Austin Grossman

"Did you find that picture of the man who only wrote one book?" "Sure did, boss..."

Feast on them.

And here again is my favourite ever Batman poem...

I submitted the final manuscript for Beast Mode: Adventures in the Heart of the Gaming Industry. Writing nonfiction is *terrifying*.

Going through final comments on my manuscript. Rocking back and forth like a child in a movie who will later turn out to have psychic powers.

The elevator in my therapist’s building looks like I dreamed it.

snatcher, screenshot, sega cd (1994) www.mobygames.com/game/7524/sn...

Once again, I must point to the official statement from Toyota. www.nytimes.com/2001/11/23/a...

Used bookstore haul. Dogtown Bookstore, Gloucester MA.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

I can't believe somebody in this film won Best Supporting Actress and it wasn't Elaine Stewart. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFjS...

maybe the wrong people are doing the Neuromancer adaptation

gamers were a mistake

roald dahl's grandson is a former london-based journalist who once freelanced for the daily dot and then married princess raiyah of jordan during covid but then got divorced and moved to the US where he became a cop in south carolina and just married an american tiktoker

Subway tale: As I read the latest @lrb.co.uk, I observe the man seated across from me is reading the very same issue. Neither of us acknowledges the other. Fin.

how it is sometimes

Me: Okay, there's been a thunderstorm, the heatwave should be over now. (New health bar appears) (The sun is now named 'Sol, Starflame of Regret') (Objectively the greatest piece of classical music ever recorded starts playing).

@nixonfoundation.bsky.social finally catching up www.austingrossman.com/crooked

I stumbled on Heather O’Neill’s novel Lullabies for a little criminals and it’s stunningly good. I tried The Lonely Hearts Hotel but it’s so drenched in whimsy I can’t deal. But it still has great sentences.

Trump gives them spectacle. Musk gives them infrastructure. ICE gives them force. Data centers give them extraction. The fight moves local because that’s where the machine touches land, water, housing, and bodies.

Why are video games so goddamn hard nowadays?

Well for some of us that's EVERY fucking summer.

Guy on the NY subway absolutely gripped by the D&D manual he’s reading.

Freedom 250 sounds fun www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

@merriam-webster.com Your entry for SCRIPS includes an erroneous example. "During the four-and-a-half-month program, filmmakers develop their scrips and network with industry professionals." —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2026 Sorry to bother you. My insomnia is bad enough as it is.

I found a dollar at the bodega and handed it in to the guy at the cashier like he was a lost and found. He said "Do you want it?" I said "Yeah, I kind of do."

Kafka - The Trial Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding Thackeray - Vanity Fair

book haul from PEN American Lit Gala

Scrivener makes a lot of things easier but I will never like it.

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices