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Author of RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM. Work in The New Yorker, New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, and others. www.ohjoy.org
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A good friend lost her job because her bosses decided AI could do it instead, and for free. It can't do her job. I hate, loathe, detest this technology.

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The New York Times cooking section really loves chickpeas.

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Mood

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Uhtceare (Old English, 10th century) ("oot-kay-ar-ay") The act of lying awake before dawn and worrying.

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It's getting to the point that everyone looks just a little familiar.

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I'm reading at Sebastopol Litcrawl! Come one, come all

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We, too, received an email from the NEA on Friday. Like so many others, our award for 2025 was terminated. So to all of you who donate or subscribe, or have recently bought an issue or a tote or a T-shirt, thank you. In the times ahead, we will no doubt be needing each other more than ever.

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RIP Jill Sobule

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Gross The BBC used AI (and an actor) to bring Agatha Christie to life for its writing masterclass series

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For @theguardian.com I wrote about a new ballet based on the painful history of immigrant detainees on Angel Island near San Francisco. Read here:

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If I were an editor and I saw a writer proudly rambling on about how she uses AI to do her work for her, I would no longer hire that writer.

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do your fucking job you hack

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The dreaded TKTK.

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I’m so honored to have won Atmosphere Press's Playa Flamingo Writing Residency. I’m going to get to spend five days writing in Costa Rica! I’ve never been there before and am excited. #AtmospherePress #WritingResidency

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I really really want to know what color those flowers were.

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Continuing to give my son spelling tests every day. He's in 7th grade. His school ignored teaching spelling and has had him use autocorrect from kindergarten on. They seem to expect him to just absorb this variable and somewhat irrational ancient system that is English spelling.

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Someone should let me write an in-depth profile on Ani Difranco.

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Managed to punch myself in the face while gardening.

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Listen to more classical music. For every like, I shall recommend a good recording. (I'm going to regret this, aren't I?)

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Now the Joy of my world is in Zion

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Eye to the future, back to the past, ignoring the present somewhere in the American Southwest.

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Sondheim's "You Could Drive A Person Crazy," only sung to myself, about myself, all day long.

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BREAKING: We're suing the National Institutes of Health over their politically-motivated purge of research grants. This is an unlawful attack on scientific progress that puts lives at risk.

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Facebook put a picture of Trump and Marc Rubio in my feed, so I reported it as organized crime.

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What self-destructive mechanism in my brain is making Cat's In The Cradle ear worm its way into my mother-guilt-encrusted soul?

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This Sunday I'll be discussing the author Sanora Babb with Iris Jamahl Dunkle at the Occidental Center for the Arts in Occidental this Sunday from 4-5:30 pm. The event is free. Hope to see you there.

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Yep, Meta used my novel to help train the AI it will use to make billions. So we're suing these joker, yeah?

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WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People": "In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

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Watching angry citizens in North Carolina scream at a Republican congressman is so cathartic. More more more of this.

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What I thought whale watching was like:

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Every time I hear Chappell Roan's Femininomenon, I always think of Kishi Bashi's Carry On Phenomenon.

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