Two hooded figures with lamps approach a moonlit, isolated cottage. A woman answers the door. We have come for the child, says the hooded figure So soon? she asks It is time, says the hooded figure. The woman is distraught. We should never have got him a library card! What is done cannot be undone, says the hooded figure We couldn’t see the harm! We just wanted him to enjoy reading! For most, it ends there, says the hooded figure, turning away and walking into the wilderness Oh lord, What have I done! says the woman, the child walks past her and out into the darkness with them. Do not cry mother. I am a writer now.

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

How the Cozy Genre Took Over the World You arrive in a a quaint village. Or perhaps a country home. Possibly a luxury train—or yacht. Or something more commonplace–a bookstore, a crafting club. Wherever you are the air is fragrantly red…

"In a world devoid of logic, in which humanity feels like it’s devolving ... where physical ability and venality are considered the only useful skills to have, the cozy trope says to fans: There is another way."

My @crimereads.bsky.social article is up! Check it out!

Unpopular Opinion:
I can't stand Ravel's Bolero

Elizabeth Goldring · At the National Gallery: Holbein and Henry James More has probably been written about The Ambassadors than about any other work by Holbein. Is the painting a commentary...

‘Frick seems to have felt that he would never be viewed as a collector of the first rank until he had acquired at least one Holbein.’

Elizabeth Goldring on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘳𝘴 and the enduring desirability of the German Old Master’s work.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@pameladean.bsky.social 😍

The Bar Is Open Again on the Staten Island Ferry

The Bar Is Open Again on the Staten Island Ferry www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/n...

Can’t believe I missed that 😆

Yes! Life is considerably supported and supportable with that to look forward to.

A thrill to be part of this!

Seems, madam?
I know not seems.
(We’ve had tea in London. No kittens were harmed. Though maybe just because none were about….)

Cloisonné pin similar to the NASA logo, but reads “NOT FLAT”, with “we checked” underneath l

NASA’s Earth photos from Artemis inspired me to put this on today… 🙂

Getting lots of positive comments on it as I run errands…

I just finished Francis Spufford’s CAHOKIA JAZZ

Please send life support.

Really looking forward to this. Not going to give away the topic I'm talking about, but in preparation I'm reading China Miéville, @terriwindling.bsky.social, @ellenkushner.bsky.social, and local history around where I live.

Yes!

Oh very well

“Icarian” is a word??

A raindrop-covered daffodil, head canted but resplendent.

Today is trans day of visibility. I see and love and celebrate all my trans friends. Also, I know that in many places it's stressful or terrifying or dangerous to be visible, and whatever decisions you've made for your own safety are valid and don't change who you are.

No matter how much it's talked about, it's still not talked about enough that the Supreme Court agreed to hear a case on whether the words in the 14th amendment mean what the words in the 14th amendment mean.

panel from last summer

WAIT WHAT EEEEEE did they call it that, or did you just decide it is???
It certainly does look like page 1

There once was a man
from Peru, whose lim'ricks all
looked like haiku. He

said with a laugh, I
cut 'em in half, the pay is
much better for two

two cats sitting on top of small boulders. the first cat is dangling its legs over the side the other is curled on top

poems with titles longer than the poem vs poems with a title so tucked and short it feels hardly there at all

Opinion | Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury, Sentence by Sentence (Gift Article) Am I still a writer if I’ve lost my words?

Rebuilding Myself After Brain Injury, Sentence by Sentence

it turned up in the kitchen drawer
as soon as he got back from the store
where he wasted 20 dollars on a new one

#althallelujah
(Read the OP comments: the story continues! 😆)

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

This is delightful

2/2 Trying out a pose: Dirck Hals in the 1620s.

Post by @literaticat 💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 7 · I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but I just found out about MORE editor layoffs, when I'm still emotionally processing the LAST ones, and I'm just... I feel so stuck? I'm ju…

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