now that the scammers have found my university email, I am getting invited to fake book festivals, getting offered to sit on fake judging panels, emails from fake Liane Moriarty, fake book clubs, fake podcasts, getting fake book deals from Hachette, fake agents offering me representation

Never expected to get one of the most thoughtful reviews of my writing life from Beauty News NYC (a true lovely kindness to see this book so engaged with already): www.beautynewsnycofficial.com/lifestyle/25...

on Sunday, I will be yelling vamos!!!!! (Spanish accent, not Argentinian accent!!!)

this is the best paragraph I've read about my next book, truly gets it, gets me: reactormag.com/30-more-sff-...

$9300!!! Getting closer!!

If you're looking for something to read this afternoon, you should check out this story by @ruthjoffre.bsky.social: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/waru...

when you're not really someone who likes saying very mean things online but you find yourself wondering if you should say something aboslutely rancid so that your workplace will fire you and you'll get a big pay out eventually and that might let you lean hard into art or learning a new language

you can see your best, new, large friend starring in, maybe, the greatest sportswashing enterprise of all time on sunday august 23rd

on the one hand, i hate jordan pickford in a deeply petty way and on the other hand, if england wins the world cup we would be hopefully getting raptured sooner rather than later and be done with this reality

five living writers that you've read five book by each: (or if you're me just going for how many you can remember) Attenberg Danticat DeLillo Ishiguro Jemisin Kuang Link (realized book of love pushed her to 5!) Murakami Vandermeer Ward

I have a new story out today in @lightspeedmagazine.com inspired in part by a relative’s memory loss and all the things I wished I had asked her when she could answer. it would mean a lot to me if you read it and even more if you called an elder today. you never know how much time you have left 🙏

My first (and probably only) short story collection comes out on September 8: www.harpercollins.com/products/bla...

I wanted to let you know that this afternoon, federal agents and ICE vehicles were parked at the Powderhorn Park Recreation Center parking lot and on the 3400 block of Bloomington Ave S. Please continue to be on the lookout, and alert your neighbors if you see any ICE presence in our community. 1/

Rest in peace, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a Mexican resident murdered by ICE in Houston, Texas this morning. Unfortunately, the federal government is using the same talking points they used against Renee Good in this case. It’s disgusting. 1/ www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I am more excited and thrilled for egypt at this moment than I have ever been for any of my own personal or professional accomplishments

🖤 dreams cannot be buy 🥰

Belgium is fun to watch because you have to wonder if they would have won a world cup if Courtois had never hooked up with Kevin De Bruyne's girlfriend (and if these two dudes still hate each other)

an essay that links how much mainstream american culture has shifted toward if-you-have-values-you-are-perfomative mindset tying it to the rise of online sports betting tying it to weird "if you manifest it" culture around US men's national soccer

i cannot tell if adding dan burn, a true agent of chaos, means tuchel wants to win or if he's like whatever, this game could be even more demented

it's an all-time i hope everybody loses

may whatever divinity and magic in this universe that's left let the mo salah of last year show up against argentina

i say this with great lifelong love, football is the perfect sport for people on text-based social media because it has the most pedantic fans in the entire world

well, i guess i will get to enjoy seeing portugal get wasted by a bunch of teens next week

Still one of the best things written about him but really about corruption in sports generally, puts so many pieces together in brilliant ways.

My first short story collection comes out September 8th. It's the book that's taken me the longest to write (lol I wrote the first draft of one of these stories in 2010) and is filled with ghosts, dystopias, Black women trying to figure out how to make art, & the unknown: lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

when i have a take too spicy for the group chat

My first short story collection comes out September 8th. It's the book that's taken me the longest to write (lol I wrote the first draft of one of these stories in 2010) and is filled with ghosts, dystopias, Black women trying to figure out how to make art, & the unknown: lithub.com/lit-hubs-mos...

have i ever even lived if no one has ever asked me to run away to italy with them and start a new, shameful life (drinking wine before noon and reading poetry to each other in a charming but dilapidated villa)

“Ghulam Ali pushed his way through the sugar-cane. It was quiet and still except for the anxious scuttling of insects around his feet.” Read “July Sun,” the titular story from Aamina Ahmad’s new collection.

if you want to see m'bappe vs haaland, you can just watch champions league in the upcoming season because I'm sure for the millionth time you'll get a city/real match-up and it will be way more fun

Go and support Doug Chapin to replace xenophobic Tom: www.chapinforcongress.com

The story is now available to read online 😊 www.epiphanymagazine.org/features/pea...

I was thrilled that Maris gave me a brief chance to talk about T Clark's wonderful debut short story collection. They are so deeply insightful and funny and it's been outrageous to me how little attention this book has gotten! Link to the book and many other wonderful books below:

If you're pre-ordering books during Bookshop's free shipping sale or during the Barnes & Noble 25% off sale, my first full-length short story collection comes out on September 8th. You can pre-order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-arts... or here: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

If you're pre-ordering books during Bookshop's free shipping sale or during the Barnes & Noble 25% off sale, my first full-length short story collection comes out on September 8th. You can pre-order here: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-arts... or here: bookshop.org/p/books/blac...

Free shipping today on Bookshop.org! Maybe find out what happens when two women on the verge of a friend breakup get stuck in a time loop in the Louvre. Art! Deceit! Ambition! Slow apocalypse! Tech idiots! Love! End of the World House! bookshop.org/p/books/end-...

Today’s layoffs hit the journalists who do the most and get the least credit. The editors, the copy desk, the page designers, the librarian and archivist, the news assistants. My editor led our immigration coverage during Operation Metro Surge and they just…let her go.

love island crossing where you have to be super sexy while catching a bunch of bees and tom nook gives every new islander hot new swimwear and also 50k more in credit card debt

if jude bellingham continues to do well in this tournament, we should all leave bluesky for the JB5 app and post all our hot takes there

An excellent lit mag job (with pay! and benefits! for a great magazine!) is actually open; you should apply!

having a real I am rooting for just an excellent match (and may we get one michael olise brainbreaker goal) afternoon

one of the highlights of this vacation is that my husband is reading London Falling (I have been bugging him to do this for weeks so we could talk about it) and every morning over breakfast updates me on the latest thing in it that made his brain hurt

the pleasure of telling a baby, yes, I agree, socks are the oppressor and seeing him clap and clap and clap

I just!!!! it is already an issue that the same things, the same brand-name, well-known things, get all the coverage, and now the NYT is, uh, canonizing that. making it a job to make more lists about known quantities. meanwhile 99 percent of the authors out here are desperate for a DROP of attention

today, my third novel Meet Me at the Crossroads is a paperback. It's a novel I wrote to process a lot of grief I carried for a long time and to think deeply about faith and adventures and friendship. You can get it from my friends at Magers & Quinn: www.magersandquinn.com/product/Meet...

please pre-order this book!

preemptively annoyed that it got leaked that pochettino might be heading to ac milan because it means that a certain type of annoying "soccer fan" will have a ready made excuse for the men's national team mediocrity

a perfume that smells like your skin after you swam in a well-maintained pool and it smells a little floral too (gardenia floral) and maybe has green notes (not grassy but maybe something more herby like marjoram?)

galleys! still feels weird to have a short story collection coming out later this year

my bonkos widow's bay theory is that the mayor is in a rosemary's baby situation (he is raising teen satan, hell yeah!!!!) and is just like lol this is what it's like to raise a mischievous boy