I dreamed I had to file with some entity the number of times I’ve seen The Magnetic Fields play and my dream self came up with 17. Going to check that on this side of conscious.

Epic and Lovely Epic and Lovely Mo Daviau

Apologies for plugging my own book, but I've got some assholes for ya: wvupressonline.com/node/1000

I started a new novel inspired by the loss of Mills College and Hampshire College and all the ways going to Smith saved my life. We'll see if it goes anywhere.

I haven't lived in Texas for years, but I still subscribe to the HEB mailing list so I can see what the week's Combo Locos are.

I personally bought five copies of Epic and Lovely last week from the store where I did an event (I offer to buy unsold stock at wholesale price to avoid returns) and Bookscan is showing only one copy sold.

MENTEUR! MENTEUR!

GAP Swing Commercial 1998 YouTube video by 90s Commercials

Proof if you need it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ73...

I'm obsessed with my Helix Midnight Luxe.

Chalkboard sign: Save space in your calendar for Independent Bookstore Day it’ll br out of thus world! Saturday April 25

Independent Bookstore Day is coming!

Sleater-Kinney (Iron Horse, Northampton, MA, 1997).

Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy Appalachian Reckoning Edited by Anthony Harkins and Meredith McCarroll

Also, my beloved publisher, West Virginia University Press, has a lot to say about Vance. This is a fantastic collection of essays by Appalachian writers who take issue with the stereotypes JDV was cashing in on: wvupressonline.com/node/774

These books are a waste of resources on every level.

These books bring out customers who 1) never buy books from us except for this shit 2) who are entitled to the point of insulting staff if the book arrives late due to supply chain issues 3) literally yell "I could have gotten it on Amazon for cheaper" at us as they pay.

"Charlie Brown has hoes" and "Imagine sitting next to a grown-ass man at the theater looking like he's getting dome from Batman" (w/r/t the collectible Batman popcorn vessel) live rent-free in my head.

Let's Cook The Joke Vegetarian Food From Alison Bechdel's Dykes To Watch Out For The famous lesbian comic strip satirizes politically-conscious eating with dishes that were never meant to exist--until now

For fans of Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel: aftermath.site/dykes-to-wat...

Hot Season Check out Hot Season - In the tinder-dry Southwest, three roommates-students at Deep Canyon College, known for its radical politics-are looking for love, adventure, and the promise of a bigger life th...

I cried during Hoppers, the new Pixar film, because it's exactly the kind of film my friend Susan would have adored and she's not here and I hate that.

She wrote about environmental activists/terrorists. It was her thing. bookshop.org/p/books/hot-...

EPIC & CLINTY! Join me and the fabulous @modaviau.bsky.social this Friday as we find common ground between our 2025 books at the charming Selected Stories bookshop. A splendid time, as they say, is guaranteed for all!

selectedstoriesbooks.com/mo-daviau-sh...

Their bread tastes like paper towels, but I will always happily order a sandwich there when I'm in Austin.

Shouts to the Subaru bumping “The Chauffeur” by Duran Duran in Multnomah Village right now! You’re making my day.

Also, that sandwich board for Fire and Water (RIP)...what a flashback. I got kicked out of there once for not tipping the musician.

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

Tracy Kidder's Home Town depicts, among other things, an Ada Comstock Scholar at Smith (an older student, usually a parent) getting treated like shit at Serio's Market for using food stamps. It's stayed with me for many years.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

Epic and Lovely Epic and Lovely Mo Daviau

I wrote a book about a woman eagerly staying with a narcissistic ass who steps out on her, only in my book, he gets his in the end: wvupressonline.com/node/1000

I have now read some of The Correspondent and I think the fact that this, along with ol' Theo of Golden, are selling so well is that these are very Boomer-coded books (though V. Evans is maybe 40?) and that's who buys the bulk of books.

With advance praise from @modaviau.bsky.social, there are just THREE WEEKS until @wendyjfox.bsky.social's upcoming novel THE LAST SUPPER will be available everywhere that books are sold!

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@susanschulman.bsky.social

I got one of those scammy book club emails and it was so nice. Now I know what AI is saying about my book. Very complimentary!

Mission San Juan Batista and the Monterey Bay Aquarium.

I didn’t realize Habermas was still alive until he died.

Simple Men - "Kool Thing" YouTube video by dissention

I'm no one's mom and if you want to know what I was like in the '90s: basically this.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUS...

No, it's because those cities are majority Asian and Latino. It's normal to live in multigenerational family households in those cultures.

I will not read a 2020 pandemic novel. I don't care how good it is. Do not ask.

Yep. It was an afternoon show, as I recall. And of course, we were at the first 69 Love Songs show at the Knitting Factory. None of us fucked a famous rich dude, though. We were just young people doing normal young people things. BUT IT WAS THE '90s. NO ONE HAD A PHONE!