A complete delight, from start to finish. These essays are smartly conceived, brilliantly written, and always engaging and surprising. There’s real beauty in their honesty and vulnerability. Oh, and they’re funny as hell. I will be handselling this to the moon and back.

Last night I spoke with @_katherine_may_ about walking the coast of south west England to autism diagnoses and who they are for to wild mushrooms to why Americans don’t like Marmite to why it’s OK to admit that, sometimes, parenting can be a bit crappy. youtu.be/q9Did0QUDZM

Some news about the 2022 @UnboundBookFest.

OK, so I am in actual hell. #old #rave

Don't know who needs to hear this this morning, but it helped me. (Plus, you know: Christian McBride and Jason Rebello.) Sting - Brand new day - Live in Italy youtu.be/INBJLB5NDfM via @YouTube

Unsettling, ferocious, complicated, engrossing, inscrutable. Yelena Moskovich writes like nobody else. Stunning stuff. @TwoDollarRadio @yelenamoskovich

Oh, this book! A terminal cancer diagnosis has Sinead, the narrator, marooned in a hospital ward in Galway. Reluctant to admit her own truths to anyone, her fellow patients give her a lifeline back to what matters most. Painful, hilarious, and unforgettable. Coming in October.

@Flatironbooks made this awesome map of #Paris with a helpful guide to the various places featured in #TheParisHours!

7:00 EST on Friday, I'll be celebrating the end of my Whole 30 diet, sorry, the publication of the paperback of THE PARIS HOURS, with a cocktail and very-refined-I'm-sure conversation with @Jenna_Blum! @MaryCOMalley will be causing havoc backstage. Cheers, @AMIGHTYBLAZE!

This Saturday is #IndependentBookstoreDay and we have a lot of celebrating to do at @SkylarkBookshop. mailchi.mp/fa5163d96be6/satu…

That time I became a mask model #goalz Yes, they are available for sale at @SkylarkBookshop

Kofta with eggplant and tomatoes. Whole 30 going OK so far. ONLY 28 MORE DAYS TO GO. #butwhoscounting #falastincookbook

Last night's @UnboundBookFest panel on writing about mathematics was one of my favorite events we've ever put on. My thanks to @olssonic, @DrEugeniaCheng, and Cathy Chung for a wonderful conversation. Check it out. youtube.com/watch?v=b1OyQ2hh…

Vacation poetry, part 2. “But we are strange trees, reluctant in this / forest.” Michael Kleber-Diggs does not avert his gaze from what lies before us, and does not allow us to look away, either. This is a searing, serious, exquisite book. Coming in June. @Milkweed_Books

If you’d asked me whether a book-length poem about a basketball player I’d never heard of would be my thing, I would probably have said no - but this is Ross Gay, and I’ll read anything he writes. My reward? A brilliant, beautiful, absorbing read. Glorious. #rossgay #poetry

I am proud to sign the statement of book worker solidarity in support of the amazon workers in Bessemer, AL. docs.google.com/document/d/1…

Czech cover! The woman on the US hardcover has changed her coat and is, well, quite pretty, it turns out. Who knew?

Oh, this isn't going to be pretty, is it.