I'm delighted to announce that my memoir GREEN WORLD won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2025 Literary Award for Nonfiction! I had a blast in Madison at the award ceremony and spending time with dear friends! Plus the farmer's market at the Capitol (be still my heart!). @umasspress.bsky.social

I'm excited to talk w/the brilliant Karen Kirsten about her memoir Irena’s Gift @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social! One reviewer calls it “a cross between a noir WWII mystery and a Shakespearean drama,” so, wow, there's that. Monday 11/10, 6-7:30 pm. Register (free!): www.brandeis.edu/.../fall.../...

Cocktails? Murder mysteries? SHAKESPEARE??!!!! This is all of my favorite things, @folger.edu.

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. yasss

"JULIUS X invites the audience to bear witness and to take part in the struggle for equality and the dream of a better tomorrow," says DC Theater Arts. Read the full review: dctheaterarts.org/2025/09/30/j...

Shonen Knife at The Middle East/Sonia in Cambridge on Saturday night. I was obsessed with them in high school. Absolutely amazing.

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

"Our struggling state-funded university would really, really like to hire an assistant professor of mathematics. The new faculty start-up package includes $27 in Yankee Candle Company coupons and whatever our retiring professor leaves in her desk."

This is quite the review. I love that Chloe Zhao nailed it and then some. #Hamnet www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

It's every Shakespeare professor's dream to have a kid going to @bardcollege.bsky.social amiright?

I really needed this today. Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social You can get lost in it. A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

Scene from @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social's super fun "Shakespeare in the Park[ing Lot]" Trivia Event. Thanks to everyone, especially my co-host, Jonathan Wilson!!

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

I loved being interviewed by New York University's amazing Varsha Panjwani for the Women and Shakespeare podcast! She knew exactly what to ask. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

Friends! I will be doing a GREEN WORLD book event this Friday morning, June 6th from 10:45-12:00 at the Jewish Federation of the Berkshires! Details and registration here: www.jewishberkshires.org/jewish-feder... Thank you, @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social!

I'm delighted to share that GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare has won a 2025 IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Awards) silver medal for Autobiography/Memoir! @umasspress.bsky.social #IPPYawards #IPPYawards

I got picked for #FirstLineFriday! And hurray that @umasspress.bsky.social is offering a special 20% discount on Green World to celebrate the occasion! www.umasspress.com/978162534782...

Some pictures from a beautiful luncheon celebrating the winners of the 2025 Friends of American Writers Literature Awards at Chicago's gorgeous Fortnightly Club. I am so honored that my memoir, Green World, was selected this year!

Weird weird weird as I grow (even) older than Shakespeare. Happy Birthday, you badass legend.

Baby's first live Shakespeare! Can you spot the Skittles?

I am so proud that my daughter chose @bardcollege.bsky.social as her #1 school and will start there in the fall. This NYT opinion piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social about money, Trump, and the assault on higher education says a lot about why this place is amazing. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

Boston-area friends! I'm moderating an amazing book event @brooklinebooksmith.bsky.social on Tuesday, April 22nd @ 7:00 pm. Journalist Julian Borger's new book is: I Seek a Kind Person: My Father, Seven Children, and the Adverts that Helped Them Escape the Holocaust. His story is extraordinary.

What a joy to share this news! GREEN WORLD has won the 2025 Friends of American Writers Literature Award! Previous winners include Sara Paretsky, Jane Smiley, Toni Morrison, Harry Mark Petrakis, Carl Sandburg, Kevin Fenton, Chad Harbach, Sara Gruen, Gillian Flynn, Ruta Sepetys, Andrew Ridker. 🤩

Such a sweet article about my author event with Alizah Holstein and Xu Xi at College of the Holy Cross in their student newspaper, The Spire. hcspire.com/2025/03/28/r...

What a wonderful book event at the College of the Holy Cross! AND I got to meet the brilliant Alizah Holstein, author of My Roman History. If you have not already done so, get your hands on this poetic beauty of a memoir. Thanks to Bedlam Books in Worcester for providing the books and the display.

This is happening on Thursday! I'm excited to share the stage with brilliant writers #AlizahHolstein and #XuXi at Holy Cross. #memoir

What an honor to have GREEN WORLD selected as a Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FINALIST for Autobiography & Memoir!!!!

That’s right. 🇺🇦

I taught Get Out in my "Strange and Strangers" class today. We talked about Othello, the first text we read this term. We watched Eddie Murphy's bit on horror movies, Peele's inspiration for the title. Smart, invested students who know what's going on in the world and care. Grateful for this job.

My memoir, GREEN WORLD: A Tragicomic Memoir of Love & Shakespeare, was named a 2025 Sophie Brody Medal Notable Book!!! @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social Humbled to be part of this amazing group. rusaupdate.org/2025/01/jozs...

8-yr-old: I know what "carb" stands for. Me: Yeah? 8yo: Carbitrary. CARBITRARY (adj.) -lacking a definite plan or purpose regarding the consumption of cookies, cakes, bread, etc. -exercising authority to dictate the appropriate amount of certain foods, e.g. potatoes, lasagna, Chips Ahoy.

SO excited about this!!! @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social

It's almost 1 am. I'm working on a book proposal and half-watching animals maul one another on Savage Kingdom. It's actually quite relaxing, which is how I know I'm in the right profession.

How to write: Stop not writing. Keep your butt in the chair. Write really bad small sections of the whole—passages, moments, episodes, memories—til you have an incredibly shitty 1st draft. Then take out the boring parts, the lies and pretensions. Then write a better 2nd draft.

Shakespeare (or, This &#%!@'s For Real)

Pogo, the 3-yr-old rescue whom we adopted this summer, in repose on a Liberty pillow. Nothing better than pampering this little dude.

#Humanities aren’t just for majors — #STEM students gain critical thinking and interpersonal skills too. An English professor explains the benefits: https://buff.ly/4iGenG9 (Anna Mae Duane @uconn.bsky.social) #loneliness #edusky

Thanks, @folgerlibrary.bsky.social, for putting GREEN WORLD on your Books for Shakespeare Fans holiday gift list! www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Cool shelf display spotted by my friend at the wonderful @odysseybks.bsky.social! #GreenWorld #independentbookstore #shakespeare #memoir @umasspress.bsky.social

'Tis the season for a piece on the college admissions process that I co-wrote a few years ago: "I Am Lady Macbeth, and Your Facebook Post About Your Kid’s Early Acceptance to Harvard Really Pisses Me Off" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a... @mcsweeneys.net

My 8-yr-old daughter converted this large box into a home, furnished w/cardboard chair, books, lamp/reading light, iPad, writing supplies, blanket, and probably some candy. The enter/exit system needs some work, but it's a lovely little place.

An excellent question and a challenging one, as it requires a consideration of physics, aesthetics, + script-writing. My answer is the Lipstick Memory (Campari+cranberry): served straight up (cold!) in an old-fashioned glass (easiest to sling). Point at red-stained (ex) lover + yell "Bloody filth!"

Thank you, @mcsweeneys.net. I needed that.

I like my evil politicians safely contained in a Shakespeare plot. Oooh, this guy!

First post! My friend told me about this place, and it's just as lovely as described. Like a parallel universe with only the good things.