Can someone please go to the physical therapist for me? Hey, AI, why don’t you make yourself useful.

This story by @loriostlund.bsky.social that appeared 1st in @newenglandreview.bsky.social and now in BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 2024 — holy jumping Jehoshophat 🙌🏻

The person who is driving gets to choose the music. (unless the person driving isn’t me)

The skyway in front of my apartment has become a highway for migrating birds.

Here for everyone’s photos from No Kings

A wee math lesson to certain people in America: 1 + 1 = 2 also known as just because someone else might have done something not good, doesn’t mean the awful thing you did is disappeared

Take three minutes to improve your Sunday, with this micro-story from @eliseblackwell.bsky.social ⬇️

Made a quick trip to Paris in honor of Banned Books Week to speak about the current perilous situation in the US, at the invitation of author Janet Skeslien Charles and the AAWE. Completely full-house, every last seat — Americans abroad care.

Picket Fire is a small literary press, but I have no idea how to use Blue Sky or how to find people on here. So if #writers #authors #readers and anyone related to the #writingcommunity or #books community could help by sharing this post, that would be excellent.

I’m not saying it will be her but of the names being bandied around I’d be very pleased to see Anne Carson awarded the Nobel Prize for literature ✍️ ✨

Other authors whose works are involved in the Anthropic settlement, are you making a claim? If so and you are traditionally published, are you accepting the “Default” recovery option or filing for the “Alternative” option? (Please repost!)

It’s nuts to me that you can no longer step foot on the Columbia University campus, this place where I played freely as a little girl, which was always an integral part of the neighborhood, w/o an active Columbia ID, but on the positive side maybe it’s helping to keep ICE out.

From the @authorsguild.org re the Anthropic settlement: “The settlement administrator will contact authors whose books are part of the eligible class directly with settlement details and claim forms… A searchable database with the books in the suit will be made available in October.”

Checking in today for a flight to the US from overseas tomorrow was a disturbing experience.

Anyhow, there’s a Danish zoo inviting the owners of aging pets to donate them as food for their lynxes and lions so if you’re a pet owner committed to recycling culture or a sociopath in Denmark you’re in luck.

Your Sunday morning thread (don’t read the one about chocolate and spices tho) :

Happy International Moomin Day, aka Happy Birthday, Tove Jansson

Sometimes I just don’t feel like talking. Slowly coming back out of my shell

Remembering the time an ex-boyfriend responded angrily to my telling him to pull over because he was way too drunk to drive, “No one can take my right to drive away from me!” As he knew, my uncle had been killed by a drunk driver 6 months earlier.

Happy Midsummer! Hyvää Juhannusta!

#RIP Sly Stone, musical visionary. Thank you for letting us be ourselves ⭐️

thirsty shopper in our midst

It just makes me so mad, the whole idea of Cuomo in the mayoral race. New Yorkers are supposed to be smarter than this.

I cannot believe there are NYers who’d vote for Cuomo for mayor. Even if you don’t care whether he was a groper, don’t you remember how this POS kept life-saving vaccines from NYC during the epidemic and pillaged the MTA, just to out-big man DeBlasio? Next poll, DON’T INCLUDE HIS NAME AT ALL!!

What the actual fuck, fellow New Yorkers. DO BETTER.

RIP, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, stubborn determined very very important voice. A giant.

Rainy late-spring afternoons in the park is for barely-teen sweethearts or almost sweethearts, his hands on hers riding a scooter tandem, sitting on laps, quick smiles, giggles

Recruiting poster from 1860 “Pony Express: Orphans Preferred” —People, respect your postal workers

The corrected date is 5/30, and Boston-area writers I highly recommend this 🌱 ✍️

The exuberant peonies my daughters sent me for Mother’s Day 🩷 🩷

I hunted around further online but didn’t find evidence that a “female plural” exists in the 1st person in Polish tho. Anyone on Bluesky know Polish?? #theEmpusium

Anyone who’s read The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk in English, interested in literary translation, or speaks Polish… W/out giving anything away—I found a comment online saying the Dutch translation notes its 1st person plural POV was written in the “female plural.” Which seems pretty significant.

Watching Turning Point: The Vietnam War and excuse me while I take a break to writhe under the heavens in grief, frustration, shame, and sorrow.

Time for a spring flowers break.

This Lindsey Graham tweet has to be one of the craziest things of all the crazy things yet and that’s a helluva mountain of crazy. Or at least the dumbest. Yo, Lindsay, everything else aside, ever heard that phrase: Is the Pope Catholic?

Congratulations, Canada, on the result of your prime minister election! Glad to know US mess is useful for something.

Then comes that Spring morning when the rush to put on socks is suddenly not there and that Spring evening when the light seems to linger

In which I recite a brief story about the midnight sun in northern Finland on the @atlasobscura.com podcast 🌲 🎤

Godspeed, Pope Francis. Thank you for remembering love, tolerance, and inclusivity.

Even my reality check bounced

It hurts a little to have my morning tea from this mug now, but I do nevertheless as a reminder of a future that could have been and of an alternative type of future that I am willing to work to make real.

Oops that should be 3rd or 4th century AD, of course. A little jet-lagged, I am…

The tradition of dyeing Easter eggs goes arguably all the way back to the 3rd or 4th century BC. And then came the year 2025.

Let me just say: AWP is a lot.

Someone mad at this window, I guess

If you’ve driven on the right side of the road your entire life, how hard is it suddenly to drive on the left? Is there any magical thinking to help with it?

Four more nights at this precious artist residency 🙏🏻

Blurbing may be on its way out in publishing, but I was having some trouble seeing my way through my latest ms so I stepped back and wrote a “blurb” for it and the route became clear again. May sound silly but if you’re stuck, try it! Might help you too.

I’d share the interview I gave on Swiss radio about Abdulrazak Gurnah after he won the Nobel, but it’s in French… Suffice to say I am a longtime admirer. Very much hope having won a Nobel will also win Gurnah the audience he deserves.

Something to celebrate! Just over two weeks until “Theft,” the new novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah is released from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social