Summer Brennan

Hello, today is a great day to read a book for the sake of health and happiness 📚.

Imaginary Bedrooms Going Through Old Notebooks Part 30: "I wanted things that worked, that were sturdy, that I could depend on, that would last."

"I got tired of everything I owned and depended on always fading and cracking and falling so spectacularly apart. Apartments, suitcases, shoes, furniture, hair brushes.[...] I wanted things that worked, that were sturdy, that I could depend on, that would last."

Start a video store in your town, you can do it

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

jesus CHRIST.

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Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available

Golden.

The Book Supplement,Vol. 1 Anne Fadiman, Mieko Kawakami, Polly Atkin, and Bruce Robbins.

Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚

The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein” From 2018, Jill Lepore on why Mary Shelley’s novel has accreted so many wildly different and irreconcilable readings and restagings in the two centuries since its publication.

Oops too late. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

lol

Heal your mind. Read a book.

These people are joined and enabled by a whole class of folks who just want to make money and rise the social ladder who are also now spending half their day talking to a lying computer who says they are gods among men. What could go wrong?

Writers with MFAs (or PhDs): The Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University (where I teach!) is hiring a full-time, tenure-track, Associate Programs Director at the Assistant Professor rank. (On campus in Louisville 2-3 days/week.) www.paycomonline.net/v4/ats/web.p...

If you buy any of these books, please reply with a pic and I'll re-skeet you 💗📚

The prevalence of AI has, for better or worse, trained me to immediately stop reading anything once I get to a sentence that starts "It's not just X...."

Amazon pulls sponsorship from Paris book festival after booksellers’ association boycott Syndicat de la Librairie Française accused online retailer of trying to ‘flood the market with fake AI-generated books’

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

If there are any friends from Arizona on here, I'll be at the Tucson Festival of Books next weekend, doing panels on Saturday and Sunday at 2:30. I'll be presenting with some amazing authors: Keith O'Brien, Christine Brennan, Mark Kriegel, and SL Price. Come say hi.

The two best things to do when you are sad:

Learn something.

Make yourself of use.

Borrowing from the library counts too!

If you buy any of these books, please reply with a pic and I'll re-skeet you 💗📚

I follow your lead immediately and with a song in my heart.

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I prescribe one FROG by Anne Fadiman followed by a dose of THE COMPANY OF OWLS by @pollyrowena.bsky.social if symptoms persist.

Which one will heal me, Summer?

Heal your mind. Read a book.

So lovely to see this review of #TheCompanyOfOwls by @grousehollow.bsky.social for @summerbrennan.bsky.social's Book Supplement. Owl visitations cannot be guaranteed with every purchase or borrow of TCOO but research shows it is statistically significantly more likely with reading than without. 🦉🦉🦉

@oldstermag.bsky.social in the Sundayprint edition of the @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/s...

The Book Supplement,Vol. 1 Anne Fadiman, Mieko Kawakami, Polly Atkin, and Bruce Robbins.

Here is the first issue of The Book Supplement 💗📚

The Book Supplement,Vol. 1 Anne Fadiman, Mieko Kawakami, Polly Atkin, and Bruce Robbins.

The first Book Supplement is here!
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The first issue of The Book Supplement is coming tomorrow, March 8th! www.awritersnotebook.org/subscribe

Currently reading: High Heel by @summerbrennan.bsky.social
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