An Oregon author’s memoir became a Kristen Stewart arthouse movie. Here’s what she has to say about it It’s a powerful film that has received praise during its festival runs and limited theatrical release in the past couple of months.

It’s a powerful film that has received praise during its festival runs and limited theatrical release in the past couple of months.

YouTube video by Veritasium The Man Who Got Us Addicted To Ice Cubes

The Man Who Got Us Addicted To Ice Cubes

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Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks-a Cool History of a Hot Commodity [Brady, Amy] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks-a Cool History of a Hot Commodity

Book 4 of 2026: @amybrady.bsky.social ’s Ice: From Mixed Drinks to Skating Rinks--a Cool History of a Hot Commodity. A book recommended by Camper English @alcademics.bsky.social (who gets named dropped in the cocktail section). www.amazon.com/Ice-Skating-...

I can finally share that my next book will officially publish in 2027, and that the good folks at @unmpress.bsky.social will be the ones to bring it out in the US! Thrilled and grateful that I get to keep doing this. More soon!!!!

Menopause, Writer’s Block, and Being a Late Bloomer - Electric Literature I’m supposed to believe my womanhood is ending but instead, I have been handed a new beginning

"When you are fat in a fatphobic world, you tend to live in a peculiar state of longing."

Northwestern's Daisy Hernández and her new history of the (quickly) changing meaning of citizenship Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Daisy Hernández’s new book, Citizenship: Notes on an American Myth,” is partly a family memoir and partly a world history.

Happy Pub Day to @lidiamiles.bsky.social & contributors of THE BIG M: @roxanegay.bsky.social @cherylstrayed.bsky.social @danquahrising.bsky.social @circegirl.bsky.social @writerjalvarez.bsky.social & more. Buy for yourself/your mom/sister/aunt/wife/friends. Out today w/ @grandcentralpub.bsky.social.

A wintry mix: 12 reading recommendations to get you through the storm If you're hunkering down ahead of the big storm, we want to make sure you're prepared. Yes, with batteries, flashlights, and toilet paper, but — perhaps most importantly — with good reading material.

If you're hunkering down ahead of the big storm, we want to make sure you're prepared. Yes, with batteries, flashlights, and toilet paper, but — perhaps most importantly — with good reading material. n.pr/3YUlp1F

Pre-order now. Citizenship is one of the great fictions of our land & history &, yes even laws.

The Big M For readers of Kink and What My Mother and I Don't Talk About, an anthology from a bestselling author that redefines the way we think about menopause—"leav...

THE BIG M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause.

We are here to lock arms and say embodied storytelling matters. We are not the story they made of us.
These are new stories, told on our terms, a long overdue reckoning.

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Very exciting to talk about Kristen Stewart's new-to-theaters directorial debut with @roxanegay.bsky.social and @alainmartin.bsky.social. We're talking THE CHRONOLOGY OF WATER, plus a discussion of memoir movies we love and ones we'd like to see get made. #filmsky

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Hispanic Heritage Month begins with Guadalupe Rosales: archival art that bridges past & present.

Her Made in L.A. 2023 work transforms lowrider culture, ancestral myth, mirrored portals into something raw & sacred.

What piece of your history would you share?

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Depending on how you feel about books, maps, and, well, me, I either have great news or bad news for you: there’s gonna be another Amy Brady book in the world! 📚

Dust off your boots. @tinhouse.bsky.social

"Hilarious and heartbreaking.... These are wonderful stories from an exciting new name in Arab American literature." -OMAR EL AKKAD Dearborn GHASSAN ZEINEDDINE

Ghassan Zeineddine has a beautiful linked story collection titled Dearborn, which might offer you a better sense of the people in that place after so much destructive discourse. Plus it is wonderful. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/825467...

Looking for New Ways to Live That was as close as I ever came to death in the mountains, before I even climbed one

Looking over her shoulder at her dark past, Emily Meg Weinstein tells the story of the time she almost died in the mountains before she ever really got to climb one—and how it taught her to live.

Page proofs are here! Addiction, Inc. is coming in April 2026!

GALLEY GASM :: 01.2026 Grand Central Publishing :: storyfield @ginafrangello @roxanegay74 @cherylstrayed @danquahrising @writerjalvarez @joeysoloway @writerreynagrande @monicadrak3 @pamlhouston @nguyenphanquemai_ @steinkedarcey and Lan Samantha Chang :: PREORDER NOW (or just admire blood red glider)

'I want to make tiny little movies that don't seem tiny,' says Kristen Stewart In her feature-length directorial debut, actor Kristen Stewart adapts The Chronology of Water, the memoir of Lidia Yuknavitch, a competitive swimmer-turned-author who was abused as a child.

In her feature-length directorial debut, actor Kristen Stewart adapts The Chronology of Water, the memoir of Lidia Yuknavitch, a competitive swimmer-turned-author who was abused as a child. n.pr/49oARsW

“The Chronology of Water” Is an Extraordinary Directorial Début Kristen Stewart’s first feature, based on a memoir by Lidia Yuknavitch, packs great emotional power into its boldly original form.

The film adaptation of Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir “The Chronology of Water,” directed by Kristen Stewart, offers a profound view of the very nature of trauma.
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On Lidia Yuknavitch’s “Anti-Memoir” The Chronology of Water Like many others, I first encountered Lidia Yuknavitch’s work when a friend thrust her pages into my hands. I didn’t consider myself a writer at the time, or even a reader. As a kid, I had devoured…

“I believe there are even more out there, a sea of us, lying in wait for a new friend to shove works like The Chronology of Water into our hands.” @ashadore.bsky.social considers Lidia Yuknavitch’s “anti-memoir.”

Our Most Anticipated Books of 2026 - Chicago Review of Books It’s a big year for Chicago Review of Books. We turn 10 in February and will spend the year celebrating a decade of dedication to literary excellence. In March, our Editor-in-Chief, Michael Welch, wil...

2026 looks to be a great year for books. Here are @chicagorevbooks.bsky.social 's picks for the books they're most excited about this year!

What's on your list?

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Set over the course of a single day, #Tilt by Emma Pattee is an electrifying novel about one woman’s “epic odyssey” (NPR) across a transformed city, carrying the weight of her past and hope for the future.

A Barnes & Noble monthly fiction pick, now in paperback: https://bit.ly/4pgT1kY