When I first watched EEAAO I cried tears from a place I didn’t know existed, let alone see in a film — cut through the brilliant layers & it is at heart a mother loving her queer daughter so much she would tear through the very fabric of reality to save her from psychic suicide —

⏰There's still time to RSVP! #KweliLitFest24 continues with a FREE multimedia event 9/25, featuring a reading of THE STONE HOME (@WmMorrowBooks), the new novel by @crystalhanak, a craft convo w/ @ginathechung, and a dance performance! 📩 RSVP: events@kwelijournal.org

Last Monday morning, the (arguably) two most important fiction critics in America each wrote about my new novel. One review was a dream, the other a pan. I wrote a little about what that was like. Link in profile.

Its my birthday! This time last year, I sold my debut novel -- my wildest dream. This year, I'm flying home from a beautiful media week in NY for THE OG DAUGHTER, and cannot believe how much life has changed🥹 🌙 OG is available for birthday preorders: https://t.co/2Ksq6qdA9j

BRUH Feeling so incredibly grateful and honoured -- THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER is an #indiesintroduce winter/spring 2025 pick!!!!! She comes out MAY 6TH 2025 and is also now available to preorder from your local fav indie: https://t.co/42T9ROdbWZ ❤️❤️❤️

Guys ... We are a @BNBuzz bestseller in under 24 hours 🥹😳 So, so grateful to everyone for the love and preorders 😭 you can preorder THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER from Barnes&Noble here: https://t.co/Qp0SUgiwcK Thanks @vanjchan @g_liew for being ON IT & @doubledaybooks... LFGGGG

SHE HAS A COVER AND SHE HAS A PREORDER LINK AND SHE WAS GIVEN FIVE STARS BY ROXANE GAY ON GOODREADS THATS IT THATS THE NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!! https://t.co/nAh04ctz5h

THE ORIGINAL DAUGHTER is in @rgay's newsletter THE AUDACITY today being infuriating and unputdownable!! 😭😭😭😭😭

I need to know who did this

heart, but in this case it clearly came from a place of self-salvation and false contrition, and I think when we fool ourselves that art can replace genuine embodiment of values in our actual relationships is when we lose our humanity

To realize that Alice Munro’s knack for writing the plight of characters failed by their nearest & dearest came from a place of having dealt that hand to her own daughter, and not a place of empathy — I think we all want to believe that art comes from a place of insight, from the

first pass pages are in... I'm stunned. I have an ISBN and everything. A typeface!!! 🥹😭

Wrote about our relationship to time, tenses, and endings in the final installment of curbside. Let's say it's a see you later.

Favorite essays or craft talks that engage ideas/questions of speculative history in fiction? More specifically, speculative family history, and/or speculative queer history.

The way this tweet backfired 😭

A dream to be in conversation with the brilliant K-ming Chang at @CityLightsBooks for the launch of CECILIA (@Coffee_House_), an exquisite novella tracing obsessions and excavations, desire and intimacy, queer time and memory, and SO MANY BIRDS!! 🪶💞

Literary fashion goals 🔥

Standing with Kundiman staff, fellows, and community calling for Palestinian liberation.

taking a break from copyedits to announce that we are DELVING INTO THE WONDERFUL MIND OF K-MING CHANG TOMORROW NIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!

For @Jezebel, I wrote about my mother's ambitions as an artist—and how doing our nails together allowed her to accept my identity as a queer person. https://t.co/aQc1sVca9f

We at the Review mourn the loss of Alice Munro (1931–2024). In memory of her life and work, we’ve unlocked her Art of Fiction interview from our archive. https://t.co/1G1Qgtss2C