I wasn’t sure anyone would want to publish this when I wrote it, and now it is in this brilliant magazine today. Thank you @theforge.bsky.social editors and readers for selecting my piece 🖤

“...the book is kind to a woman who—mistreated by her partners and the media alike—received less than her fair share of kindness in life.” The Object of Our Attention: @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social reviews Marisa Meltzer’s It Girl (@atriabooks.bsky.social). ➡️ buff.ly/aZp2Dbs

I deeply enjoyed this juicy read and reflecting on it for @therumpus.net Thank you @jbrookewrites.bsky.social ! @atriabooks.bsky.social

This piece from @recolston.bsky.social in @thenation.com (recommended by the always astute @studyhall.bsky.social) is such a smart meditation on the myth of objectivity and the structural problems of news media ❤️

Sooooo delightfully surprised by this news. I got the golden ticket! Thanks to the readers & editors at @theforge.bsky.social for selecting my piece, and congrats to fellow winner Kaitlyn and all the finalists 🔥

Has Ezra Klein always been like this

Feeling exhuasted yet nourished by a pilgrimage with the Atlanta Multifaith Coalition for Palestine this morning, and by this excellent essay by Michelle Gurule in @electricliterature.com electricliterature.com/my-uncle-doe...

Looks like this is in collaboration with LitHub. Pitch them your reviews of books by trans/queer authors that were overlooked by the NYT under Pamela Paul

Been really enjoying this essay by Jessica Winter, and also reminded of this piece I wrote about my great-grandfather who became addicted to morphine as a medic in WW1 and his grandsons (one of them my dad) who never met him but both died of opioid overdoses: www.harvardreview.org/content/the-...

Harvard Educational Review spent a year preparing a special issue on education in and about Palestine. In June, contributors were notified that the Harvard Education Publishing Group had abruptly canceled the issue's release. This is censorship and cowardice. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I can only hope this helps reasonable people lose their faith in the Times once and for all

Atlanta Police Fd'n released doc's in what was likely 1st open records lawsuit ag't a police fd'n. They show how the fd'n leaned on mayor and city council to stop voters fm deciding if they wanted Cop City. @stopcopcity.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“To Hugh, his mother is just that: his mother. His own burgeoning manhood demands her constant presence and the sacrifice of her selfhood.” buff.ly/g56WjWU

Get your summer ghost story fix! We’ll haunt the patriarchy together in my latest essay, out today in @electricliterature.com 👻

In addition to really appreciating this book in general, I’m enjoying how much @equalityalec.bsky.social is coming for frat boys (this is the third mention) #copaganda

Fully intend on having a #hotcommiesummer

OK so I penned this review myself — but ONLY after the slated reviewer had a conflict — So like my words or not, but please BUY and READ @jackiedwrites.bsky.social ‘s book: No Offense @therumpus.net @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social

the thing about the NYT releasing a podcast about trans healthcare is that if it’s not the story of how the alliance defending freedom captured the most influential liberal media outlet in the us and got it to provide a veneer of scientism to a bigoted religious crusade, what is it about?

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I loved this essay by Sarah Miller. Happy Thursday, world. We're all still here. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-50/ess... @nplusonemag.com #amreading

This review by @emmdubb16.bsky.social for @therumpus.net is a gift. Thank you, Maya!

Thank y’all so so much for making space for this piece! @jverchwrites.bsky.social is an incredible author, and I really appreciate @jbrookewrites.bsky.social and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social making sure this piece saw the light of day! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼

Think we just review individual #Books ? Think again — versatile #writer @emmdubb16.bsky.social offers a near survey course of John Vercher in our newest #Review @therumpus.net — maybe check it out instead of reading the news (addl thanks to asst ed @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social )

Spotted in the road on my walk back from school drop-off. Vonnegut torn in two. I left it on a brick wall for someone to find. #amreading #BookSky

Been thinking about her, imagining giving birth without him there. Beholding the whole new person they created. Worrying about all the newborn things, worrying about him.

Not your average book… Thank you @rosemetalpress.bsky.social for courageous publishing and Esa Grigsby (who as a writer lacks only a Bsky acct…) We (that’s @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social and me) loved working in this one— Give it a read @therumpus.net

"The Massachusetts Review will … still publish its special issue on incarcerated writers and family. … We won’t bow to please a king, and we won’t make our art alone." Support the issue: massreview.networkforgood.com/projects/221... @themassreview.bsky.social #NEA #AbolitionNow

It’s true; we do. #atlanta #beltline #urbanism

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New work out in @therumpus.net ! Thank you for your editorial guidance @jbrookewrites.bsky.social As always brilliant stuff from @graywolfpress.bsky.social

Once again waiting in a bathroom line 10 people deep and wondering when we are gonna quit this gender essentialism BS

"For a moment in time... emotional masculinity was all the rage." Thanks so much to @therumpus.net for the opportunity to revisit the onset of emo, browse the Punk Planet archives, and mull on the enduring power of Jawbreaker in light of Mariah Stovall's debut novel: therumpus.net/2025/04/22/u...

“Against the insurmountable, music, like any art, need not deliver salvation to provide a salve.” @sean-carlson.bsky.social reviews Mariah Stovall’s I Love You So Much It’s Killing Us Both (Soft Skull Press). ➡️ buff.ly/815qRNy

Sometimes we hype our @therumpus.net #reviewers and sometimes it seems they hype us … thanks @Sean-Carlson.bsky.social @catapultbooks.bsky.social @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/seancarl...

“At this historical moment, we need to become skilled at mothering. There will be no liberation without us knowing how to depend on each other.” —Cynthia Dewi Oka, “Mothering as Revolutionary Praxis,” from the anthology Revolutionary Mothering

It’s Monday, so I guess I am getting my shit in order

I pray you’ll read my latest. We are being challenged as a nation and this is a test we must pass. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Read this beautiful review of Denne Michele Norris’s WHEN THE HARVEST COMES, by @nonbinarypapi.bsky.social for @therumpus.net therumpus.net/2025/04/08/w... It was a pleasure to work on this under the guidance of @jbrookewrites.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social

Signs of life

Happy Friday ❤️

Tapped @apartan.bsky.social for her take on @shubhasunder.bsky.social deep reflection on what dominant cultures impose on immigrants/how it could kill the spark and how the resilient survive& triumph!Thanks to my pub @therumpus.net championing this work & always asstEd @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social

Exciting things to come! 🤩 Grateful for your leadership, Alyson 👏🏼

I remember reading this review of Nussaibah Younis’s Fundamentally by Sarah AlKahly-Mills in Submittable and saying, "I WANT THIS!" Grateful @jbrookewrites.bsky.social felt the same and happy to see it in @therumpus.net this month 💕 therumpus.net/2025/03/18/n...

Can confirm—this book is full of juicy morsels, as is its review by @kristiosorio.bsky.social in @therumpus.net this week 💫

“Once we see the consequences of the attempt to impose U.S. hegemony through force, we have an obligation to oppose it. It is the fundamental duty of the citizen to resist and to restrain the violence of the state.” —Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson, The Myth of American Idealism Recent reads 🌈

Looking forward to seeing this out in the world!

Good morning ☀️

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Thank you, @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social and @acreegrahammacam.bsky.social for interviewing me about MOTHERS AND OTHER FICTIONAL CHARACTERS!