Good morning
Good reading
Good writing

and

#FiveThings :
1. Rye toast
2. Meeting a deadline for a new editor
3. insighttimer
4. Ignoring unsought advice
5. Simone Dinnerstein's Goldberg Variations

No matter what else, congrats to Pulitzer for Fiction winner Jayne Anne Phillips and to honorable mentions Yiyun Li and Ed Park.

pulitzer.org/news/2024-puli…

Yesterday I saw Fall Guy in one of those theaters with seats that mimic rumbles and tumbles.

Afterwards I read a hardcover thriller.

Guess which experience was better?

#thebookisalwaysbetter #evenifitisnotthesameasthemovie

When you start noticing this, you'll know where it started. 10/10, Adam Vitcavage. . .

. . .working on some new writing. :)

Happy #FridayReads , the first one of May 2024!

Me: THE BLUE HOUR by Paula Hawkins. Quite dishy so far.

What are YOU reading?

Absolutely delighted to see my #LifeBMemoir here in @LitHub's New in Paperback column. Many thanks, Gabrielle Belot. . .

lithub.com/lorrie-moore-d…

Very sad. RIP, Paul Auster.

JANE EYRE

(Am I playing this game wrong?)

I wrote a weird little poem and am considering posting it but I haven't posted it yet and this, my friends, is progress in my detachment from the socials

And lo I have received that auto-approval!

Don't tell me this weird hellsite has no good side. . .

Smells Like:

-- Fainting Couch
-- Hysteria Vibrator Afterglow
-- Confinement/Childbed
-- Arranged Marriage Trousseau

UPDATE: I have received NetGalley access to the new Flavia de Luce novel and I will not be available until after I've finished it. Thank you for your understanding at this important time.

Good morning, good reading, good writing.

Yesterday I met a deadline, then interviewed Claire Messud for her novel THIS STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY.

Today another deadline, then some student conferences, then writers group.

I hope you have a good #writinglife day, too.

Listen, Wells Fargo, you need to help my friend Kathy!

If you are working on a novel & feel like you are in a wilderness with no exit trails, or all the exit trails are guarded by ravenous bears & giant unmovable boulders, I have got a class for you: theshipmanagency.com/classes/roadma…

I just discovered there is a new Flavia de Luce novel by Alan Bradley and I am waiting patiently for my e-galley approval where is it where is it

Friends in the #HudsonValley , please consider a trip to Big Red Books in #Nyack on 5/1 to welcome Christi Furnas and her debut graphic memoir CRAZY LIKE A FOX!!

cc: Lily Burana Elizabeth 😷😷Crane Erin Somers Michele Filgate Sari Botton

bigredbooks.net/events

Sunny warm day, dog and spouse snoozing after a long walk, revising a short story and listening to the blues. #snapshot #moment #writinglife #writerslife

BREAKING: PEN America has canceled its World Voices festival.

The organization has been brought to its knees by the demand that it say the word 'genocide.' But who does this really hurt in the end?

theatlantic.com/books/archive/…