This Great Blue Heron has chosen to winter in Central Park. I see it regularly, standing stoically on the ice--but never fishing. Hoping it is going to make it until the ice thaws! 💙🩶❤️ #Herons #CentralPark #birding

Felt like the coldest morning yet in this epic deep freeze, as you can see by how floofy this beautiful Northern Cardinal is! It's amazing they can survive this bitter weather. 🤎❄️❤️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birding

Weird time to share art, but I’m finally allowed to share the cover of my next book, THE SHIP OF DEATH, from @harpercollins.bsky.social & Avon A. (9/29/26) Expect some other posts w/ choice blurbs and preorder links! Illustration: Peter Strain/Design: Julianna Lee. Editor @peterkispert.bsky.social

Is there an initiative to make protein bars taste worse

See the cover for HER KIND by Sophie Lefens and get the behind-the-scenes for how it was created. The cover was designed by Mark Robinson. debutiful.net/2026/01/26/s... @marinerbooks.bsky.social

I ventured out to Central Park early this morning during the Blizzard of '26. It was beautiful and eerily quiet, and I ran into a couple of avian buddies, including this Northern Cardinal, all puffed up to keep warm! ❄️❄️❄️ #Cardinal #CentralPark #birdcpp

it’s now deadly cold in new york, and will remain that ways for days. we have a very good guide on how the city responds to unsheltered people, and how to help them, when winter gets bitter www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/22/f...

It was the NyQuil of times, it was the DayQuil of times

american innovation continues unabated

Wrote a lot this year, most of which I’ve scrapped but both deepened my sense of the project and characters and reactivated a love of writing itself, as a practice with/for myself. Solid writing year.

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

There’s a good workout and then there’s a workout where “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?” drops on shuffle mid-set

my new favorite christmas movie

Hey sorry, I can't come in for my shift today, there were some omens. Yeah, like signs and portents. What? Of course they were fell, I wouldn't be calling out otherwise.

a new jersey-based christmas tree delivery service called Spruce Bringsteen

They should do MyChart Wrapped

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

99% of the world is dead. In a small Minnesota town, 1 woman writes the monthly local paper but it’s actually an epic horror story mailed to your door. THE END TIMES. Brilliantly conceived by @benjaminpercy.bsky.social , published by @badhandbooks.bsky.social. 1 issue in and I already love it.

An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.

No one talking about the mealy apple crisis

Happy Noam Chomsky Day to all who celebrate

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.

my time-saving holiday shopping tip is to just get everybody books. white elephant? book. child? picture book. stocking? small book. i am a neutral & trustworthy source on this subject

And did absolutely nothing to stop them.

evergreen

Most hurtful way to be insulted is when somebody makes up a mean rhyme about your name. Not only is that the name that my own mother gave me, but you're desecrating it using the weapons of a poet!?

very little brings me as much joy as explaining the plots of romance novels to my husband. no one is more earnestly appalled. "he made a BET to marry her? but that will hurt her feelings when she finds out!" yes beloved

Kyle’s book looks and is amazing. So special. Cannot wait to share it w/inflict it on readers!

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

I'm hearing that The End Times (a short novel told in the form of a newspaper delivered over the course of a year) is printing its first edition today. You've still got a chance to sign yourself or a friend up with @badhandbooks.bsky.social right here : badhandbooks.com/preorders/th...

Feel this poem every fall.

Know I love my job when I get through a tall stack of reading for work and, as a treat, for the pure enjoyment of it, reread my authors’ Fall 26 books. Cannot wait to share these with the world.

Shame over poverty is such that people reflexively hide it. I had one pair of pants for years, and we lost our house to bankruptcy. But my mother and stepfather in the same town (with whom I didn't live) had no idea. So many people, barely hanging on, keeping it to themselves, now without food.

Brilliant insight, and exchange. Is your life touched by books in any sense? Read every word.

Flying Squirrel Loves It Every Time

The Twisted Spine, NYC's first bookstore for horror and dark literature, suffered terrible water damage during last week's insane rainstorm and will have to close for repairs. I threw them some bucks to help them get through this difficult time. Please consider helping out if you can.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Mmm, that’s delicious. Does it have lecithin as an emulsifier?

I've been working for many months on this article on Silicon Valley's under-the-radar role in bringing AI into schools across the US. I really hope you'll read it — here's a gift link — but I'll tell you some of the highlights in this thread. (1/x)

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

I collect inspirational footnotes and share them from time to time:

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

your elk moment of calm today...

Did they get rid of those little figurines in tea boxes or did I not purchase the right tea box

One of my favorite moments from Nobel Prize history: The Nobel Committee couldn’t reach Stanford professor Paul Milgrom to let him know that he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics, so his fellow winner, Robert Wilson, went over to his house in the middle of the night to wake him up!

Listen. ONE of the reasons I rock with Dolly (Capricorn Gang) is because she’s always proven to me that integrity may cause you pain, but it will never be the reason you suffer. Which is not to say that suffering won’t come, but it’ll never be because you abandoned yourself. That’ll keep you going.

I also saw some of the interior designs for my new book, THE SHIP OF DEATH (which is heavily formal), & I'm pretty stunned. Also, the concepts and ideas for the cover are more than ideal. This is typical writer vagueposting, but I am trying to do my part to get readers hyped for what's coming...

this one means the world to me 😭 I’m a recipient of the @lambdaliterary.org Duggins Prize, an award that “honors LGBTQ-identified authors who have published multiple novels, built a strong reputation and following, and show promise to continue publishing high quality work for years to come”