Wonderful event last night at Book Soup in LA, in conversation with the brilliant @bcdreyer.social

Happiest of pub dates to the brilliant and very stylish Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, whose novel TERRY DACTYL comes out today from Coffee House Press. Highly recommended!

Interviews with clients Rabih Alameddine, Cathy Linh Che, Richard Siken, and Patricia Smith. Good luck to all of these geniuses next week at the National Book Awards!! lithub.com/meet-the-202...

Thursday, I’m teaching a class on how to write compelling novel openings. You can sign up here! @shipmanagency.bsky.social www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/craf...

LFG my #Knicks!!!!

More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.

Yes, here comes the UK edition of TERRY DACTYL, get ready🪶🌺🌟💥

"What a gift this novel is, to shine so brightly in its refusal to not look away. An excerpt from TERRY DACTYL...out tomorrow!!! Thanks to @electricliterature.com @iamlisako.bsky.social & @mbsycamore.bsky.social electricliterature.com/terry-dactyl...

Just called Durbin's office, they're not even letting you leave a message! Which means we are overwhelming them with calls. Keep going! (I've already called and emailed Schumer.)

Before the ACA, I couldn't get insurance as a freelancer at all, bc I'm a type 1 diabetic, so "pre-existing conditions." It was absolute shit on my health, scavenging for insulin & test strips, constantly in life or death debates about being able to go to the doctor. I had no primary care.

It's a fuck you to everyone who showed up for No Kings. It's a fuck you to every Democrat that voted on Tuesday. Fuck @schumer.senate.gov and any Dem senator who caves to the madman in the WH and his band of creeps. Just burning with rage right now.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

Our featured poetry book for the @barrelhouse.bsky.social conference in DC on 4/18/26 is BLUE OPENING by Chet'la Sebree, published by @tinhouse.bsky.social books! www.barrelhousemag.com/conference

Tour info! Austin today and tomorrow and then Monday at Book Soup with @bcdreyer.social !!!

Yes, it's the Limelight, where TERRY DACTYL starts... "The first time I met Sid she was on the dance floor in a silver and gold tube dress pulled over her head except it wasn't just a dress because the fabric went on and on..."✨💎✨

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

Honey, I sure am heading to New York at the right time (yes, I get on the plane tonight!)... Ready to join in all celebrations!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉(Photo by Todd Bohannon)

If you're learning about Eugene Debs today and want to know more, @haymarketbooks.org has an amazing collection of books for you! www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1246-t...

Honey, it looks like I'm heading to New York at the right time!!🎉🎉🎉

City of Sickos

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

78-21% is revolution numbers. That’s generational shift kind of shit. It’s the electoral equivalent of a Molotov cocktail

Hope is the thing with feathers

Reposting for the evening crew:

6:45 AM NYC time. you’re still in bed, zohran has already filmed five videos, helped a grandma carry her groceries across a street, went to a daybreaker rave and a pilates class, and ate a high protein breakfast

Book Riot chose 11 of the Best New Queer Books out this month, including the spectacular TERRY DACTYL by @mbsycamore.bsky.social 🎉🎉🎉 bookriot.com/new-queer-bo...

Happy FREAKS is in paperback day!!

Enjoying every moment of the establishment freak out over @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social Wishing a Happy Zohran Eve to all who celebrate! Tomorrow we dance!!

This is the future New Yorkers want! Also, besides Mayor Zohran, we'd also like a Knicks championship. www.instagram.com/reel/DQi9PRo...

Client Andrew Leland, author of IN THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, on client Rachel Kolb, who just published ARTICULATE: A DEAF MEMOIR OF VOICE. 🌟⚡🌟

One of my favorite things - clients talking to clients ❤️

Last chance to register for this weekend's master class with Khadijah Queen! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

Like a Willy Wonka ticket, one copy of @mbsycamore.bsky.social 's forthcoming novel, TERRY DACTYL, has REAL DIAMONDS* ! The only way to find out is by purchasing a copy on 11/11/25. Luckily, even without the 'winning' book, you'll have Mattilda's sparkling prose. 💎💎💎 *there are no real diamonds

A haunted house but an open mic where every poet reads past their time.

Awesome of these fools to help drive donations to @katmabu.bsky.social! Donate here: www.katforillinois.com

LOS ANGELES PEOPLE, YOU DON'T WANT TO MISS THIS: Please join us as the 2025 Chowdhury Prize in Literature is presented to @clairedederer.bsky.social. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. 📷 Wednesday, November 12, 7:30 PM 📷 Bovard Auditorium (USC). RSVP Link: visionsandvoices.usc.edu/events/50710...

An genius pairing of geniuses!!

Gain a deeper understanding of new ways to approach characterization and new approaches in thinking about how material realities impact characters and their relationships. This master class includes a Q&A. Register! www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/mast...

In this single-session class, we'll do a close read of a short lyric essay that blends criticism and memoir. We'll then practice some techniques to accomplish similar effects and discuss strategies for responding to the art we consume on a daily basis.

Some good news for your Wednesday! lithub.com/good-news-a-...

Here I am laughing in joy during the beautiful book launch for TERRY DACTYL at the Seattle Art Museum, thank you all!!!! And, get ready for my upcoming events in New York, DC, Baltimore, and Portland, please spread the word, and let's continue this magic 💕💕💕

If you're in SF, I'll be at City Lights this evening

At Comic Con, @peppermint247.bsky.social and I talked with icon @georgetakei.bsky.social about his "two incarcerations" - the internment he suffered at the hands of the US Gov't during WWII (for the "crime" of being Japanese-American), and his decades in the closet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yQL...

In less than a month, I'll be chatting alt weeklies with @ericacbarnett.bsky.social and @mudede.bsky.social at Elliott Bay books! We all worked at the Stranger, and Erica spent time at the Austin Chronicle. Come!! www.elliottbaybook.c...

Had lunch with an Argentinian journalist today who said their president is a psychopath, to which I could only say, same brother, same.

With the GOP denying SNAP benefits for tens of millions of Americans on Nov 1, please think how to help your communities if you can. This regional food bank is a great way. Every $1 donated provides four meals to people in need throughout 23 counties of northeastern New York. regionalfoodbank.net

I am once again asking Ireland to take me back.

This means a lot to me, when people have this kind of love for my books.

Joyously early voting for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social 🌟