“I didn’t look Japanese in real life, true, but in my head, I was as Japanese as the tall man in the black suit.”

Our last day of Best of the Net nominations begins with this incredible essay by Khalil AbuSharekh! bit.ly/3RQ8EjF

Instructor Julia Fine published a terrific piece on parenting in Time magazine:
time.com/6183167/discip…

“I didn’t look Japanese in real life, true, but in my head, I was as Japanese as the tall man in the black suit.”

'The Embassy' by Khalil AbuSharekh in Your Impossible Voice #25. bit.ly/3oBrmOq

I am honored to have my short story The Embassy selected and published by Your Impossible Voice

Coming tomorrow...

It’s stupid how happy this tiktok made me.

You know, I always wanted to know what it would be like to simultaneously experience the Spanish flu, Great Depression, and 1968 mass protests while Andrew Johnson was president.

Happy Eid, all. Everything is still terrible but now a billion of us can eat in the daytime.

#currently reading Educated : A Memoir - by Tara Westover Tara Westover

#currentlyreading for the second time The End by Karl Ove Knausgaard Karl Ove Knausgaard

#currentlyreading A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers

Great panel by 💐 Maurice 💐 & @KaliMaFaja #AWP20

Visiting San Antonio after many many years for #AWP20

A dirty secret: you can only be a writer if you can afford it theguardian.com/us-news/2020/f…

#currentlyreading Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming by Agnes Callard

More good news, no matter how hard I try to stay cool, 😎 I can’t hide the big smile on my face and I can’t turn the music down. #WritingCommunity

how is it already February 12th

also how is it only February 12th

Agent Kate McKean usefully decodes the common rejection phrase 'I didn't fall in love with it': buff.ly/2HcIRza #pubtip #querytip

I cried once or twice when I watched #BrooklynMovie directed by John Crowley, but I cried many times while reading Brooklyn the novel by Colm Toibin