@bookshop.org is offering free shipping through today to support indie bookstores, so evergreen note: If you order either of my books, All the Gold Stars or An Ordinary Age, through Bookshop or an indie bookstore, DM me an address and I'll send whoever you ordered for a thank you note. 💛

I sent handwritten notes around the time each book came out and it was honestly a delight to have an excuse to bust out some stationery. I so appreciate it any time anyone orders one of my books and LOVE independent bookstores and love snail mail so...just a good combo!

@bookshop.org is offering free shipping through today to support indie bookstores, so evergreen note: If you order either of my books, All the Gold Stars or An Ordinary Age, through Bookshop or an indie bookstore, DM me an address and I'll send whoever you ordered for a thank you note. 💛

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

If you're a student or early career journalist or writer in the region, please pitch! Would love to help support your work. There's info in the pitch guide & pitching via the form is the best way to go. (If you let me know you've pitched, I can flag it to the team. Happy to brainstorm ideas, too!)

Student + early career journalists in Appalachia (or young folks who want to write): pitch 100 Days! Looking for stories w/ angles on young people, related to education & what's happening on campuses, politics, life & identity, & more. Rates start at $150 for opinion, $200-$400 for reporting.

Data from the study shows one county jail in Kentucky had contracted with ICE to hold roughly 120 detainees in January. By August, nine county jails held more than 900. www.lpm.org/news/2025-10...

For National Disability Employment Awareness Month at @motherjones.com, I spoke to four disabled federal workers who were laid off about how their old jobs were very accessible—and what the federal government loses out on by having fewer disabled employees. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

hello book publicity friends if you're here ... i'm working on a quarterly book recommendation series for Yahoo. first one comes out in December ahead of the winter season. Please add me to your press lists and pitch me your upcoming releases!! <33

Child labor laws around framework are...flexible. They might be getting more so, and this is an interesting profile on a classic teen job: Corn detassling.

A year after Helene, students and teachers across Western North Carolina are wrestling with heightened mental health challenges, including anxiety and depression, sleep issues, aggression and substance use.

A new draft Trump memo argues that furloughed federal workers aren't guaranteed compensation for their forced time off during the government shutdown.
 
Those who represent federal workers or advocate on their behalf say the White House is misreading the clear intent of the law.

“I told them that I probably wouldn’t be able to make my appointments anymore, well, because I’m really afraid given what happened to my husband.”

Harrowing reporting from @shefali.bsky.social and Mel Leonor Barclay at @19thnews.org.

It's pouring rain and I lit a candle but didn't turn any other lights on early this AM, and was so productive. Turns out the work environment that suits me best is "vaguely haunted."

I just …

NEW: Data shows ICE arrests are surging in Kentucky, and local jails are playing a key role.

Between inauguration day in January and the end of July, Kentucky saw 1,293 ICE arrests. That’s a 37.6% increase compared to the same period in 2024.

The last time she launched a campaign for this seat in 2019, she took interviews from me and Phillip Bailey within a few hours. It was interesting. www.lpm.org/news/2019-07... #kysen

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...

okay, that’s enough. let’s take the rest of the week off.

So much is actually awful and dangerous and horrifying but also, so much is just dumb.

An especially bleak day for news, it seems.

Yes, totally second that advice!

Nothing too bad for me! Feeling a little under the weather/like I have a cold today, but that’s it. (I got both at the same time last year too and had no side effects.) Good luck!