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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"I came in the door, I said it before, I never let the mic magnetize me no more."

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I love Colorado's flag. It gives off serious vintage Marvelman vibes.

Cover of Marvelman No. 1, Italian edition

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Can’t wait to share this new memoir, but willing to hold on till Fall 2027.

What books are you working on that you're excited to publish?

Mat Johnson, who is a prolific novel-ist, is writing a memoir that I've been lucky enough to work on. It's a memoir of his mother, who had MS, and about their relationship as she declined, and he was her primary caretaker, but it's also a memoir of craft. So he's kind of well known in the insular, small, literary community as being an amazing professor. He uses the craft of writing to detail his mom's story. So he'll take "What does it mean to build out a character?" and then he'll show you that through his mom's stories. It is so brilliant, hilarious, moving, and tender. And it has also taught me so much about how to live. I think about his book all the time.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are many mysteries in the universe, I just want the answer to one: how the hell does Eric Powell manage to create illustrations at this level of detail and still put out like 5 graphic novels a year???

The Goon cover by Eric Powell, a nasty giant trying to eat the main character and his un-trusty sidekick, Franky.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Yo! I will be offering an online course this Dec. aimed at writers looking to realize their novel-in-progress's full potential. Those who sign up before Sept. 28 will also get extra seminars and writing sessions for the full MFA for All semester. Check it out! americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Nothing but respect for my president.

Statue of John Stewart, Green Lantern of Earth-12

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Me, lifelong, long-suffering Sixers fan:

Lebron James I Can't Believe My Life meme

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Sexual Chocolate will not be appearing at the American State Fair.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Been trying to decide between relocating back to LA or my native Philly, but the combo of this weather and that Sixers playoff series may have decided it for me.

Me being happy as hell, leaning against a bike rest in Highland Park on a 68-degree day.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

11 years later and I still think on this daily.

@murrman5
"no rapping tonight"
why?
"you rap about patrick swayze everytime, it's embarrassing"
ok
[after one beer]
uh oh y'all it's gettin kinda hazy

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

@chelseagsummers.bsky.social Yo! I was at The Strand, and my daughter recommended this amazing book she just read.

My adult daughter holding up a copy of A Certain Hunger.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

The “unicorn!” The “Temu Tenere!” The Ibex 450. Works great in trail-rich Oregon. But if I move back to a big city, I’m trading it in for a Livewire, for all the stop and go traffic.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We're all wearing red sunglasses next summer, right?

TV show and comic book Wonder Man wearing the signature red sunglasses

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Chicago, this August. Applications due March 27. Come write and celebrate writing with me. Apply by March 27: www.storystudiochicago.org/storyboard-c... @storystudiochicago.bsky.social

StoryBoard Conference, a week-long creative writing intensive! Craft talks, workshops, social events, and so much more.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Lighthouse Lit Fest is coming up. You got a novel you're trying to take to the next level? Apply, come, and let's work it out. lighthousewriters.org/workshop/adv...

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Haha--laugh at Bovino all you want, but back in the day he won an Oscar for The Year of Living Dangerously.

Linda Hunt, The Year of Living Dangerously.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

dummy wearing a novelty arrow hat

that piece of shit stephen miller in a pic that makes it look like he's wearing a novelty arrow hat

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

gimme a nobel peace prize or the dog gets it

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This Is the Future the Left Wants

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Philly Things in San Francisco 1. The LOVE sculpture, @ SF MoMA 2. The old 23 trolley, a long way from Germantown Avenue 3. Wilt Chamberlain, on the zombie Philadelphia Warriors. He only lasted about a year before coming back to join his hometown’s new team, the 76ers

Wilt Chamberlain, on the zombie Philadelphia Warriors. He only lasted about a year before coming back to Philly’s new team, the 76ers.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Favorite Xmas Movie: Trading Places Favorite Xmas Song: “Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses Favorite Xmas Gift Received: The Green Machine

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Me, signing off an email with "Sincerely."

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

She came in through the bathroom window, Protected by a silver spoon. But now she sucks her thumb and wonders By the banks of her own lagoon. Didn't anybody tell her? Didn't anybody see? Sunday's on the phone to Monday, Tuesday's on the phone to me.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I had no idea John Oates could ball.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Still have my copy from college, 30+ years later.

The cover of the memoir Assata, an Autobiography, by the legendary Black Liberation Army revolutionary, Assata Shakur.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

1999’s The Limey is an under-appreciated classic. RIP.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

“Up on the Mountain,” 2025, Bread Loaf Workshop centennial anniversary.

Working on laptop in a field edged by mountains

Trail through a flower-dusted meadow that meanders into mountains

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

100 Years. Older than penicillin.

Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference’s Centennial Summer; Mat Johnson fiction faculty.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Well, they definitely nailed that "science professor who married his grad student" vibe.

Pedro Pascal (52) and Vanessa Kirby (37) as Mr. Fantastic and Sue Storm in 2025's Fantastic Four movie.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

A bucket-list hobby since I was 8. Insanely dangerous and terrifying—spent more $ on protective gear than the bike. Also terrifying, being a grown-ass man enduring the humiliations of learning in public. But like many things, living a life without ever trying was scarier to me than the thing itself.

Sitting on the street in full PPE on my CFMoto Ibex 450 motorcycle.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Chippendale's "Muscle Motion" Workout My sixth-grade gym teacher forgot it was in there and put it on by mistake.

Naked man nipples galore in the Chippendale's "Muscle Motion" Workout

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

(There’s a reason my first-born daughter’s middle name has is Rahne)

Rahne Sinclair, alias Wolfsbane. Irish-national wolf shapeshifter of the New Mutants

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Being 13 and watching Bill Sienkiewicz take over New Mutants in real time and going 'wait, comics can do that??' is my entire comics-creator origin story.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

It Gets Real in the Whole Foods Parking Lot

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