Morris Collins
@morriscollins.bsky.social
2024 O. Henry Prize. Author of Horse Latitudes
(Dzanc Books). New novel: The Tavern at the End of History
(Dzanc Books, 2026). Bon vivant, abed by nine. Boston.
(Dzanc Books). New novel: The Tavern at the End of History
(Dzanc Books, 2026). Bon vivant, abed by nine. Boston.
My Rosh Hashanah cocktail: bonded apple brandy, bourbon, bitters, honey syrup, a twist.
Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.
Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.
September 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
My Rosh Hashanah cocktail: bonded apple brandy, bourbon, bitters, honey syrup, a twist.
Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.
Meanwhile, for 5786, more peace, friends. More light, more love. Never again must mean no more.
Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?
September 16, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Schattenfroh aside, there remain so many experimental works by small presses that fly under the radar. E.G: Old Men in Love by the great Alasdair Gray. Pub'd by Small Beer & prob. the most beautiful contemporary book object I own. & it totally disappeared. Other Examples?
Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:
September 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Teaching Hawthorne in my Love and Death in the American Novel class tomorrow and my prime takeaway from this is, their radical ability (so they think) to recognize semiotic coherence notwithstanding, what a bunch of little fuckers these Puritan kids are:
People fairly criticize academia & the MFA but ignore the primary & beautiful ways that the U. can still make education sacred. As in, where else would I get access to the entire run of The Review of Contemporary Fiction from
@Dalkey_Archive
? Diving in to the Coover issue today.
@Dalkey_Archive
? Diving in to the Coover issue today.
September 8, 2025 at 4:38 PM
People fairly criticize academia & the MFA but ignore the primary & beautiful ways that the U. can still make education sacred. As in, where else would I get access to the entire run of The Review of Contemporary Fiction from
@Dalkey_Archive
? Diving in to the Coover issue today.
@Dalkey_Archive
? Diving in to the Coover issue today.
"September. It seems these luminous days will never end."
Happy Salter day to all who celebrate.
Happy Salter day to all who celebrate.
September 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
"September. It seems these luminous days will never end."
Happy Salter day to all who celebrate.
Happy Salter day to all who celebrate.
Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.
August 28, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Galleys dropped! My weird novel abt art, the angels of history, Kabbalah, Yiddish poets, a dybbuk, & the dangers of trauma narratives. I pitched it (not well) as a Jewish Magic Mountain, but shorter. It's a strange book & I can't wait to share it with you. Feb 10th from Dzanc.
Went road tripping into the countryside to hit up used bookstores on my anniversary (perfect match, obviously) and found this for 9 dollars!
August 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Went road tripping into the countryside to hit up used bookstores on my anniversary (perfect match, obviously) and found this for 9 dollars!
"He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library."
Robertson Davies makes the best case for the Humanities:
Robertson Davies makes the best case for the Humanities:
August 15, 2025 at 12:31 PM
"He had allowed his daughters to use his library without restraint, and nothing is more fatal to maidenly delicacy of speech than the run of a good library."
Robertson Davies makes the best case for the Humanities:
Robertson Davies makes the best case for the Humanities:
Not feeling seen by the new MS word grammar squiggle
August 8, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Not feeling seen by the new MS word grammar squiggle
"Who had set himself problems only he could solve, and had solved them, and made a mystery."
A.S. Byatt ( my favorite writer) on Vermeer's "The View of Delft"...describing what making art, writing a novel, should be like...
A.S. Byatt ( my favorite writer) on Vermeer's "The View of Delft"...describing what making art, writing a novel, should be like...
August 1, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"Who had set himself problems only he could solve, and had solved them, and made a mystery."
A.S. Byatt ( my favorite writer) on Vermeer's "The View of Delft"...describing what making art, writing a novel, should be like...
A.S. Byatt ( my favorite writer) on Vermeer's "The View of Delft"...describing what making art, writing a novel, should be like...
Reading Stevens' "Sunday Morning" on the first day of June (“desire for June and evening, tipped/ By the consummation of the swallow’s wings”) & struck by the hunger & awe of the 2nd stanza. How it loves & craves those moments where the mind, in intellect and spirit, meets the time-haunted world.
June 1, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Reading Stevens' "Sunday Morning" on the first day of June (“desire for June and evening, tipped/ By the consummation of the swallow’s wings”) & struck by the hunger & awe of the 2nd stanza. How it loves & craves those moments where the mind, in intellect and spirit, meets the time-haunted world.
"Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine...
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully..."
Adam Zagajewski
(Clare Cavanagh, trans.)
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine...
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully..."
Adam Zagajewski
(Clare Cavanagh, trans.)
June 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Remember June's long days,
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine...
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully..."
Adam Zagajewski
(Clare Cavanagh, trans.)
and wild strawberries, drops of rosé wine...
You've seen the refugees going nowhere,
you've heard the executioners sing joyfully..."
Adam Zagajewski
(Clare Cavanagh, trans.)
Bolaño at his most Bolaño:
(Chris Andrews, trans.)
(Chris Andrews, trans.)
May 23, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Bolaño at his most Bolaño:
(Chris Andrews, trans.)
(Chris Andrews, trans.)
Fun to see my neurotic fairytale in the new Lake Effect. I thought this was too idiosyncratic to submit, but considering that Lake Effect also took my story about panda bear lovers getting dismembered by a cassowary, I should have known they had a high threshold for the bizarre
May 14, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Fun to see my neurotic fairytale in the new Lake Effect. I thought this was too idiosyncratic to submit, but considering that Lake Effect also took my story about panda bear lovers getting dismembered by a cassowary, I should have known they had a high threshold for the bizarre
Happy bday to @jeromecharyn.bsky.social , a great American writer of dreams, songs, nursery rhymes, Bronx comic books as nostalgic as they are pornographic. Here: Blue Eyes, a hallucinatory, hysterical, & suddenly touching vision of fathers (of a sort), sons, and the traumas of inheritance.
May 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy bday to @jeromecharyn.bsky.social , a great American writer of dreams, songs, nursery rhymes, Bronx comic books as nostalgic as they are pornographic. Here: Blue Eyes, a hallucinatory, hysterical, & suddenly touching vision of fathers (of a sort), sons, and the traumas of inheritance.
Tough matchup in the second round of the department's literary March Madness...
April 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Tough matchup in the second round of the department's literary March Madness...
The greatest film star from the 1970s (which--I will die on this hill--were the greatest ever decade for American fiction) were also the zenith of US cinema. Hackman was in three PERFECT movies in the 1970s: Scarecrow (1973); The Conversation (1974); Night Moves (1975).
February 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The greatest film star from the 1970s (which--I will die on this hill--were the greatest ever decade for American fiction) were also the zenith of US cinema. Hackman was in three PERFECT movies in the 1970s: Scarecrow (1973); The Conversation (1974); Night Moves (1975).
"No one believes in the drivel of the propaganda...Force is naked here, as naked as in Kafka's novels...it wills only its own will; it is pure irrationality."
--Kundera, "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes"
--Kundera, "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes"
February 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"No one believes in the drivel of the propaganda...Force is naked here, as naked as in Kafka's novels...it wills only its own will; it is pure irrationality."
--Kundera, "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes"
--Kundera, "The Depreciated Legacy of Cervantes"
It's the first time I've ever seen these transliterated. (Well, to be fair, I've seen 'Dayenu' and that would have been enough...)
February 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
It's the first time I've ever seen these transliterated. (Well, to be fair, I've seen 'Dayenu' and that would have been enough...)
Always a good time to revisit the greatest ever Canadian short story. Mavis Gallant.
February 2, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Always a good time to revisit the greatest ever Canadian short story. Mavis Gallant.
Some great Canadians: Loved White Mythology and just getting started on She Sang to Them, She Sang by
@wdclarke.bsky.social
and Apastoral by
@ldt.bsky.social
. The Alberta Premium--a 3rd Canadian flying under the radar, packing a punch.
@coronasamizdat.bsky.social
@wdclarke.bsky.social
and Apastoral by
@ldt.bsky.social
. The Alberta Premium--a 3rd Canadian flying under the radar, packing a punch.
@coronasamizdat.bsky.social
February 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Some great Canadians: Loved White Mythology and just getting started on She Sang to Them, She Sang by
@wdclarke.bsky.social
and Apastoral by
@ldt.bsky.social
. The Alberta Premium--a 3rd Canadian flying under the radar, packing a punch.
@coronasamizdat.bsky.social
@wdclarke.bsky.social
and Apastoral by
@ldt.bsky.social
. The Alberta Premium--a 3rd Canadian flying under the radar, packing a punch.
@coronasamizdat.bsky.social
Grey Matter book haul, pt. 1. Some great vintage @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Roubaud snags...
January 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Grey Matter book haul, pt. 1. Some great vintage @dalkeyarchive.bsky.social Roubaud snags...
Ashbery. From "Street Musicians" "...the year turning over on itself"
January 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ashbery. From "Street Musicians" "...the year turning over on itself"
My take on the Dylan discourse: Leonard Cohen or Townes Van Zandt
December 31, 2024 at 11:57 PM
My take on the Dylan discourse: Leonard Cohen or Townes Van Zandt