Novelist. Garden variety weirdo. Typo queen.
Books: We Lived On the Horizon (Atria, 1/14/25), Light From Other Stars, The Book of Speculation.
She/her (all pronouns are fine)
https://linktr.ee/erikaswyler
Erika Swyler
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Cantaloupe/muskmelon is a trash melon that contaminates everything it touches.
It scares me whenever a post escapes containment.
Whaddaya mean it's not just me and three pals typing into the void?
Toss a few plecos in there. That'll fix it right up.
(I AM KIDDING.)
Look who is incredibly proud of herself for having a perfect dental checkup.
Tweaked my back. Might be dying. Probably actually dead.
Apparently I am too many years old to open a skylight with a pole hook.
This is one month after scaring me & the doc about a potential abscess. $$$$ later, it turns out she'd likely just eaten ~something~ in secret.
So excited about this one! Spotting AI-generated student writing, advocating for unhoused writers, Kate Christensen, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Jeff VanderMeer, Kristi Coulter, & so much great work about writing!
(I'm somewhat embarrassingly still in love with swing, after having been in vocal jazz in high school. And I very much get why there was a revival post Grunge; it was a pendulum swing.)
Friends, I highly recommend seeing a '90s swing revival band 30 years on. They sounded fantastic. People were DRESSED and DANCING.
Was it like opening a time capsule of a time capsule? Sure! But a screaming horn section, a drummer that won't quit, and showmanship? Perfect.
