One of my NY resolutions is to quit threads and be here more often and I figure I should try starting now open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

I know all the websites are making fun lists but I am here to share … a really poorly done graphic 🤷🏻‍♀️ and I didn’t include abundance on my list so hopefully you know I actually enjoy good books 😘

I know all the websites are making fun lists but I am here to share … a really poorly done graphic 🤷🏻‍♀️ and I didn’t include abundance on my list so hopefully you know I actually enjoy good books 😘

How far away are we from wood paneling coming back?

I’m just so glad they finally did this one that way every time a commenter asks me about it, I point them here instead of trying to explain it all in a TikTok video

Just woke up from a dream where rob gronkowski joined my book club

indianapolis you have my whole heart today ❤️ thank you @schizophrenicreads.bsky.social for giving me the chance to talk at length about what’s happening in DC at my launch party, and thank you indianapolitans for singing such a rousing Solidarity Forever with me about it

Finished books 49 & 50 for the year

I get constant comments on my posts about people telling me they walk around bookstores with screenshots of my videos, so I thought this would be a helpful substitute for your indie book shop day tomorrow

Scrolling before bed 🫠

Sure, maybe I should go to AWP next year because I’m doing an MFA and am hoping to sell my proposal later this year, but the most motivating thing for me in going to Baltimore is the almost non-existent but not impossible chance of running into these legends

I wrote a little essay after my family had to shelter in place during tornados in Indianapolis last night open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

Wrote about some of my favorite things so far this year open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

Indianapolis is having an indie book crawl this weekend. I went to my local shop this morning and bought Empathy Exams for someone to claim. A few people liked that so donated some money for me to buy some of my favorite books for people to go in and claim. Here’s the stack:

Leaving my family Christmas half way through to go watch the Wicked double feature this year is gonna be so fucking good

Oscars holding a funeral for James Bond but couldnt even get Adele

I hate Elon. He ruined my favorite holiday of the year… watching the Oscars while scrolling Twitter. That site is dead and we’re living the corpse of it on all the other places of the internet

I wrote about my country music, leaving spotify, and weight loss open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

Obviously there’s no money in the humanities but I want there to be an English Lit version of nonfiction (that isn’t writing) so bad. Media studies, I guess? Maybe that’s what’s next for me?

Favorite thing I’ve read so far this year. This chapter is on mental illness and the fear of losing your mind and gothic representations of that horror, specifically with Haunting of Hill House (show and book)

Book mail

it’s definitely easier to destroy shit than build something but i don’t think i’ll ever stop thinking about how we were told biden couldn’t do anything at all, ever, while elon musk and donald trump run around like rats gnawing on cables stopping the governments functionality completely

Recommended this book a week or so ago, and had about 25 DMs from people all say hey wtf. Sorry

Do you ever think about how in about 15 years there will be a major study and headlines about how sites like FanDuel and DraftKings led to about 100,000 suicides of young men

lfg

Just finished the first ROUGH draft chapter of my book

Sam Altman must be so embarrassed right now. Hope he commits seppuku

I think it’s fine to call Elon a nazi, but I do think it’s a fairly big misunderstanding of him as a person. He believed in his own supremacy - he’ll use whatever part of culture to try to amass as much power as possible. That’s the ideology of Silicon Valley.

Sunday afternoon date book haul… that’s a normal thing, right?

Mentally preparing for book club and then a date 🤠

Idk how often Im going to post my homework assignments so let me know what you think… open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

Does becoming a lawyer so warp your view of reality that you become both stupid and grotesque?

Already making sure this makes it on to my 8th consecutive wrapped/replay 🫡

I appealed and won. My video was restored and within minutes it was taken down again and my account was given a strike. Feels like my time on TikTok might be limited.

The ban ended, and I recommended this history book so people can understand how propaganda works and immediately got hit with a community guidelines violation…

If you’re thinking I’m conspiracy pilled or some shit, well, read the second paragraph before you yell in my comments

I wrote this little thing on the tiktok ban last week and some of the economics of losing my booktok. If i had to give a little update it would be this… open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

I wanna say we had a good run, but idk idk

Midwest exceptionalism

Filmed my final TikTok video. I left the audience with 4 final book recommendations that I think can really help people understand the moment and provide comfort. - Shock Doctrine - The Great Displacement - Imagination: A Manifesto - Something in the Woods Loves You

Reading “Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter” and really sort of angry for how bad the media class has been (still is, mostly) about talking about the tech world. Creating this hellscape for access to celebrity billionaires doesn’t seem like the tradeoff was worth it

wrote about the demons (ie how being a writer is only going to get worse and how terrified I am) open.substack.com/pub/thelater...

Maybe once TikTok disappears, ill remember to spend more time on here… open.substack.com/pub/schizoph...

I said I want to see indie bookstore wrapped, so I thought I’d share my bookshop(.)org wrapped as well. Here’s my bestseller list from the year

Not to oversimplify the book, but reading to Listen, Liberal by Thomas Frank and really loving the mapping out of the 1:1 relationship between the culture of “Harvard is great” and the US being absolutely fucked

Could you imagine what Halloween would’ve been like if that assassination happened early fall? Recreating the ending of V for Vendetta but at all the good bars

TikTok comment section saying my alma mater sucks is my favorite holiday tradition 🥰