Was excited to take part in this eye-opening publishing industry survey at @vulture.com—big thanks to @emmaalpern.bsky.social and @jvojdani.bsky.social for including me!

Before we all float away on a tide of eggnog, here's @time.com's preview of 36 anticipated books coming in 2026. Many thanks to Lucy Feldman for the opportunity. time.com/7341767/most...

⭐Monday, January 12, 8pm⭐: We're launching the Franklin Park Reading Series 2026 season with a star-studded lineup-- @justintaylor.bsky.social, @knguyen.bsky.social, @ellomelissa.bsky.social, Heather McCalden, and Ali Kriegsman! Book raffle, drink specials, #free admission! shorturl.at/yTq9W

So my first novel, The Survivalists (black woman lawyer falls in with a pack of Black Brooklyn doomsday preppers) is the San Francisco Public Library’s On The Same Page Pick for January/February 2026, and i’ll be doing an event there on 2/22 sfpl.org/books-and-me...

Rereading Hemingway’s The Garden of Eden, posthumously published in 1986, and was struck by this passage this morning—his novelist character is doing the math on his sales, earning out his advance after selling 5000 copies. A simpler time (likely setting for this is circa 1926).

I wish there was a magazine for this series.

The Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale was a smash—huge thanks to mesmerizing readers @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social & Wah-Ming Chang, and lots of ❤️ to our awesome audience! 🗓️We’ll be back Jan. 12!

“I feel more drawn than ever to items that are secondhand or—if they must be new—emulate the craftsmanship and quality of an earlier time,” Rachel Syme writes. Shop her holiday gift guide. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-a...

hey goodfolks i am teaching my DISCOVERING CHARACTERS intensive again with @tinhouse.bsky.social ! Come through please on January 17; learn with me from my strange and wonderful power-points <3 tinhouse.com/product/wint...

Why Jane Austen's works still resonate, 250 years after her birth We ask members of the Jane Austen Society of North America as well as writers Sandra Cisneros and Brandon Taylor. By Melissa Gray www.npr.org/2025/12/07/n... Austen at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho... #books #literature

TONIGHT, 8PM: We’re celebrating an outstanding year of lit at the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale, featuring @angelaflournoy.bsky.social Tim Blake Nelson @drovarela.bsky.social @megancummins.bsky.social @jennifersears.bsky.social & Wah-Ming Chang! #Free + book raffle, drink specials!

Ursula Le Guin's short story "Solitude" presents a fascinating counterpoint to the concept of the Happily Ever After ending, imagining alternative ways of thinking about the world, relationships, and the self:

Great interview at @abcnewsdesk.bsky.social w/a star of Monday's Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale, Tim Blake Nelson, about his new novel Superhero, an astute commentary on Hollywood and a Marvel-inspired blockbuster! Franklin Park, 618 St. Johns Pl, Brooklyn. abcnews.go.com/Entertainmen...

MONDAY, 8PM: The Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale toasts a year of outstanding lit w/superstars @angelaflournoy.bsky.social Tim Blake Nelson @drovarela.bsky.social @megancummins.bsky.social @jennifersears.bsky.social & Wah-Ming Chang! Franklin Park, 618 St. Johns Pl. #Free #crownheights

MONDAY, 8PM: Join us for the Franklin Park Reading Series, featuring an all-star lineup: @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social, and Wah-Ming Chang! #Free! #crownheights shorturl.at/9gnfC

PhD Jessie has come a long way from the Southern girlhood she shared with her sister—the one who stayed behind. In new short fiction by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, Jessie’s thoughts turn to Joan of Arc, another rural refugee who recanted her faith.

For @publisherswkly.bsky.social, I shared 6 of the most fascinatingly suppressed women writers I discovered while researching A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS — out next week! www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"A story-driven and kaleidoscopic examination of women making sense of often unimaginable reactions to trauma." Jen Percy describes her new book GIRLS PLAY DEAD (and tells us what else she's reading) in this issue of Shelf Awareness: www.shelf-awareness.com/issue.html?i...

Great to see Superhero, the new novel by Dec. 8 Franklin Park Reading Series star Tim Blake Nelson, among @tobiascarroll.bsky.social’s wide-ranging book recs at @insidehook.bsky.social!

Great to see books by Franklin Park Reading Series stars Lynne Tillman, @xbennyboo.bsky.social, and Laura Venita Green on @literaryhub.bsky.social's 100 Notable Small Press Books roundup!

ONE WEEK AWAY--MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 8PM: Can't wait for the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale with superstars @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social, and Wah-Ming Chang! #Free Details: shorturl.at/9gnfC

Only a few spots left so grab yours now if you want to join my workshop and write some stories where Dorothy never left Kansas, but also Kansas got a little weird

If you haven’t watched my new comedy special yet, this weekend is a nice time to give it a shot! You can watch it with your parents if you have cool parents, and you can watch it with your kids if you have cool kids!

MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 8PM: Join us for the Franklin Park Reading Series Season Finale, featuring @angelaflournoy.bsky.social, Tim Blake Nelson, @drovarela.bsky.social, @megancummins.bsky.social, @jennifersears.bsky.social, and Wah-Ming Chang! Details: shorturl.at/9gnfC #Free #crownheights

@megancummins.bsky.social explores why writers write about writers and how an artist’s relationship to creation can change over time.

Author Alejandro Varela tackles polyamory, conformity, heartbreak and more in "Middle Spoon."

I was so happy for @laurenleblanc.bsky.social to review THE WILDERNESS, @angelaflournoy.bsky.social's thrilling new novel about what it means to be a friend. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/10/a...

Hi CNF writers with a book, if you're interested in teaching a 1-1 for the next two to three years while you're hopefully working on your next book and want to live in the Twin Cities, please consider applying to be our next writer in residence: hr.myu.umn.edu/jobs/ext/371...

"I don’t listen to music when I write, because I need total silence to hear my own thoughts, but playlists are still an essential part of my writing process" Nikkitha Bakshani shared a playlist for her debut novel Ghost Chilli at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/11/23/n...

This is a very fun list to be on. ❤️‍🔥 people.com/31-books-tha...

We had a blast at November's Franklin Park Reading Series event! Huge thanks to our phenomenal readers, Brandon Taylor, @charliejane.bsky.social, Sam Munson, @missjenchoi.bsky.social, and Laura Venita Green, and lots of ❤️to our amazing audience! 📆Save the date for our Season Finale on December 8!

TINY THREADS came out last year by @delreybooks.bsky.social. I'm very proud of the dark thriller about a young woman who takes a fashion job in Vernon, California where she starts seeing disturbing things. To mark my horror debut, here's some fave reviews: www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

"expertly mixing personal reflections into explorations of the major challenges of our time" ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 time.com/collections/...

Come and meet @jfkane.bsky.social at the Coffee House Club in New York TONIGHT: www.eventbrite.com/e/author-mar...

“I love the sounds down there. The variations inside that accent are really beautiful. And the things that people say? The figurative language? It’s so rich.” @donikakelly.bsky.social discusses the influence of Southern speech on her third and latest poetry collection. Read on: at.pw.org/DonikaKelly

Q&A with Laura Venita Green about her new novel, SISTER CREATURES. tinyurl.com/mryzjesh

In this excerpt from “The Wanderer’s Curse,” Jennifer Hope Choi (@missjenchoi) learns of yeokmasal—the wanderer’s curse—and wonders whether she’s fated for the same insatiable longing for elsewhere that afflicts her mother. buff.ly/QiAo2ut

TONIGHT, 8PM: Can't wait to host celebrated authors Brandon Taylor, @charliejane.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Sam Munson, @missjenchoi.bsky.social, and Laura Venita Green! #FreeAdmission, drink specials, raffle! 618 St. Johns Pl, Crown Heights, Brooklyn.

MONDAY at FRANKLIN PARK READING SERIES: We're honored to host lit superstar Brandon Taylor! Get set with this eye-opening interview at @newyorker.com:

Book Review: The Sofa by Sam Munson - Independent Book Review

🌀THE SOFA is coming Nov. 11 🌀 “ A masterpiece. The Sofa moves with the inevitability and elegance of a recurring nightmare. When you look closely at the clear prose you notice alien scales beneath." —Michael Clune, author of Pan 🔗 twodollarradio.com/products/the...

QUITE A LINE-UP

Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Charlie Jane Anders joins The Epilogue... podcast to talk about characters, protagonists and antagonists, and writing your way through troubling times.

MONDAY!!!! NYC!!! Some amazing authors will be sharing their work and I will also burble into a microphone in a manner that may be pleasing

MONDAY, 8PM: Join us at the Franklin Park Reading Series, when we’ll be hosting Booker Prize finalist Brandon Taylor and stellar authors @charliejane.bsky.social, Jaquira Diaz, Sam Munson, @missjenchoi.bsky.social, and Laura Venita Green! #FreeAdmission 618 St. Johns Place, Crown Heights, BK

Thrilled to see one of Monday's Franklin Park Reading Series stars, Sam Munson, and his amazing @twodollarradio.bsky.social novel The Sofa on @reactorsff.bsky.social's great roundup of November horror releases!

So excited to be teaching a course this winter, online, on hybrid storytelling at Poetry School London. The course is part memoir, part fable, and part poetry. See below.

This is an amazing lineup! Hoping to make this one.

East Coast peeps! I am coming to you! MONDAY I'll be at Franklin Park in Brooklyn. 11/17-11/18: JMU & Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA 11/19: Little District Books & As You Are in DC 11/20: Trans Day of Remembrance @ GMU followed by the Arthur C. Clarke Awards 11/22-11/23: Miami Book Fair!