Hope to win a free e-book? Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time Travel to 1997, the deadly serious comedy about an empty-nester and her time-traveling cat, is now available as an e-book via my Goodreads giveaway. Open now through November 15. You can find it here: stylitebooks.com/love-cats-an...

Launch day for Marcia Farrar and Mr. Whiskey Time-Travel to 1997! If you've ever wanted a do-over of your life, ever been bossed around by a cat--or if you just want to laugh at an absurd (but deadly serious) adventure, this book just might be for you! Available here: www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...

How intriguing! And a timely read this morning, for someone whose cat novel debuts today: publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfr...

More troubling news about women in the workforce (or not) and a wage gap that's going backward. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

Paperback now available for preorder! If you love cats, comedy, stories about do-overs, or have ever been stuck where you didn't want to be, this book is for you. www.amazon.com/Marcia-Farra...

The United States is refusing to participate in the #UPR, a review of each country’s human rights record at the UN. No government is above this process. We join 40+ organizations in calling on the U.S. to engage and all countries to defend the UPR. www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/News/A/Index...

Wow Another monumental digital restoration project by @rougeux.bsky.social — a treasure trove for typography lovers! www.c82.net/printing-typ...

More manuscripts are coming to the British Library's online site www.bl.uk/collection/d... And, erm, how can I say this nicely? If you have a cheeky script that downloads images from the site, please build in some delays so that you don't kill the servers. Play nice, innit!

New poem of the week at Missouri Review is this "confession" by Malaysian poet Lyn Li Che: missourireview.com/lyn-li-che/

Literature is “a way that we rehearse life,” Lois Lowry said, in 2021.

Wonderful article from LRB on the Pearl manuscript and its history. Not for Medievalists only.

My little mortal comedy will launch on October 13. Kindle edition available now for preorder on Amazon. Print available on and after the pub date. Here's the review from Kirkus--unfortunately with at least one spoiler. www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

The IRS continues to roll out drafts of some 2026 tax forms, including a draft of Form W-9, Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certification. Here’s a look at what’s new—and why it matters.

Open for business again after a caregiving hiatus. Novels, memoirs, short stories, essays, selected academic editing, and more, all at reasonable Midwest rates. Free estimates. I'd love to talk to you about your current writing project!

I love that this unites the conversation about AI with some of the finer points of editing and proofreading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

Did your NEH proposal or project funding get killed off? Please share it at this week's @ach.bsky.social virtual conference! Testify to the impact! Share what you had started! Share what you hoped & dreamed! Open to all 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Help us spread the word?

The infinite scroll has ruined our ability to focus. Is wasting more time the key to getting it back?

Announcing the Shortlist for the Magpie Award! 💐 - mailchi.mp/cd989ee04da6... Stay tuned for the winners as judged by Renée Sarojini Saklikar, this coming Monday. #poetry #magpie #poetrycontest #poetryaward #contest #writingcontest

Met a semi-friendly lizard today, hanging out on our porch--highlight of the day!

No one better to articulate this absurdity than George Saunders If you haven't read his opinion piece today on the firing of Dr. Hayden, please do. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/o...

Today's Featured Poet: Toby Altman is the author of Jewel Box (Essay Press, 2025), Discipline Park (Wendy's Subway, 2023), and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017).

On 13 May, Lily Dunn joins us in the Salon for her workshop 'The Memoirisation of Time', 5-7pm. In this workshop Lily will help you to identify how other writers have dealt with time jumps in their memoirs, to better control your own. Visit the Salon to register: mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting

Count me among one of the few who are concerned. Really concerned. Not just concerned, in fact--TERRIFIED.

“Shechet enshrines the continuum of inside with outside by means of interdependent Möbius-like curved ribbons of aluminum that sometimes bulge out from the corpus like a misplaced exoskeleton [or] pierce the primary forms like cartoon death rays.”

For those who want some clarity about literary submissions, this should be worth listening. Good luck!

My husband reading Judy Blume's Fudge aloud to our kids at bedtime may have been the most transcendent literary experience of all our lives. This breaks my heart.

When asked about the image, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York who is friendly with Trump, said "it wasn't good" and that he hoped Trump had nothing to do with it.

“The tension between Belle da Costa Greene’s documented achievements, as one of the most public of all American librarians, and her largely unrecorded, closely guarded inner life has made her an inexhaustible subject of speculation.” —Heather O’Donnell

Catherine Hall’s work, writes Fara Dabhoiwala, “has transformed British public discourse about the history of slavery. Not many historians can say that their work has changed the present as well as illuminated the past.”

Wonderful reflection on an adjective often perceived as negative when paired with "writing." Thanks @dintywmoore.bsky.social for sharing/publishing.

Self Portrait with a Cat, 1938 by Swedish German painter Lotte Laserstein #WomensArt

Thank you @clmporg.bsky.social for the nudge that started me thinking about all the marvelous environmental writing out there.

A lovely, timely read to start the day.

THESE ARE AMAZING

A. O. Scott's homage to Gwendolyn Brooks's "seething and unruly" sonnet: www.nytimes.com/interactive/... #poetry

"Magnificat" by Matt Poindexter is the latest poem of the week at Missouri Review--a father's expectation, grief, and loss articulated in this precise lyric. #poetry #writing #fatherhood missourireview.com/magnificat-b...

And this excerpt, too-- thanks to @newenglandreview.bsky.social

This interview with Percival Everett--well worth revisiting! @thebeliever.net

As companies shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that average profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

Alarming news for the performing arts . . . www.npr.org/2025/02/07/n...

I was a sometimes Target shopper. Now I'm a never Target shopper. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/b...

If you're sending out work this weekend, please keep us in mind. • Payment is one contributor copy • We nominate for Best New Poets, Best Spiritual Lit, and the Pushcart Prize • We award $300 total prize money for best poem in issue and best poem by an emerging poet

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

🔔Call for Submissions🔔 Poetry Ireland Review Issue 145, edited by Victoria Kennefick. We welcome unsolicited submissions of poems, proposals for articles and interviews, from Ireland and abroad, in Irish or English. Learn More: www.poetryireland.ie/writers/subm... Deadline: 28 February 2025

pushback works, part infinity: apnews.com/article/immi...

Today’s Featured Poet: Carol Moldaw is the author of seven books of poetry and a novella, most recently Go Figure (Four Way Books, 2024).

The new poem of the week from Missouri Review is "Sound and Vision" by Rebecca Griswold. "It is an intersection of diction, science, and faith," says the poet of her lyric invoking religion, myth, and the complications of pregnancy. missourireview.com/sound-and-vi... @rebeccagriswold.bsky.social

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS RHP and guest editor @curtisippolito.bsky.social are looking for submissions for a new anthology - one related to climate change, the murder of the planet, and all the crimes in between. Check out the call below and get ready to submit www.rockandahardplacemag.com/climatechange

The Plunder of Black America: How the Racial Wealth Gap Was Made comes out in one week! It’s a story of several families over 400 years and how times changed but the theft continued. Please preorder now: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...