This is lovely and also contains very actionable advice!

It’s actually brilliant. If you police away everything people use to make themselves feel comfortable/human during pregnancy, you will wind up driving down the birth rate in every community EXCEPT the ones in which ruthlessly dominate women. It’s brilliant and perfectly evil.

Libby. Hoopla. Kanopy. Audiobooks, magazines, movies, and documentaries. All included in your library card access.

This is my local indie! They supported Company multiple times (events for my hardcover and paperback books, plus an Indie Next rec) and are just all around wonderful. If you’re buying a book, always order through an indie! If you don’t have your own, go through @loyaltybooks.bsky.social:

Ugh this is so upsetting. Adore Loyalty.

DC area folks! My novel THE BELLES launches tomorrow (9/9) at Politics & Prose! I would LOVE to see you there.

For the first time in my life, I'm not using my precious notebooks and fountain pens? I've always handwritten drafts and then typed; it always helped me figure out my thoughts and edit as I go. But my newest novel seems to want me to find another way. So...here we go?

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

The two most terrifying words in the English language, when strung together: "Sleep" and "regression" 😑

Dear DC—get outside!!! It is the nicest day in the history of the universe!!!

Damn, baby yanked my bookmarks outta my in-progress books. Like reading when you’re a mom isn’t hard enough lol

"As the hours ticked by, Mr. Trump’s cabinet members highlighted the cost — in hours, in money, perhaps in karma — of keeping a seat at his table. And many did so while testing the apparently imaginary boundaries of the Hatch Act," This piece is a great summary of the bananas meeting.

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

Must read. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

New SpotLIT up at @wcp.bsky.social today! Lots of shout outs, including @bookbent.bsky.social's new novel on the top of my TBR pile! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7694...

Just once I want to come home to discover a package with a bright-blue envelope attached to it that says: "FOR WILL, WHO HAS PLENTY OF TIME."

one thing I’d add: no artist is ever 100% great at everything anyway; how you choose to navigate your own deficiencies is how you grow into your voice and style: being bad at some stuff, working on some of those weak areas & weaving around others is how you become your own singular artistic self.

Cannot wait to get my hands on this beautiful book!

Stephen Miller is right: crime is rampant in DC www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Hamnet, the only son of William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, was buried on this day in 1596. He was 11. From that slim note of tragedy, Maggie O'Farrell spun her best novel.

This part, from NYT. Just inhuman.

If you still don't think we're living under fascism, I don't know what to tell you. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/a...

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back. The damage is generational.

I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.

The amount of human suffering perpetrated by the Trump Administration is hard to compute. mRNA technologies are already on the verge of a cure for HIV, and promise to be breakthroughs for cancer and many other diseases. This is a monstrous decision by conspiracy mongering lunatics.

Really appreciate Aubrey’s comic because while breastfeeding is a fine option for women who choose it, the romanticization of this bodily function and the way we’ve wielded it collectively to shame moms continues to be one of the absolute worst things for women’s autonomy and well-being

This book has me weeping. I needed it so badly—its humor, wisdom, patience, and above all, its extraordinary grace.

I am not sure there is anything funnier in this world than helplessly exhorting “come back!” to your baby’s bare butt as she crawls speedily away mid-diaper change.

Have you read A Sharp Endless Need yet? If not, why the hell not?

Sometimes a note to yourself from 2 years ago (as you started work on a new novel for real for real) that you’d forgotten about shows up & gives you the feels. A hug from a me who was struggling less than I am today. Thanks, previous me. Let’s do this revision & remember this hug across time.

"The very best scientists are like elite basketball players: They come to America from all over the world so that they can spend their prime years working alongside top talent...That may no longer be the case a generation from now."

Did you know you can get Sunday scaries even if you don’t have a fucking job?! 😭

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, asking them to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. It's maybe slightly more effective than screaming into the void? Anyway, you should too: 5calls.org

scoop: donations to NPR and PBS stations have exploded, with donors across the country giving in unprecedented numbers since Congress cut federal funding www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/b...

The problem with writing my second novel is that...I know too much? With my first novel, I'd write a chapter and think, "This is pretty good." It wasn't, but the false confidence allowed me to move on to the next. Now I'm like, "Oh, here are all the ways this scene sucks," and it's paralyzing. 😳

This is monstrous, these are CHILDREN, I’m trying to stretch my comprehension to process reality but this is so far beyond it

*screams in I-probably-wouldn't-have-survived-pregnancy-without-my-SSRIs*

I am laughing out loud. This is fantastic!

I have to do so little to earn my eight-year-old’s love. I truly can do no wrong in her eyes. I’m mommy; I’m the best. I try to be a mother who deserves this adoration, but I’m human—as are all mothers. I hope as my daughter grows older & learns this she still loves me.

DMV area folks: Happening tonight at 7p @kramerbooks . Going to be reading and chatting with @andrewporter01.bsky.social ! Come out.

Convo w/ husband about cake for baby’s first birthday. I swear to god, that man has a death wish.

Someone is regularly bringing their dog to my front lawn, letting it poop there, and then leaving said poop. Other than keeping 24/7 vigil over my lawn and then jumping out when the perp emerges, anyone have ideas on how to prevent this? So many flies! So much stink!

Convo w/ husband about cake for baby’s first birthday. I swear to god, that man has a death wish.

“Workplace novel” doesn’t do this book justice. It’s an entire ecosystem, depicted with infinite nuance and care. It encapsulates the brutality of late-stage capitalism. It’s funny and humane and the stakes feel incredibly high yet perfectly relatable. Can’t wait to read on.

not accepting any explanations of why air conditioning is bad while governments are backtracking on their CO₂ emissions targets to power datacentres for generative AI

Doing an Airbnb getaway with your friends in your late thirties is just all of you in the dark whispering “is that yours?” about the screaming baby

We all need to be this angry:

Doing an Airbnb getaway with your friends in your late thirties is just all of you in the dark whispering “is that yours?” about the screaming baby