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Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Unrepentant typo queen. Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation. She/her (all pronouns are fine) https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
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Anyway. BIG turnout, especially for a rainy day in an area that has a lot of...flag trucks. The most turnout I've seen out here since 2016.

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Saw a "Trump is the Worst President Since Trump" sign.

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Lots of elders out in wheelchairs and rollators today. In the pouring rain. 🖤 Lots of retired military. 🖤 Lotsa people despite the abysmal weather.

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Just gonna boost this for today 🤝🏼

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Stay safe out there today.

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Welp. Gonna need to pick up some rain ponchos. 💪

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I spent much of my day with Alphonse Mucha works and it helped. (Hiver is my favorite of his four seasons.)

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Can't recommend enough right now: Spending a metric fuckton (technical term) of time with art.

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It's a MUSEUM DAY. I get to spend as much as 5.5 hours with the NEW EXHIBIT, figuring out how I want to talk to people about ART NOUVEAU. This means I get to spend time with TWO KLIMTS and a case of AUBREY BEARDSLEY work. 😤 (All museum posts contain random shouting.)

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The husband-like appendage and I were fully ignored by restaurant staff on Valentine's Day because Blythe Danner was dining next to us. She texted the whole meal and at one point turned to us and said "Sorry, my Valentine isn't here."

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Seems extra important right now to focus on the stuff you have control over. (She told herself while in an existential dread spiral.)

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I wish I had anything helpful to say, but really it's just horror all the way down. I don't post what I choose to do in response on social media (for reasons you may want to consider). Nor do I register to attend things (for reasons you may want to consider).

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My editor gave me a heads up that Kirkus recently gave WE LIVED ON THE HORIZON more love. It's rare to get any mentions more than six weeks after publication, let alone months. I'm more grateful than I can say. I'm not at all a writer for everyone, but when people get it, they *really* get it.

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I'm never going to forgive marketing speak for people using "buttery" to mean soft.

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My 2nd novel was written almost entirely to Pet Sounds. Brian Wilson's art reaches so far beyond any individual life. 🖤

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That was a grumbly first thing in the morning post and I've been actively trying not to be an angry panic ball on this place. So here. Mochi in her hay box, proud of the mess she's made while eating her way to the bottom.

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Truly. If every government going on about birth rates acted meaningfully on climate, social safety nets, equality, and actual care, the "need" for birthrate panic would drop dramatically. 👇

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"You write flash? How fashionably severe. I'm really more of a--what's the term, Lawrence? Ah yes, a maximalist."

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Instagram spam asking if my "pawtner" and I wanna promo a line of clothing for cats and dogs. My pet is a rabbit and she would NEVER.

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Thanks a bunch for the reminder, Drew!! My novel, The Island of Last Things, comes out on August 12 and is available for preorder...speculative lit fiction about two women who work as keepers at the world's last zoo on the island of Alcatraz 🐊 bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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