Are any #Literaryagents going to be at the @awpwriter.org conference in Baltimore? Anyone open to a pitch? 🖋️ I'm on a panel.

Beginning a group read of Beowulf with A Public Space today. #booksky

#booksky I've got the Kang book on the top of by TBR pile. I also have Kitamura's book "Intimacies" there, which I picked up when I saw her in Cleveland last year. Always too many books to read .. I'm a Karen Russell fan too.

I'm looking forward to the group reading of Beowulf, beginning January 20, through A Public Space. #booksky #beowulf #epic📚💙📚

A bestseller lists for independent presses, based on sales at independent bookstores. Long live indies! #indies #writingcommunity #booksky📚💙📚🖋️📚💙🖋️💙

I have bought a ticket. Might be my only chance to own a Picasso.

Good words, #writingcommunity !

Stephen Miller's statements reminds me of the Melian Dialogue from #Thucydides: Miller said: “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

From Laurie Anderson: “Instead of a period at the end of each sentence, there should be a tiny clock that tells you how long it took you to write that sentence.” Writers can relate. #booksky #writingconmunity 💙📚💙🖋️💙📚🖋️📚

Here’s a message for 2026. Happy New Year, everyone. #booksky

#booksky This excellent column by @samanthaellis.bsky.social brings up aspects of #wutheringheights I've been pondering since my recent reread. 📚💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️

Bluesketeers?

Christmas in the East Wing, 2023. 🎄

#wutheringheights The ending: Heathcliff achieved his revenge and gained control of both estates … and then Cathy’s ghost seems to call him, and he just dies? #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️💙🖋️

I'm rereading #wutheringheights because I saw that a movie is coming out. It's darker and stranger than I recalled. Heathcliff's unknowable origins play a very large role in the story, which strikes me as a revenge plot. Anyone else revisiting #bronte? #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️

A moving obituary of one of my good teachers in Utah. #writingcommunity #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️ www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2...

Fall revisions completed. Ready for the new year. #writing #booksky 💙📚💙🖋️💙🖋️📚🖋️

I LOVE THIS (hope there are more fundraising raffles like this) www.nytimes.com/video/arts/1...

This photo is from The Guardian. I visited Midway aboard a Coast Guard buoy tender more than fifty years ago and saw the albatross mating dance. I'm moved to think I might have seen this very bird, Wisdom, in 1977. 🦉Birds!🦉 #birdsky

#booksky @saraband-books.bsky.social @kristenmiller.bsky.social Uncompromising. Support Indy publishing by buying and reading their books.

This is my Christmas story. As long as the journal keeps it online, I'll post a link to it every December. It's short. It's political. It might break your heart. Enjoy! #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️📚🖋️💙🖋️

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

My version of The NY Times Hasselback potato recipe. Happy #Thanksgiving

Similarly, I was told that my NEA fellowship application would be canceled unless I agreed not to support "gender ideology." I was going to withdraw my application, but the Authors Guild advised that I keep it active, since the dictate was unconsitutional. Then the whole thing was canceled.

There is a tenured or tenure-track position open in Creative Writing -- Fiction at Bowling Green State University. Please share widely. #writingcommunity #booksky 📚💙📚🖋️📚

I found this good letter from my teacher, the late Jim Houston. Words I needed as I’m working on one more revision. “Persistence is the name of our game… Keep the faith. Keep in touch. Onward, onward.” #booksky #writingcommunity

I’m still angry and disbelieving that this policy was in place even for a day. #coastguard #coastguardveteran

As a Coast Guard veteran, I find this hard to fathom.

Prosperity is right around the corner.

Okay, on to the most fun part of the course I'm teaching. A great way to cap off the semester! #booksky #loveteaching

Not official yet, but there will be a tenured or tenure track teaching position in Fiction at Bowling Green State advertised soon. Please share. #writingcommunity #booksky

Friends! I am teaching a workshop in December that I am so excited about! I’ve been writing and writing about domestic fabulism forever, but I’ve never actually fashioned a workshop around it before. I think this is going to be so much fun - I hope you’ll join!

Congratulations to the winners of the National Book Award, and to all those shortlisted. #booksky

I think of my time at UC Santa Cruz, and how the university made education open and available. It seems like a vanished golden age.

Does anyone really say “surroundings” and not “sides” or “side dishes?” I’ve never heard of that.

I was disappointed in Guillermo del Toro's "Frankenstein." The dialogue toward the end was obvious and banal, the father-son redemption unearned, the optimistic dawn at the end inexplicable. #frankenstein

Congrats to @annpacker.bsky.social . Her new novel, Some Bright Nowhere, was chosen for Oprah's Book Club. #booksky I haven't read it yet, but I loved her previous book, The Children's Crusade.

Congratulations to David Szalay, and to all the writers on the shortlist. #booksky

Happy Veterans Day to all, and especially to my fellow Coast Guard veterans. #semperparatus

Hi writers! I’m looking to assign a couple of features for Slate before the end of the year. If you have anything in mind that you think would be a fit please send me a pitch! Jenée.Desmond- [email protected] or dm me. RTs are appreciated so this can reach more people. Thanks!

A testimony from Chicago.

Greetings from Ohio. #firstsnow

This is an all hands on deck moment to save health care. If you got a notice this month that your health insurance premium is going up by $500 or maybe even $1,000, send me your story: www.warren.senate.gov/health-care-...

I'm teaching Tom Jones now, and just delighted that the students are all atwitter about finding out who Tom's real father is. They could look it up on Wikipedia, but they are reading the book instead to discover it as Fielding intended. #booksky

It’s Election Day. You know what to do. #vote

Teaching a class on the 18th century novel. #booksky