Michelle Obama: when they go low, we go high

Gavin Newsom: when they go low, we go to the depths of hell

Roxane Gay Books & The Audacity Submission Manager THE AUDACITY, my newsletter, features an emerging writer twice a month. I define emerging writer as someone with fewer than three article/essay/short story publications and no published books or book ...

I am accepting submissions for my emerging writer series at gay.submittable.com. You should have three publications or fewer and no book contract. Yes, this is a paid opportunity. Guidelines at the link. Plz follow the guidelines.

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Dead - Exposition Review by Jackie DesForges 2nd Place – Flash 405, June 2018: “Nature” Fiction   “Not dead,” she decides. “Still.” We move our faces closer to the glass. Our noses are pressed against the window; it’s fogging...

Dead or "not dead?" Re-reading @jackiewrites.bsky.social's DEAD from our #Flash405: "Nature" judged by @briannasmykreder.bsky.social. Check out Jackie's flash fiction piece here: expositionreview.com/flash-405/de....

if you’re 25 years old with control of the entire treasury system and you don’t delete every student debt file, you are the biggest loser the world has ever seen

The Fine Line Between Before and After In her collection Little Mysteries, Sara Gran breaks the mold again.

Whoever said “never meet your heroes” must have had shitty heroes, because mine have always been even cooler in person. Today for Alta Journal I interview Sara Gran, whose new collection of stories Little Mysteries comes out next week 🔮 www.altaonline.com/books/fictio...

Would be a shame if they never knew a moment’s peace

Today is the feast of St Brigid. According to legend, Brigid met a nun in 7th century Ireland who had broken her vow of chastity and become pregnant. St Brigid performed a miracle when she laid hands on the woman, prayed, and induced an abortion.

Waiting anxiously for midnight, the end of this God forsaken January, as though it were New Years Eve

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

Just hit me why AOC is so good and brilliant at being the adult in the room with all the trashy losers making terrible choices around her. She used to be a bartender.

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods) I started writing about my wild girl, Atalanta—and about Bernadette, the scholar tasked with discovering and revealing Atalanta’s story in order to preserve the girl’s freedom—during the long month…

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum recommends books about wild girls by Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and more.

An area larger than Paris

A Bay Area fire tracking app is saving lives — and correcting Elon Musk Watch Duty has overtaken ChatGPT to become the top free app in Apple’s App Store.

The CEO of Watch Duty used his skills as a software engineer to build the app to amplify fire safety information as a public service: “Techies are obsessed with going to Mars and inventing an AGI robot to do art. But I’m obsessed with time and life.” sfstandard.com/2025/01/09/w...

2 dead and more than 1,000 homes, businesses, other buildings destroyed in L.A. County fires More than 1,000 homes, businesses and other buildings have burned and at least two people are dead in wildfires burning across L.A. County, making this one of the most destructive firestorms to hit th...

Say what you will about LA Times's feckless ownership, but the reporters on the ground covering this disaster risk their lives to deliver the news. The paper has a really great disaster team.
www.latimes.com/california/l...

Tracking the fires on Watch Duty with the rest of LA and every time I see a fire turn gray (which means they put it out or contained it) I cheer as though my team just won the fucking Super Bowl

When people ask me which art inspires me, I show them this video

I had to take my 2 cats on an international flight (we all hated it) and I kept telling the French flight attendants that I was the cats’ service animal. I was rewarded with extra wine

If you ever share / repost anything, please let it be this

“you’ll be visited by three spirits.”

the three spirits:

Bw image of barefoot woman dancing

Lucia Joyce dancing to a military march by Schubert.

Wow my 3-way dream seems so peaceful now

Had a dream last night that someone is welcome to use as a short story: three of us traveled to a cabin for a night to have a planning session for a 3-way, but we were unable to schedule said 3-way because we were all too busy and couldn’t get away for another night aside from this planning session

Get in loser we’re making prank calls

Actually I think that a world in which billionaires are afraid to exist would ultimately be a much more peaceful, equal one

Author Azar Nafisi.

About Iranian author Azar Nafisi.

About Iranian author Azar Nafisi.

About Iranian author Azar Nafisi.

‘I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we articulate what has happened to us through the kind of people we become.’

Happy 76th birthday to Azar Nafisi, author of the acclaimed memoir 'Reading Lolita in Tehran.' Born December 1, 1948.

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