Dan Sinykin
@dan_sinykin
Author of A Day in the Life of My Mother's Pickle (self-published 1991), Catnip Catnip (self-published 2002), & My Life in Scott Stapp's Gazebo (Atria 2026)
In honor of BoJack Horseman, I've begun calling my dog Mr. Jelly
Just heard this ad read: “in a world with AI, it’s harder than ever to tell who’s a bot and who’s not. If you’re human and you know it it’s time to get world ID so everyone knows you’re a human.”
This was her debut! What the hell
#26 I can’t believe I waited this long to start reading Robinson.
So close to responding to PR emails with: "I don't think you actually want me to write about this."
Ok, so I got an email from my press saying they want to move ahead with feeding my book into the AI machine. All of this creeps me out. Has anyone dealt with this yet?
Do I read for "fun"? Does a surgeon do heart transplants for fun? Does an engineer build rockets for fun? There is nothing "fun" about determining the objective aesthetic value of literary texts
Wait till knowing how to read, like low-rise jeans makes a huge comeback in 20 years
Drove around the Twin Cities suburbs getting in car chases and fucking up lawns to the tunes of Ozzy Osbourne. Was a teenage telemarketing prodigy, selling the shit out of duct cleaning from a boiler room stripmall sty to the tunes of Ozzy Osbourne. Crazy, but that's how it goes
We are often having very bleak conversations before bed these days. However, I’ll highlight a blessing, we have @vjoshuaadams , @misternagel , @clairehopple , and @aliner , visiting 804 lit salon in the coming months, and I’m really looking forward to seeing all of them!
I knew I was moving slowly on yesterday's "run" when an old man, striding briskly—NOT a speed walk, not even—nearly overtook me while casually clearing his throat
Bound to produce the best critical pans this year!
Hardcovers have arrived! The attempt to memory hole 2020 has been something to see. Four years ago, I set out to write an honest account of the ideological convulsions that have beset American society from the election of the first black president in 2008 to the reelection of…
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tbh I would be more inclined to believe the theory that MFA programs ruined American literature if all the people who constantly repeat it weren’t such terrible writers
of course I have taught William Faulkner! "The Sound and the Fury" usually. (contrary to what people think this is not at all a "difficult" novel; "difficult" would be "Ulysses" after the first several, relatively straightforward chapters when we embark upon a drunken delirium…
Thank God you didn’t assign Faulkner. No student then or now could absorb it. Only the fearless and brave embark on a Faulkner novel.
i can’t stand it when a house collapses onto my bulldozer
🚨BREAKING: Israeli soldier Lenny Shoham was killed this morning in Jabalia after a house collapsed onto her bulldozer during a military operation.
Ahh yes the classic part of war that involves demolishing civilian homes with construction equipment. Could happen to anyone.
🚨BREAKING: Israeli soldier Lenny Shoham was killed this morning in Jabalia after a house collapsed onto her bulldozer during a military operation.
pretty sure she just erm. killed herself.
🚨BREAKING: Israeli soldier Lenny Shoham was killed this morning in Jabalia after a house collapsed onto her bulldozer during a military operation.
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This is the idiot chatter I mean. From The Independent, thirty minutes ago. Just nonsense. By one count, men authored 75% of English-language fiction in ~1970, which approached parity in the early 21C. Go gather publishers' lists and see. RFK's not the only one with brain worms.
This is the idiot chatter I mean. From The Independent, thirty minutes ago. Just nonsense. By one count, men authored 75% of English-language fiction in ~1970, which approached parity in the early 21C. Go gather publishers' lists and see. RFK's not the only one with brain worms.
Amid the idiot chatter about men and reading, men and writing, some of the best books I've read lately are by men about masculinity, instead of baseless whingeing, we could be talking about: Mark Haber, Lesser Ruins Tony Tulathimutte, Rejection Andrew Lipstein, Something Rotten
open.spotify.com/episode/4MMO8D… Brand new episode with @ailipstein speaking about Something Rotten. Listen now from your own slice of Greenland or anywhere you listen to podcasts.