A bunch of fucked-up shit.

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It pains me to be on X. Do you know what I mean? That said, I'm starting a substack/stubsack about my writing process and the journey to hopefully publishing novel #5 GLOSS. open.substack.com/pub/micki888/p…

I'm stoked to go see #Barbie.

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On drunkenness open.substack.com/pub/micki888/p…

Working as a "server" is so weird. Lots of fodder for new books. This one woman who tips 5% and asks questions like, "What's in the German chocolate cake?" and "How is the tuna cooked?" when I already told her twice, I'm like, "BUH... just stop cuz your dollar tip aint worth it."

A new memoir by Jami Nakamura Lin comes out tomorrow—and it's exactly the bizarre, beautiful, genre-bending exploration of self that everyone needs to read. trib.al/WEr7MTy

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD THIS BOOK CLUB DID WHAT 👻🍽️👻🍽️👻🍽️• @grotonpubliclibrary Our Grim Readers Book Club met in a vacant home last night, ate mushrooms, and left our names on the wall while discussing Clay McLeod Chapman's highly addictive horror novel Ghost Eaters.

My dear friend Ruth is an avid reader. She reads more than me. She said this is the best book she has read in years so I went and treated myself.

I was Rosemary Woodhouse for Halloween in NYC.

One of the best books I've read this year is Notes on an Execution by Danya Kukafka I'm using sections of it to teach characterization to my fiction-writing students. amazon.com/Notes-Executio…

“It’s easy to compare yourself with others in publishing, but that’s a fool’s game.” Agent Michelle Brower of Trellis Literary Management recommends that writers eschew competitiveness and focus on their individual writing journeys: at.pw.org/AERBrower

My sister uses the N word. She once told me that the only reason a black man was driving a Mercedes was because her tax dollars paid for his welfare check. (Yeah, everybody knows how big those welfare checks are.)

I fucking hate Elon. Just saying. It pains me to be on X. Blah.