I love the Book Gang podcast. I love Amy Allen Clark. And I loved getting to have this conversation with her. momadvice.com/post/allison...

I loved getting to talk with @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social about her latest novel, Home of the American Circus. She's reading tomorrow, May 6, if you're around!

I loved getting to talk with @lindalenhoff.bsky.social for Local News Matters Bay Area! Hope you'll give this a read! It also has details about a pub day outdoor literary luncheon on May 6th with me, Regina Marler & Renee Swindle hosted by Towne Center Books! localnewsmatters.org/2025/05/01/b...

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

So happy for cherimoya season again!

Yesterday was a week until Pub Day for the homecoming novel I wrote about my hometown. There are a few giveaways and an event coming up! allisonlarkin.substack.com/p/one-week-t...

This is a lot to wake up to!!! So excited! You can get the @bookofthemonth.bsky.social edition of Home of the American Circus in a Spring Favorites Box from @todayshow.com 🤯❤️🐘 marketplace.today.com/boxes

Hey, @sjfuniversity.bsky.social, sign this!

My publisher is running another giveaway on Goodreads -- this time you could win a hardcover copy of Home of the American Circus! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

If you’re interested in the stories behind the stories, About the Authors TV on Tubi is the show for you. I loved getting to update my previous interview with Jake Brown to discuss Home of the American Circus. The full episode will air on Tubi this season. youtu.be/W-aEXBYKVRA?...

Republicans used to say “undocumented immigrants don’t pay taxes.” Now the IRS is handing their tax data to DHS… So which is it? Seems like you’d have to pay taxes to even have tax data…

Nothing like cuddling with your bestie with her entire head in your mouth.

The first episodes of my new podcast with the wise, wonderful, witty @alicecarbonetench.bsky.social will drop on Monday! Follow us at nowthatwethinkaboutit.substack.com and look for Now That We Think About It where you listen to podcasts

Pretty damn tired of this miserable racist and his miserable racist administration.

I got an email from a garden supply company with the subject line, "Prepare your soil!" but I read it as, "Prepare your soul!" and thought, "holy crap, what's happening?" But honestly, preparing soil is good for the soul too."

Truly truly incredible. I saw someone say “you have to preach to the choir if you want the choir to sing” ❤️ it was SO good. I’m in awe.

I’ll always look at Max and think about shouting into the waves at night and how the sand was still warm from soaking up the heat from the day and it felt like the world was a wild beast who allowed us to walk on her back. The People We Keep @allielarkinwrites.bsky.social #SundaySentence

After all that time, at the very end, Senator Booker gave one of the greatest speeches in the history of our country. AND THEN WENT BACK TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED HIM AND KEPT THE BUILDING OPEN. What a good American! What a good role model! Such good trouble.

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While walking the dogs I heard a trumpet riff so wild, triumphant and enthusiastic that I texted my husband to tell him an absolutely incredible musician must live somewhere on our street. Then I walked around to the other side of the block and realized it was a carpet installation machine.

Senator Cory Booker has just started his 23rd hour during his marathon speech on the Senate floor. Only one hour and 19 minutes before he beats Strom Thurmond’s record! You can do it, Cory!!!!!!!!

I don’t even think I could lie on the floor and whine for as long as Cory Booker has been standing tall and talking sense.

Felt cute. Might delete later.

Why doesn’t Elon Musk just return the $38 billion of taxpayer funding he swindled and we’ll call it a day.

Saturday morning sploot and chew.

This golden fennel is growing in my garden and I wish this app had a way to share the glorious scent of those fronds.

He’s not a lap dog so much as a shoulder dog.

This little guy is so happy and it’s completely contagious. I still can’t believe he was a day away from being put down at the shelter when I pulled him. He makes every moment brighter. Please please please #adoptdontshop

An Ode to Spenser: For Hire open.substack.com/pub/allisonl...

I was watching Succession and the subtitles for the next scene took over the commercial.

I may or may not have growled at a man today.

I was trying to explain someone being in A MOOD and could only think of my grandmother's expression for it, which was having one's "bowels in an uproar." If I got upset about something she'd say, "Don't get your bowels in an uproar!" In a glum mood she'd tell me "Keep your pecker up."

There are four days left to enter this last Goodreads Giveaway of 50 Advance Reader Copies of Home of the American Circus. If you entered one of the previous giveaways and didn't win, you can enter again! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

Why do this? Because the more people who participate, the more effective it will be. Because giving people a taste of our collective power helps us build toward bigger actions in the future. Because activism is a muscle and organizing is a skill and this is a fine place to begin.

JACK!!!!

My body was not meant to contain this much rage. I’m only five foot six but I’ve got miles and miles of anger

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

You ever have some days when you wake up and think “I’m not really fit for people today?”

Here's the article: www.abqjournal.com/news/article...

Bosley is fascinated by the trash compactor and watched me intently while I hit the foot pedal this morning. I foresee a future of dog operated kitchen appliances.

We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...

RFK Jr. is disqualified, dangerous, and cannot be given the power to make critical health care decisions for millions of Americans. I'm headed to the floor to put up a fight against his nomination.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

From Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter:

Never thought we were in danger of Kid Rock getting a Kennedy Center honor but here we are.

I started a substack this week and then I was like, "What's even the point of posting if you don't get weirdly honest?" And then this happened. open.substack.com/pub/allisonl...

I can write an entire novel, but an email or a birthday card is a torturous task I will put off with all of my powers of procrastination, no matter how much I actually want to get that message across

Oh my god.