This is fine thing indeed from @jfkane.bsky.social a must for Penelope Fitzgerald fans and any shambolic fond of cocktails and adventure who dreams of an unexpected bequest. Why it hasn't been UK published yet is a mystery. amzn.eu/d/0hrO50CL

Can't do better on the subject than the great Ruth Franklin!

If hostilities repeatedly “flare,” there is no “truce.“ Why can’t the @nytimes.com understand this?

What John said. And not a cozy one. This mystery has broken my heart.

Well done, England! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 #worldcup

RIP David Hockney. His work inspired my first piece for @mcsweeneys.net circa 2001.

RIP David Hockney. His work inspired my first piece for @mcsweeneys.net circa 2001.

RIP David Hockney.

“the president was loudly booed in the countrys most populous city we traveled to this small town in south dakota to find out why”

I haven‘t posted about arbotchery in a while, but this poor specimen caught my eye.

SURPRISE!! New cover.

SURPRISE!! New cover.

I love a Taffy Brodesser-Akner profile and I always will.

Has it ever, in the history of opinionated women, been a welcome tactic for a man she doesn’t know to come into her mentions to tell her to moderate her tone? Has this ever once worked out the way the condescending man has envisioned?

Respect for the Gaelic word for bakery.

The first show I ever saw on Broadway was CATS and I hated it so much.

Have been traveling with this guy for over three decades and he’s the best.

It’s actually so funny to see Helen of Troy upset thousands of angry men in 2026 in the exact same way she did back in antiquity.

Have been traveling with this guy for over three decades and he’s the best.

About that Guardian list: ”No Angela Carter, PENELOPE FITZGERALD or Iris Murdoch. But this is bearable because…” No it’s not. #Booksky

About that Guardian list: ”No Angela Carter, PENELOPE FITZGERALD or Iris Murdoch. But this is bearable because…” No it’s not. #Booksky

Just home playing with my six genders dolls, aka the Super Friends set I had when I was a kid.

Thinking of keeping BlueSky as my only social media.

Thinking of keeping BlueSky as my only social media.

Jessica Francis Kane recrea un episodi desconegut per fer un retrat de l'escriptora britànica. Per Sílvia Marimon

Scotland is wooing me.

Accountability partner.

I think the title of my memoir is going to be: Reshape Whilst Damp

Penguin Press has redesigned the cover for the paperback release of FONSECA this summer and it is so great! Can't wait to share it soon.

Penguin Press has redesigned the cover for the paperback release of FONSECA this summer and it is so great! Can't wait to share it soon.

In Jan NPR included SHE'S UNDER HERE in a list of books they love for book clubs (also filed under "seriously great writing"). Visiting readers has been a joy, and I just want to remind groups looking for their next book that I'm available via Zoom to talk to your members. tinyurl.com/5br2zafu

I wrote a story for the Significant Objects project (thanks @angermonsoon.bsky.social for the invite!). You can bid on this singular shark and the story I wrote to go with it here (proceeds go to a Tucson no-kill cat shelter): www.ebay.com/itm/26764991...

Desk for the month, northern Scotland.

May “I’m not a basket case” haunt him the way “I’m not a crook“ did Nixon.

On a writing retreat to work on co-writing my first screenplay and having the time of my life.

On a writing retreat to work on co-writing my first screenplay and having the time of my life.

The smaller the piece of paper the better. Index cards or notepads or tiny notebooks work for me.

JD Vance, taking a break from lecturing the Pope about Catholicism, tries to tell @bcdreyer.social how to use a semicolon.

Don’t know where this came from. It’s been on the kitchen chalkboard since the pandemic. Still endlessly useful.

To be real: I achieved none of these today.

I’m sad that Helen DeWitt felt so broken by the publicity demands that she declined the Windham-Campbell prizes. If you think reading the whole thing is a little exhausting, imagine being the one with the spinning brain obsessing about it. paperpools.blogspot.com/2026/04/we-l...

Don’t know where this came from. It’s been on the kitchen chalkboard since the pandemic. Still endlessly useful.

A rare thread from me. The incredible Isabel Coixet is the only filmmaker who has adapted a Penelope Fitzgerald novel for the screen (“The Bookshop,” 2017, starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, and Patricia Clarkson) and so I sought her out when she was teaching at NYU last semester.

Go Michigan!

And while I'm Blueskying, here's a hot take: Penelope Fitzgerald > Beryl Bainbridge

Also? I grew up in Ann Arbor and the last time Michigan won the NCAA championship was the year I graduated from high school. 1989! Go Blue! 💙💛

Also? I grew up in Ann Arbor and the last time Michigan won the NCAA championship was the year I graduated from high school. 1989! Go Blue! 💙💛

And while I'm Blueskying, here's a hot take: Penelope Fitzgerald > Beryl Bainbridge