Minor in the grand scheme of things, but if Trump is driving you to both distraction and to drink, you should pre-order my latest book, the anthology Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader), co-edited with Molly Tanzer ( Read more... )

We went to the Women's March in Oakland. I put up some pics on a rare Facebook post (a number in the comments). Check them out here.

I am a big fan of punching Nazis and was very pleased to see Richard Spencer punched. The best remix is here, even if it may accidentally lead to a Phil Collins comeback.

My 2010 poem, originally published on this LJ, has new life as a one-post Wordpress, since people often ask for it. Under the Trump regime, I'm likely to be asked for it even more often, so here it is:

The Most Important Thing in the World

Over at the Jewish Mexican Literary Review, I have produced a shopping and lifestyle guide for the Trump years. Check out Consume!

You may have seen the inexplicably viral poem written for Trump's inauguration. (Yes yes, I know it's not an inaugural poem. I've not seen one person who thought it was.) You may not have seen Scottish author Hal ( Read more... )

Did lots of traveling with little ability to do anything but tweet. Anyway, what year will 2017 be?

It'll be the year where everything will be worse than you think.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is an awful movie receiving good reviews and kudos from fans because it is much like fan-fiction or a role-playing game in the visually spectacular setting of the series. Fans are most of all always fans of themselves. It is a marginally better film than the awful The Force Awakens but only because of how it ends ( Read more... )

On the last day of 2015, I tweeted:

May 2016 finally be the year you get what you deserve.
- Nick Mamatas (@NMamatas) January 1, 2016
Well. Sorry about that, everyone ( Read more... )

The now traditional list of five books I read this year that I loved, plus one I really disliked. These are books I read this year, not necessarily ones that came out this year (though several did).

Stay Crazy by Erica Satifka. I blurbed this one! "Had Philip K. Dick lived through riot grrrl and the collapse of the America's industrial economy, ( Read more... )

Here is the complete table of contents for the fiction element of MIXED UP: COCKTAIL RECIPES (AND FLASH FICTION) FOR THE DISCERNING DRINKER (AND READER), which I am co-editing with libations editrix Molly Tanzer, for a release by Skyhorse in October 2017 ( Read more... )

I went to BizarroCon in Portland, and then New York for a week, and boy is my brain tired.

While I was gone, this happened. That is, my first book publication, Kwangju Diary, which fell out of print a decade ago, is being republished in South Korea by the May 18th Memorial Foundation to be distributed freely in perpetuity to English-language ( Read more... )