My essay about When Harry Met Sally and how life really begins at 40 is up at Literary Hub today!! (It’s possible I wrote a novel just so I could publish this essay.) lithub.com/dear-sally-alb…

When your nan is both a avid knitter and Elvis fan 🤣

for all my fellow geriatric millennials. sound on

The most important local news in Park Slope since the scandal at the Coop: Beautiful used bookstore TROUBLED SLEEP opened last Monday on 6th at Sterling, with some brilliantly picked new books, old records, rare poetry, Eno on the stereo and a nice guy named Alex upfront

I do a fair number of informational interviews about being an editor and lately I’ve noticed that I’m always giving the same advice. I’d love to make this available more widely, so here it is: My top pieces of practical advice for anyone who wants to work in publishing!

@SarahWatson42 This Boomer is delighted that loans are being forgiven. When I went to Northwestern from 1967 to 1971, tuition was $1800. I think the cost now is $70,000 a year. I’ve had so many law students work with me with crippling debt. This is great

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong. 1/

Also, government literally exists to further the common good and to help its citizens. Non-homeowners subsidize homeowners, non-business owners subsidize business owners, people w/o schoolchildren subsidize schools. Why is it politically expedient to think so little of each other

Today at @cranebeachmass my 9-year-old daughter nearly drowned while I was watching her, in full view of two life guard stations, on an uncrowded and overcast day. Drowning doesn’t look like drowning, and I hope a lot of people read this and remember the signs. 🧵

Amanda Linehan Crane Beach - The Trustees Saw this for the first time a few weeks ago posted at a lake:

Businesses, stop giving away free cotton tote bags. They are pure catnip to the hoarder. They build a small shanty town of full tote bags, containing old magazines and meeting notes from 2013 that they fully intend to shred, some time around the heat death of the universe

Just read this thread. Please

Flic Everett youtu.be/lVx1CskHlcc still obsessed with this one 🖤🌺

Hats off to great agents!

Belatedly posting about the incredibly inspiring #PENLiteraryAwards. Support PEN America and and help defend the right of authors everywhere to be read and heard! boothpics.com/7BR8/z80lkz

She walked in through the out door

5 years ago today, I told this story and people liked it enough that I got to quit my job and write full time. It's still weird, and mildly embarrassing, to reckon with just how much it changed my life. But it did, so please accept a sincere HELLO GUYS from me on its anniversary.

"The ultimate detective was standing in the kitchen, cooking dinner. My mother was the best detective I’ve ever known." Novel Suspects Little, Brown and Co #thewolfhunt novelsuspects.com/author-essay/a…