New blog post: More of my interview with writer @atgonzalez. In addition to his work on Galapagos Larvae and Overscan, AT and I run the Harlan Ellison Directory. Harlan Ellison was known as the Dark Prince of American Letters, and the two of us are preserving his work.

https://nantucketlit.com/blog/2026/03/2026-03-14_an_interview_with_at_gonzalez,_part_2.html

In this part of the interview, AT shares his experience as an Ellison reader, and his work on the pinball newsletter Quarter Up.

Postcard #5 of the year went out last week! This postcard's story is Warmth by @atgonzalez, and the art is Red Sun by Arthur Dove. Each postcard is numbered and date-stamped at the post office.

If you'd like to receive a free postcard in the mail, sign up at https://nantucketlit.com/postcards #physicalMedia #NantucketLit

A preview of the progress on my #AppleII typesetting. The text is from @atgonzalez's Galapagos Larvae, shared with their permission. Here, you can see the following features: justified text, mixed case, proportional fonts, smart curly quotes and italic text.

Because of the way the Apple II displays color, white lines on a color TV have a distinct rainbow effect on them. It looks fine on a black-and-white monitor. I'll take a look at my other color options. #NantucketLit #retroComputing

Tomorrow, I'll be publishing the next postcard for First-Class Fiction. The story for this card is Warmth by @atgonzalez. The art is Red Sun by Arthur Dove, painted in 1935.

If you're interested in receiving this postcard in the mail for free, you may sign up at https://nantucketlit.com/postcards

New blog post: The first part of an interview with writer @atgonzalez, author of Galapagos Larvae. Gonzalez has also written for my publications Quarter Up and First-Class Fiction, and was published in my anthology Overscan.

We talk about writing and some of his favorite authors. If you have enjoyed his work, here's your chance to learn more about him.

https://nantucketlit.com/blog/2026/03/2026-03-09_an_interview_with_at_gonzalez,_part_1.html #NantucketLit #interview

I wanted to take a moment today (as I try to from time to time) to recognize Christine Lemmer-Webber.

We all owe her many thanks for her work on ActivityPub, which is, in part, why we're all here on Mastodon.

More specific to me, it was this short essay that encouraged me to make my e-book work a free-software project: https://dustycloud.org/blog/why-i-am-pro-gpl/ (Why I Am Pro-GPL)

So, thank you, @cwebber

“And then, one day, I encounter a new door. A new knob in a home. This feels different.

“I’m hesitant. My hand, conditioned by memory, approaches it with the caution of a bomb disposal expert. My fingers brace for the cold, the cheap, the wobbly, the hostile.

“But this one is different.

“It’s a simple lever handle, but it’s not the cold, corporate steel of a public building. This one is made of dark, smooth wood, worn gentle by countless hands. The wood has absorbed the warmth of the house, of the people inside it, and it feels alive to the touch. . . .

“I press down. There is no squeak of protest, no cheap rattle of a loose mechanism. There is only a deep, solid, well-oiled click. It is the sound of something working exactly as it should. . . .

“This doorknob, this simple piece of wood and metal, tells the best story I have ever felt.”

EDIT to add: @WeirdWriter
created this piece, so all kudos go to him. ❤️
https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/doorknob-hostility/