This is A+ advice but in my experience the best husbands are…below average at determining what gossip is good gossip

Would SATC still be an enjoyable watch for someone who never saw a single episode despite being the right age, but has spent 20 years so osmotically drenched in the show’s lore that there is no possibility of plot surprises? Asking for me

Little kids change your relationship with everything on earth bc there used to be nothing I loved more than a moody rainy spring day but this is giving me internal screams

Company is headed to the UK!!

This is the difference between caregiving without breaks and caregivers with breaks

Stopped at the bakery across from my high school, where lots of my friends worked back then, and it’s still staffed mostly by teens. They mumble and get some stuff wrong but get most stuff right, and I feel so much tender affection for them 😭😭 the circle of life

originally REJECTION was going to be stories and a long essay. I ended up cutting the ~20K word essay from the book but have resuscitated about 6K of it for the The Paris Review :-D

As God is my witness, I am going to figure out how to write a good short story about fanfiction 😭 or die trying 😭😭

This is such sad news! Juked published my story “The Gatekeepers,” one of my first. Love them.

I only needed one more sign to subscribe to Bookforum and this was it. An excellent day in criticism

Just read it. I’m breathless. I am truly sympathetic to the author but that went so hard. Harder than I could have imagined

This movie is so ludicrously funny. It’s about this pouty dumbass who wants to have an affair in peace so he hires MID-1990S JON BON JOVI to distract his wife and thinks that won’t backfire 😭 (no spoilers, I’m still watching)

Happy they liked it!

Can attest that both of these books are 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Before becoming a parent I probably would have found my own parents’ panicked eclipse texts overkill, but now I’m like Oh yes, let me set a reminder to spend summer 2045 mastering the mass communication technology du jour so I can remind all the boys to protect their eyes

I was stressing about drafting the right details about how the protagonist of my novel got the car he’s driving, and then I remembered I have never once cared about a car* in a book**

*except Christine
**or unless Hercule Poirot specifically mentioned it

We taught our kid to ride his bike today, and watching him sail around the track for the first time (after many wobbly attempts) was like top 5 anythings of life thus far

Definitely did not intend this or the subsequent tweet to be hurtful in any way! That’s never my aim here. (I thought it was neutral, but I caught a block for it so I wonder)