Dale Markowitz
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dalequark.bsky.social
Dale Markowitz
@dalequark.bsky.social
Now: writing, running theaustinsalon.com
Past: Google, OkCupid
Words in The Atlantic, WaPo, Nautilus, NYMag, and beyond

Learn more: dalemarkowitz.com
Where does one see The Divine Comedy in this day and age
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🤓💻 sounds fun!
May 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I’ll be there! But the link is a little confusing.
March 30, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Are you normally a pantser or a plotter?
March 19, 2025 at 3:37 AM
So cool! Congratulations!
March 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What I love most about Dissonance is its magic system rooted in Freudian and Jungian psychology—where suppression, gaslighting, projection, etc. manifest as literal, tangible phenomena.
March 17, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Well but think, the part of you that is so good at imagining the uncertain terror down there is also the part responsible for dreaming stories up!
March 15, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I never knew about this connection between publishing and the tariffs… very interesting! Thanks for writing :)
March 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Oh good, you’re watching in reverse so it gets better and better.
March 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
I would love a thread on the most hackneyed openings 😍
March 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
And me? I have a giant Roman water garden mural, some historical scientific prints, Renaissance art, a Bluetooth typewriter, an email reply from one of my favorite authors (thanks @levgrossman.bsky.social!) and, most critically, a black cat. 🐈‍⬛
February 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Brandon Sanderson had a fantasy writing lair built 30 feet underground in Utah.
February 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Thomas Edison slept in his glamorous multi-story-library-office so often that his wife had a cot brought in.
February 27, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Charles Dickens was an interior design enthusiast who once wrote a 6,000-word essay on wallpaper. When his pet raven died, he had it taxidermied and hung above his desk. So attached was he to his workspace that when he traveled, he brought his portable rosewood writing desk with him.
February 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Ray Bradbury wrote surrounded by toys, a canopy of masks, a six-foot Bullwinkle stuffed animal and a jar with a fake human head in it.
February 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM