alix e. harrow

huge "we're all looking for the guy who did this" energy

god knows i love austen but "you say i killed you - haunt me then!" is such a banger. the drama, the pathos!!

oh!! thank you so much. i was only ever an adjunct, but apparently what you get weird about in grad school sticks with you 😂

i think a lot about how 19th century mass literacy was fueled by cheap reading material (penny papers) which made fiction affordable even for children. im sure every book being $30 will be fine and have no consequences.

"what if a girl was on her PERIOD!!!" okay???

.....what are we even doing here. what is our thesis.

i think of it often. so many casual, amateur haters out there 😔

i have worked on this grudge for years!! 😂

i have already seen a professional reviewer accusing it of "girlish horniness" and a "bodice ripper" sensibility. neither of those things are crimes! romance & erotica are genres worth critical evaluation!! but uh why is heathcliff--

i’m an ethical hater. i’m hating on u from a nuanced and multifaceted standpoint

preemptively annoyed that everyone is going to hate the wuthering heights movie for the wrong reasons. it won't be bad bc it's horny :( it'll be bad bc her films uncritically reproduce the paranoias of the entitled, using surface-level deviance to deliver frank conservatism :(

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

i still don't understand who thought that was a reasonable response or a good idea. bananas

for locals: city council hasn't done the budget yet, so staff could still get screwed! but council sure as hell wasn't going to fund something the school didn't even have the guts to ask for

nationally of course there are no consequences for anything but, locally, i am happy to report that the union successfully delivered the "find out" portion of the "fuck around" program 🙏

if you filled out the form and your name isn't yet on the list, sorry, i'm a little behind!! didn't want to make it auto-populate in case spammers or assholes started mis-using it, so i gotta do it manually 🫡

oh!!! 😭😭😭

finally, if this strikes you as performative: correct!! this is a high-visibility public performance of politics designed to make some little PR number-cruncher in some fetid corporate basement go running to their supervisor like "sir! it seems the peasants do NOT like the nazi collaboration!"

"a slightly worse day for the PR department of a megacorp" is perhaps not a compelling campaign slogan but you know what it gets me out of bed in the morning

(also: if you don't see an author's name here, pls do not be weird about it. if i see any smug little posts like "i notice THEY didn't sign 👀" i will personally come to your house and explain relative risk & the politics of visibility!! plus i don't have everybody's personal emails!!)

fwiw, i don't think it's useful to yell at ReedPop/BookCon. they DON'T have a contract with ICE--the giant company that owns ReedPop also owns LexisNexis, which does. this is, frankly, a thin fucking thread to pull, but we decided to pull it anyway 🤷

TO: newyork@relx.com ATTN: RELX CEO Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff (CFO), and Paul Ashton Walker (Chair) Re: Immediate Termination of contracts between RELX subsidiaries and ICE February 9th, 2026 Dear Erik Engstrom, Nick Luff, and Paul Ashton Walker, We are some of the authors that make events like BookCon—run by your subsidiary, ReedPop—possible. Another of your subsidiaries, LexisNexis, has a $22.1 million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), supplying them with the data they need to surveil and terrorize our neighbors, friends, and families.[1] We condemn any collaboration with ICE and call for the immediate termination of all contracts between RELX and ICE. ICE has a twenty-two year history of discrimination and abuse against immigrant communities. Under the current administration, their efforts have escalated in both violence and visibility—enabled by their partners in big data, including LexisNexis.[2] RELX is a multinational corporation worth $40 billion, of which events like BookCon are only a small fraction. Our power is limited. But BookCon advertises itself as a place where "fantasy meets reality,"[3] and the reality is that RELX is profiting from mass terror against communities of color, including the murder of eight people this year alone. The fantasy is that a bunch of readers and authors could ignore it; we know a villain when we see one. We, as authors, intend to honor our immediate commitments to BookCon and to our readers. If RELX chooses to renew their current contract with ICE–which expires on February 28, 2026[4]–we will be forced to reevaluate our association with all future ReedPop events.

if you're an author attending BookCon this year (or, to be honest, any other ReedPop events, which include NYCC), and would like to add your name to the letter: forms.gle/V7m2YbcGguAY...

something we've been working on for a few days! link to the full letter: tinyurl.com/bookconautho...

oh alix yes 😩😩😩

also i am saying: thank you to all the friends who helped us today!! our house is livable only bc we could keep up with the sewage, which we could do bc we had a neighbor watching the kids and another neighbor bringing us food and another neighbor bringing her sump pump and--

anyway what I'm saying is: i have been awake for 36 hours and I am sore in muscles that are not known to science. if i owe you an email you will find that actually legally i don't

a city vac truck 😍😍😍😍

the city employee will observe the Shit Rink. he will observe the buckets. he will, in time, take pity on you. your savior will come over the hill, from the east, like gandalf on the fifth day--

you have already figured this out. as you will soon say, somewhat hysterically, to the city utility employee, while gesturing at your Shit Rink, "SIR! WE HAVEN'T EATEN CORN IN MONTHS!"

and in the morning, after your portable sump breaks and you have spent ten hours using a shop vac and 5 gallon buckets to haul sewage into your backyard, which has frozen into a Shit Rink, the plumber won't be able to fix it bc the blockage is in the CITY sewer

did you know that if a city sewer gets blocked and you are the lowest house on the street it's possible for all your neighbors' sewage to bubble up from your basement drain. it might also be saturday night in record-setting cold so all the emergency plumbers are busy with burst pipes