Lucille Clifton 💜

I'm so happy to finally share this news. This book is about how the past 9 years changed my ideas about family, community, and care, and how those ideas fit into a long history. Huge thanks to my agent @carolineeisenmann.bsky.social, who held my hand through much angst, and to my editor Abby Mohr.

This whole thread is bracingly clarifying.

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice. lithub.com/what-pride-a...

If someone, say me, were to organise a year of guided book groups with creative/critical task on the early Gothic... would anyone be interested in that? With a small fee for 'living' purposes?

fairly certain we are living in a sartre play at this point

This Sunday, we are launching “Climate Desk Weekly.” This free dispatch will act as Mother Jones' Sunday newsletter and share the week’s need-to-know climate news right in your inbox from our collaboration of 15 award-winning media outlets. Sign up at: www.motherjones.com/newsletters/

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

He is 45 today! He placed first in his brand new age category! He is not on BlueSky

this is actually so smart tho

I have a couple of classes I assign Anzaldúa in and she’s a consistent student favorite. Spread the joy (and incisive activism)!

@rcolesworthy.bsky.social doing the WORK ❤️‍🔥

@eileenmhunt.bsky.social doing the WORK ❤️‍🔥

icarus flew too close to the sun but not me. i would have kept going, right into the sun

YOU GUYS. DAVID BOWIE WAS WRITING AN 18thc MUSICAL CALLED THE SPECTATOR WHEN HE DIED. Between this and Hilary Mantel’s unfinished rewriting of Pride & Prejudice… I cannot. David Bowie’s secret final project discovered locked in his study www.bbc.com/news/article...

help! my book is legitimately very scary and i can’t go to sleep until i find out what happens and i still have like 65k words left to write

does anybody need me to explain frankenstein

This month’s column is up at @nytimes.com! This time around, I talk about Ana Paula Maia’s On Earth as It Is Beneath, Tim Lebbon’s Secret Lives of the Dead, Lindsay King-Miller’s This Is My Body, and John Langan’s Lost in the Dark and Other Excursions. Free link! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/b...

“You’ve mythologized your writing process in a way that’s actually making it harder for you to write. And you can write that down and post it on the Internet.” -spouse

I need new music. What are we listening to?

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment: 1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

I mean, whomst among us doesn't, in some primal way, want to be smothered with roses in a fairy forrest grove while a large man grovels before us?

Two months ago, I was laid off from my job as a kidlit editor, along with six other union members... Which means I have lots of free time! So I've donated my editorial services to the We the People fundraiser for #KidLit4Ceasefire 🍉 + immigrant & trans rights. 🔗 www.32auctions.com/organization...

Virgo. Season

I wrote this piece on my wonderful friend Carolyn’s wonderful book a while back and it’s the closest I’ve ever come to defending the humanities, sharing here in case it brings anyone some solace 🩵 lareviewofbooks.org/article/swan...

one last thing, hopefully not for you, but nevertheless: keep doing the work, humanists. keep writing the stuff that pisses all the right people off, keep teaching your students to imagine better futures, keep learning all kinds of nerdy stuff. we’ll need that knowledge. and that heart. 💜

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

How to reimagine my winter course—bibliography and research methods—for this moment of ubiquitous AI and epistemicide? Help plz

Life of a Showgirl 💚🧡 Seriously tho @rcolesworthy.bsky.social it looks like Taylor is having her Tigerlily moment! And yes imma cross post this and tag u both timez

Thank you so much for the pub day love! I'm thrilled to unleash my non-denominational demon child upon the world. Let THIS IS MY BODY into your heart and other organs, wherever books are sold! www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/789598...

Something fun I did today was hold a dissertation defense in a university building that was hosting a barbershop quartet conference!

Happy birthday to Emily Brontë and also to Kate Bush!

Denver and surrounding area, come celebrate the launch of THIS IS MY BODY with @rachelfeder.bsky.social and @cannibalghosts.bsky.social and @mariaabrams.bsky.social and me!

Front Range friends!!!! I know you want to celebrate @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social with me ❤️‍🔥

I just discovered @5calls.org and it is such a great tool! Friends, call your reps today and ask them to call for the urgent delivery of aid to Gaza! It takes 5 minutes and that leaves 23.9 hours in the day for spiraling

Good morning, poetry people! If you're Boston/ Cambridge/ Somerville/ Arlington and you're free today (Sun 7/20) around 3pm, consider coming to hear me at Longfellow House, Brattle St! It's free! nepoetryclub.org/events/2025-...

Some personal news… @roxanegay.bsky.social and @debbiemillman.bsky.social are relaunching @therumpus.net!!! And I’m excited to be joining their team as poetry editor! 🤓 WEEEEE!!! You can submit your poetry for consideration here: therumpus.submittable.com/submit

This loss is hard. Andrea Gibson was and is the patron saint of the Denver slam scene. I came up too late to compete against them, but they shaped the writers who shaped me. Strangers have heard the echo of Andrea's voice in my work. Holding Andrea and their many, many loved ones in my heart.

THIS is what happens when you write a book with @tifftates.bsky.social 🦋

We absolutely loved this book about literary devices and Taylor swift lyrics. I think discovered it on here? Anyway, I ended up reading it first and most enthusiastically. bookshop.org/p/books/tayl...?

How to train your dragon live-action remake in an air-conditioned theater with m&ms and popcorn, no notes, I cried, give it an Oscar

Publisher's Weekly calls THIS IS MY BODY "exhilarating and disgusting, moving and monstrous"! Coming August 5 from @quirkbooks.bsky.social. Pre-order now! www.publishersweekly.com/9781683694649

Happy Pride! 30% off all LGBTQ+ @sunypress.bsky.social titles! That means you can preorder Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s new collection, PRIETA IS DREAMING, for the low low price of $17.46, which is like half a carton of eggs or something. 🤯 sunypress.edu/Collections/...

support snart kids or I'm gonna identify as a fuckin melborp

oh hell YES, we love to see it

What's that? A new @sunypress.bsky.social volume devoted to the metapsychology of Haitian-Canadian psychoanalyst Willy Apollon coedited by Lucie Cantin, Tracy McNulty, and Jeffrey Librett? Yes, please! As the kids say, we are so back. sunypress.edu/Books/A/A-Ps...

Biggest difference I’ve noticed about being in my 40s is that I understand The Beach Boys now