What a great holiday surprise! Thanks @hannahbae.bsky.social and the @sfchronicle.com for including Starry Field on your best of list! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/best-b...

BREAKING: South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol says he has ordered the withdrawal of troops and will formally lift the martial law.

I made a holiday gift guide! For the full video of Anton’s Favorite Things 2024, see: Tiktok: vt.tiktok.com/ZSjge9F6w/ Reels: www.instagram.com/reel/DC9HB2E...

What a joy it was to speak with @hannahbae.bsky.social about publishing (@wtawpress.bsky.social ) How We Know Our Time Travelers by @anitafelicelli.bsky.social for the @sfchronicle.com. The feature is wonderful!

Don't miss this amazing feature in the @sfchronicle.com, spotlighting @anitafelicelli.bsky.social's HOW WE KNOW OUR TIME TRAVELERS, forthcoming Dec. 3rd. Many thanks to @hannahbae.bsky.social for this rich, insightful feature. 📷 cred: SF Chronicle datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/anita-...

My regular authory rec! It’s not free but I’ve found it worth the cost to not have to pull PDFs — you just enter your byline on whatever sites you write for and it will pull all your work for you and it will live even if the site you wrote for kills the vertical (coughFANGRRLScough) authory.com

A note to all the journalists and writers out there: Save PDFs of all of your pieces published online NOW. Don't be like me and spend your Friday night creating PDFs based off Wayback Machine screen grabs of your articles/essays that were published on now-defunct websites.

The incredible group She Who Has No Masters is taking applications for creative writing mentorship from women and nonbinary writers of the Vietnamese and SE Asian diaspora. Apply here! shewhohasnomasters.com/mentorship

Hi artists, I'm teaching a free class later this month for BIPOC artists on how to write & edit your artist's statement for applications to grants & more. Do you have a successful example of your artist's statement that you'd be willing to share with me? I'd anonymize. Please DM & we can discuss!

My interview about Thyme Travellers: An Anthology of Palestinian Speculative Fiction is up at the Columbia University Press blog: cupblog.org/2024/09/05/s...

My latest for The San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area books coming your way in fall of 2024! I hope these books offer readers comfort, escape, empowerment and new insight on what it means to be human. datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/bay-ar...

I want to highlight this stupid fucking bullshit because literally EVERY TIME an AI writing company has a website, they always have a screenshot that looks good until you read the words that are on the screenshot.

Chef's kiss is the "you're" instead of "your" in the screenshot.

Honored to have served with @hannahbae.bsky.social as a nonfiction juror for this year’s Kirkus Prize. A mammoth task! Very pleased with the results -

I am so very thrilled to see this list of finalists for the 2024 Kirkus Prize! I was a juror in nonfiction, and I spent six months of my life reading my heart out. Huge congrats to each finalist -- you're all winners in my book. lithub.com/here-are-the...

NYC: New COVID vaccine appointments are available (earliest I'm seeing is next Weds at CVS)! Book your appointments ASAP! I just booked mine. Looks like Walgreens has new COVID vaccine appts available starting Sept. 6.

If you need a good cry, read this article about the NYC schoolchildren who are writing to our (terrible) mayor, pleading for him not to tear down the historic garden where they learn and play www.nytimes.com/2024/08/09/r...

As a longtime member of the National Association of Black Journalists, I’ve gotten lots of requests for my thoughts on Trump’s visit Wednesday to our conference. Here’s my five takeaways from what happened: loom.ly/8_muzqQ

East Bay Booksellers in California has suffered a total loss due to a horrible fire. Can you donate to help support this beloved bookstore? www.gofundme.com/f/help-east-...

I had the great joy of reviewing the new film Dìdi for The San Francisco Chronicle -- and I loved it. Hope you don't mind how much I talked about farts in this review. <3 datebook.sfchronicle.com/movies-tv/di...

If you are positive for Covid, can you reuse your masks after some time when you’re healthy? Or should you throw out masks that have been exposed to the virus on the inside?

My friend Danny Kim is working on an important documentary about the life of a Korean woman who survived the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and dedicated her life to peace. Here's more info about the film and how you can support it! www.indiegogo.com/projects/aug...

I loved talking with kidlit author and illustrator Yangsook Choi about her incredible, empathetic work and love of children, especially her perspective as an artist who learned English as as second language. <3 Hope you'll give it a read! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Brooklyn, please share: My neighbor Patrick George is missing. He's 87 years old, and he has Alzheimer's. He was last seen about 24 hours ago in Park Slope. I hope he is back home safe with his family soon.

"Deftly captures the pain and transcendence of self-discovery in early adulthood." —Seattle Times on @emializh.bsky.social Girlfriends WE COULDN'T AGREE MORE ❤️‍🩹 www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

This novel, THE LION WOMEN OF TEHRAN, looks so good, and I'm so proud of my friend who made her debut in The San Francisco Chronicle by writing this article! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/lion-w...

Writers: Looking for a burst of inspiration, energy and community? Check out this all-online summer camp I'm speaking at! It's organized by Writing Co-Lab, which makes sure the vast majority of your tuition goes to the teaching writers themselves (a rarity!) www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp2024

Spreading the word on a very interesting full-time job in Hawaii for those working in journalism and cultural exchange/diplomacy: eastwestcenter.bamboohr.com/careers/144

One of my Hannah Bae name twins, the one behind absolutely sublime Noona's Ice Cream, needs our help to open her **ice cream bake shop** in NYC! Please donate and support one of my fellow Hannah Baes if you're able! There are *REWARDS!* gofund.me/c0bebc03

Yes, stay 😷 masked friends! And test regularly.

Now that it's been a week since Memorial Day Weekend and summer is off to a start, I just wanted to caution folks about covid once again. Friends near and far are testing positive. If you're going to summer conferences or large gatherings, please take precautions. Let's keep each other safe!

If you know a teen who's struggling with college admissions, I hope you'll share this essay that I wrote with them. komericanpie.substack.com/p/issue-21-l... I was honored to share this piece, which I wrote several years ago, with Sarah Choi and Aram Kim's wonderful newsletter, KOMERICAN PIE.

🚨 Indie Bookstore in SF needs our help! 🚨 Noe Valley Bookstore (owned by the erstwhile Folio Books staff) is raising $ to open its doors. It's a queer, woman owned indie, who's hard work and expertise I have personally benefitted from many times. Pls consider giving! gofund.me/a93c2394

It's Memorial Day Weekend, and I'm here to drop another San Francisco Chronicle roundup: summer books tied to the Bay Area! datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/summer...

Friends, some of you know that I felt shaken at the end of 2023 and early 2024 by some awful deaths and brushes with death in my community. One of the people who almost died is my friend Daniel Matyas, partner to my dear, dear AAJA pal @nicoleclark.bsky.social. gofund.me/f7223549

One week from today, at Queens Public Library at Flushing! May 22, 5 pm! Come on out if you're around to see me and my friend Jenna talk about the extraordinary novel she translated into English!

Rereading old emails (from 2005!) and it's amazing how we used to use this form of technology. <3 I used to put so much *effort* into purely personal emails. The wistful feelings!

Dear friends, join us on Thursday, May 2, for a conversation between writers @hannahbae.bsky.social, Gina Chung, Jen Lue, and Rajat Singh, presented with @kundimanforever! 🌸 Save the date & rsvp ✨ aaww.org/curation/aaw...

If you're a writer who's looking for support, guidance and growth, have I got the program for you: The Seventh Wave's new Narrative Shifts digital residency. It's somewhere between a class and an incubator for a writer working on a project. www.theseventhwave.org/digital-resi...

Love seeing brilliant journalist Hawon Jung, the author of "Flowers of Fire," celebrated for her work in bringing South Korean feminists into the global conversation on gender equality. If you haven't read Hawon's book yet, you must! edition.cnn.com/interactive/...

Honored to be serving as a Kirkus juror with @hannahbae.bsky.social

Some news! www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Writers! Come to (online) summer camp with us at the Writing Co-Lab! www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp2024

Love to see @sfdirewolf.bsky.social's Disability Intimacy, which I contributed an essay to, on this list of Bay Area books to look forward to by @hannahbae.bsky.social datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/books-...

Literary Hub is Seeking a Regular, Part-Time Writer ($35/hr) lithub.com/literary-hub...

Every reader and writer should soak in this interview with Tommy Orange and @morgantalty.bsky.social www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

Incoming special news bulletin from Ramona: We've got crocuses! Spring is coming.

I really enjoy Priya Krishna's On the Job video series for NYT Food. And this latest one, about amazing Amy, the tireless assistant seafood manager at a Yonkers grocery store, is so great (the comments, too! <3) youtu.be/CQl9Qp4zA9o?...

KC is officially invoked Red Wedding vibes for this weekend