people.com/peoples-best... Got 2 on here! Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman and Kaplan’s Plot by @jasondiamond.bsky.social

people.com/peoples-best... Got 2 on here! Boy From the North Country by Sam Sussman and Kaplan’s Plot by @jasondiamond.bsky.social

Being a Jets fan is the most ridiculous thing.

I loved this new piece on my Amelia Earhart book, The Aviator and the Showman by Jennifer Ouelette at @arstechnica.com

Well this is amazing.

Very weird but also very proud to log on and see video of my sister-in-law being arrested for standing up for what’s right.

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

Trying not to overdo it with book promo but we’ve got a giveaway that’s a copy of Kaplan’s Plot with a matching LL Bean boat and tote. We’re giving five away on IG. www.instagram.com/p/DOwSra2jy-...

Last night ruled! At the @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social Chicago launch of @jasondiamond.bsky.social’s debut novel KAPLAN’S PLOT (with @jamiattenberg.bsky.social), we learned about Al Capone’s laundry, intergenerational trauma, and how to wake up everyday and just try to figure it out.

This Sunday at 3 pm at Brooklyn Book Festival I’m on a panel called the Unconventional Playbook (our books are weird!) with Kristen Arnett & Benedict Nguyễn. Afterwards I’ll be signing copies of The Payback.

Sam Sussman & Ayad Akhtar discussing Sam’s novel Boy From the North Country at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social

I just had a conversation with Judy Blume and I’m freaking out.

Sam Sussman & Ayad Akhtar discussing Sam’s novel Boy From the North Country at the @92ndstreety.bsky.social

Mobile bookshop.✨🚐✨

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youtu.be/ZdGLJly6P7c?... Essential viewing.

Thank you to the Maine State Nurses Association for their powerful endorsement. Together we will reverse these devastating rural hospital closures, and we will fight for (and one day win) Medicare for All.

Shoutout to @lauriestories.bsky.social as I've recently read her very fine "The Aviator and the Showman" which covers the marriage of Amelia Earhart & George Putnam in great depth. Ms. Shapiro, your work gives me some new tour points as a docent at NASM. Thanks for your thorough research. 1/3

One thing that bothers me tonight in particular is how so much of this is happening because of grand and sweeping capitulation by the media, by companies, by Congress, by people in power. Even when they don’t have to — they simply comply, acquiesce, and appease.

You can’t get rid of THE MELANIADOOK.

Me with my little debut novel to any of the newspapers with a book section left in America going “Please sir, I got an award nomination. I know you’re busy with Dan Brown, but could you maybe toss me a sentence or two?”

Crazy excited about this!! @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize for @jasondiamond.bsky.social !!! Huge.

Crazy excited about this!! @barnesandnoble.com Discover Prize for @jasondiamond.bsky.social !!! Huge.

As a reminder, if you'd like to review the book, just shoot me a DM or an email (my address is in my bio).

I was walking through a quarry and I said to the foreman, "That sure is a big rock." "Boulder," he corrected me. So I stuck out my chest and shouted, "THAT SURE IS A BIG ROCK!"

Not as exciting, but here’s the back cover.

Want to see something gorgeous?

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

"I wanted to talk about intergenerational trauma, the things we inherit." @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social's interview with @jasondiamond.bsky.social on his new book “Kaplan's Plot” (@flatironbooks.bsky.social) is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/09/16/o...

What Robert Redford contributed to American films via Sundance is genuinely immeasurable. He was also an extraordinarily talented director--Ordinary People and Quiz Show are two of the best American studio movies of their eras--and an actor who somehow wore his incredible charisma almost shyly. RIP.

What an amazing turn out at @jasondiamond.bsky.social event at @booksaremagic.bsky.social Here he is signing a hot dog. And buy Kaplan’s Plot! It’s an amazing novel.

Ada Limon is a Mexican-American poet who became 24th United States Poet Laureate in 2022. She has had a wonderful career with many awards, including the MacArthur Fellowship. We are not going to give up either.

Thomas is one of the best new sci-fi writers out there. Check him out.

“The European mind cannot comprehend this”

What an amazing turn out at @jasondiamond.bsky.social event at @booksaremagic.bsky.social Here he is signing a hot dog. And buy Kaplan’s Plot! It’s an amazing novel.

You walk by any bar in NYC on Sunday and every Jets fan is outside looking like this by week 2

Still time to get tix to support @jasondiamond.bsky.social this Friday!! We can't wait to see you there, Chicago.

So happy to announce that American Scare will be part of the Florida Pride in Progress festival on Sept 19 & 20 #booksky

Can’t tell you how proud I am to see American Scare featured in the latest issue of Naperville Magazine, my hometown’s major publication!! napervillemagazine.com/fighting-fear/ #booksky

Read a selection from journalist Robert W. Fieseler's new book exploring the ways the Florida state government destroyed the lives of Black and queer citizens in the twentieth century.

Talk about a Dream “Pride & Prejudice” panel at the Mississippi Book Festival. That’s Fabian Nelson, Mississippi’s first openly queer legislator; blockbuster fiction writer Kristen Arnett; Andy Corren, the gay humorist who inherited Harvey Fierstein’s mantel; and some lucky guy on the righthand side

Really telling that the villain of every new franchise instalment these days - Superman; Alien: Earth; the new NCIS show, I guess? - is always Elon Musk.

Another magical day at the Mississippi Book Festival #booksky

Sunday feels. #writing

Brooklyn! This starts today!

Me, ignoring the signs, feeding a skittish artist an apple from my hand