My news of the day cc: @littlebrown.bsky.social @vivianlee.bsky.social

I'm hiring for an editorial assistant here at L,B! If you're someone who is interested in literary fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoirs, and nonfiction that deals with big ideas, please apply here: jobs.jobvite.com/careers/hach...

Broken Social Scene/Stars/Metric are touring and it's STANDING ROOM ONLY? WHY!??!

I just don't think it's right that millennial-coded bands doing reunion/anniversary shows play venues that are standing-room only

One of the biggest perks of moving away from Spotify is that I can finally walk around the city listening to Joanna Newsom again!!!!

The reason why I have not voted yet is because I am waiting until tomorrow so I can get the Halloween "I Voted" sticker because I am a collector!!!

If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I will make friends and enemies at the YMCA pool

Congrats to all the finalists but especially LONELY CROWDS! www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/awar...

Read my latest interview with Katie Raissian, over at @pw.org now!

Netflix's algo says that "Because you watched Y Tu Mama Tambien" and then recommended...Squid Game

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Do you live in or near the Hudson Valley/NYC (or traveling-distance therefrom) and have a book coming out this fall? Do you want to read from it at a bookstore reading series? Hit me up if you do! (Will not be able to reply to every request, be forewarned)

“I always think I have an idea of what I’m looking for, and then something surprises me,” says literary agent Nicole Aragi (of @aragiauthors.bsky.social) in our latest issue. “It really comes down to what grabs me.” Read more of her interview, led by editor @vivianlee.bsky.social: at.pw.org/AEAragi

Congratulations to Kristen Kish and the L,B team for making ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE a New York Times Bestseller! If you haven't picked up your copy yet, buy it now at your local bookstore! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist...

The Yukon Gold potato pizza at Five Points on Great Jones St. 😭😭😭

Our first star for Jeremy Atherton Lin and DEEP HOUSE, over at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, calling it "stylish, sexy, and deeply moving...blend[ing] beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect." www.publishersweekly.com/9780316545792

I'm still catching up with The Pitt and ofc, everyone admires how medically accurate this show is but why is no one talking about how Pittfest makes no sense? Middle of the workweek, during the day? Audience is ravers, suburban moms, Dead Head boomer hippies?

I have new work up today, about women, food, and the stories we tell, in Electric Literature. Check it out here! electricliterature.com/7-books-abou...

Sending this to anyone I know who is using/posting the Ghibli-AI:

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

“I always tell writers to find their people and to build a community they trust.“ Read more from Vivian Lee, senior editor at Little, Brown, on how a writing community can sustain a writing life: at.pw.org/AERVivianLee

I'm in this week's @pw.org recommending...community! www.pw.org/agents_edito...

The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

Losing by one point in a friend’s Oscar pool to someone who used ChatGPT to win…May this person never know peace!!!!!

A slew of reviews just came in for WASTE WARS by Alexander Clapp! The first is from @washingtonpost.com, which calls Alex "a lively writer," which "deftly combines history and global economics with stories of real people and tangible details of modern life." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Alex Clapp goes long in @theguardian.com today thanks to an edited excerpt of WASTE WARS: www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

"We ship our waste to the other side of the planet not only because we produce far too much of it but also because we insist on an environment exorcised of our own material footprints...Rare is the trash that becomes anyone’s treasure." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/o...

New Yorkers, I want to see you on 3/25! I’ll be talking with the incredible André Mack at Greenlight Bookstore, with wine reception to follow. RSVP below! www.greenlightbookstore.com/event/hannah...

And some happy news when I was on vacation: CELLAR RAT by @hannahselinger.bsky.social is a Most Anticipated Nonfiction over at @wmagazine.com.web.brid.gy! www.wmagazine.com/culture/best...?

Recycling is a feel-good activity, but lately I’ve been learning what really happens after it leaves the curb and it’s not pretty…

Grateful to Harpers for this insightful and comprehensive review of WASTE WARS by Alexander Clapp, out later this month! harpers.org/archive/2025...

Thinking about how if some tiktok person tried to film me to give them a fit check, 90% of the time, it’ll be head-to-toe Uniqlo

I am so excited to be working with Hannah on another book, this time a novel!! You’re not going to want to miss this!!

I made focaccia because I was craving focaccia

does anyone remember how to log into my work laptop

San Marino, CA (2023) Pentax on Gold

thanks elle for naming my book one of the best nonfiction 2024 www.elle.com/culture/book...

That's a wrap on 2024! I am forever grateful for such talented, thoughtful, smart, and kind authors (& agents!) who make my job such a joy. Grateful, too, to my L,B colleagues who publicized, marketed, designed, and produced the hell out of these books. Thank you all for trusting me with your work!

Early reviews are starting to trickle in for WASTE WARS by Alexander Clapp! This one from PW calls it a "rollicking deep dive into the absurdities and intricacies of the global trash trade" and a "stirring and dogged investigation." www.publishersweekly.com/9780316459020

The Bronx, New York (2024) Pentax on Portra

Unless I’m mistaken, @nytimes.com has not deigned to cover this manhattan murder at all. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I have gone back to how I used to watch movies “on demand”: borrowing them from the library

Youngmi Mayer's Grub Street Diet! One of my favorite ones???? www.grubstreet.com/article/youn...?

Long Beach Island, New Jersey (2024) Pentax on Portra

What happens when you work in a career that doesn't love you back? @hannahselinger.bsky.social has written a tender and no-holds-barred memoir about working in fine dining and I am so excited to be publishing this book next March! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/hanna...

just kind of thinking about the fact the nyt sent a breaking news alert when a college kid said something dumb about Zionists but not when Amnesty International said it had determined that Israel is committing genocide

New Orleans, Louisiana (2023) Pentax on Gold

I'M LAUGHING BECAUSE I'M CRYING is an @npr.org book of the day :) www.npr.org/2024/12/02/1...