I've just launched ROSIE SCHAAP IS BROKE, a newsletter (mostly) focused on personal finance, by a person who doesn’t understand money at all! Can I sort my shambolic financial self out and be debt-free by 2030? I hope you'll subscribe and join the conversation. rosieschaap.substack.com/about

Canceling Jimmy Kimmel show is not about Charlie Kirk, just like going after universities was not about antisemitism and occupying DC was not about fighting crime.

SO GOOD.

[I hate PKs] ⚽️

Gaza’s “last lifelines keeping people alive are collapsing,” according to the United Nations. Children are starving. In recent weeks, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid, per the UN. Learn more:

New York City, I love you! And I wish I were there to celebrate this with you! If it weren’t so freaking hot!

It’s always heartwarming when a good candidate beats an enormous sack of cash.

A new drug could revolutionize H.I.V. prevention. But, as world leaders dismantle global health programs and cut back foreign aid, will this extraordinary new technology be able to change the world?

Happy solstice! It’s all downhill from here!

In the distance I hear the village nursery school kids singing ‘Que Sera Sera’ and think, this has to be the soundtrack for the end of the world.

Our entry for 'hyperbole' is probably the greatest thing ever written in the English language.

Lovely to bump into @rosieschaap.bsky.social today in No Alibis Books, Belfast, as we signed copies of our books (while accidentally colour-coordinating with the covers).

who ever heard that the devil was dead?

The President just fired our extraordinary Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. As Chair of Senate Rules I worked closely w/her. She was dedicated to the Library and highly respected by Democratic AND Republican senators. This is an outrage and a big loss.

Looking forward to tonight’s pub quiz. I hope the Glenarm Wildlife Group will agree that our team should be called Pine Marten Scorcese…

Loved this interview with Maggie O’Farrell, full of smart, useful stuff for writers (and writers who teach). Spoiler: her influences include Tove Jansson and David Hockney. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Who’s the meshuggener who woke up at 4:30 to make bagels for her students on the last day of the semester? Me. I am the meshuggener. But they deserve it. 🥯🥯🥯✍️✍️✍️

I'm writing about the building in which I spent most of my childhood, and my research has led to a thrilling discovery: BIG EDIE and LITTLE EDIE lived there in the 1930s. Now I have to find out if we lived in the same apartment... #greygardens

Woke up today very excited to write. This is not normal for me. But it’s nice.

I so enjoyed having this conversation with the very smart Dion Fanning about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH, Roger Casement, Muhammad Ali, Ciaran Carson, grief, Glenarm, and more. Hope you'll give it a listen--and other episodes of Free State with Joe Brolly & Dion Fanning, too (it's a great podcast).

An absolutely lovely review of THE SLOW ROAD NORTH in the Irish Times! I so appreciate this thoughtful, thorough--and beautifully written--consideration by Mei Chin.

Winter retreats, and the days lengthen and brighten in this beautiful place.

It was an honour to chat about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH with the phenomenal Róisín Ingle on the Irish Times' The Women's Podcast.

THE SLOW ROAD NORTH Belfast book launch is two weeks from today, 4 March! In a happy coincidence, that’s Mardi Gras—so expect a party. Wanna be there? Great! Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-nigh...

I'll be chatting about THE SLOW ROAD NORTH tomorrow on 'Saturday with John Toal' on BBC Radio Ulster. My segment will air just after 12 noon.

Today's the day! ☘️ 📖 🩷 THE SLOW ROAD NORTH is officially out in Ireland and the UK. You can get it from most of the usual online suspects, and uk.bookshop.org. Or order it from your favourite indie bookshop!

THE SLOW ROAD NORTH comes out in Ireland and the UK this Thursday! We will celebrate on 4 March at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University Belfast. If you’re in this neck of the woods, please join us; rsvp here: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/seam...

Phil lives—in our hearts, and on the airwaves. If you love jazz, tune in. If you want to learn how to listen, tune in. If you miss this guy as much as I do, tune in.

As a longtime Brooklynite, and lifelong library lover, could I be more thrilled to see THE SLOW ROAD NORTH on The Brooklyn Public Library's list of Favorite Books from 2024? Fuhgeddaboudit!

‘Get on my land’: the farmers who want strangers wandering their fields

My latest book, THE SLOW ROAD NORTH, officially releases in Ireland and the UK in February, and I'm honoured to see it included on The Irish Times' list of nonfiction to look out for in 2025, along with so many books I can't wait to read!

I’ve cooked for a lot more people than I’ve cooked for this Christmas Eve, Christmas, and Boxing Day. But I feel like I’ve never whisked more or grated more nutmeg than I have these three days. #exercise

Here’s an old favourite from the vaults. Much as I’m enjoying a nice, low key holiday at home this year, I’ll always have a soft spot for Christmas in a bar.

I wish you a merry, happy Christmukkah! (Adolph Gottlieb, ‘Red and Green,’ 1966)

Nikki Giovanni's COTTON CANDY ON A RAINY DAY was the very first book of poems I bought with my very own money, circa 1983. I kept that book close for decades--dog-eared, stained, tattered, loved. I will always love her poems, and her spirit. Rest in peace, and power, and poetry, Nikki Giovanni.

Love him; love this interview.

"Very little in real life is actually solved by buying a failing candy cane factory. If you want to get into manufacturing, it would be better to purchase a factory with goods that can be sold year-round—like paper clips."

When a pal comes for a visit—and leaves a thank-you card complete with a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review. You’re ALWAYS welcome at the Glenarm gaff, @kathlanpher.bsky.social! xo #trytheleeks

An honour to see THE SLOW ROAD NORTH on BookPage's list of 2024's best nonfiction!

now the brands are running. now the murals are being painted over. but conor mcgregor has been showing us who he was for years. this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

I hadn't posted anything on the site formerly known as Twitter for over a year. Tonight, I deactivated my account. In the early days, I had fun over there, and made some real friends. Hasn't been fun in a long time. I won't miss the noise.

A new Jane Rosenberg classic sketch has dropped

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

If you love football, and you love great writing, and you especially love great writing about football, a new book from @dwinnera.bsky.social (author of the incomparable BRILLIANT ORANGE) is cause for a great big goal celebration!

Two handsome gents in the autumn woods.