While we’re all talking about single-sentence novels, I just wanna say how great Mort aux girafes by Pierre Demarty is. If you read French, I highly recommend it. Bleak and funny and labyrinthine. I think about it all the time

For @fracturedlit.bsky.social, Caren Beilin and I talked about grudges, the Oulipo, concision, and fucked up art. Her novel Sea, Poison is out on 10/7 from @ndbooks.bsky.social! fracturedlit.com/too-sick-too...

@halschrieve.bsky.social and I talked about queer mentorship, book bans, old lesbian vampire media, and the possibilities of YA. Hir novel Fawn’s Blood comes out next week from @sevenstories.bsky.social! www.unchartedmag.com/im-trying-to...

Yesterday was a real rollercoaster because I went to both my favorite subway station and my least favorite subway station (Natural History Museum and Fulton, respectively)

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To help remember the planets in our solar system, you can use the mnemonic “My Very Photogenic Mother Died In A Freak Accident (Picnic, Lightning) When I Was Three”

Imagining a screenwriter so committed to their vision of each character’s idiolect that they write all their screenplays in the IPA

So honored to have my poem “JFK8 Night Shift” in the latest issue of the Bellingham Review! Read it here: bhreview.org/articles/jfk...

I think my favorite book I read this year was Le sari vert by Ananda Devi. Also probably the only book that’s given me nightmares as an adult

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