What a great story of how this #writer persisted and fulfilled her dream of becoming an #author. #booksky #amwriting www.wsj.com/business/med...

Some rare positive news from DC. Nice update on this book vending machine and how it's been received. Imagine if these sprouted up around the country giving people a way to find more local #authors, indie authors, and small-press books. #booksky #books www.wypr.org/wypr-arts/20...

Thoughtful piece on #writers as readers. "And yet, for me, the whole point of #reading is to discover what we don’t know we want (or need) to know." #booksky www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...

“I just knew once I started writing I couldn’t stop, whether people would publish me or not.” Fantastic piece on Megan Abbott. I love her non-traditional path to #writing crime fiction and her thoughts on resilience as the publishing world has changed. crimereads.com/my-first-thr...

Bluesky needs a dislike button

The clock doesn’t tick the same way for everyone. Until art institutions admit that, we’ll keep mistaking the optics of equity for the real thing.

“We are #writers and readers, and we understand the power of coming together around books.” Love how the community rallied to save this book festival and Ann Patchett's comment to galvanize supporters: “We might be able to be the tide that lifts the boat.” #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Amazing to see details of David Bowie's #creative process. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This would make a great #novel or film magazine.atavist.com/2025/the-tal...

La reproduction interdite, by René Magritte, 1937, 📸 via @BleacherReport

"The decision to pursue an activity simply for one’s own enjoyment, though, is deeply human—especially at a moment when our time and attention are treated as commodities." What a fantastic range of #books www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Justice for sandwich bro!

Can't wait for this. Might be Spike's best #crimethriller since Inside Man.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Jamaica Kincaid years ago and can't wait to dive into her new collection of #essays. "“I’m not a professional writer...I’m an amateur writer.” The vulnerability associated with beginner’s mind is a crucial part of her repertoire." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/m...

Love this. And I need to find a research excuse to go to Bora Bora. "I have never believed in the adage Write What You Know. How boring is that? Frankly, my life’s just not that interesting. Instead, I prefer to write what I want to learn." #writing #fiction crimereads.com/writing-what...

What a great story about her journey to becoming an author. #writing crimereads.com/my-first-thr...

Absolutely love this story on this man's lifelong love of #books and #reading. Also very cool how he supported his local #library www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

Sometimes the historical dictionary offers solace through the existence of an obsolete word that is sorely needed now. One of them is ‘respair’, recorded just once, in the 15th century. It means fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, most remembered for playing Theo Huxtable on ‘The Cosby Show,’ passed away Sunday. But his legacy spans much more than one character. I wrote about how I’ll remember him best. www.theringer.com/2025/07/21/t...

"We need these books on our shelves to flip through, animate, and surprise ourselves with. Without the impetus for self-expression and lifelong learning, we have to ask ourselves, why write at all?" #writing #creativity www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/o...

As a #writer, it's always inspiring to see how #artists persevere. “I’m going to just do the thing that’s in front of me, and I am going to love every inch of it because I waited too long, I worked too hard, and no one and nothing is stealing my love of the game.” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/m...

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... "She noted that Leo Tolstoy hadn’t written his classic #novels for her, “a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio.” Nonetheless, she recognized his brilliance, and white readers could recognize hers."

Striking to see comments by some men saying they don't feel like fiction is "for" them. As a Black woman, I'm able to love #books written by authors who aren't Black and aren't women even if they're not "for" me. Good #writing and great #storytelling is for everyone www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/s...

"Our online lives will reshape not only the practice of studying #history but also how future generations will tell the story of the past." www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

"If authors are turning to these AI tools for brainstorming, editing, or even drafting, is it their duty to disclose this to unsuspecting readers?" Hell yes. If #writers who use AI don't disclose it, they should ask themselves why not. www.fastcompany.com/91341390/ai-...

Wonderful to see what these teenage journalists have created. "Perhaps most ambitious of all, they hope to persuade other teenagers to put down their phones and pick up a newspaper...This is something you have to put work into.” #journalism www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/s...

This is so great, so true, and right on time. "In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. In a moment where machines churn out mediocrity, make something yourself. Make it imperfect. Make it rough. Just make it." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Absolutely grim on the part of the Sun-Times, now a reader-supported nonprofit. "The scandal comes on the heels of a 20% cut to the editorial staff at the paper and as journalists worry about AI-generated material replacing human-made content." #journalism www.axios.com/local/chicag...

Some beautiful old books. They should bring back this kind of binding. With everything accessible online, a big reason to buy a physical copy is the aesthetics.

“Just because a library has things in it that I will never read doesn’t mean they don’t have value to someone.” #libraries #books stop #bookbans www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

"What do we gain? Other than it being gimmicky?” #creativity #art #writing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/w...

Very cool to see how viewers’ passion for Sinners mirrors director Ryan Coogler’s passion in creating the #film. Always inspiring to see the ways a work of #art can immerse people in another world and transform them. www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

"At a time when we are flooded with texts, rants and A.I. slop, a poem occupies a quieter, less commodified corner of your consciousness. It’s a flower in the windowbox of your mind." This and it brings me back to learning to memorize and recite #poetry. #writing www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

"Throughout Emerson’s immense body of work, no question vibrates more resonantly than that of how to trust yourself. 'It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own.'" Good reminder for #writers

"But one thing has always been in my life: writing. Writing as a journalist, writing letters to my mother, writing to my grandfather, always #writing. I think that my way of getting over things, of understanding, of exploring my own soul, my past..." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/m...

"Yet the book evades a set of larger questions: Why do we need to see #writers (or anyone) at their most open and despairing to be convinced that they are also human?" www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Both Saints and Cardinals looking to trade up

Dan Campbell’s locker room speeches feature tales of death and survival, resilience and grit, growth and vulnerability. They have been at the heart of a cultural transformation for the Detroit Lions. http://dlvr.it/TK9S4S

I had the pleasure of hearing @elongreen.bsky.social read from his amazing new book a few weeks ago at Politics and Prose. "As one destroys, may another create and rebuild." www.elongreen.com#lthe-man-nob... #amreading #booksky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/o...

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

Elizabeth Catlett was an alumni of Howard University. She is a sculptor and graphic artist. She was born in Washington DC. She is considered one of the greatest 20th century artists in American history. She highlighted the struggles of Black people in her art. Later, she became a citizen of Mexico.

Not the best films to make the point, but support for original ideas and daring work is a challenge across many creative industries. "After years of gripes...the film industry placed more bets on original ideas. The results have been ugly." #originality #creativity www.wsj.com/business/med...

The Pampered Idiot, by Leonardo Alenza y Nieto, 1807–45, 📸 by @b_smialowski