Nick Arvin
@nickarvin
Author of MAD BOY from Europa Editions + 3 other books of fiction. Writing in the NYer, NYT, WSJ, Ploughshares. Two times winner of the Colorado Book Award. Also, an engineer! Technical and consulting work in green energy. Colorado based.
Climbed Quandary Peak a couple of days ago, and this was the view from there. The weather was amazing. I've never felt the air so still at those elevations.
We were up in the mountains at Dillon Reservoir yesterday. Water level about 20 feet below normal after the record low snowpack last winter. This is the view from the boat ramp.
Moved around some cinderblocks we've had sitting outside for a couple of years, and this fell out... It would fit in the palm of your hand. Maybe some kind of fungus? Or maybe its scheming alien intelligence will kill us all?
Smoke haze drifting to Denver from Utah fires made a terrifying moon last night.
Hard to tell scale here, but this flower in our garden is not large, and the bee is a tiny little guy.
20 years ago, my mom gave up her Michigan garden, moved to Colorado, and started a Colorado garden. These are just a few of her cactuses.
I know I'm late to the party, but this is a terrific book. Totally recommend.
Apparently, this oversized metaphor really happened to the indy bookstore Alienated Majesty. From their FB page.
Denver writers, I will be teaching a seminar at Lit Fest in a couple of week. Check it out! lighthousewriters.org/workshop/how...
To me, the most stunning thing in this NYT article, about the Chinese pork industry, is this photo. That there is a high-rise pig farm.
Strangest book I’ve read in a long while. Starts as a kind of satire involving the construction of a colonialist theme park in Argentina, and then the telepathy comes in, and it gets really weird. It’s flawed, but far more inventive than most things you’ll read.
Yuval Noah Harari in this interview is really good. He has a way of framing issues that is very clarifying, across many topics. Like, I know how Instagram works, but this really puts a point on it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...
My "it is unlawful to place any sign on public property" sign has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my sign.
There's a trail southwest of Denver named Little Scraggy, which is some top-notch trail naming. It also has these wild boulder formations here and there along the way.
Hey, what's that up ahead along the trail? Oh! Rattlesnake. Hi, Mr. Rattlesnake. I'll just be over here.
Farm kitten! This cute little fella is going to grow up to be a professional mouser.