Joe Sacksteder

In which I compare the greatest* living artist, Werner Herzog, to the world's worst man, Donald Trump. In part a long-form review of Herzog's novel "The Twilight World," up today on @fullstopmag full-stop.net/2023/11/30/fea…

My new story in LIT is called “These Child Stars Were Supposed to be the Next Big Thing and Now They’re Just Joe Sacksteder” litmagazine.org/these-child-st…

@DennisLibre This is my job

claude just told me my syntax error was "classic"

Butterfly goaltender, stand-up guy

Mutilization

This Team USA win should not overshadow my performance as EBUG for the Quad City Storm last night seeing 0:00 of ice time

EBUG!! Had a blast filling in for the Quad City Storm of the SPHL vs. Roanoke. I didn’t play a minute but I was great in warmups

As a goalie, I’m agitated on a cellular level by how similar USA and Slovakia’s jerseys are

Happy first birthday to my house painting / hockey / beekeeping / music / anechoic chamber / electric sugar refining scandal / & / & / & novel Hack House astrophilpress.com/titles/hack-ho…

Can anyone confirm this guy was at Turning Point’s halftime show?

Just a sardonic Sunday night tweet. Don’t mean to suggest etc.

I guess we need a new name for postcolonialism as an academic field?

It’s not top of the morning… *to* you

Now that we’ve discontinued the penny, can gas stations discontinue the 9/10s of a penny?

The last five pages of this novel is some of the most virtuosic writing I’ve read. Check out my review of Lindsey Drager’s latest in DIAGRAM, no real spoilers— thediagram.com/25_3/rev_drage…

The CD-liner-notes chapbook for my album of Werner Herzog audio collages, "Fugitive Traces," has been revamped by the good people at @punctum_books. The album and the chapbook remain some of my favorite things I've ever made. Thanks to Eileen and Vincent! punctumbooks.com/titles/fugitiv…

When John Candy’s character says “AKA Kiss Me Polka” in #homealone I didn’t know what that meant as a kid and thought it was some kind of niche polka exclamation like ay caramba

In which I continue to think about free indirect discourse. My review of Robert Lopez's great new novel "The Best People" (Dzanc) is up on @BigOtherMag. Thanks to @aredamnhoj! bigother.com/2025/11/04/unc…

What part of “When your room looks kind of weird and you wish that you weren’t there just close your eyes and make believe and you can be anywhere” did you not understand?

I wrote a 6,000 word story that takes place entirely on a treadmill, and BathHouse Journal was kind enough to publish part of it. I was editor of the journal for a year back in my EMU days, so feels full circle—or treadmill: dev.bhjournal.net/bathhouse-jour…

In the words of Amadeus (1984), “I can’t rewrite what’s perfect”