Incredibly excited to be teaching a class on the great Joyce Carol Oates at the Center for Fiction this fall ~ starts in three weeks ~ a mix of close reading and creative writing exercises ~ more info here! centerforfiction.org/group-w…

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The restaurant where my brother works just got four stars in the Times!! So very proud of him, here he is presenting a box of mushrooms 🥲

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logging on to do some important girlfriend business🫡🥰 congrats @SamAdlerBell

I sold my short story collection! Couldn’t be happier to be working with Allie Merola and the team at Viking, I feel like I found my dream home. Thanks to my wise and tenacious agent Bill Clegg for everything.

also here now

Thanks for the shout out, @MJSchulman @NewYorker

Tony's sublimely written, truly original, actually hilarious Book of Fiction is coming out in a week and I couldn’t be more excited about it!! yay @tonytula bookshop.org/p/books/rejecti…

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I had the pleasure of hanging out with the great @harinef on her jury duty lunch break and playing the role of Magazine Profiler for the new issue of @portmagazine port-magazine.com/film/hari-… 

I may never live down Cynthia Ozick referring to the sentiments expressed in my writing as “hubristic” and “moist”—but I'm glad to have her as a reader! libertiesjournal.com/article…

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