Eric Horwitz
@ericsandwich.bsky.social
Full time librarian and a part time author from NYC. Seize the Press, Daily Science Fiction, Not One of Us Magazine, Vector BSFA, NoSleep. Ethorwitz.com theworldshottestwriter.com he/him. I post wacky books on insta https://www.instagram.com/wackybooks
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Eric Horwitz
@ericsandwich.bsky.social
· Sep 23
Issue #11 is up online for subscribers!
Weird and dark fiction; a wonderful interview with Indra Das; non-fiction on Dario Argento and censorship; and insightful reviews of Exordia, How I Killed the Universal Man, and A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias.
Weird and dark fiction; a wonderful interview with Indra Das; non-fiction on Dario Argento and censorship; and insightful reviews of Exordia, How I Killed the Universal Man, and A Study in Ugliness & Outras Histórias.
Seize The Press
Dark fiction & anticapitalist pop culture magazine.
www.seizethepress.com
Hey everyone! My short story "A History of the Avodion Through Five Artists" is up on Seize the Press! Check it out 👀
I'm gonna say one that happened recently. I read Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men when I was super depressed and was like wow this is me
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I'm gonna say one that happened recently. I read Jacqueline Harpman's I Who Have Never Known Men when I was super depressed and was like wow this is me
normally I don't like it when people rush to infer queerness in every depiction of men displaying homosocial intimacy, I find it reductive and even a little fetishistic.
That being said this is basically a hardcore sex scene
That being said this is basically a hardcore sex scene
Master and Commander violin cello duet part2
YouTube video by daniel hart
youtu.be
November 11, 2025 at 11:41 PM
normally I don't like it when people rush to infer queerness in every depiction of men displaying homosocial intimacy, I find it reductive and even a little fetishistic.
That being said this is basically a hardcore sex scene
That being said this is basically a hardcore sex scene
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no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
no amount of state propaganda will ever convince me this man is my enemy
Me and Elon Musk now have something in common, we were both owned online by joyce carol oates
November 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Me and Elon Musk now have something in common, we were both owned online by joyce carol oates
neat
🏰KINGDOMS OF THE DUMP🏰
An indie turn-based RPG set in the "Lands of Fill"
🗑️Made by real janitors
♻️6+ Years of work
📢RELEASING IN DAYS (NOV. 18)
I finally hung up the broom after years of janiteering to focus on our launch.
Help us out by wishlisting now!
#PitchYaGame
An indie turn-based RPG set in the "Lands of Fill"
🗑️Made by real janitors
♻️6+ Years of work
📢RELEASING IN DAYS (NOV. 18)
I finally hung up the broom after years of janiteering to focus on our launch.
Help us out by wishlisting now!
#PitchYaGame
November 9, 2025 at 5:52 PM
neat
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Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world
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He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom
November 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
He saw God’s foot upon the treadle of the loom
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Look where he stands and glares!
November 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Look where he stands and glares!
solidarity forever ✊
BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.
Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.
November 7, 2025 at 12:28 AM
solidarity forever ✊
really terrific breakdown of how Mamdani did what he did. Focused on New Yorkers, not himself.
Mamdani's Magic
How a 34-year-old became the next mayor of New York City
www.kenklippenstein.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
really terrific breakdown of how Mamdani did what he did. Focused on New Yorkers, not himself.
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If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
City Council, we demand half a percent of the overall city budget for libraries!
In response to the NYC FY2026 Budget, adopted this June, the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library, and the Queens Public Library released a joint statement thanking City Leaders for in...
actionnetwork.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you live in NYC and you are interested in organizing with others around our public libraries, you are invited to join our work @nycplan.org. We have a chance to increase and stabilize funding for our public libraries and you can help make that happen. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...
my mayor quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech 🤩
WATCH LIVE: Zohran Mamdani addresses supporters after winning 2025 NYC mayoral race
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 AM
my mayor quoted Eugene Debs in his victory speech 🤩
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They should make Little Shop of Horrors 2, a completely different set of characters & a completely different monster bought from the mysterious store. They should make a series of episodic horror musicals like Tales from the Crypt with only the little shop and the doo-wop girls as connective tissue
November 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
They should make Little Shop of Horrors 2, a completely different set of characters & a completely different monster bought from the mysterious store. They should make a series of episodic horror musicals like Tales from the Crypt with only the little shop and the doo-wop girls as connective tissue
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Hakeem Jeffries has the sad eyes of a paternal aunt. Languid, barely holding on. After each visit, a melancholy lingers. No one sleeps.
Kash Patel’s eyes are severe. His unkempt lawn houses an intense German Shepherd tied to a wire. He yells from the porch. The dog bellows back. Disharmony abounds.
Kash Patel’s eyes are severe. His unkempt lawn houses an intense German Shepherd tied to a wire. He yells from the porch. The dog bellows back. Disharmony abounds.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Hakeem Jeffries has the sad eyes of a paternal aunt. Languid, barely holding on. After each visit, a melancholy lingers. No one sleeps.
Kash Patel’s eyes are severe. His unkempt lawn houses an intense German Shepherd tied to a wire. He yells from the porch. The dog bellows back. Disharmony abounds.
Kash Patel’s eyes are severe. His unkempt lawn houses an intense German Shepherd tied to a wire. He yells from the porch. The dog bellows back. Disharmony abounds.
Whoever thought of calling the spongebob town Bikini Bottom was really cooking
November 3, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Whoever thought of calling the spongebob town Bikini Bottom was really cooking
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rip in advance to Scott "Mr Dilbert" Adams who is perhaps most famous for writing a now-deleted four part blog post where he attempted to hypnotize his readers into nutting and asked them to email him after they have nutted to tell him about the nut.
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
November 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
rip in advance to Scott "Mr Dilbert" Adams who is perhaps most famous for writing a now-deleted four part blog post where he attempted to hypnotize his readers into nutting and asked them to email him after they have nutted to tell him about the nut.
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
www.tumblr.com/manlethotlin...
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I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything
October 19, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I went to the Louvre once and enjoyed it but honestly if I was there and a bunch of French investigators rushed in and said “Sacre bleu! there has been a heist!” I would have had a much better time and would have given it five stars on everything
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went to the bakery this morning and they were out of cardamom buns so the guy said how about a raisin roll instead. Ok great and could you shoot me in the dick with a gun afterwards too
October 31, 2025 at 2:39 PM
went to the bakery this morning and they were out of cardamom buns so the guy said how about a raisin roll instead. Ok great and could you shoot me in the dick with a gun afterwards too
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CHOTINER: So Harry, you're the butcher at the Busytown Supermarket?
HARRY: That's right.
CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store?
HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever!
CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right?
HARRY: Yes.
HARRY: That's right.
CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store?
HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever!
CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right?
HARRY: Yes.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
CHOTINER: So Harry, you're the butcher at the Busytown Supermarket?
HARRY: That's right.
CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store?
HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever!
CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right?
HARRY: Yes.
HARRY: That's right.
CHOTINER: You sell pork at your store?
HARRY: Certainly, We sell the best pork ever!
CHOTINER: Seems your customers agree, but I couldn't help but notice, you're also a pig, right?
HARRY: Yes.
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Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"
October 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Starting in Milan, in 73, revolutionary groups would mass up, go into supermarkets and chase out the bosses/security, get on the loudspeaker and declare everything free. They would then make revolutionary speeches while shoppers gleefully enjoyed the discount. They called this "proletariat shopping"
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The Guardian asked me and a bunch of amazing horror authors about the stories that scared us the most. I love any opportunity I’m able to talk about THE AUCTIONEER by Joan Samson.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
‘It’s insanely sinister’: horror writers on the scariest stories they’ve ever read
Bloodthirsty ghosts, sadistic supercomputers, creepy childhood games ... Mariana Enríquez, Paul Tremblay, Daisy Johnson and others on the tales that kept them up at night
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The Guardian asked me and a bunch of amazing horror authors about the stories that scared us the most. I love any opportunity I’m able to talk about THE AUCTIONEER by Joan Samson.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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It is extremely on brand for trump to consider a 92 year old nobel laureate with a history of calling out dictators a mortal threat
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
Trump administration strips Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka of US visa
The first African author to win the Nobel in literature, Soyinka has been an outspoken critic of governments worldwide.
bit.ly
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
It is extremely on brand for trump to consider a 92 year old nobel laureate with a history of calling out dictators a mortal threat
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a really terrific read from Joy Williams. RIP Gene Hackman
“Every once in a while, however, news of Death’s particular methods and attention to detail seizes our attention like the cougar does the clueless rabbit, and we suffer some serious confusion and fright.” —Joy Williams
One Four Two Five Old Sunset Trail, by Joy Williams
On the last days of Gene Hackman
buff.ly
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
a really terrific read from Joy Williams. RIP Gene Hackman