I‘m back, Litsy fam!

Writing desk here at the MacDowell Colony. ✨

At the polls 🌟

One of my favorite dedications ever, from Feinberg to partner Minnie: "The dirt from your garden is still smudged on my blues. Oh, my love, haven't we written a chapter together since"

#nationalcomingoutday

Finished this beauty. Perhaps my favorite book of the year. Julie Buntin zooms in with such precision I could feel every chunk of ice, every sloppy kiss, every pang of nostalgia for a life I never lived.

It's a yellow mellow day for me here at the Litsy office. Also, this book is all the dopeness - Thank you, @Tin_House !! #galleybrag

Home stretch of Julie Buntin's dazzling MARLENA, though I never want it to end! Fun fact: if one collected my "bookmarks" through the years they'd have a whole catalogue of my life -- plane tickets, letters, leaves, movie stubs, spent scratch offs, petals, takeout menus, anything goes. What do you use?

Did you hear @seanhdoyle is now on #Litsy ? Follow him for some truth, and read his book if you want an unforgettable memoir that will wedge itself under your fingernails and squeeze your heart dry
cc: @mjseidlinger

Last night's @RedInkSeries panel on the body, hosted by @michele Filgate. Phenomenal minds coming together to discuss trauma, zen writing, the body as interface, ghosts, and more. Book Court as backdrop - what could be better? #getindie #eileenmyles #alexandrakleeman #porochistakhakpour #annamarch #ruthozeki

Just saw the film AUTHOR: The JT LeRoy story. This author "hoax" is still unbelievably fascinating to me all these years later. What do you think? Is Laura Albert a criminal and fraud, an artist, all of the above?

"because white men can't
police their imagination
black men are dying"

When today's reading matches your outfit

"Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are."

First line of MARLENA. I cannot put this book down! (image by Eugenia Loli)

Ok, Litizens. I bought this signed Raymond Carver book ten years ago and have never been able to make out the inscription. It kills me! Anyone?

This book arrived today from the UK! The most splendid, beautiful, break-heart book. @RowanHisayo is such a force! Never letting this go.

“Here‘s the thing,” he said. “Your mama‘s dead. And you‘re forty years old. And I have a warrant out for my arrest. And I am addicted to getting tattoos. And our air conditioner‘s broke. And you are drunk every day. And all I ever want to do is fight and go swimming. [...] And honest to God, you got big tits but you make a real shitty muse. And we are in Beaumont, Texas.”

I said, These are minor setbacks on the road to glory.

(I ❤️ Amelia Gray)

Happy pub day to @RowanHisayo !! HARMLESS LIKE YOU is a gorgeous, moving, star-bitten story that will make you see the world more tenderly. I love this book and I love this author!

Lidia bringing it home with her acknowledgement page

This book is beautiful all over the outside and the inside.

Every reader and writer is going to fall in love with this gorgeous edition of PLOTTO, "master book of all plots," coming this November from @Tin_House books. It's this nerd's new favorite go-to

Hey Litizens! I'm interested in reading more personal essays and narrative #nonfiction. Can anyone recommend some favorites? As a reference, my favorite essay collection is Jo Ann Beard's The Boys of my Youth. Thanks in advance!

Thank you, thank you @Tin_House for making my dreams come true with this package!

loving The Nationale feminist bookstore in #Portland for the @Tin_House writers' workshop!

I feel really solid about my obsession with Leopoldine Core's writing. Thank you @penguinrandomhouse !!

NEW ANNE CARSON?!? STACK STACK STACK STACKTIVISM

"No matter what, expect the unexpected. And whenever possible BE the unexpected."

Favorite book in the whole world.

Why is May 25 full of such magical grit? It's my father's + Raymond Carver's birthday!

Read: a moving birthday tribute to Ray by his brother James (pictured above)

http://electricliterature.com/a-tribute-to-raymond-carver-on-his-birthday-by-his...

Here at the Out of Print/Litsy office, we are all about THE GIRLS by Emma Cline. Don't forget to like, comment, or stack from the @Litsy post for a chance to win an advanced copy! @penguinrandomhouse

#faceswapcreeps

lil Poe serving as my bookmark today. Thanks @kaitlyn !

Make sure to follow the @Litsy account to enter THE GIRLS advanced reading copy giveaway! Thanks to @penguinrandomhouse I got to check out this book early, and I can tell you it's heart-stopping'ly fantastic

Most anticipated book, maybe ever. @RowanHisayo

"There was some open space between what he knew and what he tried to believe, but nothing could be done about it, and if you can't fix it you've got to stand it.”

6 months without my father and this Annie Proulx line, like so many of her lines, is hugging me like "I know."

A brave and important work by a brave and important writer. This book roars.

Who says Litsy and Snapchat aren't meant for one another? @annabelgraham

Feeling under the weather with this winter-spring-thing happening but now I'm excited to be sick and curl up with Maggggiiiieeeeee

Me, waiting for the new Maggie Nelson to arrive in my mailbox tomorrow.

Two Dollar radio doing wonders for my heart at #AWP16.

but what if I've got more than 11?

I am living for this book. Awad is sensational. The point of view is always shifting, dollying around this girl and her life. It hurts so good.

Thanks for sharing, @mattbell

Highlight of my week: Tuesday night classes @ Jazz at Lincoln Center. This term I'm taking Billie Holiday and the Swing song tradition. Excited to finally read this memoir'ish, fiction'ish account.

Lately I've been waking up hours before work to get my reading and writing done in the Nomad library. This morning I devoured a pot of tea and this beauty. Worth the earlier alarm!

Rachel Cantor is so good on paper as well as in real life. Can't wait to devour her latest!

Last night with the great Alexander Chee reading from Queen of the Night at Franklin Park's 7 yr anniversary show.

Going through old boxes on a Saturday night. This was the first book to save my life when I was a kid. Oh, Drew.

Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 am / Dear Berrigan. He died / Back to books. I read / It's 8:30 pm in New York and I've been running around / all day /.../ Yes, it is now, / How Much Longer Shall I Be Able To Inhabit the Divine

When you wake up thinking "I'm a writer. I can write. How COOL is that?" and then you open up to the first sentence of an Annie Proulx story and she's like "LOL! bitch please."

if you like to cry in the morning as much as I do