Danke @emkantor.bsky.social for writing about the upcoming Frankfurt Kids Conference at #fbm25 @buchmesse.de (which I am again moderating) for @pwkidsbookshelf.bsky.social www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... This year with a keynote by Axel Scheffler! #kidlit #booksky #buchsky #kidlituk

Required reading for cinephiles. I've been fortunate to attend the Bologna Children's Book Fair for the past few years. Next on my agenda: Il Cinema Ritrovato festival. @newyorker.com

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

The Summer I Turned Pretty support group meeting starts NOW.

The A-Team: "I love it when a plan comes together." Me: "I love it when a plan is canceled."

My appreciation of Robert Redford, the star of THE CANDIDATE, who knew the power of the camera and tried to turn it in the right direction. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

I forgot that I had a paper cut until I reached into a jar of pickles.

Saw a new phrase on the dating apps: "casual ties over casualties."

Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War

I've got a really fun piece over @slj.com about Jane Austen turning 250. What are the ways her work has been remixed, retold, and revisited in YA? It's a stellar array of authors weighing in: www.slj.com/story/agelev...

I went to a screening of "Lawrence of Arabia" today. Boy, that was long. I'm referring to the line for the men's room at intermission.

I had my dad in my phone as "ICE" for "In Case of Emergency," but then I realized that could be misconstrued under our current regime.

Illuminating essay by Carlos Valladares (@cvall96.bsky.social) on cinema *luminary* Néstor Almendros. I can't wait to check out the Metrograph series and his autobiography, 'A Man with a Camera'!

Biting into the leftover half of a bell pepper like it's an apple. Is this a cry for help, or a sweet homage to The Very Hungry Caterpillar?

Jane Austen was a satirist – why isn’t she treated like one? theconversation.com/jane-austen-...

“Just because a book is tiny and its readers are little doesn’t mean it can’t be perfect. On its own scale, it can be as good as Tolstoy or Jane Austen.” RIP Allan Ahlberg. "The Jolly Postman" was one of my childhood favorites and it is a work of epistolary perfection.

"At first I thought the grandpa did it..." I really wish I'd overheard the rest of this conversation.

Get thee to the Brooklyn Public Library for Tove Jansson and her Moominjoy! @bklynlibrary.bsky.social @nytimes.com ‬ www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/s...

In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have read an essay about "heterofatalism" before going on a date.

The long-awaited sequel to HER.

Shame on the Smithsonian. I recently saw Amy Sherald's stunning portrait "A single man in possession of a good fortune" at the Morgan Library & Museum, as part of its Jane Austen exhibit, and I look forward to seeing "American Sublime" at the Whitney. @nytimes.com

"Eloise saved my voice." I've always believed in the power of children's books. And curse words. But a benevolent, and healing, use of AI? That's a welcome surprise. @npr.org

I just found an email that I sent to myself with the subject "Edifice Wrecks" and no content.

In today's NYT Great Read slot, I introduce you to Mike Maggart. He has no interest in acting. No training. But keeps getting cast in Wes Anderson films and commercials. With lines and all. "This Math Tutor Keeps Popping Up in Wes Anderson Films." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/15/a...

Once again, I have a first date and a filling scheduled back to back. Masochist much?

So many gems in here!

A super sweet snapshot of the man who kept the Beat in the Beatles. @nytimes.com @lindsayzoladz.bsky.social

My one and only goal for the summer: to learn this sea shanty.

I wrote up some First Impressions of the Morgan Library's exquisite Jane Austen birthday exhibit, on view through Sept. 14—which, incidentally, is my mother's birthday! (She's never read any Austen...not even "Emma." Perhaps this is the Persuasion she needs?) www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

I saw a teen wearing a Star Wars t-shirt. Because nothing says "Father's Day" like a paternity plot twist.

Really fun list of showbiz shows and publishing shows by @britt-kathryn.bsky.social for @literaryhub.bsky.social. "Happy bingeing" indeed! ‬⭐️📚

Overheard on the Q train: "I might have an *oral* anesthetic."

This baffles me. Reading together seems like it would be one of the greatest joys of having a child. That and sharing* my favorite movies. [*subjecting them to] @theguardian.com

In the office before 9 AM. What is this, pre-pandemic times?

Hacks!!!

Kickass essay by Callie Hitchcock for @nytopinion.nytimes.com on the need to normalize women eating alone. We are neither to be pitied nor congratulated. Get over it.

The answer to Who's Next: two more couples.

National Ambassadors for Young People's Literature Respond to the Removal of the Librarian of Congress buff.ly/WfKD1DD

WHAT. THE ACTUAL. FUCK. Chicago Sun Times seems to have used AI to write its summer reading list of BOOKS THAT DO NOT EXIST. I did not write a book called Boiling Point. @rumaan.bsky.social and Min Jin Lee and Percival Everett etc. etc. did not write these books. WTAF

To avoid unwelcome questions about my relationship status, I'm just gonna start telling friends and family I have a boyfriend named "Mac Guffin."

The news of Dr. Carla Hayden's unceremonious and unjustifiable firing from her position as Librarian of Congress is just the latest bombshell in the assault on our freedom to read.

Who will be my thousandth follower?? (Disclaimer: whoever you may be, you get bupkes.)

Seventh in line at the pharmacy: I am in hell. Waterloo Sunset starts playing: I am in paradise.

I'm looking forward to joining @marc-majewski.bsky.social, author-illustrator of PARKS, for a conversation about picture book-making and play. Bonus: it's at one of my favorite bookstores, Sullaluna in the West Village. More details below. We hope to see you there, May 11 @ 6 pm! 🌳🪁📚❤️

Great article. As a journalist working at a magazine that focuses on books, I like to say I'm living somewhere *between the lines* of this film and another Joan Micklin Silver classic, Crossing Delancey.

Happy International Dance Day! I'm gonna drop a bunch of my favorite movie musical moments here to remind myself I'm capable of suspending cynicism for a short while. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcrZ...

Today I bought a wedding card for one friend, and learned another friend got engaged.

Yesterday was Yom HaShoah and today is Liberation Day in Italy. Never forget. Viva la resistenza. Here's a list of anti-fascist films that help me in my small acts of daily resistance.

Basta con la pasta! A lovely tribute to Tomie dePaola’s 'Strega Nona' at 50, by Elisabeth Egan for @nytimes.com