I’m excited be the recipient of a grant from the DC Commision on the Arts and Humanities this year! Local funding for writers and artists is critical to their ability to create work, and it’s an honor to receive this funding. I bought a very cool handmade mug by a local ceramicist to celebrate.

One of the pleasures of moderating a book event is getting to spend time thinking deeply about an author’s work, followed by a chance to ask them questions about writing it. I had a great time with Ananda Lima and Constance Sayers at Fall for the Book Festival this weekend doing just that!

Yup. Writing is thinking. So if you write a shitty first draft, you did some thinking and are on your way! If you got “AI” to write the draft, you haven’t thought AND now you’re trying to fix up what some non-thinking robot “thought.” You just put yourself 30 yards behind the starting line.

Northern lights in DC (left) and in my rural Michigan hometown at my brother’s place (right).

Serious question for people who own cars: do you not realize how aggressive and dangerous it is to pedestrians to drive through a crosswalk while we’re in the crosswalk? Like, fully one-third of the way coming/going in the crosswalk?

Hell yeah!!!! Han Kang won the Nobel Prize in Literature!!! www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/1...

Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Han Kang

The Swedish Academy honored the South Korean writer for her “intense prose.”

A tiny book haul to celebrate spooky season 👻🎃

Held an informal in-person writers gathering yesterday—different genres, people both with and without books/agents. I was so nervous about no one showing up or folks not having a good time, but it turns out writers crave community. I hope to do more gatherings like in the future!

good morning. it is SATURDAY. the third issue of #AbundantNumber is in production. You should send a classified (or calcified) ad. (someone recently got in touch asking to buy a single copy of AN. this is not possible! but you could send in a want-ad and see whether anyone plays along)

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