“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.” Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel. @emilydoyle.bsky.social @lailalalami.com‬ worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/may/pun...

Had to take an author photo for my debut book, so here’s the photo, niece-approved (“I like blue jacket”)!

A book of poems that my friend gave me, that I needed.

What a perfect book.

Well I received THE DREAM HOTEL yesterday and I expect to finish it today because I simply can’t stop reading. @lailalalami.bsky.social you’re doing something terrifying and beautiful with this one.

Went tidepooling for my bday✨

Started a starter pack!

When the gift guide is itself a gift

Earlier this week I received an acceptance to a DREAM lit journal. I’ve spent the rest of the week convincing myself that it’s real. (Is it though???)

I attended one of Glück’s readings about six years ago, and she was terrifying and wonderful. I hope that wherever she is she’s striking fear and awe in equal measure.

Cookin up good things with @shortstorytoday.bsky.social ✨

Been researching for a story and now know facts that feel elicit because I was a Christian home school kid: 1) Neanderthals had bigger brains than us, 2) they had a similar physical capacity for speech, 3) we had sex with them at every opportunity.

"To write as a marginalized writer is to face, sooner or later, questions of authenticity and imagination." My review of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, appears in the Washington Post today. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...

Not me spending an hour recording one of my stories for a lit mag only to IMMEDIATELY delete the recording (and then recover it, thank god). Undergoing Trials and Tribulations by my own hand.

Oh my god I did the same thing

And for my first trick: A PHOTO OF MY LIZARD TAKING A BATH