A magical thing that happened yesterday is I got a seat on the subway and was looking at my phone and a random dude across the way tapped my foot and I was a little skeeved but the random dude was my husband.
Congrats to all of the indie bookstores I know and love who were so good at bookselling and interacting with their communities that they outlasted this shitty behemoth.
I went over and sat next to him and hugged him and started telling him about my day and the other people on the train must've thought we were moving rather fast.
My favorite thing about The Nanny is that it could have easily been a “she learned as much from them as they learned from her” situation but no, Fran did not need to learn anything.
I don’t know how other freelancers prefer to do it, but I usually like to change out of my day pajamas and into night pajamas before I start mixing drinks.
"We do not protest the war on Gaza because we have an abstract right to do so; we protest it because it is one of the great moral atrocities of our lifetimes and because the widespread refusal to admit this in America is an atrocity in its own right."
We don't talk enough about how Amazon bought Goodreads, enjoyed it for a couple of years, and then totally abandoned it. So that the current user experience is terrible, and the content moderation is even worse.
I have a theory: if you are reading this tweet, when you were 11 or so, you earnestly but unsuccessfully tried to start your own version of the babysitter's club.
A thing to note about the state of healthcare in this country: when I overpay for insulin in order to live, my insurance mandates that I get it by mail service rather than at a pharmacy.
All of the college debt talk reminds me of the older women in publishing at the beginning of MeToo who were like, "my ass got grabbed when I was starting out so why not you? you think you're better than me?"
Having trouble focusing on anything during this time? Want to read some books that don't require your whole brain but are still smart and well done? I've got you.
I have read 110 books published in 2020 so far. There are so many great books I can recommend to you. You don't have to read books about Donald Trump. You will not learn anything that you can't learn on Twitter for free. I promise. Give yourself a break. Read a novel.
I will never forget the horror of watching Christine Blasey Ford testify to the Senate like a hero, only to have her words thoroughly discounted. So yes, how we treat Anita Hill is still relevant right now.
I've got news:
As of August 1 I'm going to be the books editor at
@vulture
. I can't wait to put some cool shit out into the world, for Book Twitter and beyond.
My great-great-uncle Barney was a haberdasher on the Lower East Side 100 years ago. His namesake store, Barney's, is now one of many luxury retailers where I cannot afford to shop.
Taking a page from Cheryl Hines, I want to publicly state that I love my husband but his opinions are not a reflection of my own. Dunkin Donuts is mediocre at best.
Still astounded every time I see media that implies (or directly says) that caring about other people who may or may not be different from you is considered "woke."
On this day 30+ years ago I was diagnosed with diabetes and I would have been even more of a wreck than I was if Stacey from the Babysitters Club hadn't had it too.
This reminds me of women my age and older who were like, “We got harassed; why shouldn’t younger women also get harassed” when
#MeToo
started to gain traction.
I just read an essay by a noted intellectual that was confusing, overwritten, and condescending. In previous years I would have thought I was simply not smart enough to "get" it, but now I'm quite sure that he is a bad writer.
Earnest tweet: having spent nearly 2 months listening to my husband work on a TV show from home, I am amazed by how much he does and how much he knows, and how technically precise he is even when he's just goofing.
Independent bookstores need your money more than Amazon does.
Keep your money in your community so these stores can be here for years to come.
Close the book on Amazon and buy your books from your local bookstore or online at this Prime Day 📚
Trump admitted to Bob Woodward in February that he was downplaying the deadliness of COVID. We're just finding out about this today, after hundreds of thousands of Americans have died. How is this good book publishing or good citizenship?