24 hours in Maine LFG

Happy rapture day! Please aim yourself at the sky in an orderly fashion so the rest of us can inherit your house

"Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." Looking forward to seeing Jimmy back on the air.

Long live the book.

Trump-aligned billionaires owning all the social media platforms is a really big deal

Sometimes a deal just dies, even if no one involved wants it to. Sigh. *sad trombone*

Hey #BookSky For many bookstores & small retail in general, the holiday season is make or break for the year for them. Of course, money is tight for everyone this year so here's a thread of ways to support your local bookstore WITHOUT spending more $$ than you already intended to...

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Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show. Ben Shapiro and I Talk Political De-escalation The state — and stakes — of political disagreement in America, both before and after the Charlie Kirk shooting. open.spotify.com/episode/136V... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Yeah. The @karenattiah.bsky.social firing for those posts are a bridge too far. Just awful.

Who knows stuff about working with SBA loans? Lord I’m in deep 😂

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

He’s putting a tip can out by the side of the road I guess.

Here’s the list plucked from Instagram.

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr

The way I have still not seen the movie I am in is absurd.

Holy shit this is really bad www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/u...

Walking in to Simon & Schuster for an NBF board meeting and phew it’s been a long time since I’ve been in a publishing building.

Folks y’all did not disappoint with the first day back to school fits — everyone’s kids are so fly!

Lots of hints lately, but I’m moving to Chicago my loves. It’s insane. Not yet, don’t trip, but next year.

Publicists and publishers: Can you explain why so many authors are sent to Naperville and skip Chicago? Two wildly different markets. It’s so strange. That’s like booking Montclair and not NYC, seems like?

Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.

Jesus I could use my Dad around right now. It’s the worst. And he was the best.

Today is the anniversary of the opening of The first production of The Threepenny Opera. I’ll post below it a photo from a production I did in SF some years ago. . .

Meanwhile tell me what you would do if you had 5 days in Maine (2 of them in Portland)!

Wait hold up am I a spinster?

Who are my Chicago pals on here?

Okay here we are yet again begging on the internet for an engaging tv show to binge as a distraction from collapsing world around us.

Firefly resurgence in New England. There’s something good. Must keep count.

Listening to this episode of The Daily about Trump firing Lisa Cook and they just played a clip of her saying how difficult it is to thrive and innovate when you are not taken care of by your government, or even actively oppressed: "Uncertainty is a tax." That's exactly why we're all so exhausted.

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I put on In A Silent Way the most, but Live/Evil, Agharta, and Pangaea exist on a different plane.

Be a mentor.

Solid read. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/s...

The brilliant novelist — and my foreign rights agent — @szilmolnar.bsky.social, interviewing my erstwhile publisher @likaluca.bsky.social. Hell yeah.

How early do you make your holiday plans?

Miles Davis group, 1975 (L to R): Mtume, Al Foster, Miles, Michael Henderson, Reggie Lucas, Sonny Fortune, & Pete Cosey 📸 Vince Wilburn Jr. Al Foster, who died this week, was the final member of the band to leave the stage. h/t Lisa Lucas

US Chattel Slavery cannot be *overemphasized* That's the thing about world historical violence.

Bookstore owners/bookseller friends, tell me how your store came to be, please.

45 year olds LFG

I truly need a good podcast to binge. What’s good these days?

I wish I could make how devastated I’ve been easier for the people in my life.

Part of me wants to start a Substack and talk about what it’s like after I’m this position. About employment in the arts today. About our leaders and our institutions and about how others have thrived or failed within them.

Okay people what should I be when I grow up??? Literary nonprofits in cities I can live in are few and far between and I haven’t had a *single* conversation about working in publishing with a single book publisher since before I left. What says the hive mind? It’s time to get back to work.

Absolutely delighted that my new novel, Boundary Waters, will be coming out June 2025 with Parthian Books t.co/kkk3v6cAIX

From the Editorial Board: We congratulate the distinguished senator from Illinois on his well-deserved retirement and look forward to the battles to replace him.

DONATE! I did!

Love this. Love seeing my granny.

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