Had the best time listening to Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi (ayesha manazir siddiqi) reading Urdu dialogue at an independent bookstore in Brooklyn (Greenlight Bookstore) at the launch of her debut novel 🌺The Centre🌺 [in conversation with the incomparable @thegillianflynn]

Do you ever get a haircut and then immediately look at photos of your hair pre-cut with nostalgia 🥹

Why do they keep calling playing in the World Cup tournament a campaign?

Literally NO ONE wants to hear your “it’s just a game” and “haar jeet toh lagi rehti hai” please be quiet, thanks 🙏🏼

“You’ve got to enjoy yourself. The evening’s the best part of the day.”

We just announced our last book of the year. This December, Nikita’s Bookshelf is reading “What We Kept to Ourselves” by Nancy Jooyoun Kim 💜 Join Nancy Jooyoun Kim and me LIVE on Friday, December 15. Let’s end this year with a bang!

holiday photos with the family, when you’re the only one in the family that doesn’t have the flu🎄

If you’re someone who says your best ideas come to you in the shower, I truly believe you’re overstimulated the rest of your day, and the shower is the only place your brain has a few minutes to settle and think! Spend more time being bored. #creativity

Made dhokla in idli moulds and my husband insists we call it didli 🟡

There should be a feature on social media apps where if you zoom in on other people’s photos for too long the front camera turns on and humbles you so you stop judging others!

Oh good, a 4.8 magnitude earthquake in NYC (and other areas in the northeast) right before the eclipse 🥲

Idk who’d come, but if I don’t host a writers / artists residency here this summer then what am I even doing with my life?

Submissions are NOW OPEN for the The Black List Unpublished Novel Award! 7 manuscripts in each of the following genres will receive a $10K grant: Children's & YA, Crime & Mystery, Horror, Literary Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy and Thriller & Suspense tinyurl.com/UNA2025

nothing like a deer sighting during a mental health walk to really reinforce the mental health part 🦌🌿