the sucker-punch of learning that your novel—along with, it seems, the vast majority of your friends’ books—was used to train chatGPT without your consent or knowledge worked ten years on that book, it kind of nearly killed me, this is enraging

So excited for this one 🙌🏻

Today, thousands brave the pouring rain in NYC, rallying in solidarity with Palestine. 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

I'm dying, love me

I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

$19 hodgepodge haul from the library book sale

There are just a few seats left in my upcoming short story workshop with Lighthouse Writers Workshop. If you're looking to try your hand at fiction or to brush up on craft and workshop a story-in-progress, come play. Monday eves on Zoom from Aug 19. All are welcome 😊lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-wee…

I need the “she’s in the White House now why isn’t she doing anything” crowd to watch this everyday until Election Day

There’s no better surprise than when the mail arrives and you remember you subscribed to The Paris Review when you were drunk 🎉🥳🎁

if you think about it, Vance's childless-people-have-no-value schick is the same as the "pro-life" forced-birth-at-all-costs schtick is the same as the AI-will-save-us schtick...why is everyone so obsessed with producing new brains instead of USING THE ONES YOU ALREADY HAVE

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Is there a doctor on the flight? Specifically an English PhD? A passenger is attributing the views of the first-person narrator to the biographical author

I'm defending science. Join me in supporting the Union of Concerned Scientists Union of Concerned Scientists! ucsusa.org/supportUCS secure.ucsusa.org/a/01-2025-janu…

Elon Musk, the richest guy in the world, is going after USAID, which feeds the poorest people in the world. Next, he’ll go after the programs that impact you: Medicaid, Medicare, community health centers, Pell Grants, affordable housing. We can stop him.

It’s dizzying, sickening, will cost millions of lives, trillions of dollars, and take *generations* to recover from, if we EVER do. You cannot love this country and feel anything but agonizing pain watching this. It’s like being forced to watch a loved one get dismembered.

love this for them

It's always a good time to work on something creative—but it's a particularly good time now. Intro to Short Story with Lighthouse Writers Workshop starts Monday on Zoom! We have a blast in this workshop, which is a combo of craft lessons, generative ex's, and workshopping. DM with any q's.

Too many pundits are missing just how apoplectic the Democratic base is right now. They revile Trump. Revile Musk. They see the economy collapsing. They see DOGE wrecking livelihoods. If Senate Dems don’t stand up and say enough is enough, this party is at a breaking point.

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