LA friends, especially those on the west side!: join @gabriellekorn.bsky.social & me at b&n in santa monica today at 5:30!!!! we’ll be talking about gabrielle’s latest, LONG ISLAND GIRLS (one of my favorite books of the year!), and probs saying things that should remain in the group chat

i got my red dress on tonight at Claire’s

I wrote this essay in 2019, and I didn’t get to choose the title, which I think overpromises, but I what’s here is a checklist for writing fiction about people whose lives might be very different from your own. Three questions to ask yourself.

i am chronically ill and writing a book about chronic illness but working with chronic illness through the summer makes me too chronically ill to write my book about chronic illness

The pilot I wrote for my first novel, The Survivalists (black lawyer falls in with black brooklynite doomsday preppers) will be performed live on 7/19 at dynasty typewriter in LA & Molly from Insecure is playing Aretha! I am deceased! Tickets: calendar.dynastytypewriter.com/shows/no-not...

NONFICTION BBS THIS IS UR SIGN—LET’S GO 🚀 deets & sign up here: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/summ... @shipmanagency.bsky.social

fondly remembering the time i tried to personalize a yankee candle as a gift for a fellow rotted friend with a picture of them and “WHORE” printed underneath on the label and yankee candle called me 20 min later just to say "we can't do this" and hung up

i’m going to propose to my boyfriend at area 51

if it happens on july 4th i will lead the pledge of allegiance at an applebee’s

called a nine-year-old ageist for not sharing her chicken fingers with me

i turn 35 in a few weeks. that’s 74 years of having a dysregulated nervous system

got a male instacart shopper and he replaced my entire order with a bottle of men's 3-in-1 body/hair/face wash

hello from NJ, where i am working on revising my novel and reading and eating my mom’s food and reminiscing about the time i was fingered in the best buy parking lot

spent two hours last night rewriting the same sentence over and over only to delete it completely this morning

what if i told you that you could name your pet something besides luna

I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

had a gay ol’ time talking to my dear friend and chic babe elizabeth teets about her new book, which i could spend way more than an hour gabbing about, at book soup last night 📺 there were also cookies made with the book cover on them but i ate mine before i could take a pic oop

celebrating cancer season by getting emotional at a yard sale

hope everyone who was ever deemed a pleasure to have in class is having a great pride

can’t these data centers at least use my SSRI sweat

The Most Anticipated Debut Books coming out between July and December 2026 debutiful.net/2026/06/18/t...

"All my work has been about the cost of belonging, because I find that the price of belonging is conformity." The Place That Keeps Calling You Back: @gregmania.bsky.social interviews Douglas Stuart about John of John (@groveatlantic.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/2z5pWHC

what if mitch mcconnell is already dead but they just can’t tell

gonna host a chicken tender potluck for my birthday

i’m honored that i got to talk to the widely beloved and celebrated douglas stuart about his latest magnum opus, JOHN OF JOHN, for @therumpus.net 💫

hard at work/hardly working

for @bombmag.bsky.social, i talked to the magnificent kayla rae whitaker about her sophomore novel, which i have exhausted every method to manifest, ever since her debut grabbed me and refused to let go. and wow, oh, wow, was the wait worth it 🤌

Author Kayla Rae Whitaker discusses her recent novel “Returns and Exchanges" (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social, 2026) in which the American Dream is sold as-is, damage included with writer @gregmania.bsky.social.

endlessly proud of and impressed with my bb @reluctantlyjoe.bsky.social and his profound, tender, hilarious, and legacy-defining book 🥹🥹🥹 forever celebrating you!

what if a waymo just pulled up in the town in From

finished a very, very, very rough draft of my novel a few weeks ago. it’s about a queer thirtysomething who enrolls in a clinical trial for his chronic pain, and as a result of the experimental drug, develops the ability to shapeshift. time to dive back in and see if it’s any good!!!!!!!

birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it, let’s all do it, let’s run for governor of california

happy pub to my dear friend @rasheed.bsky.social! ⭐️ the crowd for last night’s pre-pub launch was all but out the door, and if you read this dazzling book, you’ll know why 💫

if you recognize this house, then happy pride

really in awe of people who can take a 20-minute nap and just get up and go. i go down for 2 hours and die

This generator is taught by Greg Mania, author of the memoir Born to Be Public, which has been named a best book of 2020 by NPR, O, The Oprah Magazine, Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, Largehearted Boy, and was a 2020 Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Best Humor.

in honor of moving into a new neighborhood, may i present my rider as its newest village idiot <3

in this economy, you can only choose one: a large cold brew, a gallon of premium gas, or a signed copy of my book

if anyone is looking to be humbled you’re more than welcome to come play me in super smash bros

BLESS THIS BOUNTY

i will still go to barnes and noble to have diarrhea

dive into the summer book proposal generator—now enrolling bb!!!! 📚☀️ register here: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/summ... @shipmanagency.bsky.social

ennui! at the disco

just overheard a teen asking what a DVD was

Barbara Cigarette is a cute name for a kid

i was 27 when i got cruised for the first time and it happened in a PF Chang’s bathroom, which should tell you everything you need to know about me

celebrated my first night living with my man by making love to his printer

the em dash thinks now is a good time to share this again @mcsweeneys.net

@booksnotbans.bsky.social is doing the kind of work that keeps my hope alive, and i’m so happy and thankful that i could play a small part in it this weekend at @booksoupofficial.bsky.social alongside a coterie of blazingly brilliant writers and thinkers 📚

this is later today! 💫💫💫