Happy one-year anniversary to my audiobook baby DREAMS UNDER GLASS, narrated by the fabulous Kelli Tager! Fun fact: the plastic eyeballs I used for the trailer still float around the house, keeping up an appropriately creepy atmosphere….

Class starts in one week! It's not too late to join.

Class starts in one week! It's not too late to join.

"It's half-charming, half-repulsive simulacrum of totalitarian kitsch." -from THE REST IS NOISE by Alex Ross. I'm sad I finally finished reading this book today.

I really enjoyed this!

"[Y]ou’ll swallow your death,” warns the father in Herta Müller’s novel The Land of Green Plums (trans. Michael Hofmann). A former SS officer in communist Romania, he “keeps the graveyards deep in his throat […]" lareviewofbooks.org/article/dark... An old essay feeling relevant somehow...

This Saturday in Bridgeport!

Got to the dentist early. The waiting room was nice & quiet. The receptionist asked a colleague to turn on the TV for me. I said, "it's okay, I have a book." So instead they started blasting music. 🥲

"It’s a weird memory, dreamlike. The tightrope artist from the big circus taking place in Grand Rapids." www.claudineliterary.net/dianepayne @claudineliterary.bsky.social

Know the playbook, folks.

"five screech owls roosting on a dark beam, back-lit through wisteria leaves." orionmagazine.org/article/back...

Hello #BookSky Tomorrow is now today!!! Can't make it into Boston? Good news, because we're broadcasting it on that series of tubes known as The Internet. Register for our crowdcast below!

Memory & Imagination is a *free* in-person class on 9/27, offered in a partnership between Chicago Public Library and @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. Due to limited space, registration is required. chipublib.bibliocommons.com/events/68af6....

"Michael Nyman's score for Peter Greenway's indescribably bizarre film A ZED AND TWO NOUGHTS, a comedy of genetics and decomposition, gives a courtly Baroque air to the chugging minimalist patterns." -from THE REST IS NOISE: LISTENING TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Alex Ross

Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales, my 4-week online Newberry class, starts in 2 weeks! www.newberry.org/calendar/wri... #amwriting #booksky

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court election this November has major implications for voting rights, gun safety laws, and even congressional maps. That’s why every letter written to a PA voter is so important. Adopt a batch of voters and get started today.

Triangular Relationships as Engines for Tension and Conflict, my one-night online class with @writingco-lab.bsky.social, meets in a month on 10/15! Learn more & register here: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/tria... #amwriting #booksky

"Mommy, a treasure for you!" Child hands me a discarded press-on nail found on the playground. 💕

"For me, translation is, in a way, the most intimate form of reading—the most concentrated form—and it’s also vital to my process of creation," Sze says. poets.org/arthur-sze-t...

These look so delicious it makes me feel a little sad.

"Sofia Gubaidulina wrote a Concerto for Bassoon and Low Strings in which the soloist issues a bloodcurdling yell in the middle." -from THE REST IS NOISE: LISTENING TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY by Alex Ross #amreading

For a mood lift, I recommend marimba.

You voted, we listened! Grab some brand new Lilith stickers at upcoming in-person events, starting with the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday, September 21st in Downtown Brooklyn.

Thank you, @chicagoreader.com & @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social! 📚💙 🗃️

Hooray for corduroy weather 🥳

All of my upcoming fall classes, all in one place! Memory & Imagination, Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales, Triangular Relationships as Engines for Tension & Conflict, and Fiction I. What more could you ask for? (Don't ask for poetry! 😅) www.ancawrites.com/teaching #booksky #amwriting

The novel draft is officially 60k words. 🥳 #amwriting #booksky

"The score [for Stockhausen's opera cycle Licht] makes extravagant demands; as of this writing, no opera house has yet succeeded in staging Wednesday, whose third scene calls for four string players to take off in helicopters." -from THE REST IS NOISE by Alex Ross #booksky #amreading

Andrew Wyeth Berry Bucket. 1958

All of my upcoming fall classes, all in one place! Memory & Imagination, Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales, Triangular Relationships as Engines for Tension & Conflict, and Fiction I. What more could you ask for? (Don't ask for poetry! 😅) www.ancawrites.com/teaching #booksky #amwriting

I'm happy to teach Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales for The Newberry Library this fall. Class runs Tuesday evenings, 9/30-10/21 and registration is open: www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...

"The qualities that endear Short Pants to me are alacrity and wrath. He also eats my garbage. Short Pants is a carrion crow." -from "THRET" in WRONG NORMA by Anne Carson #FridayReads

I'm happy to teach Writing Contemporary Fairy Tales for The Newberry Library this fall. Class runs Tuesday evenings, 9/30-10/21 and registration is open: www.newberry.org/calendar/wri...

"He enjoyed the meals she prepared from boxes and jars." -from "Tourist" in ATAVISTS by Lydia Millet #booksky

Scholarship applications are open for fall classes at Hugo House! Scholarships cover up to 40% of one class's tuition. Students may receive up to 2 scholarships per quarter. Apply for a scholarship by clicking the red “Request a Scholarship” text under the "Add to Cart" button.

📢 JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side! Deadline to apply is 9/15: blockclubchi.co/417MIqG

I had some chocolate-covered almond nougat. A lovely first step. It was not silly but it was delicious. Still seeking ideas.

Every year, I tell myself to do something fun/silly to celebrate my half-birthday, and every year, the day whizzes by as nothing special. So, tell me, what would you do to celebrate a half-birthday?

Blueberries, beets, chilis, apples, pop rocks, Coke, zeppole, chestnuts—just some of the food I remember fondly from last night’s reading at The Book Cellar with James Stewart III, Audie Shushan, and Marcy Rae Henry. Many thanks to DCASE for supporting my essay collection in-progress COSMIC FRUIT!

Scholarship applications are open for fall classes at Hugo House! Scholarships cover up to 40% of one class's tuition. Students may receive up to 2 scholarships per quarter. Apply for a scholarship by clicking the red “Request a Scholarship” text under the "Add to Cart" button.

"Mommy, Daddy, I colored you each a plate. This one is an alien pooping, and this one is more of its poop."

"Mommy, Daddy, I colored you each a plate. This one is an alien pooping, and this one is more of its poop."

Can't wait to read some excerpts of COSMIC FRUIT tomorrow night! Hope to see you at The Book Cellar then. ✨

Re-upping this as folks share accepted panels... 😁

"The most uncanny thing about my fox is whether or not he will find the door."

"horses standing in the fields so soaked with emptiness they can't move" -from Anne Carson's WRONG NORMA #booksky

Happening in one week! Hope to see you there. #chicago #booksky

Registration is now open! Early bird discounts run until August 31. Scholarship applications open August 26. hugohouse.org/product/fict...

Raise your hand if you packed your kid's first day of PreK lunch while wearing a full head dinosaur mask. ✋