Can’t wait for Texas Book Festival! Tomorrow (Saturday) at 4:15 in the Texas tent! Say hi 🥊

To illustrate my point, here’s a juxtaposition of two screenshots taken tonight, one a post about election results in NYC (or perhaps NJ, or VA, or CA), the other a map of the results for Prop 15, the latest tool in Texas’s book banning arsenal

Every post out of NYC tonight is like “ “The arc of history is long but it bends toward justice” and “When Dems work together, we win.” And I certainly think that is true…in NYC. Alas, in Texas tonight, the vibes are more like, “Welp. Here we are again, I guess. I don’t know why we bother.”

I got to shout out a bunch of my favorite local authors, artists, and event producers in this podcast. Thanks for inviting me on, @citycastaustin.bsky.social!

My illustrated middle-grade novel THE CAMPAIGN is the perfect nonpartisan story for sharing with kids the importance of civic engagement. @kidlittv.bsky.social provides videos + activities to help you use it with the kids in your life.

English Teacher is my favorite show on television, bar none; however, they should have hired someone (probably me) to be an Austin consultant. That airport in s2e5 is not our airport. In s2e9, they should’ve referenced HEB, not Piggly-Wiggly.

If my legacy in this world is as the person who compiled a spreadsheet of more than 150 Halloween events in Austin, I would be okay with that.

This Louvre heist is just so inelegant. Danny Ocean earns our respect with his elaborate deceptions. You don’t know his team was there until they’re gone. Meanwhile these hooligans are smashing windows and setting off alarms. No finesse. I scorn them.

I’m in LA for the first time in a minute and would like my fellow travelers to know that there’s now a shiny new metrorail station at LAX! It opened in June! You can take the K line to and from there! That opened 3 years ago! Public transit actually can improve! It is not too late for any city!

If you're wondering what it was like to write for a college newspaper in 2005, all I can tell you is that one time I wrote a column about how I'm bad at going to the gym and Precor sent me a T-shirt.

Brand-new issue of @nygroove.nyc right here! nygroove.nyc/email/afced3...

Anyone who thinks I’m not neurodivergent has never seen me around animals

All things being equal, I would like to know what the "Let Them" theory is, but I refuse to read the book or even read a description of the book, so I guess this is just one more mystery that will never be solved

In this week's Newsletter, @lukevburns.bsky.social and I featured writing by - Amanda Goble in @mcsweeneys.net - Freddie Shanel in @reductress.bsky.social - Luke Herzog & Lisa Zheutlin in @pointsincase.com - Bezalel Stern in McSweeney's Subscribe below! And we've got a big archive you can read!

I am very proud to have worked on -a book that’s so visually and lyrically beautiful (not to mention informative)!

Me every morning: ugh I can’t believe I have to write again today Me every night: oh wow turns out writing actually is good for my mental health after all, huh

While I'd certainly like to enhance my skin's luminosity and reduce hyperpigmentation, I'm afraid I have neither a million spare dollars nor a million spare hours, so I guess I'll just stick with what I'm already doing

well this so-called "club" sandwich has very little ketamine in it

Guys I’ve been really into music lately

HEY HEY. The DE ebook is on sale in the U S of A today (and, I think, today only) for $1.99 just about everywhere you look. If it were marked down any harder, Random House would be paying *you.*

I just rawdogged* a flight and I hated it. *I had a book, my laptop, and the inflight entertainment console, but no internet access, so I consider this rawdogging, and I hated it.

Places to listen to music, ranked from best to worst: 1. At a club with a good soundsystem and other people who are happy to be there 2. Walking through a bustling city (assuming no one is in your way) 3. Walking through a bucolic countryside 4. Driving at night, no stoplights, windows down

We need to find a way to decouple the economics of "going out" from "drinking." I have no interest in encouraging anyone to drink. But I would be sad to live in a world where there are no dance parties bc the venues that host them can't make enough $$ to stay afloat. news.gallup.com/poll/693362/...

Can someone explain to me why halloumi is so omnipresent in the UK and so undervalued in the U.S.? What cultural norms or migratory patterns led to this vast divide in cheese consumption?

he’s gay AND Tom cruise?? he really CAN do it all, wow

I've been working with @hiddendoor.co for nearly five years now, and I am so proud to see them officially launch early access today! I think a lot of creatives (myself included) have a knee-jerk suspicion of AI anything, and Hidden Door shows why that's not always right.

glad he got to the bottom of this for us

Sometimes you see something in a shop and you can just tell it was designed by someone who has never owned, interacted with, or even thought about a cat

"I walk around, straightening pictures on the wall, rugs on the floor—as though not until everything in the world was lined up and perfectly true could anybody reasonably expect me to set a word down on the page."—E.B. White lithub.com/writing-advi...

The problem with ordering the vegetarian meal on flights is that it always comes with fruit for dessert. As if all vegetarians are healthy eaters. Which is patently ridiculous. The fact that I don't want a chicken breast for dinner has nothing to do with whether I want a brownie for dessert.

July's list is going to be a DOOZY.

“That’s so much more proof that they are some of history’s greatest monsters, or would be, if they ever took up crime.”

Oh good the part of transcribing where I interrupt the person for no known reason & say something self-indulgent and stupid

The problem with meeting up for after-work drinks is that you wind up having like one frozen marg and 14 pilfered French fries, and then you get home at 9pm and have to decide how to handle that fact that it’s too late to make actual dinner and too early to go to bed

That's a fat and juicy new issue of @nygroove.nyc that just dropped. If you're a sucker who doesn't subscribe still (what are you waiting for? It's free!), you can read it (and all about a song that makes @davecolon.bsky.social have feelings) right here nygroove.nyc/email/d0b9e3...

So glad that TikTok will be owned by “a group of very wealthy people” as opposed to a Chinese company. That for sure will be better and definitely won’t come with any of its own challenges or complications www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/u...

Please stop posting your #ALA2025 updates because they make me too jealous! I understand that I’m not there because I’m on a beach vacation and some people might consider that to be “a fair trade-off” or arguably even “better” but I do not agree! I resent when anyone has a good time without me!

hey remember when I rented a megatouch machine for the weekend for my birthday party

Okay maybe this is too hot a take for 5:30pm on a Saturday but I think meme accounts that don’t give any attribution paved the way for people to accept AI words and imagery because it separated culture and entertainment from the idea that someone had to have those thoughts and compose them.

When I was in middle school, kids made fun of me for reading "too fast." I think about this sometimes now that I have a career as an editor, in which reading fast is literally key to professional success. Who's laughing now, Adrianna?

Instagram suggested post: packed at Mall of America, you know what that means Me: they’re holding a No Kings protest at the Mall of America?? Instagram: it means two squirrels are waterskiing in the fountain!

Look at them, infiltrating even our convenience stores

What do the lead singer of the Bangles, guitarist from Def Leppard, bassist from Suede, and founder of Belle & Sebastian have in common? They've all written novels—and I've written about that for @literaryhub.bsky.social! lithub.com/from-rock-st...

My travel hot take of the day is that children should not be allowed in the TSA PreCheck line. I don't care if your mom has precheck. If she has to explain to you how to stand in a security line without poking your brother, you are not qualified for this expedited experience.

"Send a good book out to the people you think will like it, and don't sell anybody a bill of goods." Words to live by. (Or at least words to work by!)

What does it mean when a book is sold "at auction?" Check out this excerpt from my new book out next week over on @bookriot.bsky.social! bookriot.com/the-two-kind...

once again I must tap my own sign

Please share with me the best social media commentary on today’s feud. I left Twitter six months ago but I still very much want to know all the takes

I would say my defining characteristic is aggressively overestimating how much I can accomplish in an hour