access hollywood? do you mean you have a key to it or the gate code handy

Am I the asshole for accusing my friend of plagiarizing a TV show? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this question and more.

blast from the pabst

[Exit Clown.]

replied “yeah we got some real fellas out there” when my wife told me that she disturbed a lizard on the porch

We took out the LAST Republican on the Orlando City Council!!! Congrats to Commisioner-Elect Tom Keen! And thanks to all of our volunteers and Organizers that knocked hella doors and spent all day today on the phone to Get Out The Vote!

SOUTHERN! BOOK PRIZE! FINALIST!!! thank you to @stephopitz.bsky.social for breaking the news lol

gonna get a hat made that says “loving my wife, it’s a way of life” and i am gonna also get one made for @joshgondelman.bsky.social

“i can’t breakdance… who do you think i am, FJ?” - my wife referring to that australian breaker raygun who famously could not breakdance

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

youths on a date at this restaurant were trying to figure out who an actor was and kept saying “you know the guy, he’s like really old and he’s kind of a classic vintage actor?? he was a magician in something” and it turns out they were talking about christian bale

Hosting my very first Sapphic Book Club and wish I could have found the house bar in the book! Did the best I could and I hope I can lead a fun and weird and hilarious very lesbian discussion. @kristenarnett.bsky.social the Lesbians of the Chesapeake are loving your newest read. 🙌 will post photos!

yikes, unfollowing now. huge fan of his pathological hunger for lasagna; didn’t realize he’d kicked odie off the end of the table

knives out? no, i’ve stored them in a practical wooden block

This from @kristenarnett.bsky.social's latest "Am I the Literary Asshole" is going to every single artist I know who has even ever been tempted by the machine: lithub.com/am-i-the-lit...

call it avant-gourd

Hot take! You definitely don’t need AI to be good at writing. @kristenarnett.bsky.social weighs in on this and other literary quandaries.

carving a jack-o’-lantern but then throwing out the pumpkin and only displaying its scooped out guts

the spine tingling, bone chilling horror of monday the 13th

Great conversation about queer community in these trying times with Kristen Arnett - author of "Mostly Dead Things" This Queer Book Saved My Life! thisqueerbook.com/mostly-dead-... @caseyholland.bsky.social @kristenarnett.bsky.social @thisqueerbook.com

guys at this bar in boise are talking about what different slasher villains could do the best yard work: “jason could chop down a tree no sweat. jigsaw could do some good trimming, i think, but so could freddy”

love to read pages of someone’s loose ARC on an airplane, just shuffling all those printed papers around like i’m trying to crack a secret code

thought to myself “what if there was smaller skeleton trapped inside a larger skeleton, that would be pretty spooky” and then realized i was describing a pregnancy

It's banned books week and so I'm legally obligated to bully you, a person who has ever had their name on a book, into joining @authorsabb.bsky.social. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... We fight the source of book bans with calls to action, partnership w everyone in the game, and offer training.

Never show up empty-handed, ya know? Anyway, it's a beautiful home. Hope you guys like feeder crickets.

got to ask @tricialockwood.bsky.social the important questions last night like for instance “is the worst way to pronounce poem with a y in the middle of the word”

🎵 she ate a raspberry parfait 🎵

Forget literary assholes. Are you the “literary shithead” if you’re sick of speculative fiction? @kristenarnett.bsky.social answers this question and more!

incredible morning of drinking coffee and staring directly at the wall

yelling out the window “you there boy, what day is it??” until someone responds “why it’s new paul thomas anderson day!”

listen, like any normal person i already experienced the rapture: when i was seven years old i hid inside a clothing rack at marshalls and then i lost my mom so they had to call her on the loudspeaker to come collect me

muttering “jesus fucking christ” to myself all day long as my eyeballs embrace some of the worst sentences and thoughts ever written, it’s incredibly healthy and obviously very good for me

One of the best ways to fight fascism is by feeding people.

get me to gods country (lowe’s)

Am I the asshole for absolutely hating literary awards season?” And other questions answered by @kristenarnett.bsky.social… buff.ly/69egFGg

short! list!!!!!!

you’ve still got (some, not much) time to sign up for this!!!!!! exclamation point!!!!!

you’ve still got (some, not much) time to sign up for this!!!!!! exclamation point!!!!!

very fun time in mississippi for the book festival! if there was a beer around i drank it

woman next to me at this airport bar eating completely dry white toast with a fork and knife

really proud to be part of this as florida’s rep leader for authors against book bans!

yearlong! generative! novel! writing! workshop! (i’ll be writing my fourth novel through this, come work with me) writer.org/event/novel-...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Unbelievable opportunity here. If you're writing a novel and not applying to this, you're a FOOL.

yearlong! generative! novel! writing! workshop! (i’ll be writing my fourth novel through this, come work with me) writer.org/event/novel-...

on some honk shoo mimimi type shit

I cannot properly express how delighted I am by this post

we’re gonna rock down to a fine autumnal stew

if a cat is a tuxedo style i’m impressed, it’s like very nice…… classy, formal wear

Florida chapter leader @kristenarnett.bsky.social joined other authors, advocates, & parents to discuss the state's book bans. www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news...