should I come back to this app

imagine being stuck in space w katy perry

every book is like, what if the CLIMATE could HAVE SEX

reposting with alt text and full text of Mahmoud Khalil's letter is available here, from @ccrjustice.org ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

book drops 3/18 and i have a fucking fantastic tour planned - will announce soon - but there is still time to get a preorder that’s signed and personalized by me from the good folks at the lynx thelynxbooks.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

Do I have friends (friends of friends?) in Indianapolis? I’ll be reading at Butler tomorrow, free and open to the public 💗 www.butler.edu/arts-science...

everything else aside, the *looks* of Milkshake 👩🏻‍🍳🤌🏽

My wife doesn’t know what happens in Part II of Wicked. Just sang a little “For Good” as a teaser and she stared, mouth open, then burst out crying.

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

hau’oli makahiki hou 💗 grateful to be home

This is correct. This is a land acknowledgment that I don’t hate. It acknowledges the facts and gives a chance to learn more and is doing something, anything, about it.

in the spirit of xmas I have been reborn after the worst food poisoning in history

Day 14. Some will only talk about Brokeback Mountain (a miracle of a story) but every story in here is gothic, surreal, otherworldly, sometimes campy. I’ve read this book a million times. Listening to it on audio while driving through Wyoming while in love, top experience

Day 13. Not a day goes by where I don’t think about Heather Lewis. I wish she were still alive and still writing books. Her characters suffer so tremendously but they’re still alive, full of agency, sensuality, wanting. Fewer ppl have had greater impact on me, though I never met HL

finally watched The Substance. It is Death Becomes Her meets Severance, no?

this page of canned phrasing from @mdbell79.bsky.social’s Refuse to be Done is always so appreciated and always feels like an attack. Choose your fighter

Day 12. Can’t and won’t choose—both biblical to me

made “melting potatoes” tonight for the first time and holy shit, it’s creme brûlée but potato

update: she liked it. headlining note: “I strongly suggest you introduce even one ‘good’ guy.”

I feel it’s my duty to remind people once a year that Keanu Reeves is Hawaiian, an indigenous king, one of us, we claim.

Day 11. Perfect tragic episodic structure

I did as much as I could to write about Palestine this year, including this piece on how Palestinian restaurants were embracing Palestinian--rather than Middle Eastern or some other phrase--as an identity www.eater.com/24062558/pal...

December's always a heavy month for me; anniversaries live heavy in the body. Here's maybe the hardest thing I ever wrote, still sharp but also a balm to revisit many years later: www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/263...

This story is horrible and heartbreaking but oh my joy at imagining Haenel shouting “SHUT UP” in a courtroom the way I have always wanted to do in a courtroom. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I’ve just been informed that “only old people talk about box springs,” as I was going off about needing a new box spring again.

Day 10. I don’t care if it was fake, this book rocked my world. When I recently read an excerpt aloud Hannah was like “oh…. that is still your syntax”

It’s @kristenarnett.bsky.social’s birthday so why not revisit the time we put this hat on Honky Tonk to record a birthday music video for Kristen 🎉🎂🎊🍻 HBD DAD!!!

My wife is a genius, the most hawk eyed, incisive, brilliant editor I know. However she is reading my novel right now, editorially, and I’m wondering if we’ll make it to Christmas.

Day 9 🥕🍲

Day 8. Ai forever

internet humor in 2014: No you don't understand, those are my emotional support 400 open tabs! internet humor in 2024: i am going to carpet bomb the ceo of kaiser permanente

That woman on TV calling Hawaiian a “dead language” brah, I almost feel bad for her, like does she know the kine things she’s summoning???

Dark Night of the Soul but it’s your book revision

Day 7. My favorite book of all times, without contest.

Day 6! Grace! Whose birthday was yesterday

There’s a lot of important journalism in the Atlantic article; some content that made me cry, some that enrages. But I’m glad they outline the below for ppl who don’t know or refuse to know; “Supporting local” on a Hawaiian vacation is not helping us Kanaka (Hawaiians). It is feeding billionaires

Huge props to @theatlantic.com for posting this story in both ‘ōlelo Hawaii and English. #🌺news, #kanakasky apple.news/AMgPd6-PcQh2...

Day 5. The book that made me want to be a writer.

"I don't think I'm allowed to kill something because I am frightened." —Nikki Giovanni 💔 #poem #poems #poetry

displaced indigenous life/identity is a trip. I’m honoring makahiki lono season (the god & rain of my people & kūpuna) meanwhile out my Massachusetts window it’s snow studded w dog shit.

Day 4. The way other people feel about The Secret History is the way I feel about Geek Love.

just cried for 2 hours straight thanks to Moana 2

Writing in omniscience and phew it is FREEING it is PURE DELIGHT. You can stage a conversation and tell a reader not only what both parties are thinking but also :digression: the plant between them has not been watered lately & here’s why

Day 3. Animorphs series by K.A. Applegate. Peak drama and delight growing up. + All my books are lowkey in response to Applegate’s theories of ongoing inner-wars after the literal war ends

it’s my last week of the semester and book deadline week and I’m on the job market. Can someone give me a cookie

Day 2. Changed my perspective on fiction entirely, and remains the source of my eye rolling at moralizing (+ convos of “likability”) in fiction

this morning, warm from bed, I got to watch one donkey bite the halter of the other donkey, latch on for dear life, while my freezing wife wrestled to dislodge them. 10/10

I think one of the most surprising parts of aging for me is the shift from trying to prove myself worthy to the peaceful delight in being underestimated. the latter is ultimately the power move

Fine I’m gonna play the “20 books” thing. My constraint is they’re not necessarily my ‘favorite’ 20, but 20 books that changed my life in a profound way

Listen I haven’t had a book come out in six years but these BEST OF end of year lists are still spiking my BP & making me nauseous. Take care of yourselves!!!!