This episode is a standout.

DC friends-- A few years ago I met an extraordinary young man: someone who is a world champion debater, a Harvard Law School graduate, and also...not an asshole?? Hear from this unicorn tomorrow at MLK library, in a talk on having difficult conversations. dclibrary.libnet.info/event/16690745

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also I'll put this out there that if ANYONE teaching high school or intro college would like me to come talk about the Middle Ages to your students & why studying the medieval world matters nowadays, PLEASE get in touch. I've given several talks to high schoolers & they are highlights of my career

Pajeon and makgeolli weather here in DC for sure

I have a theory that AI is not getting less detectable; instead as more people use it, they are no longer registering how distinctively weird it sounds

Update from tonight's National Symphony Orchestra concert, the NSO's final scheduled performance at the Kennedy Center -- Tarp is still covering the relevant side, but there's a gap, through which it's clear Trump's name is gone. Hard to capture but easy to see in person.

There's a sort of visual joke you're missing if you watched the scaffolding go up via livestream-- Which is that to get to the sign you have to *walk past a cherrypicker* parked to the side (I am not kidding--it's blocked by the bus/trees in this pic I took last night but it's there!)

I love my neighborhood because everyone showed up to watch Trump's name come off the Kennedy Center and then started reading bits of this incredibly dumb motion aloud to each other in the courtyard when work halted

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/t... Did my 3 y/o write this

I would also like to thank Audra McDonald. I didn't win a Tony Award but just generally

What are we casting Pink in like immediately

Your annual reminder that the Tonys are spelled just like that: the Tonys. No apostrophe. Just the Tonys. (The Tonys won by Tony Kushner are Tony's Tonys. The Tonys won by Tony Kushner and Tony Shalhoub are Tonys' Tonys.)

Pink is objectively a weird choice but she is doing the whole thing full out and I can't help but love her for it

Kenny Ortega really and truly smashed this one

Sometimes a headline comes along that just tickles you

Just thinking about how confidently the DOE shot itself in the dick by putting this in the press release The surest way to get the alums who might NOT otherwise have a visceral reaction to the government trying to bully our classmates to start sharpening their knives

On the bright side now I'm very efficiently learning which of you went to Smith

There is a very specific voltage of delight that comes over you when someone finds your book in the wild, reads it, and loves it. Thank you!

How to Get a Great Idea for a Novel feat. my novel TOWARD ETERNITY, published by HarperCollins everywhere ✨🪐 US: www.harpercollins.com/products/tow... UK: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/towa...

Another day of trying to just do my normal calls and emails and chores while listening to the president's goons actively work to unravel the fabric of the United States what a time to be alive and have an internet connection beep boop

The queen in Snow White except instead of seeking constant reassurance from a mirror that I am the fairest in the land, I seek reassurance every time a new AI feature pops up in something I use that the AI still can't satisfyingly finish "Kubla Khan"

Poets-- Smith College just opened submissions for the new Tammis Day Poetry Prize, awarded for an unpublished debut collection by a woman poet over the age of forty. It is the only such literary prize in the United States. Full details at the link: www.ninesyllablespress.com/tdprize

Just learned from my author Betsy Rubiner that some archives refer to the genre I'd call "life writing" (journals, diaries, memoir, some kinds of blogs and early social media) as "ego media". EGO! MEDIA! (Launch event for OUR DIARIES, OURSELVES by Betsy Rubiner at @politicsprose.bsky.social)

Does anyone else hear "Ro Khanna" and have to remind themselves that's a member of Congress and not a member of the Maquis resisting Cardassian domination

Fuck marry kill but the choices are different ways to cope with a global social disconnection crisis

Cannot underscore enough that the way to find a literary agent is *not* to ignore all the freely available submission guidelines and instead wander around an agency's physical office until someone asks what you're doing there

Do you recite "Who would have thought the old man to have had so much poop in him" in a Lady Macbeth voice when your 3 y/o goes potty or are you normal

Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌

"Extraordinarily moving, exquisitely written, and socially revolutionary...RING OF SALT glows with what we need." Thrilled to see this rave review in the Irish Times for @betsycornwell.bsky.social's new memoir RING OF SALT!

Sick day with the 3 y/o has moved on from Frozen to the Brandy "Cinderella" Which of course is also the Bernadette Peters Cinderella and the Whitney Houston Cinderella and the Victor Garber Cinderella and the Whoopi and... Lesley Ann Warren is still *my* Cinderella, but man this cast is stacked

Meanwhile I told my 3 y/o she could select one book to buy. She immediately returned with three copies of a biography of Julie Andrews

At a bookstore in Bethesda where a toddler has evidently decided a copy of HARROW THE NINTH is his new emotional support object. Will not put it down I leaned advised him to start with GIDEON but I'm not sure he quite grasped how the multivolume narrative arc is structured

Obsessed with this quote-- Journalists at the Times of London reporting Americans are at a disadvantage in "sex warfare" because unlike slutty, slutty China, "by statute and by culture" we don't do that www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

We saw this at the Kennedy Center the day the news broke about Trump firing the board, and Alex Brightman nailing everything about this part was *still* the most memorable part of the evening. I'm so stoked for the Broadway run playbill.com/article/alex...

Oh no reason

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Increasingly grossed out by the very common phrase "[PERSON] is worth [DOLLARS]"

Check out this memoir publishing today about tactical community building www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ring-o...

Iced take: cafes should offer simple syrup next to the sugar and milk as a matter of course

This sign has been haunting my commute and I can bear it alone no longer

The internet should be a place you can find weird stuff if you want but the weird stuff should not be able to sealion you there

So many problems are addressed by having a giant bowl of spicy Korean stew and an array of banchan placed in front of me while someone else takes my 3y/o on a walk

Rilo Kiley's opening act in DC started at 8pm on the dot and planned a 43 minute set, and I wish to thank him on behalf of both DC millennials and our babysitters appreciate the consideration

Just another morning making pancakes for my kids and thinking how weird it is to be an evangelical German-Welsh family in Indiana naming your extremely gentile babies "Shekinah" and "Zachary Levi"

So no one on Hillary Clinton's team asked "is 'seminal' the word?" when drafting a note celebrating the anniversary of the 1995 UN Conference on Women in Beijing, huh

I don't know which of you in DC needs to hear this right now but if you bring your receipt from Lost City Books to Andy's Pizza, you can get a free slice Have a great Friday 📚🧾🍕

I think about @jsx.bsky.social's tweet about appointing a biblically accurate 70-judge SCOTUS ("Oh, you like Judeo-Christian values? GIVE US A SANHEDRIN, YOU COWARDS") like... daily

Ok who had "ICE kidnaps execs from two chaebols at a factory in Georgia" on their bingo card

Stopped by a photo shoot set for one of my cookbook authors and my arm was recruited for a photo This book is so, so beautiful and I'm in awe of how it's turning out Also hello I'm famous now, will be giving this book to EVERYONE when it comes out with a Post-It flagging the Arm Page