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! 💫💫💫

drove past a woman smoking a cig in her car with all the windows rolled up and i need to find her because i have questions, mainly how much she would charge to be my life coach

"I’ve finally arrived at a place of radical acceptance. I accept that I will be passed over, that I will sit untouched for hours, that someone will choose a lemon-lime option over me without a second thought."

i’m gonna be the first person to wear an acne star patch at the met gala

excited to boo book bans by reading alongside these genius beauties at this fabulous event hosted by books not bans at book soup in weho this saturday, 5/9! come through! 💥

will ennui get me if i wear a propeller cap

taking a break from my novel to focus on moving and then i’m gonna take a break to focus on getting preserved in amber

“god doesn’t give with both hands” oh yeah well then explain lexapro

celebrating two years with the person whose committment to ordering off the kids’ menu rivals my own

is this booksmaxxing

i wrote about my cat on substack because of course i did

people named Bogdan were never babies and you can’t convince me otherwise

thank you to everyone who came out to help us close out this year’s @latimesfob at empty trash! can’t believe how lucky we are to be able to host the readers of our dreams and partner with folks who make it all possible!!!!

LA!!! tonight!!!!

my retirement plan is to be consumed by english ivy

my arm is positively weak from hanging onto every word rachel khong says!!!!!!! 🌹

close out LATFoB weekend with us this sunday, 4/19 at the spring edition of empty trash, featuring a lineup curated by god!!!!!! 7pm at the semi-tropic in echo park! 🪩🪩🪩 see u hunny bunnies there 🪩🪩🪩

if i’m not asked to write the foreword for the DSM-6 i’m gonna fuckin lose it

[lit’s “my own worst enemy” blares]

i wonder how things are going in the timeline where IHOP remained committed to its rebrand as IHOB

get u a poet who is so iconic they have not one but two banners up in weho for national poetry month 💫💫

just learned what looksmaxxing is. some of you need to go befriend a creek

catch these hands eating a hot dog in the Home Depot parking lot

let’s give a warm welcome to cymbalta

i think for dinner tonight i'm just going to air-fry a cigarette

I love it when our clients are also pals. @gregmania.bsky.social talks to the Lindy West.

Greg Mania interviews Lindy West about her new book, "Adult Braces." West's memoir explores life after literary success and follows her on a cross-country road trip to start over. buff.ly/l4GFFOa

my daughter

how is there already a billboard for The Pitt on the moon

for @electricliterature.com, i talked to my pal lindy west about her new book, ADULT BRACES, which no one is talking about at all!!!!!!!

we start tomorrow! got a little room left for anyone who wants to still sign up! @shipmanagency.bsky.social

i think we should all get one day off a year to talk about diane lane in streets of fire

i've had lofi on in the background longer than i've had my phone on silent

have u ever seen a more opulent stack of books????

there are still some open spots in my spring book proposal generator, which kicks off THIS saturday, april 4th! 📚 sign up here!: www.theshipmanagency.com/classes/book...

my safe word is susan sontag

echoes in the rain by enya blasting at wing stop somehow feels like a very accurate auric representation of me

In her new novel Whidbey, @tkiramadden.bsky.social investigates questions of privilege through complex, layered, and even unreliable characters. Read the profile on Madden in the March/April issue: at.pw.org/CrimeAndCompassion

Beginning with an overview of the anatomy of the book proposal by looking at several different examples, this generator will be broken up into eight weekly sessions. Each week, we will be discussing and going over one element of the book proposal in detail.