Ilana Masad

As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for. Here For All The Reasons is sharply observed, deeply interrogated, and fun as hell. It's the smartest warxh part around. --Aubrey Gordon, author, columnist, and co-host of Maintenance Phase

I am so incredibly honored that @yrfatfriend.bsky.social - author, activist, co-host of one of my favorite podcasts - has blurbed the Bachelor anthology I co-edited 😍

She says: "As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for."

This is such a great alternative blurb XD thank you, Aubrey!!!

It is so fun and smart!! In a time when nothing is fun OR smart!!!!

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As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for. Here For All The Reasons is sharply observed, deeply interrogated, and fun as hell. It's the smartest warxh part around. --Aubrey Gordon, author, columnist, and co-host of Maintenance Phase

I am so incredibly honored that @yrfatfriend.bsky.social - author, activist, co-host of one of my favorite podcasts - has blurbed the Bachelor anthology I co-edited 😍

She says: "As a longtime conflicted member of Bachelor Nation, this is the Bachelor book I've been waiting for."

by which I mean it implied that the book I'm writing has zero audience lololol

maiden, mother, crone, other a working theory of novel marketing

Anyway this substack fucked me right up today hbu

leighstein.substack.com/p/maiden-mot...

Great question! I'll be completely honest and say I have no idea, I haven't read it, it's just one of those annoying headlines that you know is meant to cause my exact reaction (also cafes selling fancy decaf options aren't making those options any cheaper anyway)

why does the nyt want us to be joyless and lacking energy

how incredibly bizarre - if you think you're teaching the AI something through conversation (rather than programming) then aren't you by definition falling to AI psychosis????

No totally there are a few breakout ones, but they seem to be pretty rare

Thank you, this is my feeling too, but I feel like we might be the rarity

Yeah, that's fair!

I don't know that there is, is the thing - I feel like there are a couple standouts about that, but it's not actually that common and maybe because there isn't an audience for it!

That's so interesting and also fair!

Hahahaha very real

Well, that's encouraging to hear! I'm currently spiraling due to a substack post my agent sent me that basically implies no one will read my current WIP lololol

In fiction too?

Relatedly - nonparents, do you ever pick up novels about people in the throes of early parenting or is that a huge turn off?

OK parents who read:

Do you feel like you'd want to read about the experience of being a new parent when you're not a new parent anymore?

Or do you look for escapism and/or something more akin to your current parenting experience once you have time to read again?

Or something else?

...it's quite possible i made this joke here once

The Rainbow Fish is about the distribution of wealth, in this essay I will

The New Fabio Is Claude

fuck this lady, fuck the nyt reporter, fuck all of this. fuck amazon for introducing the KU page read model that makes this possible, fuck our tech overlords.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...

"transformation"
lololol

He sure wasn't when we dated and never thought he was gonna be lol

Complicated ex? Like a very good and smart guy and also the person who broke my heart more completely than anyone else ever has but not by being a dick, just by growing up and apart?

the jump scare when your ex turns up in your inbox as the editor of a major political publication

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And maybe the music is really loud and startling especially when you're sitting somewhere quiet, like a library

I studied the latest Epstein files. As a woman, this is what I felt They show a hidden world oiled by porn-saturated misogyny. I spent two days reading them

an absolutely brutal read, but an illuminating one.

Agreed! And also... Many freelancers cannot sustain our careers regardless of what we're covering because of outlets like WaPo shuttering half their business 🫠🙃