Breaking News!! I finished an entire eye cream. Repeat. I bought eye cream, and I used the entire product without buying a new one and leaving the other half empty. I may even buy it again to replace what I used because I liked it, and I stuck with it.

I appreciate this so much!

Why does Tiger Woods in handcuffs after his recent car crash look like ET?

Hot Ones is teasing their “biggest” episode yet. Who do you think it is?

You spend your whole life hearing that English majors can't get jobs, and that you should stay away from drugs, only to reach middle age and find out "large language model that occasionally hallucinates" is worth billions of dollars

Seashells Transform Suburban Bathroom Into Tropical Hideaway https://theonion.com/seashells-transform-suburban-bathroom-into-tropical-hid-1819571584/

Got a new book AND hat! I’m in the @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social fan club.

Checking out at Trader Joe's last night, I read a sheet at the register about a recall list of some frozen meals, and it was like, these products may have been contaminated, and I read further and the contamination material was GLASS, and I was like oh my god WHAT?

Got my author copies of Coyote Girl, available next week, April 7! Unpublished, new stories mixed with the great hits. Couldn’t be happier with this collection and the whole smooth process with @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social!

Why is it that other writers I know can just start writing another novel right away, but I have to go through a 30-step renewal and reactivation process, start five "trick" novels to make my brain think I'm not looking, and watch A Different World from beginning to end?

the way I have most unexpectedly become like my parents is how much I now hate a loud restaurant

Emphasizing that there is no such thing as a federal list of citizens. It does not exist.

In my husband's (a star baseball player) senior yearbook, many girls left their numbers, drew hearts and stars, and paid him compliments. In my senior yearbook (I was a theater kid), guys wrote it was nice to sit next to me in class and signed their full name.

The audiobook of @nikwalk.bsky.social's How to Plant a Billion Trees is excellent. Give it a listen!

That dinosaurs show on Netflix is so soothing.

The @marchxness.bsky.social anthology is out today! I love this tournament, and I’m so glad to have one of my essays from years past got included: “The Best Christian in the World,” about Creed’s “My Own Prison” and my own fallout with Christianity, among other things. So much good writing in here!

Happy Pub Day to Natalia Trevino! One of my best friends and part of MFA co-hort. We went through our program together writing these novels, and it's so amazing they've come out within two months of each other. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Genuinely hard to get back into any new writing projects after a book comes out. I can't seem to get myself back into the game.

Economists Warn That Even Their Friend’s Son Who Went To Business School Can’t Find A Job

Watched Dead Poets Society again, and I pointed out to my daughter that I used to have a crush on Knox aka Josh Charles. She goes, "um, no" and then during the desk standing scene at the end I was like, OH, this is why I leave every semester a little hurt when my students just say, "bye bitch."

Still can’t believe I’m in this, along with some of my favorite flash fiction friends, including @lumchanmfa.bsky.social & @claudiamonpere.bsky.social 💕 Catching a plane today, & so excited to have this read on my travels 🤗 TYSM to @altcurrent.bsky.social & @southeastreview.bsky.social🙏

March subs open! (a little late 😬)

Right now, the best way to pre-order my upcoming novel THE SHITBIRD (available in September!) is to join the Stanchion Book Club — and you'll get the added bonus of a bunch of other books to go with it!

We are coming up on two months that this book has been in the world. Totally wild. Summer is around the corner, and I usually spend summers opening this file and fucking around with it again.

Someone left a review of my novel and said, "everything that happens in this book is upsetting" and that made me so happy.

Spent way too much time revising our submittable stuff about who we are and what we're looking for, so here you go (or you know just read the stuff we publish): mrbullbull.submittable.com/submit

As the Adult Substack Babies rot on Twitter, please subscribe to a real newspaper. It is very on sale this week. $75 for a year delivered to your home. I will continue to dunk on them until they die.

Devastated by My Own Choices is the pending title for my memoir.

Our Spring 2026 issue, A MANUAL FOR..., incited by the life and writing of Lucia Berlin drops next week y'all...

Loved getting to meet @nikwalk.bsky.social IRL last night and hear her read from her beautiful new book last night.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free 2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30

We're putting out bangers y'all... @patricktrotti.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social @barbarabyar.bsky.social @sabrinahicks.bsky.social

If you’re in Arizona next month, come to Rift Wine Bar + Taphouse for our next installment of the Desert Grit Reading Series! Featuring: Matt Flores @sudhab.bsky.social Cecilia Savala Oscar Mancinas @joelhans.com @suburbanprairie.bsky.social Hosted by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social & me!

I have never served in the military or been to the Middle East, but I did win my fraternity's Battleship tournament senior year at Bucknell. Here's how the Navy should secure the Strait of Hormuz... (1/24)

Great episode!

Book mail days are the best days! feat. some of my favorite readings from AWP: @jonathanin2k.bsky.social @joeyhedger.bsky.social @stephanieaustin.bsky.social

I pitched a craft talk about interiority to a conference. I was super academic about it, don't worry, but ultimately it boils down to my damaged way of thinking about myself and my world around me that I have, I think, managed to use to my advantage in my writing. Let's see what happens!

Your heart will break. You will shed a few tears. And—most of all—your faith in love and the human spirit will be renewed. Buy @barbarabyar.bsky.social’s IN THE DESERT www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/in-the-deser...

Here's an info sheet for the new MFA program in Creative Writing at Missouri State University! Drop us a line if you have questions, but we are looking for students for THIS FALL for a fully funded program!

Thank you for this super generous read.

Don’t miss this!! Part three of this awesome essay series by @stephanieaustin.bsky.social!

This has been like living in a medieval castle and watching an invading army miles off in the distance take days and days to march to your doorstep and put you under siege

The thrilling conclusion of my journey as a writer partly through the lens of the Literary Brat Pack. In this final installment, I cover betrayal, penis sizes, and interiority. stephanieaustin.substack.com/p/story-of-y...

Sinners should win everything.

Ryan Coogler has won his first-ever Oscar. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

I'm finding Brick pretty helpful HOWEVER I don't need a daily email from them trying to sell me more Bricks or offering tips for other ways to quiet the noise of digital interruptions. 👀

Came over to Bsky on my laptop so I can mention I got a Brick that prevents me from using BSky on my phone. (Mostly got the Brick to stop myself from IG Reels though).

I missed this when Kev posted it last month?! "Instant indie classic! Fun and funny and surprising and full of wonder in a way so few books are today." C'mon, tell me you don't deserve and wanna read that. autofocusbooks.com/store/p/tacoma