Galleys are here!

helen dewitt says it's get a bag monday. i don't see how you can hate from outside of the club you can't even get in ☝️

I am delighted and more honored than I can possibly say - the Emergent Ventures program at the Mercatus Center has offered me a grant of $175,000 with no requirements of any kind in the way of publicity, attendance at meetings, or anything else.

Good thing so many people are reading The Last Samurai right now. Best result a controversy can have.

Thanks to the good folks at @littlebrown and @AlgonquinBooks for this beautiful cover. And, for allowing me to keep writing books! My third novel with Kathy Poires and @ada115 comes out in November. You can learn more and pre-order here: chireviewofbooks.com/2026/04…

It’s really me. Not a scammer. Or, not a scammer in the Fake Person way. Only a scammer in the Bad Takes way.

Left this site in a fit of madness. Back, now, because everything seems okay?