The inexplicable thing I learned from this scandal is that self-published authors have agents???

I investigated the recent explosion of literary travel, from book butlers to curated libraries to custom cruises. esquire.com/entertainment/…

Damn.

It's unimaginably painful to have a limb amputated without anesthetic. It's unimaginably painful to find your child in pieces by a foosball table. That's why the students are out in the fucking quad, unaccountably aggravating Pamela Paul with their 'virtue-signaling masks.' FFS.

What's the last great movie you watched? I need recs and I don't judge.

Dads who write jokes on the Internet have found a place the rest of us can only dream of: They call it ‘the rooms.’ Lucas Mann writes: esquire.com/lifestyle/a604…

New today at Esquire: Rachel Khong writes about her early days creating websites for powerful people eager to rewrite their narratives. Now, online reputations matter more than ever—and AI threatens to take her old job. esquire.com/lifestyle/a604…

Someone should tell the president of PEN that commenting on her institution's disgraceful and public collapse is probably not the best venue for an embarrassingly self-centered personal essay.

It's not a personal essay that will break the internet but I am beyond delighted to share my first piece in The Cut on my favorite NYC hobby: people watching. thecut.com/article/a-new-…

Watched PERSONAL SHOPPER (2016) for the first time last night between 12-130am and don't think I'll ever forget it.

Hey! Rose Metal Press has faced a challenging situation since SPD closed suddenly on 3/28 owing the press a lot of money. We're at $18,100 of our $50,000 goal—we're so grateful for the outpouring of support!

Please consider helping us recoup our losses:
gofundme.com/f/help-rose-me…

After being closed for over half a year, I'm re-opening to queries in two weeks starting May 1st. Please be gentle...! 🐙

Focusing mainly on fiction these days: I love big, juicy, ambitious genre-defying literary novels that are as entertaining as they are profound(ly moving).

Looking back, it's wild to me now that my MFA program in the late '00s was still 90% dedicated to writing and publishing short stories in print literary magazines.

'Writing this novel taught me so much about hope, collective care, and community.'

For The Frontlist, I spoke with Crystal Hana Kim | 김하나, her editor Jessica Williams, and her art director Ploy Siripant about THE STONE HOME — out now from William Morrow!

(Link in bio b/c this app is cursed.)

I think of this post often