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We're 3 months in and this is still chapter title of the year, and such a mood

this is awesome. defector is so good. everyone should subscribe 👍

lerner heads, tap in

I love Defector, and this is a great essay.

This is a great piece on a book I really enjoyed. The problem with the ending Grace notes is real and I solved it by just going back to the beginning and starting again.

one of my unshakable beliefs as an editor: people still read. they read books and they want to read good writing about books. excited to have more of the latter on the site!

I am now a books columnist for @defector.com and my first review is on Ben Lerner, gentle parenting, autofiction, and Philip Roth. grateful to @brandyjensen.bsky.social a genius editor. In a world where few if any trans women have columns and books coverage shrinks… defector.com/the-gentle-p...

Wrote about the conversion therapy Supreme Court decision and being a survivor for @newyorker.com www.newyorker.com/newsletter/t...

the Times has a history of couching objections to its coverage, esp stories about restrictions on trans rights* as “advocacy” which a) there’s nothing wrong with and b) is not an accurate way to describe these objections. such as this one, about: accuracy! * the Times does not really use this frame

THE BEGINNINGS is going on tour! Catch Max Lawton and an incredible lineup of friends in NYC, SF, and LA this April!

Thank you everyone! At this point I've talked to a lot of folks and am closing this for now. If any doctors want to speak (even anonymously) I'd love to chat. But otherwise hopefully this will come out in the next few weeks or so.

I wrote about CBK and Love Story for SSENSE www.ssense.com/en-us/editor...

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Went on Beyond the Zero! open.spotify.com/episode/7r5T...

Wrote about someone whose ethics bother me and also runs CBS News. (And possibly more soon) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

✨ Em Staff Pick! ✨ Love queer horror? Check out Herculine by Grace Byron! Manhunt meets Lord of the Flies in this horror debut! Cults, demons, ex-girfirends and the rural Midwest. This is a fever dream you won't forget!"

Is it really such a shock that a man who’s bragged about sexual assault doesn’t give a shit about the tedious rituals of manufacturing consent from a populace he despises before getting violent? If you’re President Trump, you can just do things. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Now reading

One week from tonight! Come bask in the literary brilliance of Aria Aber, @emotrophywife.bsky.social , Rebecca Novack, and Issa Quincy. With your trusty hosts @temim.bsky.social and @briangresko.bsky.social & books provided by @greenlightbklyn.bsky.social !

New at PB: Sophie Lewis (@reproutopia.bsky.social) reviews Davey Davis‘s “Casanova 20” (@catapultbooks.bsky.social) and Grace Byron’s “Herculine,” two novels that—however different—both “quietly exalt real friends above other conceptualizations of love.”

I'm most grateful to Ben - and to Megan Cummins at @publicbooks.bsky.social - for publishing my thoughts on @daveydavis.bsky.social and @emotrophywife.bsky.social Click if you like hot worlds, lesbians, gay ways of doing heterosexuality, ex-ex-gay road trips, or commune utopias & their opposites...

David Brooks laments that literary fiction has been declining in quality, because of its supposed progressivism and "a general loss in confidence and audacity across Western culture." To this, @reproutopia.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social simply asks: "Is the cissexual literary world okay?"

on hospitals and MAHA! consider supporting me on substack gracebyron.substack.com/p/smuggling-...

I am teaching a class on Ursula K Le Guin online through McNally Jackson! www.mcnallyjackson.com/ursula-k-le-...

I saw Melania and wrote about it gracebyron.substack.com/p/melanianoma

#Kindle deals are here! Nothing over $2.99 w/ works by @timlebbon.bsky.social, @sgj.bsky.social, @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @collinarmstrong.bsky.social, @stephenking.bsky.social, @gradyhendrix.bsky.social, @kevinblucia.bsky.social, @brianmcwriter.bsky.social & more! #ad #booksky amzn.to/3Kj4Uoq

The news has moved on, but the people of Gaza are still struggling. Please give what you can to help my friend Sama'a survive. chuffed.org/project/157569

“Minneapolis learned a lot from the George Floyd protests and it shows. Well before Kristi Noem announced DHS operations in Minnesota, the neighborhood got ready.” New: a dispatch on mutual aid in South Minneapolis. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

wrote a short piece on dark woke, ICE, and Bari Weiss gracebyron.substack.com/p/main-chara...

People have removed police tape, now surrounding the crime scene with branches and sticks.

all of you

this book is fun

couldn't stop reading, every time dilation showed up I smiled because god, it really is every other thought I have these days. I only wish I'd read this a month ago when I hit The Drop and spiraled over my own recovery

Wrote the weekend essay for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

🎉Launch events! Launch events!🎉 Mark your calendars well for book events shall grace you soon! First up, our NYC launch for Persona at Starr Bar Friday, January 23rd! See @ravineangel.bsky.social , @emotrophywife.bsky.social , and Greta Doyle read and catch a Q/A with the author!

Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Ada7VN

i reviewed a book on sexual violence that utterly baffled me in its final section newrepublic.com/article/2042...

🚨UNLOCKED🚨 As a coda to our series on projective identification, we're unlocking the brilliant @lilyscherlis.bsky.social, @counterfactual.bsky.social, and Dan talking “group relations" in general and for leftists in particular, the legacies of Bion, and much more! www.buzzsprout.com/2131830/epis...

I wrote about @reproutopia.bsky.social's excellent book "Enemy Feminisms: Terfs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation" for the new @nplusonemag.com

saw the luminous @tricialockwood.bsky.social with Mr Karl Ove Knausgaard

my 2026 vibe so far

Broke out of my writer's block era for a brief moment to write a very personal (and probably very depressing) essay about transness and two pieces of literature I've read and loved recently: Shūzō Oshimi’s Inside Mari & Grace Byron’s Herculine.

Florence Welch’s songs have often channelled the tempest of her desires, and the intermingling of birth, life, sex, and death. But on her new album the spectre of a recent miscarriage forces her to reckon with her femininity in a new way, Grace Byron writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/nq9M__

More #Herculine quotes

Quotes from “Herculine", by Grace Byron.

‘Rhetorical questions in contemporary fiction and memoir offer a different ideology, something that hews closer to the Jewish mystic tradition of asking questions at Passover or the contemplative prayer of Trappist monk Thomas Merton.’ Grace Byron on asking questions. granta.com/doubting-tho...