Q: Where are leaf blowers most commonly used? A: In leaf-dense areas directly outside your bedroom window.

Signed copies at Three Lives and @strandbookstore.bsky.social! (Three Lives sold through the whole first batch 🥹)

A Penelope Fitzgerald binge is always a good idea.

“Reading a Penelope Fitzgerald novel is like being taken for a ride in a peculiar kind of car. Everything is of top quality—the engine, the coachwork [...] Then, after a mile or so, someone throws the steering-wheel out of the window.” @theamscho.bsky.social theamericanscholar.org/the-patient-...

From @shelf-awareness.com my review of @jfkane.bsky.social's vividly imagined novel FONSECA about an episode in the life of British writer Penelope Fitzgerald: www.shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/202... @penguinpress.bsky.social

"Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.” ― Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower A wonderful novel. "The story begins hilariously, amid flurries of underwear and bedsheets on washday." #photography #literature

Recent purchase. The Penelope Fitzgerald story is an absolute banger.

As a Penelope Fitzgerald fan I had a blast reading @jfkane.bsky.social's absorbing novel, "Fonseca," which recreates a mysterious episode in the British writer's life. Here's my review for @bostonglobe.com, with thanks to @katekilla.bsky.social for her guidance. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/08/05/a...

ABC protest, New York City, September 18, 2025.

The fawning cowards at Disney and ABC who cancelled Jimmy Kimmel's show for the mildest bit of Trump satire should be named and shamed - and when this is all over be paraded down Hollywood's Walk of Fame as comedy fans throw custard pies at them.

Feels like it.

I found all the magazines.

Feels like it.

I found all the magazines.

There is a pew in my hotel room. Oh, New England. #booktour

The Christmas decorations are going to be terrifying this year, aren’t they?

I have never encountered a stranger reading one of my books out in the wild and I would really like to one day. #manifesting

Book tour glamour shot. See you tonight, Providence! Reading with a great group for the Cardigan Connection series.

I wonder how many times in my life I will have to learn the lesson that a good long walk cures a lot of ills.

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Last things from the garden.

#FridayReads It's a delight to experience the work of Penelope Fitzgerald with The Beginning of Spring after meeting a fictional version of the author in the pages of @jfkane.bsky.social's Fonseca!

This is so nice to hear! ❤️

NEW EPISODE: Novelist Jessica Francis Kane joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and @sugi.bsky.social to discuss her new novel Fonseca, which fictionalizes writer Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1952 trip to Mexico. @literaryhub.bsky.social #books #podcast lithub.com/jessica-fran...

Spotted in the front window of the New York Public Library New Amsterdam branch! Thanks, @nypl. I feel like a local author, which is not easy in a city of 8 million people. Thanks to libraries everywhere.

Spotted in the front window of the New York Public Library New Amsterdam branch! Thanks, @nypl. I feel like a local author, which is not easy in a city of 8 million people. Thanks to libraries everywhere.

This is going to be incredible. Get tickets now.

This is going to be incredible. Get tickets now.

Godzilla Defends Its Recent Attacks on Cities www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/god...

How did I miss that Jane Austen’s birthday is the day before Penelope Fitzgerald’s? December 16 and 17, respectively. And respectfully. #booksky

This happened last night and was a delight! Alice Elliott Dark asks the best questions (ask about her middle-of-the-book theory if you ever have the chance). Thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for hosting us and The Corner Bookstore for selling books. #booksky #penelopefitzgerald #fonseca

This happened last night and was a delight! Alice Elliott Dark asks the best questions (ask about her middle-of-the-book theory if you ever have the chance). Thanks to @nysoclib.bsky.social for hosting us and The Corner Bookstore for selling books. #booksky #penelopefitzgerald #fonseca

@john-self.bsky.social Here I am troubling you again, all because of your long ago tweet about Penelope Fitzgerald! But I thought you might be interested in this essay. FONSECA just came out in the US. Would love to know what you think!

I am not ready for pumpkins.

I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable

FONSECA luggage tags from @penguinpress.bsky.social. (Photo credit: a dear friend on her way to Spain) #booksky #penelopefitzgerald

I was thrilled to talk with Beth Golay of @npr.org’s “Marginalia” about FONSECA. #penelopefitzgerald #novel #historicalfiction #mexico

Say how old you are without saying a number: My outing this morning included a pharmacy, birdseed, and flowers.

Next bad writing day I’m going to stare at my laptop keys the way Rublev stared at the tennis balls after losing a set.

FONSECA is a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice 💫 #booksky #penelopefitzgerald #novel #historicalfiction #mexico

To read Helen Garner is to need to evangelize her. If you haven’t read this perfect short novel you’re in for SUCH a treat. #books #booksky

Next bad writing day I’m going to stare at my laptop keys the way Rublev stared at the tennis balls after losing a set.

I was thrilled to talk with Beth Golay of @npr.org’s “Marginalia” about FONSECA. #penelopefitzgerald #novel #historicalfiction #mexico

Not sure I believe the algorithm but I’ll take it

#TheBookshop #PenelopeFitzgerald “It doesn't seem to fit at all at the back.” “It'll come to you as you wear it,”the dressmaker replied firmly. “Are you sure?” asked Florence. The fitting seemed to be turning into a conspiracy to prevent anyone noticing her new dress at all! #booksky #TheWriteWomen

This is an essay about all the coincidences that seemed to propel the writing of FONSECA. There were really so many. #Booksky #penelopefitzgerald

Not sure I believe the algorithm but I’ll take it

Hooray!

#FridayReads I just finished Fonseca by @jfkane.bsky.social, and it was a joy to read! The story of a strange adventure in the life of a writer, and that writer happens to be the real author Penelope Fitzgerald.