Yes exactly!!!

...which is to say that the 1750-word article I was writing is now 2700 words and potentially totally incoherent?

Writing an article that you've been thinking about and researching for weeks is like having a clogged hose that's trickling little dribs and drabs of water out until very suddenly it dislodges whatever was stuck inside and sprays everywhere instead of watering the specific plant it was pointed at

Bad Language faced out on a shelf at Skylight Books in LA. The shelf talker card by Mick reads "A fascinating manifesto/memoir about the ways in which violence weaves into language. How do the things we say, and how we say it. transform into violence, and how can we reduce that harm? So Mayer Icans heavily on Ursula Le Guin for answers, which is the correct approach."

Booksellers are the absolute best. The jam, the bees, the world.

Thank you Mick at Skylight Books LA for reading & seeing BAD LANGUAGE (& putting it there above Martin Amis hahaha). Can't believe how far a book can travel!!

It wasn't always quite as explicit as in Some Like It Hot! I have to look back at what I was watching and reading and I'll get back to you. But if you've never read Women's Barracks by Tereska Torres, HIGHLY recommend.

Watch Out In recent weeks, the cultural discourse on my feeds has been focused on the romantic relationships of two white women who became famous for telling all: Lindy West, author of a new memoir, Adult Brace...

My second piece for @flaminghydra.com is out! About how the themes of watching and being watched have been haunting me alongside my obsession with reality TV, and about Lior Torenberg's debut, Just Watch Me (from @avidreaderpress.bsky.social):

flaminghydra.com/watch-out/

“A polished weekday bag crafted from premium leather with plenty of pockets for—“ AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, I saw it for the first time when I was researching sci-fi and pop culture of the 1950s and 1960s for my book and kept discovering how oddly openly queer so many more things than I expected were XD

The fact that it ends the way it does blew my fucking mind lol

Okay but it would be incredibly funny if you meant they were afraid of totes

🙏💜🙏

Always read @ilanaslightly.bsky.social.

Watch Out In recent weeks, the cultural discourse on my feeds has been focused on the romantic relationships of two white women who became famous for telling all: Lindy West, author of a new memoir, Adult Brace...

ALSO TODAY: @ilanaslightly.bsky.social on watching and being watched. “The act of watching someone can very much feel like the intimacy of seeing them—but projection, fantasy, and obsession are ultimately ways of relating to the self, not the other.” flaminghydra.com/watch-out/

Thank you to @mariabustillos.com for the excellent and helpful edits and notes <3.

Watch Out In recent weeks, the cultural discourse on my feeds has been focused on the romantic relationships of two white women who became famous for telling all: Lindy West, author of a new memoir, Adult Brace...

My second piece for @flaminghydra.com is out! About how the themes of watching and being watched have been haunting me alongside my obsession with reality TV, and about Lior Torenberg's debut, Just Watch Me (from @avidreaderpress.bsky.social):

flaminghydra.com/watch-out/

Today has felt a million fucking years long, does anyone understand why

A funny thing about being human is just how different the specific things that embarrass us are

The thing is they all seem to claim that it's a tool that you can use for things that aren't writing and I'm like OK but why and what and why would I

I am so baffled by the journalists who are deciding to tell people who aren't into AI that they're going to get left behind and that they need to adapt or die.

You are so right, what an incredibly odd list to claim as emerging.

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Right now, our Residents of the Bog tier, which is a 2-for-1 subscription deal is at 20% off. $88 for 2 yearly Flytrap subscriptions!

Beings is such a beautiful, inventive SF themed novel. Thank you for sharing your publishing and writing journey with Science Fiction Writing students @calarts.bsy.social yesterday.

We were so inspired by your visit ✨✨✨

WHAT

Turns out that being incredibly present, like you pretty much have no choice being with a toddler who is very active and wants a lot of input, is exhausting and demanding and takes a lot out of you? Almost like raising a human being is both physical and mental labor!

the first of my bimonthly salon columns for April is about these two amazing books!

So grateful to @clairephillips.bsky.social for inviting me to her class at @calarts.bsky.social - this is the second talk I've done with a class this month, and I've loved both experiences. Invite me to Zoom/visit your writing classes!

Thank you!

Wait wait what is this about I'm not finding it and I'm so curious

New Literary Fiction, Romance, and Lena Dunham

objectively hilarious @bookshop.org email header implying that Lena Dunham is a genre