Some things are worth the wait. Happy to see THE SLIP is a @nytimes.com Editors’ Choice this week 🥊🙏

In @nytimes.com, Anthony Marra calls THE SLIP “immensely rewarding” and says “you’re unlikely to read a more impressive first novel this year.” 🙏🥊

Reminder: If you use generative AI for *any of your writing tasks* you are a Slopper not a writer and should be ashamed of yourself. The end.

little fall writing pep talk if you need one ❤️https://1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/dont-mind-me-im-just-chasing-the

Fuck I love getting organized on a Sunday night.

Hey, it's my two hundred cents on Thanksgiving Poboys. gardenandgun.com/articles/tur...

Happy birthday Helen Garner. Am reading How to End A Story: Collected Diaries, 1978-1998, which just won the Baillie Gifford Prize, and it’s like a map for writing

I loved this book, if you're free tomorrow night in Boston!

BRUH!!!

so happy for y'all!!!

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

Karen and I both put out our first books in 2006 so we have much to discuss about the last two decades of being an author and publishing in general

NYC online content btwn marathon and mayor's race absolutely incredible the last few days. What is television. What is cinema. We only need NYC instagrammers leaving their house.

You guys I get to talk to the one and only KAREN RUSSELL tonight at Tulane. Details here, you don't want to miss this. events.tulane.edu/content/kare...

I really want this for you all so bad

Got waxed today and while she tidied up my bikini line my aesthetician and I shared resources on where to donate to food banks because SNAP funding is set to lapse GOD BLESS AMERICA

Yesterday I went and visited the annual Scholastic Book Fair sponsored by #1000wordsofsummer here in NOLA. Free books for the whole school. Click through for good vibes. <3 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/this-years...

How to get food and where to donate in New Orleans as SNAP recipients face uncertainty www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

NOLA I am having a paperback launch for my book at Other Plans Gallery this Thursday October 30 at 6 PM. Come see art and drink wine and chit-chat and wish me a happy early birthday!

This has happened quickly - There's an emergency council meeting this morning — then Moreno and Morrell will book it to Baton Rouge for the state’s Financial Review Committee.

For @forward.com, I wrote about something that has been bothering me: Why does all the talk about Jewish safety in the New York mayoral election not count sexual harassment as a threat to Jewish safety and dignity? forward.com/opinion/7791...

NOLA I am having a paperback launch for my book at Other Plans Gallery this Thursday October 30 at 6 PM. Come see art and drink wine and chit-chat and wish me a happy early birthday!

On my birthday week I wrote a little bit about reclaiming the word "authenticity" for myself 1000wordsofsummer.substack.com/p/on-express...

Hard times spreading just like the flu / Watch out homeboy don’t let it catch you

Of everything Vince Gilligan said in our interview, I think this is my favorite bit:

Huge thanks to October’s mesmerizing Franklin Park Reading Series stars @jamiattenberg.bsky.social @jasondiamond.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social Lauren Morrow & Nikkitha Bakshani and lots of ❤️ to our amazing audience!🗓️Next event is November 10!

Louisiana House unanimously passes resolution to fund SNAP benefits during federal shutdown www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Not that I'd expect her to do this, but it is still nuts that the mayor of New Orleans is checked out so completely she hasn't said a word about the financial crisis she's leaving us in. though i am confident she'll make sure her paychecks go out on time the next two and a half months

It's Scorpio Season bitches!!!

It’s hard to convey just how much Chicagoans are mobilizing against ICE. Don’t want to downplay the harm, or make it seem like a fair fight. But in neighborhoods across this city, ICE is getting chased by people blowing whistles and shouting. People are running TOWARD ICE to protect their neighbors.

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

I spend a year plotting a mystery novel and then this happens.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

“The three gas plants that’ll power Meta’s AI data center in Louisiana are built to operate for 30 years. By the time the plants are retired, most of Miami-Dade County will already be submerged by rising seas.”

Morning thought about last night’s debate: it’s astonishing how much Cuomo radiates that he doesn’t actually like NYC. Like he’s being forced to drag himself here and run for mayor.

I haven't lived in New York in 9 years and I still enjoyed the hell out of that debate

"Anurima, who has cycled through the same humiliations as many others, put it this way: '...If more of us stop accepting bad terms, we might see the strength we actually have, instead of being pitted against each other.'" Sarah Thankam Mathews does such a great job here - inc scale/big-picture.

Hot take! You definitely don’t need AI to be good at writing. @kristenarnett.bsky.social weighs in on this and other literary quandaries.

i think they should make the giant halloween yard skeletons taller. i don't think they're tall enough yet. they should make them taller & taller & taller, until they reach the moon & i can climb up on one & get the hell off this accurséd place

“When Teresa first arrived, about a year back, she’d tried to smuggle in cocaine stuffed inside a ball of knitting yarn.” Read from @delaneynolan.bsky.social’s new novel, Happy Bad.

NOLA do not miss this!

Plotting another backyard book party at my house for next spring with Lauren Groff 👀

I have listened to several podcasts lately where rich and famous people say they don't ever get on social media or even that they only have flip phones and then they say, "But I have an assistant."

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

If you're in New Orleans I'll be interviewing @delaneynolan.bsky.social about her wonderful debut novel, Happy Bad, tonight at Garden District Books.

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

ONE WEEK AWAY—MONDAY, OCTOBER 20: We pushed this month’s reading off a week to the Third Monday, an exception to our usual Second Monday schedule. Can’t wait to host @jamiattenberg.bsky.social @jasondiamond.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social @karissachen.bsky.social Lauren Morrow & Nikkitha Bakshani!

left a hideous little malformed cub in the bookstore at o’hare

I could keep reading about Diane Keaton for months