Marion Winik on Marrying a Gay Man, Telling Secrets, and Writing Fiction Versus Nonfiction First Comes Love is a memoir about my marriage to Tony Heubach, a gay man, chronicling our meeting at Mardi Gras in 1983 and all the adventures and misadventures that followed. We found out Tony wa…

Marion Winik reflects on telling secrets, writing fiction versus nonfiction, and her 1994 memoir, First Comes Love.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

lily allen really is that bitch

Enamored of the Abyss, by Garth Greenwell On the place of affirmation in art

‘When I was a 14-year-old gay kid in the American South and pulled Baldwin’s novel off a bookstore shelf, it radically reoriented my relationship to dignity. The more I’ve read and taught the novel, the harder I’ve found this to explain.’

— @garthgreenwell.bsky.social

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feeling like one of the main points of a book is to explore a fucked up little thing (and the dangers of it!!!) within the confines of a package you can close and put away if it hurts too much

i'm sorry but when did movie tickets become twenty fucking dollars

Calling liberatory ideology "juvenile" is a tell about the marginalization of children & their dismissal as our comrades & kin - not a gotcha about justice as unfeasible.

holy hell is it ever a combo mercury venus retrograde

You’re just cheating yourself, baby

A reminder that if you’re using AI to write your novel or memoir or whatever it is you’re trying to develop, you’re absolutely doing it wrong and missing the point entirely of what it means to make art and tend to and honor your creative self.

feeling desperate to hold a bday party just so i can show up looking extra hot

i will literally always be thinking of when fiona apple was like "so be it, i'm your crowbar" and then TWENTY yearS LATER she was like, "fetch the bolt cutters, i've been in here too long"

when ur so tired of URSELF am i right ladies

me and WHO

i need to stop shaving as a single girlie bc i get all smooth and i’m like hmmmmm whomst would like to enjoy the smoothness? i be so obsessed with myself i wanna share

i am meant to be in love!!!!

Video obtained by CNN shows the rear landing gear of the jet buckling and the right wing shearing away in a fireball after the plane landed hard on the runway.

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

more and more my gender is becoming “lover boy”

my most recent advisor for my mfa described themselves as a bisexual lesbian

i’ll shave my legs before i shave my pussy but i’ll shave my pussy before i shave my armpits

like tbh ban the sale of teslas fucking yesterday and leverage the absolutely massive and critical energy and raw materials industries imo

laughing at this omg

Honestly fuck America for making me engage in any hint of nationalism because ew

me and lacy being so happy in cali 🍋 surviving on cheeto’s and bourbon

getting #stressed about a single v day and i don’t need like a relationship or anything but i’d love to buy someone dinner and flowers you know? i wanna buy a heart sweater and be v day vibey

(what would i do without them) (my brother is not my pet but i love him too)

@slugbbmade.bsky.social do u have any spiralling bisexual stickers left

omg right!! also can we go together i hate going by myself

being an apartment dwelling dog mom is hell and nothing smells worse than cat pee but here i am, having three pets anyway