Today in my newsletter, I wrote about the year that was and everything that came with it. You can read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/k4Jy50Qom7h
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a remarkable essay by Aishah Simone Smith about how the complex relationship between despair, suicidality, trauma, and survival is often experienced very differently when you’re Black. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/suicides
Tour details and ticket links are up! I hope to see as many of you as I can! https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-opinions-book-tour
This week in my newsletter, a graphic essay by @aubreyhirsch on the impossibility of the NFL’s woman problem. Read it here: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-nfl-dilemma
New Work Friend with a co-worker exuding odor, feeling out of place as one ages in the workplace, an arrogant newcomer, and dealing with micromanagement. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/Vzy050Q2L5T
Oct. 1-7 is @BannedBooksWeek! All week long, #LetFreedomRead by:
📲 Spreading the word and sharing this post
📚 Donating a book to your local school or library
📢 Speaking out at your next school board meeting
🖱 Visiting pflag.org/ReadWithLove to learn about more ways to fight back and support inclusive books and education
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a fantastic essay by Tanya Shirazi Galvez about the magic and pain of girlhood and the difficult things we learn when we begin to grow up. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/ME3h50Qnwkl
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook by Sohla El-Waylly (@sohlae). I hope you’ll join our discussion about this cookbook at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion later this month. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-audacious-book-club-start-here
For our first Audacious Book Club selection in 2024, we’re talking about Sohla El-Waylly’s cookbook, Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook. I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this excellent resource and cooking guide.
Tomorrow in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang. Join us at 7 p.m. ET at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/USlL50Q0iVP
New Work Friend! Opting out of holiday cheer, dealing with a racist colleague, retirement notice, needing affirmation from your boss, and not wanting to reciprocate work coverage when your colleague does a mediocre job of covering you. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/jVYE50Q7GR2
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is an excellent essay by Leah Mell that is a love letter to a drag family member who died far too soon. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/dear-bianca
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a fantastic essay by Laura Torlaschi about how love and desire can sometimes become even more complicated when cultivating desire is part of the work you do. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/ZXLa50Q38ug
Today at The Audacity, I wrote about Hot Springs Drive, the third title from @roxanegaybooks, out now. It’s a thrilling, haunting book, one I knew I needed to publish as soon as I read it. Read more, and find out where to pick up a copy, here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/out-now-hot-springs-drive-by-lindsay
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a fantastic essay by Kris Lindsey about the challenges of history and legacy that you must navigate as an adoptee, especially when you learn your birth mother was a spy. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/spy-baby
Tomorrow in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis. Register to join us at 8 p.m. ET at this link or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/haX150QcB71
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a moving essay by Kayleigh Hughes about how learning about a loved one’s history with illness can be a profound act of love. Read it here or at the link in my stories: ow.ly/Rqjh50QcvXk
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis (@ayana.mathis). I hope you’ll join our discussion about this novel at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion later this month. Read more here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/s5T950Q5E3R
This month in The Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter (@lindsaydevon). I hope you’ll join our discussion about this fantastic novel at The Audacity and our Zoom discussion later this month. Read more here: https://ow.ly/EKEF50QgVU6
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is an excellent essay by Renia White in which she contemplates a yellow car and what it signifies: both a search for meaning and the commonalities of our desires. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://audacity.substack.com/p/the-yellow-car
Next month in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about The Unsettled by Ayana Mathis (@ayana.mathis). I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this wonderful novel.
Next month in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter, the third title from @roxanegaybooks. I hope you’ll join us at The Audacity to discuss this haunting novel.
Tomorrow in the Audacious Book Club, we’re talking about Hot Springs Drive by Lindsay Hunter. Register to join us at 8 p.m. ET at this link: https://ow.ly/Zemi50QkmtS
Today in The Audacity’s Emerging Writer Series is a beautiful essay by Ainhoa Palacios about our relationship to food and to our bodies and how both can be complicated by the people we love. Read it here or at the link in my stories: https://ow.ly/gyrE50Q848k
