I like literary fiction, but honestly, the list of Bram Stoker Award nominees is just as interesting as the Pulitzer Prize.

Jordan. Okay, that was the one. #DWTS

Jordan just got my vote #DWTS

Every once in a while, I just marvel that we live in an era where the author who wrote the scripts to half our nightmares as kids, and made millions of us want to become writers, is just out here giving his takes on music and bantering with folks.

My weekly ten votes for Andy Richter have saved him again, I see #DWTS

God, I love this town.

You had me at not being a sexual predator.

A wonderfully descriptive article by Carson Vaughan, with some great photography, about the part of the world where I grew up. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/t...

Pearl Jam’s “Animal” was the perfect needle-drop for the final scene of Alien: Earth. But I didn’t realize *how* perfect it was until I played the song on my phone … and remembered the cover art for that album was an angry sheep. 😂

One of my favorite etymologies. It's wild to think that in the 1940s, cartoon viewers might hear Elmer Fudd called a "nimrod" and think, "Hilarious, an ironic reference to the mighty hunter from Genesis!" Just a different world.

I wasn't expecting to see a Pete Ricketts campaign ad on my TV in Brooklyn while watching Nebraska football. That was ... unsettling.

My all-time favorite movie that I saw in theaters on its opening weekend: Jurassic Park My all-time favorite movie that I’ve never seen in theaters: Date Night

When I visited Rome, I was kind of delighted to find that the site where Julius Caesar was killed is now a feral cat colony. The cats are just fed by volunteers, though — I don’t think they’re expected to kill rats 😂

it won't happen automatically. but there is very obviously an opportunity for ambitious types who want to quite literally save the American republic to have their names written in history. crowns are in the gutter waiting to be picked up

As an old white lady, it's unlikely I would be stopped by ICE but if I am, I plan to ask them for their parents' names and telephone numbers because I want to talk about how they were raised.

Wow. I wish my city (New York) had a mayor like this.

“He thought it was funny,” Ms. Pirro said of the defendant in a video posted online. “Well, he doesn’t think it’s funny today, because we charged with him with a felony.” Ehhh … no, still funny. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Look at that, I have a new hero -- from my home state!

A new Park Slope institution: LUYA Omakase sushi bar

No thank you, AI robot, I don't need a summary of the book THAT I'M COPYEDITING.

Ever since we took a family trip to Sweden six years ago and I friended a bunch of distant aunts and cousins on Facebook, my feed looks like this every Midsommar.

I just read that Tom Crewe review of Ocean Vuong. While parts of his broader critique might be valid, I do think for a viciously bad review to really work, the out-of-context quotes from the book you're mocking have to be clearly ridiculous, and most of these are just ... not?

Richard Jefferson’s suit, you guys. #NBAFinals

Massive #NoKings march in New York City!

Before I write all night until I pass out — It’s important to note, there is a lot happening in the world. Protests all throughout the U.S., people being detained, more. Many of us are worried. It’s a scary time, but we can’t stop living and finding joy and purpose. Keep safe.

Not gonna lie, I kind of love this. (The tourists waving, not the NYPD collaborating with ICE.)

“A crossover to make your feet go one way and your soul go another.” Brooklyn Nets fans already know, but Richard Jefferson is underrated as a color commentator. #NBAFinals

The call by the Korean crew... Incredible. #NBA

Haliburton, as called in: Brazil, France, Iceland, U.S. (in Spanish), Albania, U.S. (ESPN Radio), Indianapolis, Oklahoma City, the Netherlands, Türkiye, Canada, and Croatia:

Would you look at that — I have a new hero.

Wow. I've spent a lot of years in evangelical Christian spaces, heard more cringey "come to Jesus" sermons than I care to admit, and I have never heard an altar call this off-putting.

An article about my publisher, the Middle English Texts Series, and the funding challenges it faces now that all NEH grants have been terminated by the Trump administration. METS isn't going anywhere yet! But it does need new donors. www.library.rochester.edu/about/news/m...

The full text of my book THE ENGLISH APOCALYPSE is now online on the new Middle English Text Series website! In addition to introductory material, the site includes the full Middle English text of the Apocalypse with hypertext links to all of my explanatory notes. metseditions.org/editions/89r...

I’ll be joining all the poets and poetry lovers in cheering for Jalen Williams tonight.

The new pope is from Chicago? May the deep dish bless you and keep you, @travisview.bsky.social and @annieknk.bsky.social

The answer to today’s Wordle is also the answer to the first Across clue in today’s NYT crossword. I wonder how often that has happened.

Wow, are the Knicks … good?

The tinpot dictator of El Salvador -- who is known for sending gang suspects to prison with no trial, and even locking up their innocent children -- comes across as more concerned with due process than the President of the United States here. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

What doesn't make sense to me about this alleged literary agent making fun of her wacky submissions is ... isn't the *job* of a literary agent to sift through a bunch of wacky ideas people throw on the wall and find one that has potential? If you hate doing that, why are you in the business?

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

It’s crazy that this article in the Times complains that New Yorkers don’t know who all the candidates for mayor are … then doesn’t name all the candidates for mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/n...

I’m glad that judges are stepping in, but I wish the media would stop calling these “deportations.” People aren’t just being flown back to their countries of origin — they’re being imprisoned, in places that are apparently beyond the reach of the law. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

Our financial advisor has started talking to us the way parents talk to their children in an emergency, trying not to sound scared.

If Elon’s so smart, why isn’t he stopping Trump from destroying the country? That seems like it would be something that a smart presidential advisor would do.

Be right back, I need to find a smaller violin.

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

I can't imagine being one of these lawyers on the side of the Trump administration, having to argue before the Supreme Court that an innocent man, who you know for a certain fact is innocent, SHOULD remain in prison forever. You would have to have a breathtakingly low measure of character.

I spent a couple minutes watching the little stock market line slow-crawl up and down on the New York Times website. It's mesmerizing. Is this what it's like to work in finance?

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.