It would be so funny if this was an intensive course to teach you how to send one of those scam marketing emails from Toni Morrison or Elena Ferrante.

CLEAR UR CALENDARS BITCHEZZ

Time is a flat circle.

Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.

More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.

This might be the best email I’ve ever received.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

a second road has diverged in a yellow wood

As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read. They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.

Here's what you need to do. You need to go to patreon.com/scumbelievable, you need to subscribe, and you need, need, to read Gretchen Felker-Martin's @scumbelievable.bksy.com's obituary for Charlie Kirk. It's the best thing she's ever written.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

To weigh in on the cultural discussions of the day, I think books are generally good

Just to add to the chorus in my own voice, the banning of @scumbelievable.bsky.social is a travesty. Gretchen Felker-Martin is an acclaimed author and critic whose only seeming violation has been posting fundraisers for people starving to death in Gaza. Return her to the platform now.

Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them! A Thread.

The existence of Mavis Gallant implies the existence of Mavis Goofus

Our statement in response to the Supreme Court ruling in Mahmoud v Taylor. Image thread with alt text. 1/4

I know this is just how appendices are structured but the opinion ending with Uncle Bobby’s Wedding in its entirety did almost make my cry

so I have a lot of complicated thoughts about the specific issue at hand, but I have to point out that’s not what “magical realism” is

started calling this the “twitter-brained preemptive defense crouch” a couple years back and now I can’t stop seeing it everywhere…feels so insulting as a reader even (especially!) when your politics are broadly aligned with the author’s

gonna start calling myself a community organizer bc I got 100 people to join a group chat to do #1000WordsOfSummer together hehe

then die.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

they spredged elena ferrante

polling the gang over on insta trying to figure out if the unsolicited manuscript acct is a joke or not

screw this. defeatist ass attitude. past lit thicc was super wrong here. i can write this book. i can write any book. news had me catatonic in 22, 23, 24 and that didn’t stop the words. it’s important-far beyond the featherweight “we need joy!”-that we don’t let them take what makes us alive

For no reason at all, here's the campfire story scene in MANHUNT where a character relates the tale of J. K. Rowling's grisly death in her fortified Scottish castle.

have had to totally pivot my writing goals for the year because my current resting level of anger is simply not conducive for trying to write a children’s novel with a primary aim of being laugh out loud funny

Authority (2025), Andrea Long Chu

Oh god, my less than zero interest in Dune means that I thought when you all said "Butlerian jihad" you were talking about some aspect of Judith Butler's writing that I was unfamiliar with.

people’s five writers who made them lists are truly like “Ovid, Joyce, Ibsen, Cervantes, Melville” and their fiction is about a girl who dislikes her job

personal milestone reached (boob followers)

Okay I need 2 say something. I’ve been online long enough to see a lot of discourse cycles about anti-intellectualism like the one sparked by this post. I want 2 highlight an aspect of these debates that I find to be frustratingly under-discussed: the rhetorical position of children’s literature. 1/

Okay I need 2 say something. I’ve been online long enough to see a lot of discourse cycles about anti-intellectualism like the one sparked by this post. I want 2 highlight an aspect of these debates that I find to be frustratingly under-discussed: the rhetorical position of children’s literature. 1/

now that every writer’s been forced to pivot to a one-man-show newsletter, every post is like ‘i wrote about Anora (2024), the end of the USSR, vladimir putin, child labor laws, Alf, and the postmodernism of fredric jameson ❤️’

sitting down to read this stack of books from 10th grade English that I brought to the restaurant with me

It's happening again. Stillwater (MN) Area Public Schools are restricting access to my book "Call Me Max," citing bogus concerns about "the age and maturity of the intended audience." You can read my full letter to them here: www.kylelukoff.com/blog-1/2025/.... I'll also post the highlights below.

don’t be coy speaker adams, tell us which ten new branches of the nypl u wanna give seven-day service

I knew I shouldn’t have used that @!*$# AI!

Often think about Jeff Bezos’s favorite book being The Remains of the Day

about to be the most hungover bitch at the 90 second newbery screening

I mean fuck, I like books, I like tomes I like readin’ outside, I like to read when I’m at home I like short stories and novels and novellas too I like doin’ book lover shit, read it? probably do

is this what it felt like to be a kendrick fan in may 2024

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