Loved chatting with @jasondiamond.bsky.social on his new book and Jewish stuff!

This is going to be epic.

Read my review! :)

Elmo wrote my Subst*ck this week! Check it out here. 52badessays.substack.com/p/elmos-stat...

Wondering what an alligator thinks of this week’s news of Alligator Alcatraz? Well I sat down with one yesterday and got the exclusive scoop! 52badessays.substack.com/p/i-am-an-al...

I wrote about the big A-word... Could it be Assholes? Could it be Ackamarackus? Could it be Annoying Apples? Maybe you should find out... 52badessays.substack.com/p/hiding-in-...

With @storystudiochicago.bsky.social, literary journal Arcturus, and @chicagowriterspod.bsky.social we've decided to leave X. Our social media editor @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social writes why: chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/21/b...

Huge thanks to Newcity Lit and @rubyprosenthal.bsky.social for this terrific piece on our Writers on Writing series, curated by @rebeccamakkai.bsky.social:

Okay Bluesky followers...raise your hand if you remember the Jamie Lee Curtis Activia commercials...

Plenty to be angry about with this administration, but I wrote about what this week's NEA cuts mean to me. Spoiler alert: a LOT. open.substack.com/pub/52badess...

Get your spring reading sorted! The @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social has your 12 must-read books for May!

"Books and art allow us to be fully realized. Authoritarians want to oppress us. They want us to feel downtrodden. But art gives us hope." @gregzimmerman.bsky.social's interview with @samiraahmed.bsky.social is out now. chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/01/r...

Yoooohoooo! 📣 Internet people! 🌎 (<--- this is what Bluesky recommends as an emoji when I searched "internet") I've got a newsletter! 🗞️ And a new one just came out yessssterday! And you can check it out here! 52badessays.substack.com/p/dear-america

Ah yes, the moment we've all been waiting for: I wrote about God. But not in any real religious way. You can check it out below! 52badessays.substack.com/p/in-gods-im...

Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Unfortunately, sometimes the algorithm really gets it right.

Very grateful for the opportunity to review Joshua Gottlieb-Miller's latest poetry collection for @jewishbookcouncil.bsky.social! You can check out the review below: www.jewishbookcouncil.org/book/dybbuk-...

Hiding in my room to work on my substack for this week is like

We’ve got something special for you today!! Our EIC @mbwwelch.bsky.social sat down to show us what’s on his to-read list, and, we’re telling you, these books look 🔥🔥🔥Get excited for these (and so many other) great books coming out later this year!!

Come and join me over on Substack where I wrote about...well...see if you can figure it out! open.substack.com/pub/52badess...

me: he didn't use exclamation points in his email, he /clearly/ hates me also me: uses an ostentatious amount of exclamation points in my next email to make it clear that /i/ do not hate /him/

people love to connect with you on linkedin but they hate to follow you back on IG

32% of being a girl is wanting to buy a striped shirt and then having your friends gently remind you that you have approximately 600 striped shirts already

everyone after the events of "liberation day" be like

I think if all else fails, I'll just be a copywriter for Trader Joe's

I have a newsletter coming out today at 4pm CT so if you want to get on top of it and subscribe, you can do so here: 52badessays.substack.com/subscribe?ut...

the most creative way i have put off writing yet