I’m not a mom, but I’ve noticed that “wine mom” and “Patagonia wearing mom” and “moms pushing strollers” are cited as people who aren’t expected to take political action, or even to hold strong opinions. You all had moms, why do you think so little of her? Because she made you eat veggies? Grow up.

Colson Whitehead concludes his Harlem Trilogy with a transcendent and wildly entertaining novel in which his recurring characters grapple with the ways their lives are defined by crime and the city they call home. It’s the greatest New York novel in years. @doubledaybooks.bsky.social

Just two Fridays left.

Preorder campaign! 🍎 Preorder AMERICAN RAMBLER: Walking the Trail of Johnny Appleseed by @isaacfitzgerald.bsky.social to receive two signed prints, created by artist @stevendraws.bsky.social. You can also get your book signed and personalized! Details & ordering: buff.ly/4F7sdgL

AI is the deadly whisper of capital interests that betrays the working class in order to destroy it from within, and it couldn't be more simple than that.

Seeing people say AI is a tool that helps "working class people become writers" and its such bullshit. The process of learning and skill sharpening is labour, and its telling that there is work to be glamorized (being perceived as a Writer) and labour beneath people (learning to write)

Mercury Retrograde was a real bitch but she hath *released* me

One of our new initiatives at The Rumpus is a Spanish language section, El Alboroto, where we publish original Spanish prose and poetry. If you write in Spanish or know people who do, please send them here to read our guidelines and submit their work. therumpus.submittable.com/submit/35215...

Now it's official. THE TERROR: DEVIL IN SILVER is coming to you. I can't begin to express how proud I am of the show we made. It's a story of systematic evil, unjust imprisonment, abuse & the need for ALL to fight together to beat the devils who prey on us. Get ready!

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and I just want to share a positive vibe with you and then I write you a letter like this. 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/the-strong...

I freed myself from all notifications a few years ago (I only get phone calls) and became much calmer.

I've never ever had notifications on my phone (outside of texts and calls). This is the way.

Here is a cool thing I am doing in Atlanta on April 30 with @matthewshaer.bsky.social, come see us and say hi www.freshtix.com/events/1000w...

Let’s help this guy graduate

i contributed a new installment to the “AFFORDING NEW YORK” series: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"Spend time with people who seem glad to see you." This is actually a life philosophy @kristenarnett.bsky.social lithub.com/am-i-the-ass...

"Spend time with people who seem glad to see you." This is actually a life philosophy @kristenarnett.bsky.social lithub.com/am-i-the-ass...

On my way to NOLA. Come see me in conversation with Imani Perry, tomorrow at 1 as part of the NOLA Book Festival.

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻Tomorrow is become TODAY 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Teaching a new workshop on May 9 to get people revved up to write for this year's #1000wordsofsummer (and forever) www.jamiattenberg.com/workshops

*taps internet microphone* After months of work, a project i've been coordinating for @literaryhub.bsky.social in conjunction with @maris.bsky.social is now live ... We've commissioned 13 reviews of books by LGBTQ folks not covered by the NYTBR under Pamela Paul ... lithub.com/what-was-los...

I have a column at @thecut.com now where I’ll be writing about fatherhood, and I figured I’d kick it off by talking about how I decided to start taking Zepbound because I want to do everything possible to be able to annoy my daughter for at least another 50 years. www.thecut.com/article/figu...

"PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World" is OUT NOW! The wildest movie deep dive you've ever read + a memoir of how the film changed my life (and how *any* art can change yours). 45 years in the making! 🩷🧟‍♀️🩷🧟‍♀️🩷 www.danielkraus.com/books/partia...

It's all so clear

Guys all I'm going to say is everyone should just be nice to Judy Blume. She's the best.

This has nothing to do with anything in particular but I want these www.reellejewelry.com/product/doub...

Last year, I took part in a pilot writing residency at The Dock in Leitrim, working on a book I kept calling my "tiny weird non-fiction project". This short residency is now being rolled out and seeking applications. Honoured they used the title. Apply/spread the word. www.thedock.ie/artists/open...

hell yeah becca rothfeld afeteworsethandeath.substack.com/p/you-dont-h...

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

My next book doesn't come out till 2027 and on the one hand I wish it were sooner so I could get paid sooner and on the other hand I am looking at this as an opportunity to completely disassociate from whatever is happening in the publishing industry for another year

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Just need to note on here that New Orleans writer Addie Citchens is a finalist for the Pen/Faulkner and longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction this year for her wonderful novel DOMINION cc @nolanews.bsky.social

I'm very sorry to say I'll be everywhere at AWP Baltimore this week 😅

Next week, STAG DANCE, will be issued with 100% less cardboard and half price. It's a new thing I'm trying, which I've been calling "paperback." Here's a little graphic I had whipped up to trial the idea.

because I keep forgetting to mention it: LITERALLY ANYONE can nominate books for this prize! yes! that means you! you have until march 31st!

I've just invoiced for payment on my 50th column for Lit Hub. I've basically written enough for a whole book whose title could be something like The Books Are Still Good But the Industry Is Bonkers. Here's some of my stuff: lithub.com/author/maris...

this summer I'm teaching at the Southampton Writers Conference (workshop in the mornings, cooking yourself on the beach in the afternoon, rinse, repeat). Scholarship deadline is March 15th: www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/writ...

I think we got 5 tickets left for the Lauren Groff event this weekend in my backyard if you haven't gotten one yet @legroff.bsky.social bluecypressbooks.com/event/Lauren...

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

I put a giveaway clothes pile in front of my house during a spring cleaning session and my next door neighbor told me she took it to a friend who is going through a body transition and they were so happy to have the clothes and I am so happy now too <3

here's how things have been going lately. Thanks @mcsweeneys.net and Amanda Uhle and Rita Bullwinkel for giving me a chance to think out loud a little

So glad someone wrote about these literary email scams www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/b...

We are a few thousand subscribers away from being a bigger print newspaper than the Washington Post. We are a mere flurry away from humiliating one of the two Big Space Perverts. Ask not how a Space Pervert can dominate you. Ask how you can dominate a Space Pervert. Subscribe below.

Literary superstar @legroff.bsky.social will be reading in my backyard on March 7. If you would like to meet a master craftsperson working at her peak form, I suggest you come. Tickets include the book and support of our brilliant opening act Sabine McCalla. bluecypressbooks.com/product/laur...

"The funniest thing that happened that day in the waiting room involved an older woman and her copy of Donna Tartt’s celebrated and award-winning novel The Goldfinch." 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/the-things...

"The funniest thing that happened that day in the waiting room involved an older woman and her copy of Donna Tartt’s celebrated and award-winning novel The Goldfinch." 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/the-things...

I wrote the cover story for the new issue of @gambitweekly.bsky.social — According to a class action lawsuit, the state of the healthcare at Angola penitentiary has led to inmates’ disfigurement, exacerbation of ailments, and even death. I unpacked how things got the way they are!

Literary superstar @legroff.bsky.social will be reading in my backyard on March 7. If you would like to meet a master craftsperson working at her peak form, I suggest you come. Tickets include the book and support of our brilliant opening act Sabine McCalla. bluecypressbooks.com/product/laur...

wrote a bit about the magic of taking five minutes to be creative 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/five-minutes

This child is ready for Mardi Gras 💚💛💜⚜️