fiction has a marginal place in the formation of worldviews or normalization of behaviors among healthy adults. The moral burden of depicting behavior by nearly any author is usually zero

Fiction is different from non-fiction

books should be twice as expensive

Listening to Noah Kahan a lot this weekend

3-0 BABY WE ARE OFF

LET'S GO BLUE JAYS

LET'S GO BLUE JAYS

Montreal tonight 👇👇👇👇👇

in this fragile moment, I need a fellow Winnipegger to pour one out with me for the Sal's at the old bus station

classic Hero's Journey moments like the refusal of the call, the belly of the whale, and the obtainment of the orange Gatorade

Any women/people affected by the global oestrogen patch shortage, would like to hear from ye.

I went. Saw friends. Saw my postman. Saw strangers of all ages. Chatted with my union, they were tabling. I almost didn't go b/c bad day for other reasons. Glad I went.

also, if your take is “these protests aren’t doing real work and people need to be organizing mutual aid/community resistance/etc”: you will not find a more fertile recruiting ground a lot of people who go to these things are absolutely thrilled at the idea they can do more talk to them

if you’re looking for a more cynical take I’m sure you can find one but it won’t be here the protests are good

thoughts on today: 1) the protests are good, actually 2) you should go to one of you can 3) it will do you good to see how many other people also hate this guy 4) you might meet people who you can organize with 5) there are more of us than there are of them 6) we are going to win

I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me

just the thing to reread on a day my pain is much higher than it’s been in quite a while, given laughter’s status as the best medicine

Gentle reminder that for all us writers and aficionados of literature grapple with the mysteries of language, this is the best thing anyone has ever written.

BOOKS LOOK LIKE CANDY EAT THEM EAT THEM ALL

I'm a sucker for a butterfly-effect story and this is a lovely one.

"Finding generous readers are what makes the whole book publishing enterprise worth it in the first place. We cannot allow such generous readers to become skeptical that authors and/or publishers are trying to trick them. They are the lifeblood of this business!" 💯 @maris.bsky.social (1/2)

Now and then I remember they made a Heathers musical

Used to be one of the rotten ones and I liked you for that

"Maddox is woke now" really communicates many layers of things

🚨Sick deal alert 🚨

Sure

Now and then, if you're lucky, the clouds part for a fleeting moment and a sliver of ambient frustration is revealed in the form of a short, clean post

Please tell me your favorite McSweeney's articles

simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art

I finished a thing today

I saw Sirāt

Sarah Schulman and I in public conversation for the first time in ten years! On the life and work of the brilliant Rachel Pollack — trans activist, tarot grandmaster, comic writer, sci fi queen. And at my favourite bookshop in London, @treadwells-books.bsky.social ! This is not to be missed.

These events have been so fucking good Philly ya owe it to yourself to make it if you can

Last year, I wrote an article for the premiere issue of Angles, a local queer newspaper (originally published in the 80s and 90s, and now returning as a quarterly paper). That article is now available online, if you don't want to comb through a giant PDF to read it. www.qmunity.ca/post/the-men...

I will be there slinging books behind the table!! Come to Good Judy tomorrow it's gonna be epic

If anyone wants a review copy to do it with, there is a really serious review essay to be written comparing/contrasting @blipstress.bsky.social forthcoming Plastic Prism Void with Helen DeWitt's recent Your Name Here

Baltimore/AWP it's time, it's free, you can just show up and have a GREAT FUCKING TIME, tomorrow night I'll be there hard at work, naturally

Ok. Off to the races.

First time going through LittlePuss hurts I requested back from Ingram. Certainly is instructive.

Do you want to be a person or a walking record of grievances

❗BROOKLYN ❗ 👯‍♀️ Mar 10 book party at Good Judy 👯‍♀️ 🥵 for Missed Connections With Tall Girls 🥵 GWEN AUBE w/ Stephen Ira and some TBA friends... 🫵 B THERE 🫵 🎉 Doors 7 🎉 🎉 Readings 8 🎉 We will have raucousness and books and maybe some beer RSVP here www.eventbrite.com/e/missed-con... or just come 😊

"Business taxes don't have to be stressful" DON'T TELL ME HOW TO FEEL

TIS THE SEASON come out babes see you there

Every now and then I remember there is a song I love about Calgary, Alberta and it feels like it too

kinda crazy how microblogging drove literally everybody insane

Oh man strap in, this is a thread about how we published something we never thought LittlePuss would ever publish and it is fucking beautiful

"I don't care if I'm a fish, I still want a bicycle."

bluesky clippy: hey there! you seem to be mad at something but not the person you’re yelling at. would you like some help self-regulating?

Book-friends, if you trust my taste at all: do NOT skip this one, holy cow.