Kind of random, but anyone looking for wooden furniture in Oakland CA? Friend is moving

🚨 Harvard Book Store is having their big warehouse sale! for ~$5-10 you can get books by Raven Leilani 🔥Dantiel’s Inferno🔥 @NatalieGDiaz Eduardo C. Corral (he/him/his) Kawai Strong Washburn @kkingparsons Danez Maria Kuznetsova Amber Noelle Weike Wang, Claudia Rankine & more hbswarehousesale.com

HOW ABOUT THE DIGITAL EVENT OF THE SUMMER Deep Vellum Deep Vellum Books @Coffee_House_ Dorothy, a publishing project Two Lines Press Transit Books Two Dollar Radio

The most bitter irony of the attack on Salman Rushdie was that he was there to discuss the United States as a safe haven for writers facing persecution in other lands

I am routinely stopped by people who tell me they are still thinking about a karaoke song they saw me sing 15 years ago

I will never run out of amazement when it comes to driving in Philly

Months later, still thinking about it

And one of those former Wawa employees is me 😃

Me 15 years ago tonight

I feel like I can retire from Twitter (not that you really need an excuse these days)...the "clown" from the Billy Joel song "Leningrad," the one who befriended Billy Joel on his 1987 Soviet tour and told Joel about Vysotsky, has followed me and showed much ❤️ for this post

This is hands down the nicest thing that has ever happened to me on Twitter

Americans 🤝 Renaming Food They Can’t Pronounce

The beautiful writer Jensen Beach has stage 4 metastatic melanoma. Please help him and his family if you can. gofund.me/89246638

Applications are open for Barrelhouse Writer Camp, a short writing retreat in central PA! Designed for all genres and experience levels, #writercamp is a mini-vacation with meals, campfires, creeks, and conversation included. Learn more and apply at writer-camp.com.