Personal hobbyhorse, but thinking about AI in publishing is really making me want criticism to go harder on discussing the actual style & substance of books. If we just talk about plot & vibes, we're leaving the door totally open, & missing out on the good stuff besides. "It's just words on a page."

Rumi uses a BiC Cristal ballpoint to write “Takedown” in K-POP DEMON HUNTERS. I’m obsessed with this pen.

Omg someone absolutely should

THE NIGHTMARE, Henry Fuseli et al

if Louise Erdrich ever writes or guest-voices in a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror she is set for the end credits

woke up with what I thought was a BRILLIANT idea & wrote it down but unfortunately this was the brilliant idea:

Here’s a chart!

as a both a short person AND a person acculturated into fashion at a certain moment, I am begrudgingly accepting the return of wearing pants with full breaks

idk why ppl are afraid to draw horses. horses are easy.

recent doodles

“Talk’s the way to kill it. Everything gets boring if you talk about it long enough, even death.”

and fwiw Anne Carson is awesome too & totally deserves it

there’s always next year

(Putting it out there before it gets announced)

I’d love for the Nobel to go to Maryse Condé or Louise Erdrich

Five Chicago writers read you creepy stories in Hemingway’s birthplace home in Oak Park! Join us and our ghosts!!!