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I made up a bunch of funny book titles to illustrate a point. If you, too, want to write about a trend in scholarly publishing, get in touch with the team at Feeding the Elephant, who are totally lovely to work with!

developing*

I am developed a talk called "Formatting for Writers" and would love to tour the country with it.

Visiting Author - Elizabeth Zaleski - The Trouble with Loving Poets and Other Essays on Failure - Francie & Finch Bookshop With excitement, Francie & Finch welcomes you to join us for a visit from author Elizabeth Zaleski! She will be presenting her new book of personal essays, The Trouble with […]

I didn’t realize how much I missed Nebraska. I operate at a very Nebraska speed (read: not fast). I’m back for a reading at Francie & Finch this Saturday April 18 at 4:30! Should be a good time. I’m also being interviewed tomorrow at 10 on Friday Live (gulp). francieandfinch.com/event/visiti...

A photograph of a person jogging along a sidewalk in workout clothes is accompanied by the text “Nobody sees the 4 a.m. workouts. Nobody sees me meal prepping for hours every week. Nobody sees any of this. Because I don’t do those things.”

A flyer for a book event with Elizabeth Zaleski and Allison Davis features the two author's headshots and their book covers as well as the logo for Prologue Bookshop and details about the event

I'm going to be talking to poetic and moral superstar *Allison Davis* next Tuesday, April 7, at Prologue Bookshop's NEW location in Columbus at 6:30. Allison and I will almost certainly have less trouble finding the new space than we did logging into the same Teams meeting to plan for it (my fault).

David Gutowksi has been asking writers about music and musicians about writing for a long time over at Largehearted Boy. I was very happy to contribute. You can listen to my playlist for Trouble and read about my choices here: largeheartedboy.com/2026/03/29/e...

Aw, thank you, Cassey!

Ha! I also loved When We Cease to Understand the World

Discourse is dead.

Long live discourse.

I love this so much 😆

Thank you! I’m pleased to hear that it resonated with you

and really really cool. They have a great thing going, and I’m so grateful to have recently emerged from beneath a rock to meet all these wonderful people!

I cannot say enough good things about the event put on by @literarycleveland.bsky.social tonight. My coreaders were phenomenal, Loganberry Books is an amazing space, the community was so supportive, and the folks running the org (Matt, Michelle, Caira, Lauren) were warm, hilarious, smart . . .

A purple flyer advertising the March 18 Plum City reading series at 7 p.m. at Loganberry books in Cleveland, featuring Kortney Morrow, Loung Ung, and Elizabeth Zaleski. The three authors are pictured below their book covers.

If you're in the Cleveland area and looking for something to do this Wednesday evening, I'll be one of three readers at an event at Loganberry Books hosted by Literary Cleveland. Starts at 7 with a social hour after. More info here (registration is requested): www.litcleveland.org/events-progr...

I've read Why Fish Don't Exist. There were definitely parts that spoke to me. : ) I will check out the other recs, thank you!

I wanna read a memoir by someone who is good at MATH

(not an autobiography by a famous science person, a memoir by a writer person who decided to be a writer despite being really good at math. Primo Levi’s Periodic Table, which I treat as a book of essays, is one of my FBOAT)

(fav books . . . )

A stack of 9 books and journals lying flat with their spines showing

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Books and journals I brought home from AWP: Last Children of Mill Creek, Whiskey Tender, Character Witness, summonings, Agency 3, Heart Folds Early, Unmothered/Untongued, On an Inland Sea, Kenyon Review Rural Spaces folio.

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Viruses I brought home from AWP: COVID

Worth it!

Done!

Thanks, Silas! Was SO GOOD to catch up this weekend.

Listers looks like a blast. Will definitely be watching.

Tom Gannon’s memoir “Birding While Indian” also goes into this quite a bit, especially in a postcolonial context!

A happy pub day to this little book and everyone at Belt who made it happen. Couldn’t have asked for a better press. You rock, @beltpublishing.bsky.social

Thumbs down on all that!

My suspicions were correct. I am still that same idiot today.

So you think you can read XI Book recommendations "n" stuff for February

Tomorrow is my pub day. I'll be working mostly, but I also have a therapy appointment scheduled because you gotta #planahead. I suspect that in 1.5 hours I'll still be the same idiot who just happened to write a book that Molly Young thinks you should read: mollyyoung.substack.com/p/so-you-thi...