One more week at the residency by the bay so i am logging off and telling you all so as to keep myself accountable to the eelgrass and the eagles

Barbara Browning on the fiction of love

Twitter, how can we get Bookshop.org US on Linktree so folks can have an ethical alternative to Amazon?

(Yes, I’ve tried emailing, maybe RTing will get their attention ?!) 🤞🏼🙏🏼🤞🏼🙏🏼

'A body that felt increasingly like a promise I had made with no desire to keep it.'

New! Isle McElroy! in Guernica Magazine !

guernicamag.com/the-shape-of-a…

ICYMI: I meant to write about socializing for my first newsletter, but then the wildfires blew in, so I wrote about the emotional whiplash of going to the beach in a t-shirt during a Libra season with no rain, also about the question of kids
ericaberry.substack.com/p/im-at-the-co…

This week the world’s worst AQI is in the Pacific Northwest, where (at least in my corner) leaves are still very green. I wrote about the uncanniness of this Libra season, the grief-pleasure of its sunny days, ethical consumption fatigue, and possibility.

ericaberry.substack.com/p/im-at-the-co…

Obsessed with the fat that BFFs Lydia Millet and Jenny Offill got matching 'MOM' tattoos on their biceps one spontaneous night 20 years ago

Introducing our first slate of measures we're supporting this year! We are led by POC, immigrants & refugees, rural communities, & people experiencing poverty. We prioritize the policies that we know will impact our communities the most. Vote yes on these measures this Nov!

roxane gay My novel, PEOPLE COLLIDE, comes out fall 2023. It's about a husband and wife who trade bodies.

also rec Erica Berry's WOLFISH (feb 23) and rachelhengqp's THE GREAT RECLAMATION (march 23).

Accidentally matched the couch and the couch’s dog

doing my first reading tn from the real ding dang bound version of Wolfish, naturally I feel like I’ve forgotten anything I ever knew…
people who read from their books…what’s your best advice on choosing excerpts?!

I’m getting lots of matching emails, feeling very sad, really sorry and annoyed by all the asking you to buy my book, and/so: what if instead of asking you to buy Flight today, I ask you to buy books put out by smaller presses and I’ll send you a free copy of Flight?

Can’t wait to read this. Congratulations, Ethan!