While elites flail or capitulate, it has been left to ordinary Americans to fight for democracy with everything they have. For @theguardian.com, six brief lessons gleaned from my near-decade of accidental activism for everyone looking to fight back against galloping authoritarianism.

Good morning! Today I share a favorite lentil recipe from the Silver Spoon cookbook for fiction writer @amyshearn.bsky.social. Lentils were front and center during our chat at Lofty Pigeon! Thanks, too, to Lauren Gertzman for featuring them on my bookmarks! chloeyelenamiller.substack.com

Ditmas Lit is tomorrow Wed. 2/25 with @brendancbyrne.bsky.social, @theladyaye.bsky.social, Jonathan Dixon, Nhu An Do, and guest co-host @colindickey.com! RSVP at www.urbanebrooklyn.com/event-detail...

Tuesday 2/24: @amyshearn.bsky.social joins us for Caregiver Storytime astoriabookshop.com/events/44991...

I'm headed your way, NYC friends! I'd love to see you at Smithie owned bookstore, Lofty Pigeon, in Brooklyn on Thursday, February 19th! I'll be in conversation with the wonderful @amyshearn.bsky.social! Details and RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/chloe-yele...

I'm very excited to share Perforated, my new poetry collection released TODAY!, with you. If you are in the NYC area, register to attend my launch at Lofty Pigeon Books. I'll be in conversation with @amyshearn.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.com/e/chloe-yele...

“The movement against no-fault divorce is about walking back women’s rights & autonomy …. Although no-fault divorce hasn’t gotten to … Trump’s chopping block yet, rumors have proliferated, and people are justifiably anxious.” @amyshearn.bsky.social for @msmagazine.com msmagazine.com/2025/03/10/g...

Q&A with Amy Shearn about her new novel, ANIMAL INSTINCT. tinyurl.com/2dswcad6 @amyshearn.bsky.social

“There’s risk in opening that private space to others. Publishing a journal, or even quoting from one, means forfeiting some of its power.”

Congrats @amyshearn.bsky.social and all of the other fantastic writers featured in this @npr.org piece. Read more about Animal Instinct, a timely sci-fi lit fic from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social here: www.npr.org/2025/06/25/n...

Amy Shearn wrote a novel about a women who creates a perfect AI lover. It doesn’t turn out quite as she expected. 🔗 https://on.wsj.com/44lk8ml

Cited by Curtis Sittenfeld: Animal Instinct, the new novel by MFA alum @amyshearn.bsky.social

NPR picks @amyshearn.bsky.social new novel as one of their top reads

Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn #books #literature #dedication

Back by popular demand! Journal your way to clarity with our very own @amyshearn.bsky.social www.writingco-lab.com/classes/jour...

Early Thirties by Josh Duboff Till Death by Kellan McDaniel Overtime by Tracey Richardson Passing Through a Prairie Country by Dennis E. Staples Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One by Kristen Arnett Animal Instinct by Amy Shearn

A set in 2020, it's the first covid book I've wanted to read. #collectiondevelopment bookshop.org/a/4013/97805...

My Sunday read is Animal Instinct by @amyshearn.bsky.social and it’s perfection. It’s also making me think how wild it is that we live our lives as if they are ours, and other people are basically living our same lives. Best line so far: “Seamless Rube Goldberg device of horniness”

Join us for this FREE event on different paths to publishing your work, with WCL co-founders @briangresko.bsky.social @saralippmann.bsky.social & @amyshearn.bsky.social www.writingco-lab.com/classes/diff...

*TOMORROW*! I'll be in conversation with @amyshearn.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social Union Market. We'll talk about her new book, Animal Instinct (about dating as a recently divorced mom during the pandemic and... developing an AI bot. You'll LOVE IT.) politics-prose.com/amy-shearn

DMV area folks - find co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social Union Market with @amyshearn.bsky.social tomorrow (Sat.)! Don't miss it!

Amy Shearn (@amyshearn.bsky.social) on her latest novel “Animal Instinct,” melding fantasy and literary fiction, queer books that are not coming-out stories, and the relationship between the pandemic and sex.

Anyone else in need of a little more peace and quiet in These Times? I wrote about slowing down, float tanks, and, obviously, What About Bob: open.substack.com/pub/amyshear...

If you are in the DMV in May, come hear co-founder @chloeyelenamiller.bsky.social with @amyshearn.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social!

Ooh, fun to see the event with @amyshearn.bsky.social at @politicsprose.bsky.social at Union Market listed here! Hope you can join us, DMV friends! www.popville.com/events/book-... event listing here politics-prose.com/amy-shearn

Here's an interview I did with Anna Dorn about Hot Air where I do a not so great job casting my film, talk about @amyshearn.bsky.social's Animal Instict and reveal details about my office where I sometimes write. www.hobartpulp.com/web_features...

Hey Chicagoland! Come hang out with me and @rbeaird.bsky.social at @secretworldbooks.bsky.social this Thursday 4/17 ~~~~

For 3 weeks in July our annual generative summer camp returns, reasonably priced, in real time or asynchronous, with this incredible roster of teachers! Learn more and enroll: www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp

"An Interview with Amy Shearn." www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/features/an-... @putnambooks.bsky.social @amyshearn.bsky.social #BookSky

Love that ANIMAL INSTINCT is on this list of books about messy women, along ALL FOURS, SANDWICH, and other novels I adore ~~ www.goodreads.com/blog/show/29...

@amyshearn.bsky.social asks, can writers even remember how to read for fun?

I wrote for @literaryhub.bsky.social about how I killed my book group (accidentally!) lithub.com/can-writers-...

Announcing! Our second annual Colab Summer! Three weeks of generative workshops, enriching panels, community building and accountability groups to get you going and keep you on track this summer! Registration is open: www.writingco-lab.com/summercamp

“Publishing is a small world. Don’t be a dick. People come back into your life. It’s really a small world.” @amyshearn.bsky.social at #AWP25 #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #BookSky

Reading @amyshearn.bsky.social 's excellent and delightful novel Animal Instinct, and while I know it's obviously fiction, my God, the Straights Are Not Okay. It's such a great portrait of the way married cishet men resent their wives and assume it's normal because they resented their mothers, too

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

New essay by @amyshearn.bsky.social in the First Person Singular series... memoirland.substack.com/p/did-i-inve...

The 25 new books out today include titles by Kristen Arnett, Amy Shearn, Emma Donoghue, and more!

Day 58 of 100 Days of Creative #Resistance via @amyshearn.bsky.social: “Would you keep writing if you knew no one would ever read it? What about if just one person was going to read it? What about if just one stranger was going to read it?”

Happy pub day to MFA alum @amyshearn.bsky.social and her new novel Animal Instinct! Oprah Daily says, “The quippy and the no-holds-barred dialogue will remind you of gossiping with your best friends immediately after a first date. A refreshingly grown-up coming-of-age story.” #UMN #fiction

Day 58 of 100 Days of Creative Resistance: @amyshearn.bsky.social on recording your life mailchi.mp/fdb33198b901... @writingco-lab.bsky.social

Who said divorce had to be lonely? (@amyshearn.bsky.social)

Public scholarly goodness doesn’t take a Spring Break—so here’s my 216th #ScholarSunday thread of writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Share widely & enjoy, all! 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

Disassociate this spring with ✨books✨ Happy to see ANIMAL INSTINCT on this Oprah Daily list of Best Books of Spring: www.oprahdaily.com/entertainmen...

The divorce memoir has experienced a resurgence with works that range from poetic to empowering to startlingly bitter about the whole institution of marriage. Here, a taxonomy of upcoming and recently published divorce books.

Featuring: 💖 STAG DANCE by Torrey Peters 💖 SOFT CORE by Brittany Newell 💖 ANIMAL INSTINCT by Amy Shearn 💖 STOP ME IF YOU'VE HEARD THIS ONE by Kristen Arnett 💖 LIQUID by Mariam Rahmani 💖 COVER STORY by Celia Laskey

Excited about Chappell Roan’s new song? Check out our book recs based on your favorite The Giver lyric: booktrib.com/2025/03/13/o...

"Much of our economy, from housing prices to childcare availability, is designed around the unit of straight married couples. Of course an administration devoted to shuttering social services wants to shore up the institution of marriage."

For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about how crucial it is to protect no-fault divorce: msmagazine.com/2025/03/10/g...

Journaling Toward Clarity 8 weeks with @amyshearn.bsky.social returns April 1st: www.writingco-lab.com/classes/jour...