Well shit, I've got an outline done, a working title and direction thanks to a class I took with @kristicoulter.bsky.social years ago now.

boxd.it/vM0 So help me god, sometimes I think “Lisa. Lisa Pappademetrio” is the funniest line in cinematic history.

Me reading the Harvard letter was an oopsie article

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

This Texas bill wouldn't just make it a felony to take a teen out-of-state for an abortion—but to "fund" an out-of-state abortion for a teen. In other words, giving your 17 year-old niece gas money could land you in prison. legiscan.com/TX/text/SB23...

I've been listening to a semi-obscure Australian band called The Apartments lately. While looking for lyrics (not easy to find!), I came across this incredible piece by Kristi Coulter... www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/08...

“Women are equal citizens but we’re not gonna force a big fight to make sure they’re treated that way” is the most on-brand parting gift imaginable from the Democratic Party, 10/10, no notes.

Reading @kristicoulter.bsky.social 's book and just got AOL Instant Messenger nails. #aim #nailsky #nailart #nostalgia

L.A. Story Chinatown Magnolia Booksmart Training Day

Foreign scammers now in their fifteenth year of not figuring out that "hello dear" is not how you start a conversation with a stranger on social media.

A startlingly clear-eyed update from Matthew Sweet on the aftermath of his stroke.

Look I know there’s a lot going on in the world right now, but how in the H-E-double-hockey-sticks is there a TYPO in a #Prada ad and is this what Leonard Cohen meant when he warned of things sliding in all directions.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Showed my 7 year-old an Etch-a-sketch and said this is what Daddy played with growing up and this little angel asked me if it was a 'caveman iPad' and I am still in absolute shambles

The new @wussymusic.bsky.social album is my favorite of theirs since Attica!. Absolutely can’t get enough of it.

After nearly nine years at Esquire, I’ve been laid off from my role as Books and Fiction Editor. I’m looking for a new full-time role where I can use my storytelling skills, in the book world or beyond it. If you know of anything, I’m at [email protected]. (🧵1/10)

It struck me today that 80% of the lines from “Mr. Jones” could be slotted into the VF Cormac McCarthy piece with no one the wiser. “After a monsoon, the sky is Sistine. To the west, lightning races the tousled embroidery of clouds in pink gilt. Everybody want to pass as cats.”

Here is what’s on my mind: where is TV on the Radio? Can we get those guys back?

True. Would be good to see the @authorsguild.bsky.social negotiate a (better) collective agreement, though.

Loved talking with @estelleserasmus.bsky.social about EXIT INTERVIEW, writing memoir in the present tense, and why I hate hearing people apologize for having big ambitions.

a gentle reminder that you don't need to wait to be good enough to write or draw the things you wanna draw you get better through creating the things you wanna make, not by waiting to become better to make things

1) Wussy 2) the Hang-Ups 3) Taylor Swift 4) Matthew Sweet 5) Destroyer

Ok WHAT DID SAM DO

In case literally anyone in the tech industry has any wildly radioactive bad news they're trying to bury, now would be the ideal moment, just saying.

EXIT INTERVIEW: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY AMBITIOUS CAREER has landed! Available now in hardcover, digital, and audio (read by me!) formats. I really hope you enjoy it. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...

I absolutely *devoured* @kristicoulter.bsky.social's new fantastic memoir about Amazon, and she is doing a Q&A and signing about it at Seattle's Third Place Book's tonight. To celebrate, I interviewed her about it for The Stranger, check it out.

EXIT INTERVIEW made Glamour’s list of the top ten fall women’s memoirs! So for today only, I like List Season.

If you're enjoying Bluesky and you don't want it to turn into the cesspool of hate that Twitter did, you best speak up now. Cut that 'I don't know what to say' shit out and amplify Black and queer voices, because the BS team ain't listening to us.

My first plane ride (at age 12) was from Fort Lauderdale to the Bahamas and I was EXTREMELY CONVINCED we were all going to be sucked into the devil’s time hole or whatever.

EXIT INTERVIEW, my memoir of ambition, Amazon, & working while female, is out September 12th! Courtney Maum calls it unputdownable. Oliver Burkeman found himself reading passages out loud. It jacked up Nora McInerney’s pulse. Preorder here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374600907/exitinterview