Help I wrote a scary scene and now I need to lie down

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...

I am manifesting a movie adaptation of THIS IS MY BODY starring Kristen Stewart

In impossible nonsense: I'd like to learn to do a respectable axel. In impossible nonsense I pretend isn't impossible: I'd like to write an Oscar-winning screen play about my great-grandmother's life. Tbh the axel is far more likely. But the 1930s-esque silk dress I'd wear to the Oscars is divine.

It’s 11/11, let’s manifest impossible nonsense! I’ll go first: I’d like to write the libretto for the Third Eye Blind jukebox musical 🧡

All my love and solidarity to Quirk Books Union. The publishing industry has no future without unions, and I'm so proud that we were part of the effort to unionize publishing.

My heart 💓💓💓

Sudden craving for one of those 90s dessert carts. Like yes please show me an example of the crème brûlée

hilary duff released a new song today and my friend was like god i love living in mamdani’s america

Hope is a fuel. Use it to burn down something terrible.

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

A year ago today, we had a really terrible election night, and because I know how people fall into despair I sat down at 11pm and wondered what I could tell you. I told you:

In addition to everything else he did last night, I’m grateful to Mamdani for condemning antisemitism and Islamophobia in the same breath ❤️

FEEDING BABIES WON!!!!!

god what a huge night for Handsomeness

everybody gets twenty-four hours to lib out with impunity, tonight is the cringe purge

So upset about @teenvogue.com being absorbed into Vogue. Teen Vogue’s political reporting has often been sharper than other mainstream outlets. Now there will be no political staffers left. www.thewrap.com/teen-vogue-e...

all the staffers at teen vogue who just got laid off I hope yall feel how appreciated your work has been by so many.

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members. At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

I don’t know why I thought Teen Vogue would persist but here we are. Such terrible news for free speech, for political education, for the intellectual commons of girlhood.

There’s something so chilling about realizing a cute animal video is AI. Like we’re destroying the environment on which the cute animals depend for survival in order to see close approximations of them on our phones. A horror novel in miniature

If astrology’s not real, why is Halloween also John Keats’s birthday

Nan isn’t On Here so lemme tell you her book THE CHINESE TRAGEDY OF KING LEAR is 🔥, here’s a link to a lovely review & a picture of Nan looking gorgeous, go read it!! lareviewofbooks.org/article/can-...

they keep letting me write things for some reason! anyway, here’s gothic horror (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/b...

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

I love this thread. I had great lit classes where many of these resonate with me even if they are snark. mine is that goofus and gallant (from the highlights for children series) is a take on class warfare, American exceptionalism, and European hegemony disguised as good manners.

Tomorrow evening! My slide deck is all set!

www.raceandregency.org/podcast We have a podcast!

do you have a horror/horror-ish book coming out in 2026? tell me about it here, please! I'm working on the 2026 horror list and while I'm very good at sniffing out new books, I still miss things - help me help you! forms.gle/KxLNwVDVbbRS...

The humanities are so hot right now

Students in the humanities know what they are in college to learn! To use their human brains! Here is a great piece that calls for us to reject AI in the classroom ⬇️⬇️⬇️

EXACTLY. The process of writing the book is the best part AND what gets me to work on the next project after all the noise goes away.

This is what is confounding me about any convo involving AI and writing. Why would you outsource any part of the writing process to something that will do mediocre work, at best, and rob you of the best parts.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

honestly amazing how much damage, violence, and sustained mistreatment the world can endure without in any way dimming its inexhaustible impulse towards repair. To quote George Eliot, these things are a parable

Aaaaaaaahhhh!!!!!

I made you a spooky present! 🍂 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948030...

Tell me about a new or forthcoming book you’re super obsessed with! I’ll go first: ATLAS OF UNKNOWABLE THINGS by McCormick Templeman ❤️‍🔥

Sorry I broke the internet / Good morning from E. E. Cummings

We need to bring back the Horse Book genre, and also the accompanying section in the library with the little yellow horsey stickers

Passing by Nella Larsen is the novel that people think The Great Gatsby is.

i dunno if it's really unhinged, but fanfiction is one of the oldest, perhaps the oldest, human literary tradition well either that or fanfiction as we think of it is an outgrowth of that tradition

The emdash is perfect.

Good job everybody on earth for showing up for this!

All my authors are my beloved children and I am proud when my children sow chaos (this isn’t an unhinged opinion it’s just true)

My favorite book that I've read this year is David Benioff's "City of Thieves" (a @joshuakosman.bsky.social rec), I could not put it down My favorite sandwich is a BLT

Let’s go fully fun, I’m recommending Dealing with Dragons And roast beef with horseradish mayo

The Long Goodbye pastrami on rye

Haunting of Hill House is a banger.