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@AlannaSchubach
mom / novelist / teacher / Long Island trashbag
It's heeeeeeeeere! My debut novel, THE NOBODIES, is out in the world today. Order here (or ask your local bookstore or library to do so!) bookshop.org/books/the-nobo…
I have a toddler. I know way more about the poetics of asswiping than “Jesse Ball”
Watching an interview with him where they are discussing (and this is all true) the poetics of wiping your ass
Morning at Dōtonbori, Osaka, from Souvenirs of Travel Ⅱ, by Kawase Hasui, 1921
I still use Arecibo. They drove us to the hospital when I was in labor! Wasn’t about to rely on Uber for that….
People who lived in Brooklyn in the early aughts: remember car services? What a crazy time
Just walked past forest hills stadium and the line for the phish show tonight is exactly what you’re picturing
That poor actor who has to pretend the book’s opening sentence (“The woman wondered what she’d gotten herself into”) is brilliant
easily my favorite part of And Just Like That this season is how bad Carrie’s novel sounds
Reticent and reluctant
I’m not very pedantic about language and grammar but the fact that no one seems to know the difference between pique and peak is really starting to worry me
i believe jubilee and labubu are both demonic entities meant to sow discord and evil within this world
i believe jubilee and labubu are both demonic entities meant to sow discord and evil within this world
My grandmother was a secretary in a school psychologist’s office. One day a teacher came in freaking out about a poem a student wrote; she found it extremely dark and troubling. My grandma looked at it and said, “These are Black Sabbath lyrics.”
It is fun AND it requires effort like all the best things in life
the best way to turn a student off of books forever is to try to trick them into thinking that reading is fun. reading is not fun, and if the only reason they are reading is for fun they will stop when they realize the truth.
lol I cannot wait to see this movie
Manohla Dargis disliked the new Ari Aster film, because people are still dying from Covid and his characters did not sufficiently interrogate their whiteness.
Did you know kids can get hand foot and mouth more than once - three times, even? Ask me how I know!
Disloyal… you’re not a real New Yorker if you leave when the city changes in a way you don’t like… go play shuffleboard old man nypost.com/2025/07/19/us-…
Feel like they made a famous book about shaming adulterers. Something with a letter
I want to opt out of this surveillance-entertainment economy where we are entitled to stalk, dox, and humiliate random strangers on a mass scale, because they existed in public space