If you have ever emailed a writer to let them know you enjoyed something they wrote, you are among the noblest and best and most saintly in this entire world, and I hope you sleep really well tonight.
“ If you don’t live politics, politics will live you.”
— from the Booker Prize Winning novel A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James
New test of ceasefire
The ultimate boss of failing upward.
Men's complaints today: we are horribly oppressed because a woman translated Homer. Women's complaints: see Heidi Blake's utterly horrific report on the Tate brothers' long campaign of rape, violent physical and psychological abuse, and trafficking of, apparently, hundreds of women.
"I didn't know it was that bad."
"I had no idea."
"How can they get away with that?"
Whenever I talk about book bans and censorship in spaces that aren't primarily filled with educators, librarians, book creators, and publishing people, that's always the reaction. Most people still have no idea.
my first freelance piece for CNN is all about Stop! That! Train! and why it's the perfect response to the right-wing moral panic about drag because it dares to ask...what's so scary about a bunch of glamorous clowns??