The only thing sillier than pivoting to video is pivoting to AI

yeah it is rough dude

Also.......

"THE" Dawn Staley.

Need something for your sanity/humanity? Get in, kids, we’re going to a Zoom reading about songs!

seriously, somebody stop us

South Carolina!

God bless Mr. Onion. I read this whole saga, what a beautiful ride, glad he’s feeling better

Going to the moon on the first day of national poetry month? Idk, seems like some kind of set up.

I don't mess with April Fool's Day because 12 years ago I had to call out of work because I was in the hospital because I sliced my leg open with my bathroom sink. So consider this instead your annual PSA not to sit on countertops, which can break.

Mine is not my daughter, but a judgy older sister with whom I’ve somehow managed to stay close all these years in spite of vastly different lifestyles and priorities

I almost never want it, which, well, we all have room for growth, haha!

3/30, CHAMPIONSHIP: (1) Celine Dion vs (6) Ben Folds Five — March Sadness 90s Edition

You're not crying? Leonardo DiCaprio's 24-year-old girlfriend is watching "one of Leo's old movies" for the first time, sobbing over Jack's death, not realizing that 25 is the iceberg and she is the ship, and he will always be Rose on the door, and you're not crying? marchxness.com/sadnesschamp...

It’s a really interesting point though, to know about yourself & anyone you’re reading for. I’m like you, but I edit/coach writers at all stages, & some I encourage to *not* send early but others somehow find the possibility of holes poked in messy early drafts expansive/ invigorating? Can’t imagine

“The most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it’s disheartening, you don’t want to go on. That’s what I think is hard—the discouragement that comes from seeing what you've done. This is all you could manage?” —James Salter

I love this! Thanks so much for putting it together and on my radar. I miss Zach Doss too 💜

Front cover of STONE ARABIA by Dana Spiotta held in front of a small sign reading “literature only” on the back of an airplane seat

View from the very back row of a very small plane I got rebooked onto after much nonsense. Literature only, indeed.

hahaha! I’m in a hoping phase, so I know exactly what you’re talking about but am going to pretend I didn’t see this post and keep telling myself Friday afternoon good news is a logical impossibility

if I learned nothing else in MFA school (and truly I may not have), it’s that you can’t tell those jokers anything

I’m slowly but surely refinding and refollowing enough people I knew on Twitter that this app is starting to feel appropriately annoying, welcome back, internet of my youth, spring has sprung, etc etc

damn, goals! My grays have been coming in for years, and I get this question too, like maybe they’re…fancy highlights or something? I am so ready for the full-on silver takeover

even sadder: a Predators fan

What oil actually costs The market price of oil has never reflected its true cost. This week made that impossible to ignore.

At an energy conference on Monday, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said, "The era of taxpayers subsidizing unreliable, unaffordable and unsecure energy is officially over.”

Hours later, one of America’s largest oil refineries exploded.

Buddy, you’ve got my vote (also shoutout to your wife, yall killed it! No shoutout to the Penguins though, sorry)

I'm not always homesick, but the mom who runs the corner store down the block, with whom I try valiantly to practice my Spanish, was tagging MoonPies on the countertop today

With apologies to other Melissa—Crows till I cry!

that place is so cursed

was just reading a profile of a writer with a forthcoming book and stumbled across a lettuce ad that said “delicious, fresh, and crispy!” and simply assumed it was a blurb

idk why but I thought this first pic was *indoors* and you’d gone wayyy off script

guy in the neighborhood was playing Love Hurts on his phone. great song, i said. he looked at me blankly. emmylou and gram parsons right? i said. he opened a translator app and gestured to speak into it. when my thing was translated his eyes lit up. country music! he said. country music, i said