Emily Doyle

“If you ask people about their dreams, you’re going to hear all kinds of stories that science cannot explain.”

Emily Doyle interviewed Laila Lalami about her new novel, The Dream Hotel.

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Had to take an author photo for my debut book, so here’s the photo, niece-approved (“I like blue jacket”)!

A book of poems that my friend gave me, that I needed.

Ugh I think about this every day

A hand holds a slim, green book called Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan. Beyond the book is a living room.

What a perfect book.

Stop that’s so precious

Just prepare to clear your schedule when you get it!

Well I received THE DREAM HOTEL yesterday and I expect to finish it today because I simply can’t stop reading. @lailalalami.bsky.social you’re doing something terrifying and beautiful with this one.

Went tidepooling for my bday✨

I just bought a pair. The other day, it just hit me. I was like “wow so when I’m home my arches are just completely unsupported?” Anyway I turn 34 tomorrow.

It’s so useful! Thank you for the care you put into this, Maureen!

Started a starter pack!

When the gift guide is itself a gift

Earlier this week I received an acceptance to a DREAM lit journal. I’ve spent the rest of the week convincing myself that it’s real. (Is it though???)

YES I need DMs

I attended one of Glück’s readings about six years ago, and she was terrifying and wonderful. I hope that wherever she is she’s striking fear and awe in equal measure.

Cookin up good things with @shortstorytoday.bsky.social ✨

Been researching for a story and now know facts that feel elicit because I was a Christian home school kid: 1) Neanderthals had bigger brains than us, 2) they had a similar physical capacity for speech, 3) we had sex with them at every opportunity.

Review | An ambitious, stinging novel inspired by a real-life literary scandal “The Most Secret Memory of Men,” by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, won France’s top literary prize and has now been translated into English.

"To write as a marginalized writer is to face, sooner or later, questions of authenticity and imagination." My review of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr's Goncourt-winning novel, The Most Secret Memory of Men, appears in the Washington Post today. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/0...

In Defense of Sophie Turner, It’s Nearly Impossible to Be a “Good Mother” - Electric Literatur... The expectation of erasing oneself and sacrificing everything for your children is crushing

me on academic motherhood & Sophie Turner:

“I hope she’s surrounded by family and friends that will tell her she deserves it all, even if all doesn’t feel quite like what we were promised.”

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Not me spending an hour recording one of my stories for a lit mag only to IMMEDIATELY delete the recording (and then recover it, thank god). Undergoing Trials and Tribulations by my own hand.

Oh nooooo. Yeah I think I got Pfizer. With previous rounds I told myself it’d be worth it for the reduced chance of long covid but it still really sucked in the moment.

Gotted mine last week (and experienced the mildest side effects of all my covid vaccines and boosters yet!)

Oh my god I did the same thing

Seconded

Story of my life

LYDIAAAAAA!!!!!

The best

And for my first trick: A PHOTO OF MY LIZARD TAKING A BATH