Don't let the door hit you on the ass on your way out.

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

He's mad, I tell you. Mad.

Free the United States!

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie Fourteen Samurai The Dirty Two Dozen Ten Easy Pieces

Sovereignty Defeats Journalism: Kentucky Derby headline or a present threat to democracy?

I get that this is headlinese, but an “is” (“is asked”) would go a long way here @protos.com

This is not about protecting Jews, and as Jews it is our responsibility to call out this performative fascism for what it is.

It me. Well, it us.

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable. Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes. Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

Why does it feel like we sprung forward into some dystopian future? I think we may have overdone it.

try our new “arbeit macht fries”

And here it is! The 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist list!

Today's the day!

Watch this space: tomorrow afternoon we announce the finalists for this year's PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

At this point, only Republicans can stop forest fires. The forest fires they are, um, setting. By not setting them.

Yesterday, I hopped in my car to run some errands -- visit the dentist, send a fax, pick up a phone case for my son's new phone -- and I was driving around my community, something hit me: life in America has completely changed, but there's precious little evidence yet.

Evergreen

Truth is not created BY speech. Speech either reflects the truth or not.

Notes after seeing CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD I cannot believe they made a movie about two men of color working together to take down a President with a ruddy complexion and a rage problem who was secretly being controlled by an evil tech guy with a mind-numbing communications platform...

Can I just take a moment of joy to share this picture of my wife and I on our wedding day 16.5 years ago? We're going to the theater tonight for Valentine's Day, and I'm taking our joy and excitement about seeing a friend's play as a profound act of defiance. WE WILL NOT BE DISMAYED.

Happy Felon-Tine's Day! (Share widely for maximum trolling.)

If yesterday's news proved anything, it's that you can't spell FELON without ELON.

A writer I admire, Eric Weiner, is leading a retreat in Bhutan April 28 to May 8. It's a great opportunity to explore a unique nation while advancing your writing practice and your well-being. I wish I could go myself.

Curious that Shonda Rimes is still listed as Treasurer of the Kennedy Center board.

Interested in Jewish American comedy? My co-author and I will be previewing our work-in-progress on February 27 at 7 pm. PUNCHING UP: JEWS, COMEDY, AND BELONGING IN AMERICA. I'd love to see you (online) there.

Some day, I'll be able to tell my grandchildren about the time a brave group of strong Americans wearing the national symbol, the eagle, demolished the guys with the red hats.

Inject this in my veins.

Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.

There never has BEEN a meritocracy in the United States. There has only been preferential treatment for white men. They are trying to make that cool again, but they can't. It never was, and it never will be.

It's sad that the systems behind American theater have made me so uninterested in participating. Love the players hate the game.

Um... the NEA has just released updated application guidelines that include the following: "Funding priority will be given for projects that take place in 2026-2027 that celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence."

We aren't getting this country back by, say, winning back the house in two years. There's no returning to how things were. We're living through a sea change. The America that emerges from this disaster -- IF one emerges at all -- will be very different.

Trump and Musk are basically toddlers wrecking the board game they are playing because they don't like the rules and want to just win.

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Here it is, friends -- the longlist for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

TRUMP IS SENILE AND ELON IS HIGH OUT OF HIS MIND ON DRUGS

T-minus 4 hours and 40 minutes until we announce the year's (spectacular) longlist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. I cannot wait!

Away with him to prison!

Tomorrow we announce the longlist for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, so you've got that to look forward to!

In case you need an astonishing-but-cringe-inducing break, I give you SOLID POTATO SALAD.

I'm living and raising my son in this county, and I'm damn happy about it.

Fork you, Musk.

We're in the middle of a coup attempt in the USA right now, and if you want to use it as an occasion to congratulate yourself and discourage action, you're basically masturbating in public while aiding Trump.

This is what's killing the theater industry, too.

In his first term, Trump was (per John Mullaney) a horse in a hospital. This time around, he's got a rider: Project 2025.

What am I reading, #booksky? Well, I'm reading the books on the PEN/Faulkner Award longlist... which I cannot WAIT to tell you about. (Stay tuned February 3!) It's SO SO SO GOOD.