Reviewing this Woody Allen debut novel (!!) just made me think about the horror of the 90’s…

Thank you.

This job posting depresses the hell out of me, especially as it's better pay than 90% of jobs I've had or could get these days

The mass starvation & killing of Palestinians in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli gov’t is a chillul hashem, a desecration of God. Jewish leaders who criticized Zohran Mamdani for three words he doesn’t use should raise their voices loudly here as well. forward.com/opinion/7575...

I just love this. Thinking how novels could do this.

Won’t be Harvard on the other side of this unless they act like they are what we imagine Harvard to be now. Right now.

Hope to see you in LA! @jennifergilmore.bsky.social #AWP

ICE deported Jerce Reyes Barrios, a Venezuelan soccer player who was tortured by Maduro’s dictatorship. He had applied for asylum in the U.S. No evidence he committed any crime. No gang membership. Then ICE sent him to a prison in El Salvador. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When I searched this initially a year or so ago two of my books had been used. Now it’s all five novels and several articles. AI’s eely fingers grow and grow and no creative is compensated.

Best headshot. ❤️

I was in a room with a few octogenarians yesterday and I thought man, these people survived Jim Crow. My grandfather was 12 when Emmett Till was lynched. His dad almost met the same fate in Georgia. Amnesia will be our downfall if you don’t keep speaking up that history is right there.

The NAACP has published a Black Consumer Advisory to leverage spending for change: naacp.org/campaigns/bl...

Things are looking great just great

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

Great news for readers. @andyhunter777.bsky.social killing it with @bookshop-org.bsky.social

Teaching this film this coming week. It’a perfect and timeless.

What are the mediocrities going to do when they find out that “DEI” isn’t their problem? I’m curious.

If you think Elon did nothing offensive, perhaps try it yourself at work or at school or in Germany or Austria and see how that goes for you.

📚 Whitney, Michael and I ( @broadside-pr.bsky.social ) did a @literaryhub.bsky.social column back in …hahaha… December 2016. It, mostly, holds up? lithub.com/ask-the-publ...

“All department and agency heads with responsibility for United States foreign development assistance programs shall immediately pause new obligations and disbursements of development assistance funds to foreign countries and implementing non-governmental organizations, international organizations…”

Oh David Lynch we will miss you so. We already have…

“…midday Israel had yet to convene ministers to discuss the proposal, citing last-minute disputes with Hamas. On Thursday morning, the office of Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, accused Hamas of reneging on parts of the agreement, without specifying which ones.”

Re Gaiman it’s not hard. It’s not an art or artist kind of tug o war. If you can think of anything else while reading or watching a Gaiman text or show have had it. I will never be able to unthink it.

This post makes me think of truly countless interactions with older male writers I’ve had. It was just part of being female. In fact we were meant to take these comments as compliments.

My friends in LA with children, first Covid, and now the fear of being at home, also that space decimated, school destroyed. Where is safety? It’s kind of all too much and this is all pre-Jan 20th.

"From what I can tell, the manager of your local Applebee’s has more experience managing a bigger budget and more personnel than Pete Hegseth." It's Hegseth Day in DC, and I wrote about it here: nymag.com/intelligence...

Carrie Underwood is dead to me now, which means my current condition of not being able to name a single song of hers is permanent

Are we discussing the coincidence of TikTok on the verge of being banned the day after Meta announces no more fact checking just after Zuck gives millions to Trump’s inauguration? Just curious.

Also this improbable sentence.

Too Dr. Manhattan?

Not sure I need everyone’s year in review but I like looking at their pictures anyway.

My favorite president

I am here for this moment halvah is having. It’s so deserved.

Dreamt about the Dylan film. That’s how much it affected me. Didn’t think Timothee had it on him but turns out: A+. Going to see it again as a fact checker next week.

Screw critics. Joker (folie a deux!) is amazing. It’s the darkness but/and it’s so smart and good.

Today's a good day to donate to Wikipedia.

“If your package is delayed during the holidays, you can blame Amazon’s insatiable greed.” More info from @teamsters.bsky.social: “Teamsters local unions are also putting up primary picket lines at hundreds of Amazon Fulfillment Centers nationwide”

Doesn’t Clara ever wake up in the Nutcracker? Just saw a version yesterday where it just ends in her dream and it’s driving me crazy because then it wasn’t a dream at all.

Do I care about the iconic bagel place closing? Not really. How much outrage and grief can a body hold…

Nothing says it might all be okay like these snow geese flying across the full moon.

On Thursday the 2024 issue of @theneweuropean.bsky.social comes out and they have given me the platform to explain why Gisèle Pelicot is my hero and how she radically changed the conversation about shame and sexual assault It is my proudest writing. app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/10/26/v...

Jezebel hasn’t been around for 101 years, nor do we have a tradition of selecting one human to represent everything that's happened in 365 days. But the century-old publication that does have this tradition got lazy with it, so we decided to anoint our own. www.jezebel.com/jezebels-per...

"I’d like to bring [grocery prices] down. It’s hard to bring things down once they’re up. You know, it’s very hard." SUCKERS.

PSA to all Jam and Style Council fans this year’s Paul Weller album (66) is like Thick as Thieves meets My Ever Changing Moods meets Absolute Beginners and I love it.

Just found out I received tenure. I’ve been teaching for 20 years-feels anticlimactic and also overwhelming. Security is strange. The road is so long. In all the ways.

The great Nikki Giovanni alive here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/161883...

Hahaha umm no.