I'm excited to check out all the day trips in this issue! For my contribution, I suggest a trip to Lake Forest: chicagoreader.com/city-life/br...

I'm excited to check out all the day trips in this issue! For my contribution, I suggest a trip to Lake Forest: chicagoreader.com/city-life/br...

Shout out to the woman grilling a whole chicken in the parking lot before the Cubs Brewers game in Milwaukee yesterday.

What are you reading these days? I'm fully engrossed in CLARK AND DIVISION by Naomi Hirahara, a murder mystery set in 1940s Chicago. #fridayreads #booksky

"Meta employees, having made their fortune stealing the data of others, now find their most personal data—their very finger movements—stolen by the boss. Yes, the justice is poetic and delicious. But [...]" brucebarcott.substack.com/p/does-your-...?

Just 3 spots left!

Lovely lunch break with a ripe nectarine and this delightful Curious City episode about Comic Sans used on elevator inspection certificates: www.wbez.org/curious-city...

Just 3 spots left!

The RMP Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay, edited by @heidiczerwiec.bsky.social & @artichokeheart.bsky.social, is available for preordering! The book releases in October & is the 5th in our award-winning Field Guide series! Everything you've ever wanted to know about lyric essay! icont.ac/51iZr

Still reveling in the lunchtime discovery that I can order a side of torshi at the Taste of Lebanon where, years ago, I'd been disappointed that my falafel wrap lacked a pickle. All these years, I could have been eating heaps of pickles. Will have to make up for lost time.

Registration is open for @newberrylibrary.bsky.social summer classes! I'm delighted to teach All Talk: Dialogue in Fiction in person on Saturday, July 25. Learn more and sign up here: www.newberry.org/calendar/dia... #chicago #amwriting

Registration is open for @newberrylibrary.bsky.social summer classes! I'm delighted to teach All Talk: Dialogue in Fiction in person on Saturday, July 25. Learn more and sign up here: www.newberry.org/calendar/dia... #chicago #amwriting

Starts in 3 weeks at @storystudiochicago.bsky.social! Come for accountability, community, and lots of writing (optional prompts provided). www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Day 4 of child's summer break ended with his request we both wear Halloween pajamas and read a book about Christmas. 🤔

A city worker who improved bike infrastructure was killed while biking in Bridgeport. blockclubchi.co/3S6F6D1

"Masha was my best friend ever who shared my passion for the supernatural—ESP, clairvoyance, reincarnation, telekinesis, parallel universes. Alternate dimensions, alien life forms, time travel—anything beyond the tight confines of the so-called natural." nwreview.org/articles/unb...

My grandpa would have been 104 today.

Fooled myself into eating an almond croissant the size of my head. The almonds are "brain food." Now my brain says, "Nap."

You know the advice to take off a piece of jewelry before going out? I like to add something extra so I can then take it off and feel correct. 🙃

An important webinar series for artists: law-arts.org/event/worker...

tfw you find your child's 50+ selfies on your phone

Chicago literati, join me at Hopleaf this Tuesday for Tuesday Funk! I'm reading a new short story about a summer vacation. Of course gone wrong. 😎

I love a pizza rivalry. I love Patsy's and Grimaldi's. I love Pequod's and Burt's. (Finally tried Burt's last night.)

Chicago literati, join me at Hopleaf this Tuesday for Tuesday Funk! I'm reading a new short story about a summer vacation. Of course gone wrong. 😎

Our team is growing and we are currently hiring for a part-time bookseller. This role pays $20 per hour for up to 22 hours per week. Regular Sunday availability is required but other work days are flexible. For full details and application, please visit our website.

Today was vest day at my child's pre-K and we totally missed an opportunity to put him in his adorable tiny construction worker vest. Ah well.

Hooray! It's Summer Book Bingo time! lectures.org/program/summ...

Thoroughly enjoying the symposium on New York City in the spring issue of Threepenny Review: www.threepennyreview.com/gornick-on-n...

Join us June 2 as we feature readings by Andrew Huff, Jitesh Jaggi, Mary Lorenz, Anca Szilagyi and Joy Wright! tuesdayfunk.org

Making crafts with the child has made me want to make a zine...

"[...]a person like myself, who has been stateless since birth, can choose citizenship from the standpoint of one who has never been a national citizen. And when I consider this prospect, I ask: What kind of state would I want to belong to?" aaww.org/a-zainichi-p... #translationthurs

Child rattles something in pocket. I ask, "Is that a treasure?" He says, "No, it's an eyeball."

"[...]a person like myself, who has been stateless since birth, can choose citizenship from the standpoint of one who has never been a national citizen. And when I consider this prospect, I ask: What kind of state would I want to belong to?" aaww.org/a-zainichi-p... #translationthurs

If all cardholders @chipublib.bsky.social took out the maximum number of books allowed, how many books would be left on the shelves? Asking for a curiosity.

My #translationthurs read is

Little late but here we go what have you been reading from around the world this #translationthurs ?

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190 paper back pages 🥳 I love that Scrivener tells me that. A good size for a novel. Still revising, though.

"He turns his face to the window then, the sun illuminating the traces of paint on his face I thought I’d washed off after yesterday’s art project." Free Bird www.short-reads.org/free-bird/

Chicago! Join me in person this summer for Write Club @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. I so enjoyed leading this writing accountability club last summer and I'm excited to do it again. www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Chicago! Join me in person this summer for Write Club @storystudiochicago.bsky.social. I so enjoyed leading this writing accountability club last summer and I'm excited to do it again. www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/clas...

Attention writers of speculative literature age 50 & over: speculativeliterature.org/grants-3/slf...

Anca L. Szilágyi distills the spirit of PEPPERLEAF into a lovely little blurb. Thank you very much! Don’t worry about the wreck; it’s with intent 😉 @ancaszilagyi.bsky.social The awaited 2nd novel of @rossmcmeekin.bsky.social is drop/ on Friday. Preorders mailing. thirtywestph.com/shop/pepperleaf

"So. The dishes. They lived in the old oak sideboard that came from my grandparents. The rich ones. The ones who escaped servant-class England on a slow boat to Chile with only bananas for the whole journey. That’s the story." - @nancyhuggett.bsky.social www.short-reads.org/my-first-reb...

English mustard, dijon mustard, honey mustard, wholegrain mustard, brown mustard, burgundy mustard.

It's Friday. I'm going to do yoga, which I love. Then I'm going to spend a glorious 45 minutes revising my novel.

The replies and quote posts are so wonderful!

"Montpellier’s graffiti corridor—the Verdanson—runs like an open notebook through the city, its concrete walls rewritten daily. " ex-puritan.ca/palimpsest

Nothing like starting the morning crawling on a blue carpet in search of a blueberry to see how your vision is doing.