heated rivalry is the thing that will finally get them to release the dsm 6

It’s my third annual favorite books list! This includes newer titles by @brosandprose.bsky.social @melissafebos.bsky.social and @michelletea.bsky.social as well as books by @reelindian.bsky.social and @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social ENJOY! 📚 💜 🌈 🤓 medium.com/@lizdegregor... #literature #readinglist

"I was good at coming up with snappy sentences too weak to hold up an actual plot" is a line I just wrote in my novel draft that's hitting a little too close to home

“a witness to history” is cracking me up. like she remembers the cuban missile crisis www.latimes.com/california/s...

when you try to look cute for work and your toddler hits you with a “what’s that mommy”

every amazon brand is called XITZ or POOSY

A Denis Johnson thought I have every day, looking around at the world we have and wishing for the one I thought we were going to make: "That world! These days it’s all been erased and they’ve rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it?"

You can now search for your books to know if they qualify for the Anthropic settlement. As I suspected, the book I published in 2015 counts, and the one from 2025 that was stolen before it had been published does not. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

If you want to understand open adoption, it makes sense to start with birth parents—yet studies of them are few. 2+ yrs ago, I began talking w/ birth mothers to try to understand what living in an open adoption is like for them, and what rights or options they might have if challenges were to arise.

I'm going on tour with BEINGS this week, and I'm very nervous and also excited! Here's the rundown - if you live in these cities or know someone who does, please come/tell them to come??? Philly - Mon, 9/29 Washington, DC - Tues, 9/30 NYC - Wed, 10/1 Providence - Thurs, 10/2 Boston - Fri, 10/3

To write about sales track is, essentially, to write about everything—career longevity, creative pressure, labor issues, capital, and what winds up on readers' bookshelves:

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

“Seventeen, flirting with drunk boys when their girlfriends went home. Their beautiful fifteen-year-old girlfriends, their chemically straightened hair, their white designer jeans.” @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social, “In High School [We all knew...]” @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2020/04/27/n...

my dad is heartbroken because someone snatched the toy stomach he got my toddler at a medical conference

I couldddd work on my next novel or I could online shop for more toddler light up sneakers. I feel like I know how this is going to play out

can we all free ourselves of the delusion that we will ever make our toddlers beet waffles. who am I saving these videos for

“You can’t reach a mutual understanding without spilling blood.” Excerpt From All-Night Pharmacy @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social This book is a near-life experience #queersky 🌈 #booksky 📚 #bibabesbookclub

going on book tour (taking my toddler to the library)

you can distract a wife with interesting cheeses

join me & legendary boyslut zachary zane for a scandalous zoom book club about ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY tomorrow 8/7 at 6 PT 👀

the PBS / NPR stations are asking for your fiscal support. if you do not have that to give, advocate for their survival instead of dreaming of their premature defeat.

This is my first started review ever. Feels nice. www.booklistonline.com/products/981...

love catching my toddler’s first words of the day. today it was “water bottle right there” like ok observational poet

every animal that boarded noah’s ark is in my toddler’s bed

ok but has anyone actually proven that compulsively checking your email won’t manifest the response you want

Whenever I thumbs up a message I feel like a boomer responding to the news that his first grandchild was born

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

has a printer ever worked

cleaned the floors this morning and they already look like penn station

best surprise: ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY is the first ever pick for allstora’s new bi babes book club!!! for literally $1 (?!?!) for the 1st month, you can join the club to get your copy. zachary zane & I will be doing a juicy q&a for subscribers soon 👀

jacaranda pervs know now is THE time to visit LA

can’t write until i’ve saved 12 recipes i’ll never make

sometimes ya gotta wonder if a writer became a less shrewd critic or if you became a more discerning reader

the prophecy has been fulfilled 🔮🙏

i’m “anytime i’m doing something cool in a dream I think wait who’s watching my kid” years old

sleep skirts? please be for real

at this point in my life, the drug I wish I could use endlessly with no consequences is afrin

if I was a pronatalist obsessive I probably wouldn’t make my car company’s logo an iud

love spending saturday night at the movies (listening to my toddler recount the whole day to herself over the baby monitor for 40 minutes)

wish I loved anything as much as instagram loves feeding me content from moms who can pump off 10 oz of milk per boob (congrats tho)

Wishing the happiest pub day to @todd-milo.bsky.social's THE LILAC PEOPLE! ✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ ⭐ "Exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed" — @latimes.com ⭐ "A beautiful, necessary story." — @post-gazette.com ⭐ "Wholly unique and original." — @bostonglobe.com

“A Los Angeles fever dream that crackles with an energy of transformation & rebirth…” #ExpoReview’s Rebecca Luxton #ExpoRecommends @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social’s ALL-NIGHT PHARMACY. Get it our @bookshop.org & find more #Spring reading recommendations tinyurl.com/SpringReco. @catapultbooks.bsky.social

passport office needs to know my toddler’s occupation. idk the love of my life?

🌈📚 📖 All-Night Pharmacy by @ruthmadievsky.bsky.social an intoxicating portrait of a young woman consumed with unease over how a person should be Affiliate Link bookshop.org/a/100590/978... #booksky #queerbooks #lgbtqia #bi

toddler loves chappell roan because she thinks good luck babe is about babies getting shots

a guy I know from writing stuff came up to me last night as I was talking to another writer and I opened my mouth to say “hey! do you guys know each other?” before remembering they’re literally husband and wife. in case you’re wondering whether mom brain is terminal

rooster just crowed at the auto parts shop in echo park right next to where i’m doing a reading. LA is so back

tonight in LA!

need a shirt that says “the task you’ve been dreading for months will take 18 minutes to complete”

!!!!!!!! @ilanaslightly.bsky.social