I just found out that someone I admire very much is writing fan-fiction partially based on ENDPAPERS and it's the biggest reader/writer compliment I can imagine!

I agree completely that we need to have more conversations in this country about the nature of selfhood, but let's start with people—people of color, trans folks, the whole LGBTQIA+ community, disabled folks, and the elderly—before we worry about AI.

These poems by Evan Wang! So quietly powerful. electricliterature.com/two-poems-by...

"Trump and his allies have been signalling the vice of racial hatred for more than a decade, and each new event punches out the space for the next, worse signal."

I’m almost done with WOLF BELLS by Leni Zumas. It’s making me think a lot about what a novel is and what it can be!

I, too, fear I'm personally not courageous enough for this moment in history. But together I believe we are.

Soylent green is people!! [alt: people disguised as bushes, walking onto the field for Bad Bunny's halftime show.]

Good morning #5amWritersClub. Tea’s on 🫖

I haven't watched football since I was a kid snacking through the Super Bowl with my mom, but I watched last night and these were my three takeaways: Kenneth Walker amirite! Go defense! Bad Bunny!

"five takeaways from bad bunny's performance" this type of thinking has to end

OMG This blows my mind!

Moishe and I are waiting for Bad Bunny

My computer just glitched or something and turned into a never-ending loop of two-factor authentication in which every time one thing prompted me for a code from another thing, the other thing would prompt me for an additional code from something else 😱

I've never been excited to watch the Super Bowl before!

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The staffer thing is so funny, like an entirely white nationalist administration has to be like oh no, there’s one of us who’s more racist that the rest of the ethnic cleansers

nevermind spanish, some of you have three days to learn how to dance

Writers: The DAG Foundation is offering a $20,000 prize for literature: www.dagfoundation.org/literary-app...

I've been working on this essay for more than a month. And I've been writing around the point the whole time. Today I've finally gotten to a place where I can't escape it anymore. I have to figure out how to say clearly what this thing is about.

Pretty disheartening to see just how many men are in the Epstein files. Has me thinking about the 72 men who raped Gisele Pelicot. 72! There sure are a lot of men who line up to rape & harm women & girls. It’s a fact we as a society need to reckon with.

"I don’t know what to do with these names." @maris.bsky.social grapples with the questions on all our minds 🖤

"As Jewish clergy, we write to affirm—unequivocally—the dignity, belonging, and sacred humanity of transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people." Amen. www.keshetonline.org/jewish-clerg...

We're hiring a new *remote* director of editorial, design, and production @cornellupress.bsky.social! Come work with us! jobs.hr.cornell.edu/us/en/job/WD...

For so long Amazon has had a monopoly on selling self-published books. Good to see that @bookshop.org is ready to compete in the space! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

A handful of people doing so much damage to so many, and for what? More. Just more. What a sad existence, to have so much, to never have enough, and to care about others not at all.

"There needs to be evidence-based and sport-specific guidelines instead of “one-size-fits-all rules”. “Blanket bans on transgender women in sport are not supported by the best available evidence . . . fairness and inclusion can coexist”.

Evidence of criminal behavior on the new stovetop 🐾

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Authors: Know Your Rights (& Permissions)! If you're hazy on what I mean by "permissions" check out this lil cheat sheet I made for my press of common issues in manuscripts (which should be relevant across most academic publishing contexts) tinyurl.com/597kwdck

Starting in April, I’m teaching a six-week writing workshop at the wonderful Writers & Books in Rochester, NY. If you live in the area, please join me.📚💚 wab.org/event/bright...

lol

I was late for #5amWritersClub, but I just finally remembered a word that's been on the tip of my tongue for a week! Insidious

This is not the kind of country we want. What happened to basic decency and humanity? These are children!

Catherine O'Hara, I hope you're resting in peace. Thank you for sharing your enormous talent with us 💜💫

Good morning #5amWritersClub. It's been a rough week courtesy of back problems, but I made it for one morning of early writing. Happy Friday, everyone.

Why do I want to see your book posts, art posts, happy posts, pained posts, music posts, love posts, human posts, confused posts, did-the-thing posts, look at my garden posts, here's a poem of compassion posts? Because we're not here to cede our hearts to those who exist for ruin.

"We'll take a stand for this land and the stranger in our midst."

That’s not a lot of degrees

My inflatable dad novella just floated off to readers for the first time! Yikes!!

We just had to pull our oven away from the wall for the first time in 18 years. Holy heck it's a madhouse back there.

keep calling your senators daily about ice ☎️ each call gets tallied & is useful you can reach them through @5calls.org or 202-224-3121

Good morning #5amWritersClub. It feels like day 30,000,000 of Jen vs. essay. Who will win?

Trump's racism is everything about why he has power. Don't delude yourself as white person that you don't have to confront race to resist him.

A sweet little pep talk for those of us in this non-writing-wanna-be-writing boat 💞

Still calling my reps in the Senate to demand that they vote to defund ICE!

Since Saturday afternon, I've been down for the count with a particular sassy back spasm.

Handsome menace 😻

It's crazy that things are so fucked up, this isn't the biggest headline of the day. The White House DIGITALLY ALTERED an image of demonstrator Nekima Levy Armstrong and shared it on social. And "her skin appears to have been darkened." Seriously WTF

RT with alt text I haven't stopped thinking about this little guy since I saw his picture. May he be safely & swiftly returned to his family. Blessings & mad respect to the Minnesotans out in the streets.

You said it, NPR. ICE is definitely more hazardous than snow. Stay safe, everyone 🫶