Dreamt I went to Parker Posey's house and told her she had a ghost

Hard to pinpoint the precise moment at which the American democratic project was over but this is a close contender

I have a new translation up at @thedialmag.bsky.social, Lauren Bastide's Courir l'escargot, which we're calling Consider the Snail. I loved this book & was so happy to get to translate some excerpts from it, about slowness, failure, grief, alterity, cycles, & goo www.thedial.world/articles/lit...

where might I find a real live Italian tutor, please? I think I am reaching the end of Duolingo's usefulness and I need to be able to have actual conversations...

Here some people who know what they're talking about talking about autism www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/o...

Paracetamol is like

I have an extra ticket to this if anyone needs it - get in touch!

Cambodia and Armenia woke up not knowing they’ve been fighting each other According to the president, Armenia has also been fighting Albania and Aberbaijan - not to confuse with Azerbaijan

Dreamt that Bernie Sanders was the MP for Marseille

my essay on slow walkers for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

a good flâneur.euse has sharp sidewalk awareness www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/n...

I went to New York for the weekend and now I am very tired 🫠

First spotting of the US paperback of SCAFFOLDING out in the wild, at @barnesandnoble.com on Long Island

Fired for literally just quoting Kirk’s public words, with no additional commentary. “To quote Kirk is to dishonor him” is such a wild claim. (See also its corollary: all the pundits praising him never quote him.) The political press corps has been making its brokenness so absolutely clear.

Are any of your books on Libgen (check on libgen.la)? If they are, they've been used to train AI without your permission and without payment. It's not too late to add your name to this class action for compensation before the end of today (US time). graphicpolicy.com/2025/09/09/j...

I miss RSS so much - and I read so much more online when it was better organised in a reader. Now I just have a zillion tabs open that I never look at

Jetlagged out of my mind at a kids’ soccer match

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

wow securing permissions for my book has been a trip. for every org who's tried to price gouge me with most favoured nation clauses (i.e. they will charge the highest fee that any other copyright holder charges) there's an artist who waives their fee entirely. what a world. grateful to the good ones

Dreamt I woke up in bed with Meryl Streep, my partner on my left and her bedroom filled with snowflakes

Dreamt there was an unknown (to me) Rohmer film about two brothers, a period film, lots of farcical doubling and I really want to keep watching it but I can’t bc I made it up

Adobe Acrobat's AI helpfully offered to spare me the pain of reading a BOOK, UGH

do I owe you an email? please feel free to follow up. brain like a sieve. inbox like a construction site. things get lost...

IT DOESN'T EVEN SCAN, these shitheads are so pathetic

A little trip to America in 1977, courtesy of Ellen Willis on her initial skepticism about punk

well, I've nearly finished my to-do list from Friday 29 August

Writers take note (from Kelefa Sanneh's MAJOR LABELS)

So I have to go to NY next week & completely apart from how scared I am of setting back my son's recuperation from autistic burnout by taking away his safe nervous system (i.e. me), I'm mostly struggling with the idea of being an ocean away from my baby, how do ppl do it???

Apparently, that list is incomplete! My books aren't listed, but when I check libgen itself they are, and without my name. Warning, this is a shady site full of scammy popups so I'm not linking directly but find it at your own risk to check for your books. libgen dot li

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

it's happening! (if you're in the EU and you'd like to request an event, please get in touch.) (+ me & @laurenelkin.bsky.social are looking for a Paris venue to talk about Amateurs! x Art Monsters - any leads very welcome :)

securing image and text permissions for VOCAL BREAK has been more arduous than writing the book, remind me never to put pictures in my books ever again (or at least next time to get the right to a picture researcher clause in my contract)

Fascinating piece by Kelefa Sanneh on how music criticism got too nice - helping me put the final touches on my VOCAL BREAK ms, in which I had to think carefully about which punches to pull - which juice "ain't worth the squeeze," as one editor notes www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Has anyone on here ever had to get hi-res images from the British Library? I'm having a heck of a time getting in touch with them and the images I need aren't in their online picture library

I made a donation to an organization and they won't stop calling me and I have no time to talk bc I have a full-time job and a child who doesn't go to school and by the third call I had to be rude to them and hang up. That makes me sad! Take my money! But please stop infringing on my time!!

I take issue with the idea that this is some kind of trend or wilful vulgarity. The girls need support; the tank tops are often cut in such a way that the bra straps show. End of story. Normalize visible bra straps!

OK I think this is resolved now but PSA: if your banking app has a "gambling protection" functionality make sure it's activated, otherwise the bank may claim they don't have to refund you the money the hacker gambler stole from you

interesting roundtable on needing a break from the braided essay in The Cut's Book Gossip (“the story of my breakup, now with more bird facts!”) but for me the issue is the overvalorization of the personal - like maybe I wanted to write about birds but my editor made me braid in my breakup?

Anyone have experience with having your debit card hacked and used on a betting site?

why is getting a prescription filled in London a multi-day, multi-telephone call situation I don't understand I am exhausted from trying to fill my prescriptions

day one of the beige diet, give me all your best colonoscopy advice 💩

Here is his foot out of his shoe and annoyingly close to my shoulder

The guy behind me is listening to music. Loudly. Do I 1/ask him to turn it off 2/ask the crew to ask him to turn it off 3/put on Tori Amos

Why do perfect strangers sitting in a four top on a train feel the need to have a get-to-know-you conversation

Wondering if our culture’s current fixation on illness and wellness is obscuring a real conversation about neurodiversity - it’s either slotted into the former (MAHA) or completely overlooked

Not my child who had a massive speech delay & six months ago peed one single time a day casually telling us he’s going to “nip to the loo”

sorry I am just very triggered by back to school season

ok tell me does this exist: a progressive, inclusive school, child-led, where parents (with DBS check) are allowed to come for part of the day, where the staff are throughly, profoundly trained in how to work with neurodivergent children? and if it doesn't shall we start one?

an observation: the parts of my manuscript that were written in Microsoft Word are full of missing words and weird tenses, leading me to believe either a/ I was very tired when I wrote those sections and/or b/ Word is hard to type and see in

how wonderful it is to write, and how deadly to line-edit