If you resigned from the federal government in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term, we’d like to hear your story. We’re publishing an anthology of the best federal resignation letters. If you think your letter belongs in it, please reach out to us.

Fox News railing against participation trophies but make the footage Trump's fake Nobel Prize

Did you know we've got the best iambic pentameter lesson plans on the web? True story, and they are FREE to download from our website. (Teachers must email us for the answer keys, but there is no "gotcha" mailing list, we promise.) www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/poetry... #poetry #teaching

Look, there are two things killing bookstores, and neither one is ebooks. One is rent. The other is *waves hands vaguely* everything costing too damn much.

Happy pub day to @aliahanna.bsky.social—whose book, "Take it From Me: An Agent's Guide to Building a Nonfiction Writing Career from Scratch," is a witty, wonderful, and deeply accessible introduction to the field from someone who helped me do exactly that: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734107...

Did they make you resign in 2025? We're collecting submissions for our upcoming book of the Best American Resignation Letters. If you left a federal job last year for any reason, we want to hear your story. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign... #booksky #doge

Not to go all poet on y’all but I think a lot about his last name being one letter away from “human.” Looks like a human, but isn’t. There’s a void in the name where you should be.

The choice not to stock a book at a bricks-and-mortar store may include these reasons: - No room on the shelves - Historically poor sales of that topic or title - No supply - No interest And as long as the store does not act in a discriminatory or negligent manner, any of these is fine. (end*)

Greenland, paradoxically, is Denmark’s main source of red LEGO squares. No way they’ll give that up.

I listened to an audiobook of T.S. Eliot narrated by Jeremy Irons while driving around Oklahoma and it goes from The Waste Land to The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and then you can actually hear the moment cats took over his brain and willed the musical and movie into existence

Trumpkennedycenter.org Is live, with a soft launch preview before the official launch in January. Seems Mr. Sue ‘Em when he doesn’t get his way thinks parking domains is a crime. @tobymorton.bsky.social isn’t playing games Who else thinks he’ll wish it was just parked?

I will destroy the Grinch by mailing him an incendiary cigar to burn off all his hair, as that is the source of his authority and respect with the Whos

Missions were shattered. Entire agencies were deleted. Nearly 300,000 employees were forced out of the federal workforce. Here’s a look into how DOGE and the White House carried out a once-unthinkable transformation of the federal government:

These older women protagonists upend our expectations about aging.

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a

Honorable attorneys couldn't work with this administration. I admire those who walked away.

gee I wonder why the top leaders at the DOJ are so desperate to stop the D.C. bar from investigating misconduct by DOJ attorneys who practice in D.C.

During this busy time of year, take a moment to relax with our Fall 2025 issue. Pick up your copy today: https://pshr.us/fall25

Apply to work in our great creative writing program! The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus) invites applications for the Edelstein-Keller Endowed Visiting Writer Chairship: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

Did anybody else in the room misread this headline as "deifies Trump"?

We did it, Joe. @sassquachcomics.bsky.social

More than 2,900 attorneys quit the Justice Department or were fired during the first 10 months of this year -- about triple the number who depart in a typical year. personnel records obtained by Reuters show.

MARY: I slammed the screen door, and the first thing he said was he hated being alone, and we weren’t that young anymore. I said, “Get off my porch.” Then he said, “You ain’t a beauty, but hey, you’re all right.” I said, “Get out of my driveway.”

“Language itself has humor in it. I really like that flapping of words, where it’s like the wind gets into them and they kind of flap between meanings.” From our Art of Poetry interview with Alice Oswald in our new Winter issue. buff.ly/QNsju7Z

sorry I'm late! I have at last broken my silence on Pantone's Color of the Year johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...

What's the best federal resignation you've read this year? We'd like to know about it. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl.

# Christmas carol lyrics that go hard when you paste them over a picture of Stacker Pentecost

It's remarkable that the book by [wretched reporter] sold so poorly. At peak intensity, something like 95% of the skeets on this platform were screenshots/excerpts. Bad publicity is still publicity. Like that subplot in /Love Actually/ where everyone dunks on Bill Nighy's cynical Christmas song?

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Aparna Nancherla

In anticipation of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, here's a list of new YA riffs and retellings I put together for Publishers Weekly!

Full video of Cory Doctorow's virtuoso rendition of enshittification on the Daily Show youtu.be/d2e-c9SF5nE?...

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Fixed that for you, Google. #amediting

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

Did you quit the federal workforce this year? We're working on a book of the best federal resignation letters of 2025. If you left your US government job, for any reason, please reach out. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

Time was, we had an apolitical federal typeface class. We took it for granted.Times New Roman, Calibri, Courier, Georgia—you checked your politics at the door and went to work for the American people. Next May, SCOTUS will codify that the President can fire any font he wants. It's gross.

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

Karan asked Henry in our POTW interview: How do you navigate writing about violence or atrocity (& you do this often) without reducing it to either sentimentality or spectacle? 💙

The cost of university is a real societal problem, but the problem isn’t well rounded gen eds and abandoning that greater mission devalues universities even further

This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.

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"Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing To what I shall unfold."

Exactly. Locally, you are also more likely to know someone on the inside of a small target business. Reach out to your personal network of friends, family, coworkers, hobby shared persons, church sharing persons etc. Tell them what you are looking for and why. #writingcommunity #booksky #books

"I told the nurse I jog three days a week, play soccer, lift weights, and take spin classes. She just giggled. Honestly, I’m used to it. It was kind of annoying when she took my blood pressure four times, though." buff.ly/bcx3OS1

BREAKIING: To secure approval of its $83B takeover of Warner Bros., Netflix assured the FTC in a filing that it will allow Netflix passwords to be shared by, “like, at least eight people.”