The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The thing I always come back to is how many people never despaired against longer odds, and how arrogant it would be to put myself above them.

I’m an American and I hate all of this evil shit. All of it. Fuck you if you don’t.

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan."

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

I’m going to scream. Some of y’all are so thirsty for scoops, you will share and double down on life altering misinformation. This is not the time.

We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions

slept 12 hours with a mild cold and just opened the internet and uhhhhhhhhhh

Happy New Year, writer friends. May this year bring you that phone call and/or email you’ve been waiting for. Let’s get that yes. ❤️

“It’s like you’re sitting inside the four walls of your home, and someone is victimizing your child in the next room." A rising number of children are using AI companions regularly. Here's the story of one 11-year-old girl's experience with a generative AI chatbot. Gift link: wapo.st/4scolDU

That man knows that at the hour of his death, nobody—not even his flunkies and yes-men—will truly mourn him. When HE departs this earth, it will be as a festering, murderous burden that has finally, finally been lifted. His cruel little posts won’t make him less miserable.

My best books of 2025 are Bad Company by @greenwell.bsky.social and Flashlight by Susan Choi! www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

After the tenth of these emails I got Mad Enough to Blog it. Thanks to @electricliterature.com and @thedennemichele.bsky.social, and all the authors who shared their own scam emails.

Idiocy. Bigotry. Cruelty.

this writer learned about the Turners from my book, 'A Physical Education.' Fun fact about APE is that I can tell which reviewers actually read it based on whether they got to this part or not, and let me tell you a hell of a lot of them conclude "cute story of a little girl who learns to exercise"

Got my first pass pages!!! It’s coming!

i just learned that my piece, Collagen sits on a throne of lies, was picked as a notable selection in Best American Science and Nature writing 2025! my haters are blue in the face to see a humble blog receive among the highest honors a science piece can get! www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

*very excited* to talk with @sorayachemaly.bsky.social on substack live about her latest book, "all we want is everything: how we dismantle male supremacy." join us wednesday @ 2pm pt/5pm! subscribe to get notified when we go live: carmenriosss.substack.com

Sourcebooks is the fifth-largest trade publisher as measured by print books sold, breaking the dominance of the biggest conglomerates for the first time since Bookscan started> lunch.publishersmarketplace.com/2025/11/sour...

SO proud and thrilled to see @greenwell.bsky.social's BAD COMPANY on Kirkus's Best Nonfiction of 2025!! www.kirkusreviews.com/best-of/2025...

Out now

Me reading the emails.

Love to be ahead of a trend. www.vogue.com/article/ches...

i am saddled with the thought of how different our world would be if we believed women.

how often do you think summers has made that "50% of the world's IQ / haha they are 51% of the population" joke? In how many rooms with people who laughed, or at least smiled politely, and kept coming to him for advice, jobs, quotes, influence?

How dare you imply that our friendship was based on leering at teenage girls, it was based on sorting races into C, B, A and S tiers

It was cathartic AF

I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct. I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo. What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.

Still thinking about the way the moon looked last night.

We’re firmly entering “passing on stuff at the end of the year that’s been in inboxes for months” season and friends, don’t let it get you down. It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling. Keep going.

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

this is genuinely wild

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen

The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building. Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

Well, this fucking blows

I like this suggestion from @annasplat.bsky.social a lot! neonliterary.substack.com/p/publishing...

I cannot effing wait to read this, @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter, free to everyone, on what is wrong with you people: open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

“I’m not capable of homicide,” I say, but then I watch people zoom up the shoulder and shove in to cut in a traffic jam

::dramatic sigh:: no, it's more complicated than that. (And honestly--more hopeful for authors) substack.com/home/post/p-...

So is anyone organizing a “line the highways to Quantico with signs that say REMEMBER YOUR OATH” get together next week or

This is one of those "incoming frenzy" moments of transition in the literary agent profession. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again

Tell me why my brain registers no fear at the prospect of climbing 1000+ feet, but the flatness of the surrounding landscape scares the shit out of me. I am not kidding!! IT’S TOO FLAT AAAAH

elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)

every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government