You're a writer? What do you write? Emails, mostly.

lithub.com/federal-troo... I know I’m just a teeny drop in the bucket, but my sales also dropped dramatically in this timeframe. I think it has more to do with the job losses, as at least where I am, crowds are still there, but spending is way down. Anyway, support your independent stories!

Okay but what if we released a billion nuance bots instead… “I understand your perspective, and also…”

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

7 tonight: Life is so good! Me: Aww Benny, I agree. 7: Also Chex!

Staring at the two spaghetti tupperwares in our fridge, looking for the gluten free one, and if this isn’t a game of Russian roulette

For a second I thought there was a pitch your thriller manuscript thing happening but…

"The collection offers a unique vision into the ways we learn to live with our past, present, and future selves." Congrats to @ladiwoods.bsky.social on a lovely review in KIRKUS! AHP is pleased to be publishing Lauren's debut THE GREAT GROWN-UP GAME OF MAKE-BELIEVE next month!

Honored to have Kirkus review my book! "An inventive and heartfelt short story collection." I'll be at Kramers in DC with @laurascalzo.bsky.social on Oct 22 at 7 pm and Barnes & Noble Potomac Yard on Oct 26 from 1-3 with @stephliberatore.bsky.social. @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

We have another edition of the 804 lit salon in DC this weekend. We will be featuring: Claire Hopple, Aaron Hamburger, Varun Gauri, Danielle Ariano, Jane Palmer, and Jenna Crowder. Details here: eventbrite.com/e/162350632411…

Couldn’t figure out why the bill for Andrew’s annual physical was so high when it’s usually free and oh my god it’s the Tdap and flu vaccines!! 😵

Charles Simic

Be gentle with your people today. Make art. Go for a walk. Find a way to support the vulnerable among us.

Cool cool my house looks like a book storage warehouse. Grateful for an understanding family and pets and excited to sell local author books on 9/21!

There are a lot of takes today, and I won’t be adding to them. I will, however, look to the role art and writing play in hope and connection. Please register for the Foggy Bottom Book Crawl! History, fiction, poetry, more. Sunday, Sept 21, 11-2.

There are a lot of takes today, and I won’t be adding to them. I will, however, look to the role art and writing play in hope and connection. Please register for the Foggy Bottom Book Crawl! History, fiction, poetry, more. Sunday, Sept 21, 11-2.

I care a lot about writing, but taking your child to medical stuff really puts things into perspective, and we’ve had a lot of that these past few years. Safe to say appointments went well, Akron has some state of the art medical facilities, and the Cuyahoga is beautiful.

Up early with my coffee, about to road trip to Ohio to a specialist to get some medical answers for my child. Might even see some pretty waterfalls along the way.

Lovely, fun reading! Congrats @writesloud.bsky.social!

Reading @ladiwoods.bsky.social award-winning collection RIGHT NOW. I wish I had some fancy critique speak but I only have this— I LOVE IT.

Well! I did not make it into the TX book festival, but you win some/lose some. That said, I’ll be doing book tour stuff in Dallas and Austin between 10/31 and 11/5. If anyone is nearby and/or wants to try to do a reading together, or is a fun Texan to meet, pls be in touch!!

This is such a smart, honest reflection, I’m going to pause on excerpting and texting it to friends and just share this wonderful piece with all of you. Nice work, @tmcallister.bsky.social!

ICYMI new essay up @leonliteraryreview.bsky.social leonliteraryreview.com/issue-32-and...

Came home to find my books had arrived!! 🎉 @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

Being a bookseller on a micro scale is a fascinating window into the industry, both in the way the distributors push the BIG books so hard and also the way small presses sell just as well if you sell and advertise them similarly. Thinking I need to write about this.

This is in reference to your recent application. The NEA will now prioritize projects that foster AI, disaster recovery, skilled trade jobs, and any number of things utterly unrelated to the arts. Thank you for your patience as we transform this country into an intellectual and artistic wasteland.

Great that we’re using taxpayer dollars to pay for decked out ICE vehicles that terrorize people. Meanwhile DC schools: sorry we don’t have enough funding, could you please buy $500 in school supplies from these six lists?

Book mail! Reading next: the wonderful @socalwritergirl.bsky.social All This Can Be True

Remembering when my neighborhood community page was all about like when the pools opened. Now it is ICE sightings all the time.

Grateful for these blurbs! @autumnhousepress.bsky.social @kristenarnett.bsky.social @topefolarin.bsky.social @ambersparks.bsky.social. Two months till launch! Oct 22 at Kramers in DC and Oct 26 at B&N in Alexandria! Preorder www.autumnhouse.org/books/the-gr...

Reading about one of my favorites, and it’s not even close how she puts modern activists to shame. I think it also has a lot to do with the physicality of earlier activism vs online activism today.

Fifteen years ago, I worked at the State Department on human rights, and we constantly pushed autocrats like Egypt’s leaders to stop declaring perpetual states of emergency so they could increase internal repression…

11 year old at her first week-long sleep-away camp. It’s healthy for her to be phone free but wild to think this is the first time in 11 years we’ve had no contact for a week! Three days so far feels like ten (for me).

My gut feeling right now is that once we get past this AI LLM boom and bust cycle, the skill of knowing how to have an imagination and how to create stories with your own human skill will be even more valuable than before. I would spend this time learning how to do everything you can to nurture that

I remember the worst day for crime in Washington D.C.'s history and whose fault it was.

Cool DC weather (for now), back to the bike commute for work, let’s go

Just pre-ordered this @ladiwoods.bsky.social book from Bookshop! If you'd like to do the same, here's that link: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

7 year old: Wait, why is that app just an X? It looks like a kid just said Oh X, I’ll just make an X and name it X.

Easton, MD @andrewbertaina.bsky.social

Had a nightmare last night about disinformation and the dismantling of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and then woke up, and for a brief beautiful moment at 5 am I was happy it was just a dream…

“Hard times shrink us, tell us to be quiet, to get through the day, to stop expecting more of ourselves. Putting down words—no matter how small—is a quiet act of rebellion against that voice.” Lovely @barlowadams.bsky.social!

Looking for a collection @kristenarnett.bsky.social called "Beautifully strange and incredibly satisfying"? Look no further!

Mailing out some ARCs! The feeling of holding your first book in the flesh! (Paper but whatever) ❤️ @autumnhousepress.bsky.social

And @andrewbertaina.bsky.social @foxcitylit.bsky.social

Up now @foxcitylit.bsky.social @nikigjoni.bsky.social !

Reading from Ethan Hawke & me this afternoon with @FoxCityLit . Thrilled to be a part of this lineup :)

A little Ross Gay and the garden to start the day

Them: How do you find time to write! Me: Ma’am, I joined my first writing group in 2005, have been writing pretty solid ever since, and am releasing my first book in the year of our lord 2025…