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PUB DAY!!!!!

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got a craft essay in the new Sewanee Review thesewaneereview.com/articles/sen...

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Just a friendly reminder that your desire to have a bookshelf with a rolling ladder is valid. Don’t let anyone ever disrespect you by telling you otherwise.

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“You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.” –Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall

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It’s time for the Milk Hotel to choose a side

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I think about this sentence, pulled from a NYTBR, kinda all the time.

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NEW, from me: Shaken baby syndrome--a diagnosis that has resulted in wrongful convictions across the country--continues to shape criminal prosecutions and child welfare investigations, under the name "abusive head trauma." My story of what happened to one family. www.propublica.org/article/shak...

submitted 57 days ago • 25 comments

I have such a talent for forgetting I love to write.

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finished copies of STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE have arrived - the first book that won’t get the official lola sniff of approval, which is bittersweet, but i’m so proud of what i’ve made it’s a funny book, but it’s also a book about how to make art in the face of grief, so that feels right 💗🤡💗

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. —Louise Erdrich

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What’s happening in Sicily, Italy 🇮🇹 is absolutely extraordinary! Mount Etna is erupting while its summit remains covered in snow—an incredible clash of fire and ice. Here are some explorers skiing between lava flows and snowy slopes—a truly unprecedented sight! ⛷🔥❄️

submitted 11 days ago • 101 comments

excited to announce some cool gay news about my audiobook for STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE! 🤡 cameron esposito 🤡 is narrating the clown novel of my heart - thrilled for this, so happy for all of us gay clowns out there // available for preorder NOW

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Today is the #SuperbOwl! Here’s a feathery fan from the margins of a late 15th-century Book of Hours, now @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social MS. Douce 152, f. 70r 🦉🏈

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Light Flight by Sean William Randall, 2023

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

So many books on the subway!

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Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books. bookshop.org/ebooks

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Drinking the worst coffee I have ever had at the best job I have ever had

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One month has 28 days, and some months have 30 or 31 days, but January distinguishes itself for having one thousand million days.

submitted 29 days ago • 8 comments

Submit to the 2025 Stella Kupferberg Memorial Short Story Prize, judged by Ottessa Moshfegh! The winner will receive $1000, have their work performed live by an actor, be published in Electric Lit, and more! Submissions are open through 3/7.

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my sources are telling me that with tiktok banned Gen Z are buying thematically linked short story collections in droves

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Love being on the editorial staff of this great journal that’s published so many of my favorite stories. Another incredible issue of American Short Fiction!

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Three months till pub day! ✨ If you’re interested in preordering, the link is in the comments!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

“I’ve come to realize how much of my doubt is actually fear.” Adam Haslett on harnessing doubt.

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Louise Glück, describing her childhood joy of writing: "the wild happiness of inventing something that would have a separate existence, more convincing and more durable than my unreliable human existence."

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

First read of 2025 ✅

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people will say anything on here. “it’s 2025” no it’s not. that’s not true.

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

It's been a long time since I was so swept up by a book that I read it all in one swoop--but I started MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe when I got up this morning and didn't put it down until I finished it right after lunch. Totally delightful read.

submitted 58 days ago • 20 comments

Spiritually healed by a weekend with three sweet corgis

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. So I took them both; using my powers

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

EARNEST POST WARNING: It’s never too late to begin writing the thing that’s in your heart. It doesn’t matter if you sell it. It doesn’t matter if anyone ever reads it. You have brought into existence something from nothing. You can print it out and hold it in your hand. It’s real. You did that.

submitted 59 days ago • 12 comments

Merry/cold! 🎄

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One fun thing about being a novelist who takes a couple years to write a book is that sometimes you have a really productive, enjoyable year of work... and have produced absolutely nothing anyone else can or should see. (Yet!)

submitted 64 days ago • 7 comments

happy belated, duane. you would have been 60 yesterday.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

The kind of day where I want to have a highly emotional exchange by an ornate public fountain.

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Want another super easy no-cost way to help an indie bookstore or other small business? If you get a plastic gift card from them DO NOT write the amount in permanent marker on the card. They're not free & writing on them makes them harder to reuse.

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Yesterday, student debtors went to DC to demand Biden cancel student debt. A 71 y/o woman joined us. No one from the Ed Dept would meet with her — or any of our older debtors. Her new loan statement was in the mail when she got home today. Her balance is $656,542.80. She borrowed ~$60k in 1985.

submitted 75 days ago • 7 comments

I will put the descriptive copy in Times New Roman when it deserves it

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A sad obituary and we will only be getting much more unless we respect the earth. We respect the earth by our food, energy and consumption choices, by our choices at the ballot box . . . Eat less or no animal products, wean yourself off fossil fuels, vote Green searchforlostbirds.org/news/lost-fo...

submitted 76 days ago • 5 comments