Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the annual deep-sea reenactment of Louis Malle’s MY DINNER WITH ANDRE.

A lot of us made a wish to be living in precedented times and the monkey’s paw gave us a forever war in the Middle East.

live-action portrait of me trying to make an Important Point.

Happy International Women’s Day, please let us work in creative fields without being groped of ogled.

Just because it’s happening doesn’t mean it’s normal.

I just want a retirement home that brings in a band every Sunday that does good Fugazi covers

behold! every worrisome tote bag that crossed our path this week.

I’m listening to the Jesse Jackson memorial on @wbez.org and the sheer power & force of the oratory, the intelligence & love & hope in the room in this day, of all days, is a reminder that we as a country can do so much better: chicago.suntimes.com/live/jesse-j...

we cut out a lot of streaming this year so I swear to god that, for a hot second, I was convinced you all were talking about Erich Segal and Ryan O’Neal for some reason.

America voted for a drunk driver and shoved the world into the car.

just a gentle reminder that you can work out while watching the news so you can get your self-care AND your self-harm in at the same time.

If anyone is freaking out about the current state of the US economy, pls know that my daughter has designed her own currency & u are welcome to use it

According to all reliable reports, your #awp26 book haul was interesting AND delicious.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the thing that took over your @awpwriter.org conference tote bag bc your book haul was just too interesting to pass up.

the 10yo made a house

So freaking excited for this! Benson is one of my favorite deep-cut midcentury New Yorker stalwarts. (My other all time deep-cut fave is Jessamyn West.)

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is all of us at the @awpwriter.org conference

The girl is a secretary. She is facetious. All she wants is a box of matches.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a vampire tote bag and some problematic citrus

Follow your dreams: find a career in the arts. Drag that boat across a mountain. Wreck the lives of those around you. Wear a white suit in the Amazon. Build that opera house. Nothing is impossible!

Today’s #postitdoodle is the primordial soup in which the #awp26 conference tote bags were forged.

what’s important to remember, in these dark times, is that the Dow is over 50,000 right now.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a tote bag and her poet at the @awpwriter.org conference.

sorry but the GOP can’t just play the same three hits every time they tour

Behold! The Shadow Bunny.

behold! a Shadow Bunny.

have fun at AWP, everyone! (bring me back a tote bag)

pitch: a reverse portrait of dorian gray thing where the president of a major superpower is both the portrait *and* dorian gray

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle: every seven years the poet emerges from Lake Michigan to read new work to a captive Chicago.

oh to be a squirrel eating a full slice of brioche by a fairy house

we will not be taking questions about our pinewood derby car design at this time, thank you

just because it’s happening doesn’t mean it’s normal

pretty sure half the apps on my phone are like three browser tabs in a trench coat.

When there are no consequences for the last bad thing, you'll get a next worse thing.

…has America met kids from other countries? Do they realize that they’re as delightful & weird & joyful as American kids? That they’re literally into the same things & share the same sense of wonder? That each and everyone has a rich & miraculous inner life?

per my conversation with @hkappklote.bsky.social about why people become writers podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

I still remember sitting at this AWP panel about veteran writers, one of whom did policy work for the VA: she shared this graph about the long, ballooning cost of any war, how care for veterans increases long after a war ends.

goddamn am i weary of these stupid violent men & their stupid fucking wars

Read it again. We killed 85 schoolgirls this morning.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

Lowbrow: John Seabrook’s NOBROW Middlebrow: Dwight Macdonald’s MASSCULT AND MIDCULT Highbrow: Pierre Bourdieu’s DISTINCTION

excellent pigeon content in Jackie Chan’s POLICE STORY 2

behold! every apparition of note this week

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the summoning of the Great Hat.

They never put the countess dowager in the bio but she's ALWAYS in the acknowledgments

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is the third most fearsome warrior in your glorious army.

I will however note that no author photo will ever equal *this* author photo, from Percival Everett’s DR. NO—incontestably the greatest author photo of all time.

this is my current author photo & I want the next one to be identical (same clothes/backdrop), only now older & w/ the longer hair & also slightly closer to the bushes--and then I'll do the same thing for the next 20 books till i can replicate the Homer-in-the-bushes bit.

Today’s #lunchbagdoodle is a stand-up comedian and an uncooperative microphone.