So lovely to be interviewed by Miranda @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social — and for CAT (from @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social) to be selected as Book of the Day 🐱

Would love to tell my 17-y-o self that my 37-y-o self is the author of two books, one about cats, who spent Halloween weekend at a Battle of the Cover Bands ft. The Dead Boys and DNA

NEW BOOK REVIEW: Rae Pagliarulo reviews Cat by Rebecca van Laer, part of Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series. Read it here: https://hippocampusmagazine.com/2025/10/review-cat-by-rebecca-van-laer/

In this @readlux.bsky.social interview, Rebecca van Laer explored people’s relationships with their pets. Read the full story: https://bit.ly/47hHhre #BookSky #LiteraryStudies @bloomsburylit.bsky.social#BookSky

It's national cat day! I know the perfect way to celebrate.... www.bloomsbury.com/us/cat-97987...

Telling our new veterinarian "just so you know you're treating a celebrity"

What would motivate you more to change your behaviors to save wildlife: a book about elephants, a book about the wild fauna in your own backyard, or a book about your pet? Would any? Rebecca van Laer sifts through the noise.

Today I'm interviewed in Lux Magazine newsletter, wherein Cheryl Rivera and I discuss whether pets are slaves, animal consciousness, and whether unconditional love exists. (These are all topics of CAT btw!!!!) lux-magazine.com/lux-for-life...

Been looking forward to this one! by @rebeccavl.bsky.social whose writing I fell in love with in her Long Day Press book How to Adjust to the Dark

Another little excerpt of CAT, out now from Bloomsbury 🐱

Can't possibly recommend Rebecca van Laer's CAT enough, and so thrilled to reread now I've grabbed myself a hard copy from the Gower St Waterstones. Cat people unite -- this is such a smart, sensitive, and thoughtful book. Read it!! @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

“I do not think love comes easily to me—love for people, that is. For cats, who have been accused of loving back too little or not at all, it is a different story.” Rebecca van Laer on what humans can learn from our relationships with cats.

Can memoirs about native and common wildlife spark more action and awe than the stories of the “charismatic megafauna” that so often act as poster children for the conservation movement? Rebecca van Laer investigates the new trend in publishing.

I've become the thing I hate most...someone bad at replying to email

How do you get your dad to stop sending you AI art

A24 launching an AI division www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... #FilmSky #AISlop #a24

Why does it feel like fall!!!

Found out my publisher hired my preferred audiobook narrator by Googling myself and finding a pre-order link at an Italian bookstore. This is how it's supposed to work, right?

So how often does PT make everyone ELSE cry

Hand-sold my book to my gynecologist. That is commitment 🐱

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In case this isn’t obvious: In a healthy political system, if officials released a hyped report on health policy, and the document relied on scientific sources that didn’t exist, those officials would be expected to resign — quickly. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

welp I sent an email

Tried to reduce my em-dash usage; realized colons and semicolons are just as frequent 😅

The NEA's new compliance guidelines are anti-trans, so we aren't applying. Today, we're asking our readers to stand with us. Please donate to help us raise $15K to replace our annual grant by April 15. Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/PJ0P801

Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university. www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...

All Columbia faculty should be on strike, full stop 💘

Bard College dumping Conjunctions but buying Lapham's Quarterly....plot twist 👀

Day 2 of Howling Women blurb drops 🖤🌀 If you know me then you have probably heard me talk about how much I love @kevinrmaloney.bsky.social's work. His novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim is one of my favorite books, so I was absolutely floored when he read HW and said nice things about it. bookshop.org

THREAD: There’s a dire situation in Vietnam, at the largest Agent Orange spill in the country. When Trump and Marco Rubio cancelled foreign aid, froze funding and began dismantling USAID, those who were cleaning up the Bien Hoa air base had to halt work. 1/

Okay this is genuinely scary af

Just learned they don’t have pi day in Europe (where today is 14/3 and there is no 31/4). Is this…the last remaining good thing about America?

Call me old-fashioned but I still think it's weird when writers aren't neurotic freaks!

In all seriousness, what could compel a serious writer of literary fiction to defend the theft of her colleagues' work 😭

My favorite genres are: 5. World has ended. Now what? 4. Not really sure if this is a dream but at least we're having fun! 3.Two people ruining each other's lives [romantic] 2. Two people ruining each other's lives [platonic] 1. This woman is ruining her own life

Scheduled my book release freakout for August but it came early 🫠

Hope everyone at work knows I don't wear the same skull sweatshirt every day — that I actually alternate between two identical skulls sweatshirts

Why did I buy a pound of kumquats and what should I do with them

Left eye started twitching again but it's probably totally fine and reflects in no way upon the state of the world........right???

Help I'm getting targeted LinkedIn ads from...the police?!

Today is a great day to cancel your Prime subscription (and your WaPo subscription, should you have one) ✨

Trying to get in my daily 1000 words but he’s doing this

30k words into the thriller, am I ok???????

Consolation for not going to AWP...... ..... going to Spain instead

I sometimes think that people will just "hear about" my book. But I don't think that actually happens unless I'm actively getting them to hear about it. My book MAGIC CAN'T SAVE US comes out May 6. Will you help me get the word out by sharing this post? bookshop.org/p/books/magi...

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Did you know that the USPS delivers 44% of the world's mail and is a critical part of our infrastructure? #weloveusps

Will I ever be mentally well enough to drink coffee again?

But here's the rub: An "Assurance of Compliance" for all grantees that includes this language. These should be deal breakers tbh. www.arts.gov/grants/legal...