As for me, I cried half a dozen times while writing this piece about the mother who founded PFLAG National. When her son was outed in 1968, homosexuality was illegal in 49 states. Instead of trying to change him, she set about trying to change the world. newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

The one by @cncep is this spectacularly comic and interesting piece on Charles Portis (of 'True Grit' fame), which opens like this and only gets funnier: 'It was a source of some annoyance to Charles Portis that Shakespeare never wrote about Arkansas.' newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

Second: it took YEARS, but @cncep and I finally have a piece in the The New Yorker at the same time.

First, and *very* belatedly, I'm so honored to be a finalist for this year's Lambda Literary awards. Congratulations to all the other wonderful writers here, too.

I have been off Twitter lately, so here comes a brief flurry of tweets (which will doubtless be followed by another long lapse into silence).

'All I do is eat, sleep, drink, and be negligent.' If you think you could learn something from medieval monks about how to master distraction, think again. Turns out they were terrible at it, too. Read this illuminating/depressing/hilarious @cncep piece: newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…

HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa, THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM by Meghan O'Rourke, and LOST AND FOUND by Kathryn Schulz among the year's best works of nonfiction according to The Washington Post.

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I'm honored that 'Lost & Found' is a nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards. If you read it & liked it, vote for it! And for all your favorite books of 2022: goodreads.com/choiceawards/b…

I love the new Random House Group paperback edition of 'Lost & Found,' which goes on sale next week. If you need a gift for someone who is thinking about love -- losing it, finding it, keeping it -- please pick up a copy from your favorite indie bookstore. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/589143/l…

In this moving memoir, Kathryn Schulz—a Pulitzer Prize-winning New Yorker writer—explores the ways that losing and finding love intertwine to make a life ti.me/3g3uz91

A few years ago, I wrote about Jen Castle & @blakerspalding, the amazing women behind Hell's Backbone Grill & Farm 💙🇺🇦🙏🏼. The pandemic was tough on their restaurant. If you care to help out, you can shower your loved ones & yourself with delicious goodies from their shop: hellsbackbonegrill.com/shop

I love baking and I love home-improvement and I have finally found the intersection of the two: if you are doing tile work, pipe your grout! Half the time and a quarter of the cleanup.

Agreed. But the fact that Twitter has become kind of the opposite of *anything* with friends is why I now spend so little time here.

My new favorite image from a Zillow listing. This could be yours!

Congratulations to Kathryn Schulz — 'Lost & Found' is on the 2023 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence #Nonfiction Longlist! bit.ly/2023-Carnegie-…
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“Americans spend more on lottery tickets every year than on cigarettes, coffee, or smartphones.” And more than on streaming services, concert tickets, books & movie tickets *combined.* I had a lot of fun writing about an excellent new book on the lottery. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

So honored to have made the longlist for the Carnegie Medal. And what tremendous company to keep: ala.org/rusa/awards/ca…

Pretty day for a rainy run.

This is the kind of list that makes me honored to lose out. Huge congratulations to all the finalists.

Highly recommended: 'Profiles in Ignorance,' a new book by Andy Borowitz. Can't remember the last time I read something so maddening that was also so hilarious. Also, it is diagnostically astute about the rise of ignorance in American politics. simonandschuster.com/books/Profiles…