Unbothered. Moisturizerized. Happy. In my lane. Focused. Flourishing.

If you're feeling just a tad hungry and you like eating noise and crumbs, you could do worse than crackers™️.

“The most valuable thing to me in terms of my mental health is to read a poem or see a painting or listen to music which speaks to me, which breaks me open for a moment, and where I feel an experience honestly & delicately portrayed. That’s another reason AI can never create anything artistically.”

An excellent craft book I always recommend to students.

yearlong! generative! novel! writing! workshop! (i’ll be writing my fourth novel through this, come work with me) writer.org/event/novel-...

I’ve been thinking about community, and activism, and hope, and aside from all the necessary, revolutionary, communal work that lies in front of us, I think my mantra (and my suggestion for anyone who needs or wants it) is: make room for other people’s joy.

Excited about this new bookstore!

Today is one of my favorite days in North Amherst, when someone has to slowly walk around my friends’ yard, carefully collecting all the baby snapping turtles so the crows don’t eat them.

POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS: The peanut butter don’t spread Kayaking the data Princess of Pretty looking for her own damn kitchen & THAT’S an Edinburgh coin purse Pec shortage in Provincetown Ksssh ksssh, skater! Ksssh, Ksssh. Petticoat on a baguette & honey in the closet The Stanwyck kiss off

i heard they were remaking "wuthering heights"

We’re thrilled to announce the @pw.org Fall 2025 Get the Word Out Fiction Cohort. Get the Word Out is a unique publicity incubator designed to help early career authors maximize the exposure of their forthcoming books. debutiful.net/2025/09/03/a...

Have you tried being more fun about it? Failing that, have you tried being more tantalizing about it?

Looking forward to being on an editor panel. Check out Tin House’s lecture pass!

💥💥💥💥💥 2025 Kirkus Prize Finalists are Announced! 💥💥💥💥💥 lithub.com/here-are-the...

"…storytelling reveals meaning without committing to the error of defining it." - Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

We’ve dedicated our entire September issue to the art of the review, featuring 19 writers and an expanded book review section. This issue is our love letter to reviewers—especially those in our pages. Check out the TOC and begin reading! worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/september

Please spread the word. The print run is expanding. Get on board with this collector’s item while you can.

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

Spent the weekend editing some books coming late next year. They are unbelievably good. Cannot wait to share.

Gliding in for a landing

A rainbow crosswalk that was part of a memorial to the 49 people killed in a 2016 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was painted over this week by the state, raising outcry from city officials and the community.

Like most Wild Turkeys, Astoria sleeps in a tree at night for safety. Here she is flying up to her favorite tree in The Battery. 🦃 🩷 🌳

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

The hydrangeas are flourishing on the Cape.

#ClipOfTheDay: In this Politics and Prose event with novelist Angie Kim, Ed Park discusses the twenty-five-year process of writing his first story collection, An Oral History of Atlantis (Random House). at.pw.org/OralHistoryOfAtlantis

I love Antiques Roadshow so much because when once an episode one of the appraisers will be like THANK YOU for the PROFOUND HONOR of SHARING THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE and it’s the ugliest wood carving of a dog you’ve ever seen

The End Times is in Forbes. If you're interested in subscribing to the paper, head on over to the @badhandbooks.bsky.social website. We launch in November and you can get a year of storytelling for a $1.25 a month. Plus: for every digital subscriber over 500, we'll donate one dollar to the ACLU.

This is a great interview

Ask yourself: is there a glam version of this emotion?

most writing advice is terrible but this is truly helpful: find a sensitive rat and let him ride your head. allow him to pull your forelocks and thus guide your typing. do not ever let anyone else know about the rat. you also have to be French

Gorgeous. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What I read of this made me lose more sleep than I’d like to admit and I both can’t wait and am, in the best way, dreading the brilliant experience of this book.

I simply will have nothing to do with paper towels that don’t have half-sheet perforations. I’m a modern boy.

Recently read and loved.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Fireflies everywhere in the park at dusk. Glorious.

Cannot wait for you to read Kyle’s sleep-stealing, incredibly smart books—composed entirely of found documents.

Incredible day of emails. Many of these today!

"Teacher departures are fundamentally reshaping how kids learn, they say. As educators relocate across state lines or even abroad to find professional environments free from political persecution, it’s the students who suffer the most." newrepublic.com/article/1967...

Not gonna lie, the French really were in their bag when they were able to boil down all smalltalk to the phrase “ça va”

It took me WAY too long to realize that this was about a pair of researchers at University of Houston (UH), and not that the headline was stalling to find a euphemism for what they REALLY are. The Internet has ruined me.

They finally made the milk from that hotel

GoFundMe has set up a page for the Texan flood victims. Each campaign has been verified by the company's Trust & Safety experts, which means you know your money is going directly to families. Please consider donating if you can. Their stories are heartbreaking. www.gofundme.com/c/act/flood-...

Do not wait for inspiration. You don’t need to be inspired, to write a poem. You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful. — Audre Lorde

Mark and Melissa saw the humanity in everyone. Let’s honor them by doing the same.

St. Peter: How'd you die? Me: Buried under an avalanche of unused journals. St. Peter *whispers*: Did you have some with the tiny grids? Me *whispers back*: Of course I had the tiny grids. St. Peter: C'mon in.

Amazing news: an anonymous donor—a true literary hero—has pledged to match every donation to EL's summer fundraiser, up to $12,500. This means we are only $6,500 away from meeting our $25,000 goal. Now we need you to do your part. Can you help us cross the finish line? Donate now: buff.ly/7BleQIo