In our time, it's easy to shut your mind, driven by fear or misinformation. This year, NPR Music's pop critic found the antidote in music that encouraged exploring n.pr/494BlEe

I do occasionally want to say to my fellow Americans who insist that periods ever go outside quotation marks "Cool, show me that in a modern U.S. book or periodical," but I never say that.

"Writing always draws on resilience." JOYRIDE: @yvonnec.bsky.social interviews @susanorlean.bsky.social about her memoir Joyride (@avidreaderpress.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/018CSRO

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

“You have to be flinchable … That’s being human. We flinch all the time.” READ the stunning, soulful @maureenlangloss.bsky.social on Yiyun Li and Miriam Toews—and well, all of us. www.maureenlangloss.com/you-have-to-... @newyorker.com

How can I make jewelry out of my zebra grass?

grateful to share my hometown novel (and my orphaned collection) are coming home to @tortoisebooks.bsky.social 🙏💗

Charming critics and audiences with New Threats From The Soul, his funny, loose, reference-packed album, the veteran Louisville musician is having an unlikely breakthrough at 40 years old.

A bright moon will make it hard to see the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August, but one night this week offers a decent chance of seeing some shooting stars.

“Wild Blue” — about the complexity of relationships, especially estranged ones: open.substack.com/pub/maggiefr... I

This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites. Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.

He’s not very articulate, is he?

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

This Thursday, Kathryn Savage will give a Q&A at 1 p.m. on Thurs, in HUM 201, and later that evening, at 7:30 p.m., she will read from her debut book, Groundglass, in Chemistry 107. Come out and learn about ecological violence, legacy pollution, body burden, and sacrifice zones.

The fired staffers were tasked with making sure medications given to animals work well and are safe.

This piece by Susan Freinkel does a great job describing our nightmarishly complex bureaucratic patchwork of housing and social services, and telling the stories both of the people who suffer within it and the people who try to help them navigate it. sfstandard.com/2025/02/08/g...

@formidablefaux.bsky.social turned me onto this and while I’m still pretty heavy into #bandcamp this seems like the way forward subvert.fm

“Had I created a nastier, smaller, more insulated world inside of an already larger, nasty world, so we could forgive each other and ignore ourselves?” —Us Fools by Nora Lange #sundaysentence ✨

@garthgreenwell.bsky.social ❤️

Sallie Tisdale — my anchor in times of need. No excess in her work—none.

I'm pleased to share our new trailer for BLUE ROAD - THE EDNA O'BRIEN STORY. In Irish cinemas on Jan 31st w @breakoutpictures.bsky.social and in UK after. It features @louisekennedy.bsky.social Gabriel Byrne, Walter Mosley, Jessie Buckley and of course, Edna. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEEr...

Going to open up submissions for Short Story, Long in December. Have a longer (~3k-8k words) story you think I'd like. Get it ready to send my way! ashortstorylong.substack.com

Come to the Miami Book Fair

Congratulations Marie-Helene Bertino, Diana Khoi Nguyen, and @lauravandenberg.bsky.social whose books, BEAUTYLAND, ROOT FRACTURES and STATE OF PARADISE are on Time's 100 Must Read Books of 2024. time.com/collection/m...

My wonderful neighbor is a single woman of a certain age and when I whispered apologetically this morning that I had laryngitis she smiled and replied, “But then how will you tell people off?”

Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker: a tumultuous examination of the impact of domestic abuse on motherhood

Thank you North American Review

Featuring @writerclaytonb.bsky.social, @yvonnec.bsky.social, G Currier, Bernard Grant, Joseph Levens, Paul Linczak, @littlemissbleah.bsky.social, G G Silverman, Alan Sincic, Lana Spendl, Patrick Torres, J.T. Townley, L Vocem, Brandon Lewis and Laurie Uttich ✨

I’m so happy to have so many new book ish followers! I’ve really missed the twitter book community. Thank you for following me! I am the luckiest freelance flack and these are my current projects. Critics hmu for more info and ARCs!

This means a great deal to me. Wish my manuscript love & luck❤️

It’s a wrap!!!! Thank you Chelsea Bieker & Diana Jones — both are true rock stars❤️