🚨BROOKLYN🚨we’re coming back! delirious with excitement to bring back empty trash as an official
@BKBF
bookend event! come gag over this triple A-list lineup on sunday, 9/22 @ 7pm at sisters in BK ⭐️⭐️⭐️ books sold by our friends over at
@booksaremagicbk
💝📚🗑️
DO YOU KNOW HARD IT HAS BEEN TO NOT SPILL THE BEANS???????? 💣💣💣💣💣💣💣 thrilled and honored to officially join the rest of my
@BOMBmagazine
family on the masthead as a contributing editor 🥹 lfg babe
celebrating the anniversary of
@ladygaga
’s
#ARTPOP
by interviewing the make-up artist behind some of the era’s most-iconic looks (who also happens to be my bestie and creative partner-in-crime), the bona fide genius
@TaraSavelo
🔵🔵🔵
i’m dating someone who treats me the way all my friends have been telling me i deserve to be treated and now i might have to start thinking there actually might be good men out there :(
for my first editor’s choice as a contributing editor to
@BOMBmagazine
, i reviewed
@chapmanchapman
’s striking novel, the audacity, which, like our summer issue, you can get right the hell now!!!! 💣💌
read my full review here:
📣🗑️NYC!🗑️📣
@jenerous
and i are bringing our new reading series, empty trash, to brooklyn! please join us for this (free!) event at sisters on thurs, 9/28 @ 8pm for empty trash NYC starring this iconic line-up ✨ books sold by our beloved
@greenlightbklyn
📚
so excited and honored to emcee tonight’s five-year anniversary celebration of THEE
@shipman_agency
. we’ll also be raising money for
@AbortionFront
. lots to celebrate! see you on the dance floor 💜
a bunch of y’all have written some absolute bangers publishing next year and i can’t wait to spend 2024 screaming directly into everyone’s mouths about them
i’ve been doing author interviews for this site for years, but this is actually my first essay for
@ElectricLit
! thank you to
@TheDenneMichele
for asking me to write this and editing it to perfection 🤌💡🤌💡
the BORN TO BE PUBLIC audiobook is out now—and i narrated it myself! pretty good for someone who can’t read!!!!! available everywhere, but i love
@librofm
because they split their earnings with indie bookstores:
can’t believe my firstborn is almost three years old (which is ~150 years old in book years) and i’m still bumping into it in the wild in places like this i—😭😭😭
posted this on IG for any literary agents who follow me and resharing here bc the caption is too long, but pls take a moment to read and share if you feel inclined—thank you! 💛🩵🩷
@shipman_agency
not to overstay my welcome on
@ElectricLit
’s homepage this week, but i’m back again, this time in conversation with
@KatieLeeEllison
, who brought out the writer, literary citizen, and person in general who i have waited to meet for a long time🏄🏼♂️🍭💛
last night, one of the bartenders came up to me and told me i must be pretty special because he’s never seen anyone have happy bday sang to them three times. i’ve never felt so adored. thank you to everyone for the endless love. LA is where i live, but you all are my home 💛🌴
i will always be lured by the siren song of a brooding lesbian. for my first piece ever in the
@nytimes
(!!!!!!!!!!!ladsjfo;sjadfljsl;af!!!sfdlkadjflsfd!!), i reviewed this stunning novel by spanish poet and writer eva baltasar 🪨
@nytimesbooks
📣📣📣 i am now offering consultations and private mentorships through
@shipman_agency
all 👏 year 👏 round 👏 bring me your manuscripts (full or partial!), book proposals, book chapters, query letters, essays, articles, and any other form of nf prose:
💛
i am stoked to continue pushing the gay agenda by joining superstars brontez purnell,
@DannyPellegrino
, and rob anderson at the
@latimesfob
this year to discuss and engage in a bevy of homosexual hijinks 💅 see you in april! 🌺
i tokyo-drifted into the parking lot of this local town hall because i knew there would be public bathrooms in it, and after i used one, i noticed the library was also in the same building, so i walked in because it looked cute and my book was just there?? casually on display????
my first book, BORN TO BE PUBLIC, turns 3 tomorrow. to celebrate, i’m publishing a lil surprise in my newsletter, so make sure you’re subscribed!!!! saveourserotonin dot s*bstack dot com or click the link in my bio! 🥃🚬👠😱😅🌟
leaving everything in my will to the NJ turnpike toll collector lady who shouted “DAMN BABY WHERE YOU GET THEM LIPS DONE” at me when i rolled down my window
the NYT declaring poetry dead right after i finally mustered the courage to submit a poem for the first time??? a simple declined on submittable would have sufficed babe
🩸🩸🩸baby’s last NYC hurrah before moving across the country and…returning to brooklyn in a few weeks to get tattooed and finish my invisalign treatment 😬🤪
MY LIT INTERVIEWS ARE BEING TAUGHT AT COLLEGE NOT BAD FOR SOMEONE WITH ONE BRAIN CELL THAT’S JUST AN OVERTURNED CAR WITH THE WHEEL STILL SPINNING (thx
@lrsphm
for the pic!)
🚨🚨🚨 so excited to announce that i will be the host of
@The_Rumpus
’s
#ShowUsYourDesk
series, LIVE on instagram on the second tuesday of each month at 3pm PT/6pm ET.
stay tuned for more info and don't forget to follow the_rumpus on instagram so you don't miss a thing 📚📝👀
Tune in to The Rumpus Live on Instagram Tue., Oct. 10 at 3pm PT / 6 pm ET for our next installment of Show Us Your Desk with
@gregmania
. Greg's next desk belongs to
@sarahroseetter
, author of RIPE (
@ScribnerBooks
). See you there!
today my parents celebrate 45 years of marriage, which, for them, boils down to 45 years of missing each other, even if the other is only in the other room. may a glowing ember from them spark an inferno of my own one day ❤️🔥
and that concludes a week of celebrating absolute bangers. congratulations to dear friends
@rokwon
,
@___adorn
, and steven rowley—we are beyond lucky to have and devour your words. 💫💫💫 go get yer copies while this groupie takes a NAP
Rest in peace, Gabe Hudson. Had many wonderful exchanges with you on here. Your passing is sending shockwaves through our community right now. You will be dearly missed by so many.