What I read (and enjoyed a ton) in January 🌨️

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC, 1988

I came home this afternoon and was greeted by this. I’m still not completely sure how many of my neighbors were involved.

The winner of the 2025 Cercador Prize is… 🥁 Christina MacSweeney for her translation of Jazmina Barrera’s THE QUEEN OF SWORDS, from @twolinespress.com. An astounding book and an honor to Chair this brilliant committee!

October (and earlier) 🔮

Cercador Prize longlist… 🥁🥁🥁 I love this list and I love chairing this committee 🪑 can’t wait to get reading!! 🛝

"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up @thankyoubooks.bsky.social very nicely 🧚

A few of my favorite books to celebrate Women in Translation month in the Cercador newsletter! 💛

@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!! Preorder here: thankyoubookshop.com/item/ZoOPMvN...

Tomorrow night at 6:30 pm! Maria Zoccola presents HELEN OF TROY, 1993, in conversation with @alinaetc.bsky.social 🧡

I love Terry Gross she is a top ten person

Best week ever in Cincinnati 🎾 I love u tennis

Emotional abt this half snail half Winston drawing from our buddies at Recluse Books in Fort Worth, TX Support independent bookstores 🥹 reclusebooks.com

Jannik Sinner after beating Alcaraz to win Wimbledon "How was it having to avoid a champagne cork?" Jannik: "Only here at Wimbledon." 😭😭😭😭 🍾

July Fields, 1959 by painter Joan Eardley #WomensArt

Sunday again

Yes my bracket was shot to hell after day ONE of Wimbledon, but I stand by these semifinals picks

Winston’s first swim🥹

Locking my doors locking my windows

Watching Fedal Wimbledon 08 clips in a hotel bed. Do not call my iPhone do NOT text my iPhone

Fever dream coupla days

Rinderknech after beating Zverev at Wimbledon 👅

21 years ago, ‘BEFORE SUNSET’ released in theaters.

CHEERS to @tricialockwood.bsky.social (in convo w/ @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social) at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂

With Monfils beating #18 Humbert, there are now *THIRTEEN* men's seeds out in the first round, which equals an all-time Grand Slam record. #Wimbledon

Alexandra Eala after losing to Joint in Eastbourne *talking through tears* “It’s my 1st WTA final. It’s a big deal for me. For my country too because it’s historic. It’s the first time any Filipino has done anything. That’s why I’m so emotional. But it’s only the first.” 🥹

market terms for when a book’s so good you know it’ll do numbers but also when a book’s so bad you know it’ll do numbers…same term with a different prefix maybe…

My camera roll is @thankyoubooks.bsky.social and Cincinnati Open spectator style inspo (I do not have tickets)

Love this essay on language by my sweetheart @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social 📞

and it’s serious 💙

Summer Barbara Pym.

How it started How it’s going

My lil loaf

the store is starting to look like me

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

Latelyyyyy💙

Everyone get Busytown jobs NOW

when Taylor Fritz wins 4 the girls 🙏🏻💅🏻💓

This was my last story as an NPR correspondent. It looks at the documented history of Trump touting eugenics, allowing in only white South African refugees, deporting more and more categories of (non white) people, and the opening of an "office of remigration" ... www.npr.org/2025/06/14/n...

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

banned from all dating apps for saying “oh I’m sure” too much

groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo

Musetti d. Rune 7-5 3-6 6-3 6-2 Lorenzo reaches his 2nd Slam QF. He keeps proving that he belongs at the very top His hard work these last few years is no longer just hard work That hard work has manifested into consistent, hard-earned results. ✅1st Roland Garros QF Playing big. Dream big. 🇮🇹❤️

What I read in May 🌷

Sunday again 🧘🏻‍♀️

Til further notice ⏳ c/o @deepvellum.bsky.social

Your moment of calm: Tiny miracles in a large world.