Grateful to George Saunders for sharing my podcast interview and my essay in @electricliterature.com on his Substack today. Vigil is riveting, funny, and unsettling in all the right ways. A novel for our time. electricliterature.com/in-vigil-rag...

My essay on George Saunders' VIGIL is up today at @Electricliterature.com Saunders has long encouraged us to "revise toward kindness." But in Vigil, he asks what happens when empathy veers toward complicity? #georgesaunders #electricliterature electricliterature.com/in-vigil-rag...

George Saunders' new novel Vigil is out today from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social I had the pleasure of talking with George about writing, meditation and evoking fierceness and compassion in life and on the page. 0n “Writers at the Well" podcast & YouTube open.substack.com/pub/tesscall...

Vigil by George Saunders is out tomorrow. I will be sharing my conversation with George about writing, meditation, and fierce compassion. Stay tuned! Thank you @penguinrandomhouse for the advanced copy. #georgesaunders #writingliife #writersatthewell

Greatly enjoyed my interview with @marthacooley.bsky.social author of The Archivist and now My Little Donkey from @catapultbooks.bsky.social. Writers and readers, says Cooley, are “the guardians of the collective imagination.”

Sometimes my mind spins like an unhinged carnival ride. This pocket practice brings me back to Earth. #thanksgiving #writingflow #mindfulness

Fascinating TEDx Talk by Andrew Holecek about Dark Retreat. #tedx #darkretreat #andrewholecek #tedxboulder

I’ll be reading from my novel Dawnland at East End Books in the Boston Seaport this Saturday 1018 at 6pm alongside @hickswriter.bsky.social author of The Gospel According to Danny. Come for stories, conversation, and a bit of magic by the water! #bostonreads #authorreading

Honored to interview Dr. Suzanne Mettler about Rural vs. Urban, co-written Trevor Brown. @princetonupress.bsky.social The book unpacks the current threat to democracy and how it can be repaired. A must-read for the moment at hand.

I'm so happy to have "conversed" with the incomparable @tesscallahan.bsky.social in her Substack, "Writers at the Well" -- Tess is warm, welcoming, and asks deep, thought-provoking, soul-searching questions ❣️ Carrie Birde on Writing from the "Bright Wood" Within open.substack.com/pub/tesscall...

Happy #PubDay, Paula Saunders! STARTING FROM HERE is out today from #penguinrandomhouse . In our interview, Saunders shares her experience of writing to illuminate her past. In addition to this podcast, her written interview is available on my Substack, “Writers at the Well.” Enjoy! #books

For me, meditation is a way to access a more intimate, grounded, present experience of this wild ride we call life. These meditations draw from my 2-year training with Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield, and others. Free on Apple, Spotify, and Insight Timer. #meditation www.buzzsprout.com/1998903/achi...

I hope you enjoy as much as I did my interview with @agnimagazine.bsky.social & @arrowsmithpress.bsky.social editor/author Askold Melnyczuk on The Venus of Odesa, now out from MadHat Press. #ukrainewriter #ukraine #poetry #odesa

Happy Pub Day, Holly Kennedy! Her new novel, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, is a sensitive, cross-genre story about a 30-year old neurodivergent man who, in the process of fighting a murder charge, discovers unexpected truths about himself, his family, and the world. It's a beautiful read.

Novelist Brooke Lea Foster on the narratives we create in life and on the page. #books #authorinterview