NEW EPISODE! We have to return some videotapes! In which we talk about yuppies, Patrick Bateman as proto-influencer and American Psycho with our friend @esmewang.bsky.social.
We have to return some videotapes! In which we talk about yuppies, Patrick Bateman as proto-influencer and American Psycho with our friend Esmé Weijun Wa…
Absolutely repulsive the lengths insurance companies will go to deny coverage. @esmewang.bsky.socialesmewwang.substack.com/p/notes-from...
He was supposed to be proving I wasn't disabled. All he proved was that disabled people can also smile.
I have a piece in the Washington Post today about those for whom the “post-Covid world” is not so “post.” Thanks in advance to anyone who’s reading 🎉🌱 www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
My husband has bone-marrow cancer. For us, the pandemic is only as over as it is safe to reenter the world: not particularly.
I agree 100%
Please support striking workers in the way they’ve asked for. Instead of a viewer boycott, which they haven’t asked for, can you commit to donating to the strike fund, which they have? Maybe an amount equal to what you pay for streaming each month, for even one of the streamers, if not all?
feels like we’re entering a much darker and worse twitter phase now, and while i’ve normally been of the opinion that bluesky needs to open up faster, i think i’m now on team “not until they build out a trust and safety team”.
I’m a crime writer, I dwell in darkness all the time. And cannot agree more strongly here.
Sort of wish literary arts was like music. Like, writers cover other writers then we argue about who did it better. I'd cover Amy Hempel, no question. Feel like lots of people would cover Denis Johnson's Emergency. That story might be the lit equivalent of Hallelujah.