Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dreamed about dressing like a 50-year-old woman.

Are you a person who loves language and the independence of your own mind *and* yearns to feel physically ill? Read this (gift link). www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

I’m in hell. This is hell.

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

@summerbrennan.bsky.social on “Cat Person” and discourses of yore (and ongoing projects to deny women as artists)

“In fiction, female authors are constantly asked to explain how their personal experiences have somehow qualified them to tell the stories they are telling, and live under the constant suspicion that their fiction isn’t really fiction at all…” open.substack.com/pub/summerbr...

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

🎶 because I knew you I have been changed for good 🎶

This is the realest real. And often that dinner needs to be ready by like, 5:30, 6 at the latest. On the table and at a comfortable temperature to eat.

“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.” ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Back briefly to share my essay again. Because this, too, is a fundamental part of this country’s corruption. My pedophile voted Democrat. He was personable, charming even. A lot of ppl thought he was a good guy. Idc who is on that list. I want them all outed. Please read, if you can.

Who doesn’t love a dinkus-ridden manuscript

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

I didn’t see the Northern Lights on 11/11, but I did see the neon signs inside Lioni’s Italian Heros shop in South Brooklyn and I think that’s a pretty close second. Similar color palette.

“This Just In: Water From Tap is Wet”

So proud of my Tin House baddie @sumaiya.bsky.social for fighting for this story and doing a public reading for Brooklyn and the world last August. Now everyone can read it online, thanks to @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social 🩵 www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/11/02/s...

The last push happened as my infant son became a toddler, I held down a full time tech job, and worked towards a draft of an unrelated book project. It sounds impressive until you consider I may have not done any of these things well at all. Anyways, to eventual publication!

Just got proofs for an academic article that’s somehow been 8 years in the making. Slow and steady work, full of second-guessing and double-checking and anxiety. Many research trips, conference presentations, revisions—all boiled down into 23 pages. How do I feel about it? At this moment, tired. 😅

How I love to read Chee. And Chee on the city I love and our new mayor is just what I needed to remember what happened here a week ago, and remember all the reasons to be grateful to experience this era in NYC. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...

Did women ruin the workplace?

Children are the largest recipients of SNAP benefits. Also: Seniors, the disabled and the folks who care for them. Because that's what civilized countries do: Support their citizens when they need support and ensure they can live with dignity www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

New York City sunset had a whole narrative arc this evening

quoting mario cuomo is cold as fuck man

Zohran Mamdani quoting Mario Cuomo in his acceptance speech is nasty work and I love it. The Sicilian in me bows to his killer instinct.

More than anything, Mamdani has killed the “corporate democrat political avatar” as a force in elections . If you can’t be authentic, don’t run @jamellebouie.net

I have actually not seen Mamdani give a formal speech and what I’ll say is that unlike so many of his peers he is not trying to mimic anyone in his delivery. He is simply being himself and it is very effective.

“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life”

our new, supple mayor

This person took this when they called the race

Glee scrolling

reminder to all my trans friends that a man who campaigned with this much support and love for us just destroyed the most machine politician to ever exist in spite of all odds. turns out vocally caring about us is a winning strategy!!

Dick Cheney dies, Zohran Mamdani wins, a beaver moon shines in the sky… I just know the Etsy witches have been busy.

The person in front of me at the poll today had never voted before

*highest since 1969

2 million ballots 💗

NYC with the highest voter turnout for a mayor race in more than three decades … and the polls haven’t even closed yet

I love this

"Never miss a new book by Augustine"

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

Let this be the craziest sentence I read today

I might lose sleep over the list of institutional barriers to assigning physical books to college students detailed in this thread (at a SLAC, no less!). Remarkable to think about how much has changed in the 5-6 years since I taught. Though there were harbingers of this before the pandemic.

These are beautiful

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

1 of 2 On X, Alice Gainer, Anchor/Reporter for CBS New York, was down by the courts and happened upon this bonkers fast-moving scene of ICE being pursued by a large crowd of New Yorkers who are yelling their heads off. I'm guessing the crowd was 70–100 folks. With some press mixed in.

Did not have to think twice

Not sure if it’s a good idea, but I read every Oct 21 entry I could find in my old journals and this time of year, I’m typically contemplating: the end of friendships, the death of family members, my inability to meet my expectations, the disappointment of others. Anyway, PSA: take your vitamin D.

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.

I call it “joyful rigor” when I explain this effort to my students. I don’t believe in or rather, I’m not a “suffering poet.” I’m a writer who enjoys writing. The work works on me and I’m grateful for the opportunity to delve into the process at my own pace and to be changed by it.

Beautiful day.