This Thursday!

Hi you can now preorder a signed copy of First Love through Strand Book Store! bit.ly/3TzaSWr

Tulips, wine, books for researching mental illness and addiction in my family, & Leslie Jamison’s latest book (and an earlier one of hers on the stack, just above ⁦Bill Bryson’s book which mentions my grandfather’s death from alcohol).
⁦Leslie Jamison⁩ ⁦Bill Bryson⁩

“Perhaps we’ve all done more gaslighting than we care to admit.” Leslie Jamison writes about what the ubiquitous word really means. nyer.cm/byucqRX

The first time we ever met Amanda Palmer 🎹 and I talked about pit sweat and desire and friendship and ghosts, and we've been friends ever since❤️‍🔥
Can't wait to do this event together June 1! Graveside Variety in Woodstock 🪦 🔥👀
Tix here: AFPLeslieJamison.eventbrite.com

an excerpt of dead weight is up ⁦The Nation⁩ today! one of my favorite chapters, on reaganomics, girlbossery, buccal fat, big pharma, bailouts & even ozempic… thenation.com/article/societ…

Recently, I had the honor of meeting one of my favorite authors of all time Leslie Jamison . We talked about the cover of her latest book Splinters, and how collage functions as a kind of formal allegory for the human experience. Now I’m noticing collage-style book covers all over…

“I ask my students what one owes the dead, when we are obliged to look, and when, if ever, it is more respectful to look away,” writes Hannah Gold. “What do we offer and risk by looking?”
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getting emo about getting to get emo in public tonight with one of my best friends Eliza Callahan and the most iconic mentor around Leslie Jamison

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'Want to read the article first?' ?!?
Feels like being gaslit by the platform itself...lol

In the early pandemic I taught a thesis workshop so incredible it basically saved my life. ✨ TONIGHT✨ I get to talk to two of those students (Emmeline Clein & Eliza Callahan) about the stunning books their thesis projects became (& my book, too.) Come out!
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another banger from Leslie Jamison

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I’m on the cover of Poets & Writers!!! & spoke with Brian Gresko about my novel Exhibit & its focus on queer & kinky joy, ambition, desire, & more 🖤

never quite thought I’d be in P&W talking about, among other things, whips, but here we are!

the profile’s in print today 🤲🏻

thrilled to have penned the cover story on Poets & Writers, a profile of R.O. Kwon 권오경, whose exquisite, sophomore novel EXHIBIT is an exploration and celebration of queer, kinky joy. Out on newsstands now!

I love this already

Spending my whole life in the backslash between curse & quest

ICYMI: The first installment of my new column for Orion! It's called Viewfinder and every essay looks (literally) through a different window 🪟👀❤️‍🔥