I'm heartsick at the news that The Washington Post has laid off 30% of its staff, including everyone at Book World. I've freelanced for BW since 1988 & its editors, writers, & fellow reviewers felt like a family of sorts. Writing is an isolating business: everyone at Book World made it less so.

Logging out of here. Happy new year, everyone, you can find me if you want to via email!

Me too.

That’s awesome news, Corey! Congratulations!

I needed this.

I’m hanging with the wood people.

Be there or be square.

You are so often having fun! I aspire to your level of fun-ness.

I was having fun!

i knew it!

yeah, instaclassic.

Same here. She was who I wanted to be when I was 17. RIP

So sad to learn of this. A role model for so many of us since the 1970s. 💖

I pretty much don’t care about the Kerouac fragment, but what the heck was Paul Castellano doing with it? There’s a Tarantino movie in this …

That’s so great! One of my favorite books of the last I don’t know how many years. If you haven’t read it yet, do so now. Perfect for the run-up to Halloween.

I would join just to cancel.

Brilliant.

Thank you both so much! I'm excited about your novel, Gretchen — congrats!!!

That's so great! I lost track, so I'm glad someone's counting. It may be my favorite book of the last year (last five years).

Yep.

Perfect. Do hush puppies come with that?

Such great news! Can’t wait to see it.

It’s brilliant, right?!

Your dad was a mensch, a brilliant writer and also a very funny man. We won’t see his like again (except in his son). 💖

These days, I'll take my joy where I can find it — today, in this short film by the late Jo Andres, music by Diane Krall and starring Andres's husband, Steve Buscemi. Sublime.

This is a terrific book by a good friend, and a great cause — all proceeds to help support suicide prevention.

Amazing, and weirdly beautiful.

@lauralippman.bsky.social Loved your essay on your MIL's records, and your own. I still have that Live Stiffs album: pure gold.

Just caught South Park's slam of DJT. Brilliant.

Thank you, Sadie!

If you know, you know.

Incredible. The utter lack of concern for potential loss of human lives is damning. “People from Houston who build too close to the river,” “tourists,” etc. — all just asking for it.

A trifecta — congrats!!! I'm totally stoked to read it!