Don’t buy his book buy mine (or Jen Percy’s or Olivia Laing’s, both also excellent!)

The Sunday scaries but make them Saturday and Friday and Thursday and Wednesday and Tuesday and Monday also because it is always the day before a workday when you're a freelancer whose main job is looking for more work

Elliott Bay Books has 17 now-signed copies of Epic and Lovely for Seattle’s seasonal shopping needs!

As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

Love seeing mommy influencers pivoting into fuck ice accounts

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

She's here, she's available for preorder, and she's available for ARC requests 🥹 HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor is an anthology of 29 essays by 30 contributors, and includes pieces about racism, spoiling, love, loss, friendship, heterosexuality, and so much more.

The Bachelor may seem like an archaic, frivolous cultural artifact but it is, by its nature as a media powerhouse that's been on air for more than two decades, worth examining. Stevie and I set out to explore the fandom because we produce the attention and economy that keeps the show on the air.

She's here, she's available for preorder, and she's available for ARC requests 🥹 HERE FOR ALL THE REASONS: Why We Watch The Bachelor is an anthology of 29 essays by 30 contributors, and includes pieces about racism, spoiling, love, loss, friendship, heterosexuality, and so much more.

People who manage to do writing/work in like 15-30 minute increments between childcare sessions... how?

At least once a day I wonder what my life would be like if I were hot and then I remember that what I mean by that is hot in a legible femme way and that was just never gonna pan out anyway

בדיוק למדתי מ- @ilanaslightly.bsky.social על אמ;לק ולא מאמינה שלא ראיתי את זה פה. או שאולי כן ולא הבנתי שזה tl;dr בעברית?

I have a book out today, so obviously my agent and I have been discussing each character's vote in the NYC election. Anyway: it's about early 2000s reality TV and identity performance and trust, I'm proud of it, it's on sale today, and its main gal would go for Zohran

Where did everyone from the golden age of lit twitter ultimately end up settling down? Feeling especially bummed right now about the loss of that community.

What you *can* have, for the low low price of your sanity, is the reek of despair wafting off your sweaty limbs as you delve into your to-do list

You can't have all three as a freelancer: 1. Stable clients 2. Enough income 3. Work-life balance 4. A stable media economy 5. Enough time

WE ARE SO FREAKING CLOSE, can we find 105 people to subscribe to The Flytrap until the end of the day so we can get to work to create feminist journalism for y'all for another year? the-flytrap.ghost.io/chomp

stoked to have an extra hour to think about how bad everything is

A haunted house but it's just your tired body

For the 1000 word "statement of plans" that I need to submit to a fellowship I am tempted to write "fuck around and find out" as many times as will fit because, like, ultimately that IS what one does while writing?!

For @altajournal.bsky.social I reviewed Julian NoiseCat's WE SURVIVED THE NIGHT, which is fascinating and moving and intellectually rigorous: www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

It's like what if Nazis had AI and social media

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

because he wants to be a dictator/king, that's why

One of those spammy book clubs reached out wanting to "spotlight" my book, and unlike the others I've gotten, this one seems somewhat legit - at least, they have a MeetUp profile and Facebook group with actual members in both - but they want to charge a "modest fee." Is ANYONE doing this shit?!

Just want to make sure: We are not fucking giving out ramen and beef jerky on Halloween. We are giving kids CANDY and TOYS and a NORMAL HOLIDAY and then donating to food pantries and stocking our local community fridge.

For @altajournal.bsky.social I reviewed Julian NoiseCat's WE SURVIVED THE NIGHT, which is fascinating and moving and intellectually rigorous: www.altaonline.com/books/nonfic...

Looking for arts & heritage jobs bc I am a miserable loser. Everything is like "must have postgrad qualification & 5 yrs experience in this niche role, pays £11/hr, unpaid evenings & weekends expected" or "£50+ K to have swank meetings & shake hands, must be posh rich person who hates arts."

Once again, I beg people not to use "diverse" as a weird coded reference to people who are not white, not straight, and/or not cis.

Wait a second, that report going around... is saying Democrats, ostensibly the party of the left, shouldn't be a party of the left? What the hell are we doing here

Up next is Herculine by @emotrophywife.bsky.social: www.simonandschuster.com/books/Hercul...

Some good books I read recently: - Girlfriend on Mars by Deborah Willis: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/417561... - Beings by @ilanaslightly.bsky.social: www.bloomsbury.com/us/beings-97... - Infinite Archive by @mightymur.bsky.social: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609888...

"No, raccoons typically do not drink blood," the woman behind me at the cafe just said, immediately distracting me from my work.

RT for "Moby Dick," fav for "Moby-Dick"

"Never read the comments section" continues to be sound advice on 99% of online publications that allow comments, and yet it also continues to be difficult to remember when one grew into adulthood while blogging in spaces where comment sections were for genuine interaction

Charlottesville! Are you around tonight? Want to have a lovely night downtown and stop by New Dominion to hear me and Anna Beecher in conversation? You know you do! ndbookshop.com/events/amber...

@ilanaslightly.bsky.social seen at the Nonbinarian Bookstore!

Ever thought to yourself: maybe Bilbo was gay? You're not alone. The importance of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings has been well covered. But what about it's queer importance? Tom Ford shares how The Hobbit saved his life and we get all into its queer themes. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Starting to feel like you're not allowed to be a writer who finds writing difficult or painful anymore, like the only palatable kind of writer is the kind who enjoys every part of the process. Like, maybe we're swinging too far the other way from the whole self destructive genius author man trope?

Bookshop dot org and Thriftbooks delivered today (well, yesterday). @donikakelly.bsky.social and @ilanaslightly.bsky.social , I’m reading y’all this weekend 💗 (The Begley books are because I want the About Schmidt source material, which seems v different from the film)!

Amazon giving authors access to their bookscan numbers is maybe one of the most diabolical things it has ever done

Interwoven timelines bring together alien encounters and the queer experience. www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/b... @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social @ilanaslightly.bsky.social #booksky

Thank you so much for this lovely review of BEINGS <3 <3 <3

Today is pub day for my third book: Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century. It is a handbook on how to read. It argues for the foundational importance of *caring* to thought. It offers an anatomy of close reading's five steps so we can hone the skills to perform them. It argues for why to read

The very specific kind of brain dead that is a full day of parenting and then needing to somehow do work

*deep breath* The term Judeo-Christian is somehow both antisemitic and Islamophobic: it reduces Judaism to Christianity's predecessor on the one hand and implies only two Abrahamic religions on the other, when there are (at least) three

Did not expect how meditative it would be to watch loaders putting gravel in a truck but due to my toddler having HFMD, I am learning to find it meditative indeed.