Me on group texts // in voice notes to all my besties

Movie night is back! We’re thrilled to return with Litquake for ZYZZYVA Movie Night with @ingridrojasc.bsky.social The first installment: @tkiramadden.bsky.social joins us to watch and discuss Alfred Hitchock’s Strangers on a Train. Tickets: tinyurl.com/4psr6py4

Revolutionary Road is one of the greatest horror novels ever written (also, one of the greatest novels). Will always f with Yates & not enough people do.

I think about that Secret Mall Apartment doc a lot

2018 first book me: always check your intentions while writing; write from a place of warmth, compassion, tectonic empathy 2026: my entire third book is an exercise in spite

I love to be so gay I can proudly brag that our wedding intro/outro song was Tracy Chapman (and Mazzy Star for first dance)

"What they don't tell you is this: to live without fear is lonesome." T Kira Māhealani Madden, Whidbey #SundaySentence

Profiled T Kira Madden for ELLE! Read not only for WHIDBEY BTS, but also for a true example of what committing to this writing life can look like—and how freaking fun it can be amidst all the hard work. www.elle.com/culture/book...

“I hope reading it feels like staring at the sun,” T Kira Māhealani Madden (@tkiramadden.bsky.social) says about her new novel, Whidbey, published by Mariner Books in March. “I want it to feel unbearable at times because I think that is truer to how life is…” Read more: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion

So thrilled @tkiramadden.bsky.social's new book is coming out! We are lucky to have her. Hamilton folks can go see her book talk next Thursday! www.harpercollins.com/products/whi...

761/700 💙📚🖋️📚 📖: Whidbey by T Kira Madden Genre: Contemporary, Literary Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5/5 Thoughts: A very difficult, yet necessary read. I appreciate the highlighting of white women speaking over women of color, even while both face other harm. Thank you Mariner books for the review copy. #booksky

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

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