american bastard came out last week. it's about degenerates and man's search for faith, that sort of shit. small southern towns as islands of misfit toys. like denis johnson + karen russell cowrote an episode of king of the hill. maybe. idk. check out it or don't. aprilgloaming.com/shop/america...

My fourth book, american bastard, is now available for preorder: aprilgloaming.com/shop/america...

LOL

Our daughter right before her birthday cake gave her and her brother diarrhea

Nobody:

My hometown newspaper:

May you find some joy today. The same kind of joy our girl, Stevie Nicks Starr, finds in looking out the window from her favorite chair.

It was getting to a point where I was beginning to wonder if we'd ever have snow in the North Carolina triangle again, but now the good stuff is coming down and there are several fat cardinals in our tree. In a world gone to shit, it's the little things.

My state senate is debating a bill that would limit the amount of medical procedures insurance providers are required to cover, and this is the lead sponsor's justification. We are being governed by Christofascist lunacy.

Listening to the king. (Don't judge the dust)

Don't have Spotify or Apple Music, but these were the dozen or so albums, in no particular order, I fucked with most this year.

When Stevie was 3 months old, she lost her big sister, a 13-year-old corgi. Now, it seems like every time she goes to daycare, she makes friends with...a corgi.

Dogs, man.

Somehow managed to never read The Stranger before now, but it's real good, and this part made me laugh harder than it should have.

My fourth book, a collection of short stories entitled 'american bastard,' is coming from April Gloaming in November (tentatively) of next year. I promise I'm gonna be really, really annoying about this between now and then, but for now, I'll simply say stay tuned.