95% of the film people I started out with are now unemployed/furloughed/changing careers. And we’re 40. I can’t imagine telling a young person to dive in.

“I have concepts of a plan” is going to be my new answer whenever an editor asks me how a piece or book going. #debate

We discovered that the toddler only likes music with notable percussion. We put on In the Air Tonight and our boy said Noooo and disappointedly marched off ... until Phil Collins launches that drum solo & then our boy raised a finger to his ear and turned around with mouth agape.

The pandemic should have led to universal health care, paid sick leave, upgraded ventilation in millions of buildings, massive investment in preventive healthcare and ongoing vaccination campaigns. Instead we got $1200 and the impending criminalization of masking.

Fiction writers. We're hiring a TT position. Great department. Great students. It's about to look like this here: jobs.wcu.edu/postings/28950

Jobs like this should be illegal

We at the UL English Department are excited to have E. M. Tran as part of the Deep South Writers Series this month! Come out to Cité des Arts later this month to show your support!

“The weirder, the stranger the book is, and the freer the author has been with it, the harder it may be for the reader, but some readers will get it, and that’s who you’re writing for. And you don’t know who they will be, but you have to take a chance.” —Lorrie Moore

I just really love these quietly unsettling, sad, oddly relatable stories by Maegan Poland

Very excited for this reading by E. M. Tran on Thursday!

COVER REVEAL! Absolutely thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming novel, THE IMAGINED LIFE, out from @aaknopf on 4/15! Pre-order below!

This is tomorrow! E. M. Tran at Cité des Arts with the Deep South Writers Series! (ULLafayetteCreativeWriting) citedesarts.org/events/deep-so…

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I couldn't be more thrilled to share this: the cover of my next book, SUCH A GOOD MAN, out with U of Wisconsin Press in March. I really love this design, by Jeremy Parker. You can preorder starting today, and post a link in the first comment.

Today's Featured Poem: "Resident of the Sun" by Augusto Lunel, trans. by Michael Martin Shea, from Poesía en acción, published by Action Books. Read here: actionbooks.org/2023/12/poesia…

John Mulaney getting on stage and mercilessly mocking everyone at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference is one of the funniest things I’ve ever read