New piece out in @southeastreview.bsky.social, all about egg babies! First fiction pub in…three years? www.southeastreview.org/single-post/...

Having recently realized almost all my photos from my Peace Corps service are lost--digital files on some vanished laptop--I'm all here for a return to building & saving our memories in the physical world

And don't forget cost thousands of hardworking people their jobs!

Philly folks, my writing group will be reading at THE Kelly Writers House (UPenn—3805 Locust Walk) on December 1st at 6:30PM. Come by! Register here: forms.gle/Ucui5WwCSek2...

Yet another reason to jump ship for FreeTaxUSA, if you haven’t already! www.freetaxusa.com

I did a zone 2 run and wow, that was possibly the most bored I’ve been in my life. Does it get less boring? Will it actually make me more efficient? I don’t know if I can handle doing this again.

I wrote this about THE GOOD PLACE finale, but I now realize it also sums up my revulsion about the basic anti-humanity of AI avatars of the dead:

Read your contracts, friends.

This might be weird to admit but every time I buy a $10 falafel over rice from the halal cart I have to revisit this review and my happy memories of the $5 falafel over rice (just SIX years ago! What a great economy) www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cav...

This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...

I will add: People who expected this teacher to be bummed do not know (good) teachers very well. A civics teacher? With a student who wants to run for office? That’s probably bliss.

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Honestly if I were Aaron and my glass mixing bowl broke while I was making cake batter and I learned they weren't going to give me extra time to remake it, I'd just say "OK you are all getting cake with glass in it." #GBBO

Wealth tax and a return to the 90% income tax tier for the highest earners, like we had from 1944 to 1963.

Don’t open the NYT this morning unless you want the results of Bake Off ruined right on the main screen. Arghghhghghghg!

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

All booked for AWP and currently 100% of my excitement is about visiting Baltimore’s aquarium. If it’s not on your AWP to-do list, add it! This aquarium is so good!!! aqua.org

They can't even turn a profit stealing every thought on Earth? They need corporate welfare, too?

Maybe one thing NYers can learn from Philly is how to pick and choose which outsiders' opinions of their city to ignore, which ones to mercilessly mock, and which to monetize via t-shirts

thank god

Looking for a writing class in January? It's the perfect time to set a resolution and follow it with a flash royale! Detail and sign up here:

Chloe’s classes are the best!!

Just realized there’s an even better way to do Halloween than the million pounds of candy stored in my basement

A mere 2.5 years after I applied for a job with the City of Philadelphia, they sent me a rejection. Almost as bad as ASF!

Wrote a bit about the history of deaf people in film for @pbs.org American Masters in honor of the new documentary about @marleematlin.bsky.social "Not Alone Anymore". Brava to Marlee and director Shoshannah Stern on a beautiful film. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

Update: she did it. SKY DADDY is so good. Giving me hope that the publishing industry is occasionally functional and can publish books that are actually good and funny and pushing boundaries!

Really need for people to stop bringing their dogs inside food establishments. (Just fled my neighborhood coffee shop after one woman brought in her dog and his incredible bark, immediately followed by a horse-sized dog that nosed me while I was trying to read.)

I finally started SKY DADDY by Kate Folk and this book is so wild, so much fun, I can’t imagine how Folk is going to land this plane (couldn’t help myself) and can’t wait to find out bookshop.org/p/books/sky-...

the best thing about SLM honestly is that our queue is so diverse in every way i can imagine, aesthetically and in terms of the experiences the writers bring. that is the legacy of a decade of diversity in our readers and editors, of paying contributors, and of having thoughtful communication.

Heartbreaking, disturbing, symbolic, utterly fucked up, stupid, unlawful, destructive, dangerous. Pick your adjective, they all apply.

This and, honestly, anytime you’re on the subway just put your bookbag on your front or over one shoulder so you know where it is and aren’t smacking people every time you move. And if a seat opens up you sit, doesn’t matter if you want to sit. Clear the aisles! My speech is done.

WAKE UP DEAD MAN is so good. So happy this franchise exists and I hope Rian Johnson keeps making mystery movies forever. youtu.be/eHM1K1JByBI?...

This is very good news for democracy. Thank you PENN, Brown, & MIT

Donated blood for the first time today! I thought I’d never be able to because I’d lived in mad cow countries. Then they lifted the ban and it took me 3 more years to get up the nerve to donate. Turns out it is very easy and I got a cookie out of it!

“Let me say clearly that these are metaphors for the uterus. As is the ocean, or the Slurpee machine in the 7-11, which would empty, then replenish itself in a cycle that seemed infinite back then.” @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social in @splitlipthemag.bsky.social splitlipthemag.com/flash/1025/l...

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We've opened submissions for a special online issue of @barrelhouse.bsky.social. The Dirty Issue will be edited and produced by my students at Temple University. Send us your fiction, poems, art. More details on what we're looking for here, on Submittable:

Sit back and enjoy our OCTOBER ISSUE. 🎃 🍂 WORDS by @lynnebeckenstein.bsky.social, Priyanka Champaneri, @monmita.bsky.social, & Mingyu Brian Chan. ART by Jean Shon. PLUS Nicole Zhao interviews @cherrylousy.bsky.social. buff.ly/B6xgDQJ

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 can see Kelly Reichardt’s THE MASTERMIND in a theater, totally recommend. Such a fun score, beautiful muted visuals, some great slapstick moments, end that surprised me and was exactly what the character deserved.

Recipe: 15 minutes to caramelize these onions Me: Ok, one hour Onions, 75 minutes later: hee hee hee

Just finished Jeff Hiller’s ACTRESS OF A CERTAIN AGE which was so good and honestly captures the slog of trying to make it as an artist, not for a few years but decades. As I’m about to age out of “40 under 40” contention, I needed this book bookshop.org/p/books/actr...

So happy to be joining Split Lip as a fiction reader! 🤩

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

Still true

The new research also “calls into question the idea that younger individuals and those without risk factors don’t need the vaccine,” Viswanathan says. Instead the data show that… “it was also protective in those without risk factors,” she says. So get your kids vaxxed!!!

Bookshop.org (the best Amazon alternative) is having an anti-prime sale today. Free shipping on books including mine :P bookshop.org/a/88357/9781...

happy October to me (just wanted some chocolate then remembered I have 650 pieces in the basement) 🎃

Imagine what we could accomplish if we dedicated the resources we are plowing into the plagiarism machine to climate change, education, basically ANYTHING else