annual paperback anthology of Drexel student and faculty writing produced by Drexel Publishing Group and used in our First-Year Writing courses), I started two writing contests: 1/2
Any writer using "promised" to describe Musk's plans should be excommunicated from words.
Ahh, to be old and naive like Ross:
February 11, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Any writer using "promised" to describe Musk's plans should be excommunicated from words.
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
February 11, 2026 at 1:35 AM
Tomorrow’s goal is to read/grade 10 Kafka papers. What happens after that is anyone’s guess.
Someone tell them that Bad Bunny is just a name. He might actually be a good bunny. Or chaotic neutral.
Alford: "On Bad Bunny - we're still investigating. There's info out about the lyrics. I don't speak fluent Spanish, but if it's true what was said on natl TV, we have a lot of Qs for entities that broadcast it & we'll be talking w/ the FCC. This could be worse than the Janet wardrobe malfunction"
February 11, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Someone tell them that Bad Bunny is just a name. He might actually be a good bunny. Or chaotic neutral.
Cheers, Bluesky. Try not to let the world get you too down.
February 10, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Cheers, Bluesky. Try not to let the world get you too down.
Now cancel culture just means cancel all culture
February 10, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Now cancel culture just means cancel all culture
Maybe the nannies know.
He doesn't know if the Census Bureau is part of the department he runs?! Or he doesn't know the Census Bureau establishes the poverty line?
Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door
Either way, that's the kind of staggering admission of utter cluelessness that should get this ass-kissing toady shown the door
KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right?
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
February 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Maybe the nannies know.
Still think someone should start a newspaper called The Washington Posthaste
February 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Still think someone should start a newspaper called The Washington Posthaste
Nanny Island is going to be a huge reality show hit for CBS.
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Nanny Island is going to be a huge reality show hit for CBS.
We wouldn't be in this mess if only they called it "The Outstanding Plate."
"Guy who has not only never touched grass, has never once gone outside at all" voice:
February 10, 2026 at 5:30 PM
We wouldn't be in this mess if only they called it "The Outstanding Plate."
Fun talk with students about the presumption of guilt, the bad people who claim (and even believe themselves) to be in favor of justice while being grotesquely unjust, the industrialization of torture and killing, and how Kafka works humor and slapstick into the most horrible circumstances.
Going to be a harrowing class discussion today about Kafka's "In the Penal Colony"
February 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Fun talk with students about the presumption of guilt, the bad people who claim (and even believe themselves) to be in favor of justice while being grotesquely unjust, the industrialization of torture and killing, and how Kafka works humor and slapstick into the most horrible circumstances.
Age verification? When I met Pac-Man he was still single.
Age verification? My first anime was "Space Cruiser Yamato"
Age verification? On my middle school basketball team we all chewed lemon-lime Gatorgum.
February 10, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Age verification? When I met Pac-Man he was still single.
It’s Saurons all the way down.
To sum up, if all you really have in your intellectual locker is Tolkien, everything looks like an Orc.
February 10, 2026 at 2:26 PM
It’s Saurons all the way down.
We're well into the first round of student submissions for my Writing Your Novel course, workshopping the opening 10 pages of fiction by 4 students today. As a general rule, something should happen at the beginning of a novel.
February 10, 2026 at 12:32 PM
We're well into the first round of student submissions for my Writing Your Novel course, workshopping the opening 10 pages of fiction by 4 students today. As a general rule, something should happen at the beginning of a novel.