god help me I loved The Drama

Roses are red, Parting is such sweet sorrow

I took my poor son on a work trip to figure out if we could actually go on a vacation only to discover relatively early in the game that there is no vacation when you're working, which, what a relief. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/m...

Auschwitz was liberated 81 years ago today. Last year I published a story about the remaining survivors, fewer each year, and the importance of telling and retelling their stories. I hope you'll read it if you haven't. Here's a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

Operation Mincemeat was sold out tonight which is I guess what they call it when you do it to yourself. :(

You must join @tomjunod.bsky.social and me at @92ndstreety.bsky.social in March for a discussion about his magnificent new genre-defying memoir! Tickets here! www.92ny.org/event/tom-ju...

It's so funny how the look on Michael's face when I tell him I'm going again feels more CONCERN than LOVE but I will take this!

Congratulations @johnaugust.bsky.social and Craig Mazin! Two incredibly successful screenwriters, dozens of their colleagues, and everything you need to know about working in this industry in one book. It's out today; buy it for a screenwriter you're rooting for: bookshop.org/p/books/scri...

Rest in peace, Tom Stoppard. I saw ARCADIA at Lincoln Center in 1995 and turned around and transferred to NYU to get a degree in writing.

Asking for a former student: Are there any MFA programs geared toward YA and/or fantasy? She's very talented but we're both a little lost as to next steps for her.

It's the last day to bid on a 30-minute hang for @jaketapper.bsky.social's extremely good veterans cause!

Incredibly embarrassed to say you could bid on a zoom call with me for the very worthy cause, Homes for Our Troops. I beg you, please do not let me die at $20! www.ebay.com/itm/28692204...

Outraged about this. And subscribing. And so should you. Alan is the best of us, and I am devastated. alansepinwall.ghost.io/dont-stop-be...

[plays audiobook of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion]

the dumbest thing is how everyone in the world didn't watch MY BRILLIANT FRIEND on HBO/Max

while this is all true, not what I was texted about (actually, just got another one!) this morning

yes i know! I woke up to 14 texts about it!

HIT ME MINCEMEAT

but also mincemeat should win everything

if you need to feel good about something in America tonight the Tonys is once again delivering

best day of my life

This is my superbowl! Hit it, Mincemeat!

!!!!!!!!!!!COLEESCOLA!!!!!!!!!

Well, Cole Escola winning a Tony and thanking someone from Grindr just vaulted into my ten favorite moments in Tony history. Actually, in history.

I will be accepting on his behalf (despite the cease and desist)!!!!

I am literally receiving congratulations

WE DID IT!!!

cmon cmon HOLY CRAP!!!!!!

I am so ready!!!

Attention agents! Our ally @taffyakner.bsky.social will be hosting a special post-show talkback following tomorrow's 7PM performance of #OperationMincemeat! Only those with tickets for the show will be granted clearance to listen in on this special conversation with the recruits.

The stars of my absolute favorite show on Broadway have agreed to let me ask my dumb fangirl questions of them tomorrow (Thursday). Watch me fawn over them!

michael schulman is the best player in the game right now

Sweet lord another banger by @michaelschulman.bsky.social. I screamed once per paragraph. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

KAAAAAATTTTTTTTT

Extremely psyched to talk moms and memoirs and Erica Jong with the one and only @mollyjongfast.bsky.social. Join us June 18! www.92ny.org/event/molly-...

this game is my cause of death

Just a note to say LONG ISLAND COMPROMISE is out in paperback today. I'm so grateful for the way the world received this book, and I hope those on the fence will like its more portable, more affordable version. What a day! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/621963...

I cannot tell you how much I loved this book — I ate it in a single gulp when I read it last year. Pre-order this book and congratulations, @mollyjongfast.bsky.social! www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

editors - I am *not* going to be updating the massive Vulture Springsteen list with the songs on Tracks 2 (I'm told they're just not updating the massive lists any more) so my dance card is open! Please reach out if you are looking for expert coverage or open to pitches about the upcoming box set.

Read this because of the Walton Goggins/Shield comp, which I thought of the entire night, but mostly for the phrase "Chekhov's Blender." @sepinwall.bsky.social is the best person to have next to you on the couch for these things. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

just found out it's me who dies on the white lotus finale tonight

If you are in the mood for something not much lighter, my story on Val Kilmer, written in 2020 at the dawn of the pandemic, was republished by the good people at The Daily this morning with a new introduction. Multiple ways for you to cry with me this morning! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/p...

I wrote about my friend's father, a Holocaust survivor, and how the stories you run the fastest from end up being the only ones that you were inevitably bound to write in the first place. I'm sorry for the delay. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/m...

Very proud to have written the foreword to Alex's amazing show. I saw it several times, on three separate stages, and I found something new and profound in it every time. www.broadwayworld.com/article/Alex...

Obviously the only way a swastika should be used is as a propeller for a German airplane, as in Operation Mincemeat, the best musical on Broadway. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/n...

Listen, I'll see any Ibsen at any time, and I loved the new Ghosts at Lincoln Center (and Lily Rabe is hooooo boy incredible), but I never understand how Oswald devolves so quickly at the end, or why no one asks for a second opinion!

I had a week of outrageously great theater. If you can, go to see WE HAD A WORLD (Joshua Harmon's new one, an absolute banger), PURPOSE (I follow Branden Jacobs Jenkins anywhere since THE COMEUPPANCE), and the most delightful, original, chaotic, hilarious thing I've ever seen, OPERATION MINCEMEAT.

Roses are red, It's another day of desponding My memoir is called

It's got both of my books, and in several languages!

DREAM TEAM (+Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly, Fleishman producers!) for Alexis's hilarious, tense, riveting book. LFG!