My new standard reply to weird macho guys: "You can come to Buffalo Wild Wings but don't say stuff like that."

I am always excited to read a new @rossshowalter.com story and having this pop up in my feed first thing this morning was exactly what I needed.

Wonderful fiction by @rossshowalter.com!

ICYMI:

New story! I wrote (yet again) about ASL students, romantic relationships, and the uncertainty that arises when someone starts to learn a language after meeting you. I'm grateful to @rrrubenstein.bsky.social and @theoffingmag.bsky.social for giving it space.

I just put down a deposit for a little apartment in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dreams do come true.

I am on the precipice of actually moving and making my dreams a reality, and I am so, so excited.

Maintaining your dream in a late-stage capitalist hellscape is truly an uphill battle.

Two weeks and one month, and I'm so glad I decided to see my friends in faraway places. This summer has been a restorative one.

Nisi Shawl is one of my favorite writers, a queer elder & a BIPOC icon. I hate that the state of publishing is such that the book of their dreams would struggle to find a home, but I love that we as a community can come together to make it happen!! Give/boost as you're able? 🙏 gofund.me/3a52097a

I’m not saying that everything is fine but I am taking the seven uninterrupted hours of sleep as a small win, given that insomnia has been a bedfellow for the past seven months.

When I read a piece like this, I think a lot about how goddamn smart Andrea Long Chu is, but I also think a lot about criticism and jobs and how few publications seem to value or even understand the considerable amount of time this kind of work takes.

He recognizes the importance of libraries. 🥵

I accidentally put my film camera through the TSA scanner (I know) and the scanner fucked up half my photos—and created this uncanny effect on a simple snapshot of Elliott Bay, in Seattle.

LMAOOOOO I would absolutely love to watch AI try to translate English into American Sign Language. They’ll never get to that level.

A little walk in a foreign city doesn’t alleviate your worries but it does, briefly, make them a little lighter.

Without Twitter, I wouldn’t have met one of my best friends, one of the loves of my life, and people who have taught me, again and again, what unconditional love and community looks like.

“I managed to pass the course… but I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I had written an essay by myself, which was my favorite activity. This was the catalyst for me to stop using the app.”

Wow, all y’all on the East Coast weren’t kidding about the heat, huh?

Trump killed Sesame Street. He killed Elmo and Ernie and Bert, Kermit, Gonzo, and so much important culture. I am sickened. This beautiful project that expressed love to the children of the U.S. and that was translated and seen around the world.

The Haunting of Hill House.

“There is no indication that the government will provide some grace period before snatching up and imprisoning this new underclass of noncitizen babies; they are apparently subject to arrest from the moment of birth.”

listen i’m just saying we don’t give kelly clarkson enough credit for being so fucking talented

Hey friends! Tomorrow I launch my first newsletter focused on the joy of short stories :) Hopefully it will bring you a little joy too. That’s the goal anyway. If you’d like to sign up, that would be wonderful. If not, that’s cool too. coreyfarrenkopf.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

My essay is up at @literaryhub.bsky.social about the late, great Lana Clarkson and other promising young women whose lives have been derailed or destroyed by men. It’s also about my childhood sexual abuse and how I have tried, and failed, to reckon with it. lithub.com/on-promising...

Since it's the last day of Disability Pride Month, here's a reminder that I am a weird little disabled writer and every Patreon supporter seriously helps. Cheers! www.patreon.com/c/Wiswell

Agree with this 100%. I wouldn’t have the career I have now without a social media presence. Because I am visible, I am working.

Don't mind Telly just barricading the front door with his BUTT

"The very best scientists are like elite basketball players: They come to America from all over the world so that they can spend their prime years working alongside top talent...That may no longer be the case a generation from now."

I always attempt a slow, seductive descent into dreamlike waters.

I don’t need face scans to put on a couple of vinyl records.

Are we great yet?

Filled with disabled rage that pre-existing health conditions are seemed as a reason to somewhat diminish malnutrition.

Open letter to the Portland Book Festival “We ask you to say ’no’ to sponsorship from banks that profit from and facilitate the destruction of Palestine.” Consider adding your name: lithub.com/an-open-lett...

Let’s be real, all the stories I’m linking to are stories that have, in one way or another, molded me into the writer I am.

Anyway, 1 like = 1 story I love.

Friends! I’m starting a newsletter next month called Corey’s Stories! I’m going to write about stories I love, share some flash fiction, and ask other authors what their favorite stories are. Short stories! Short stories! Short stories! Sign up? coreyfarrenkopf.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

I really hope this doesn’t include The Hopkins Review, because, selfishly, one of my favorite stories I’ve written was published by them. I don’t want anyone trying to mess with it. 🙃

And since I just saw it again in replies to an article I re-posted I'm tapping this sign. There is nothing moral or immoral about mental illness. Enacting evil or believing in atrocious things is not a sign of mental illness. Don't call someone mentally ill when you mean they are a bad person.

POLITICO compiled a list of all the Washington Post staffers who have left in the past eight months. It’s at least a hundred names, many of them among the biggest names in journalism. This is the fastest erosion of a major outlet ever.

People take “write what you know” too literally, and that’s why they hate it. Take what is core to your person—your deepest beliefs, emotions, and experiences—and filter those things through the prism of fiction. THAT is writing what you know, not “I’m an attorney, so I can only write legal drama.”

Hi! I've been offering one hour Zoom writing coaching sessions, and it's been going really well! I think I've been helping people, which makes me feel good. Hit me up in my DMs for some writing therapy and for more details!

Don’t let the war on higher ed distract you from the war on homeless people distract you from the war on vaccines distract you from the war on journalists distract you from the war on trans people distract you from the war on reproductive rights distract you from the war on Palestinians …

Senator Slotkin has announced her intended support for legislation that would CUT and FREEZE the wages of farm workers - one of the most underpaid professions in the US. This is just wrong! Call @slotkin.senate.gov TODAY! Urge her to withdraw her support. (202) 759 - 4087

Translation: we are rounding up disabled and chroniclly ill children.

Censorship is a sinkhole. You are not safe just because it opens up under someone else's house. Porn. LitFic. Black art. Queer art. Band together, because nobody is safe unless everybody is safe.

As a kid, I had 4 major surgeries, learned how to walk again 3 times, missed endless amounts of school... & oh yeah, I wound up winning 2 nat'l writing awards, reading my work in the Library of Congress at 16, & starting college a few months later. If I was a kid now, I would be in juvie. GTFO.

Some people don't feel as close to this as they ought to. Most of us are just a bad break or two away from winding up on the streets, and addiction & mental health crises can affect anyone. They're gutting services and rendering more of us disposable, and there's a carceral disposal system waiting.

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽