Jen Eastwood 📚🍉🕊️

I miss the days when people were just regular-bad at writing, not AI-slop bad at writing.

I would rather be a shitty writer who is just not that good than EVER be a successful writer who uses AI. Human imperfection is going to be an increasing form of rebellion and resistance in this fucked up world of AI that's quickly infiltrating the arts. #BookSky

Half His Age is a terrible book Half His Age was one of my most anticipated book releases of 2026. When I learned that Jennette McCurdy – whose breakout memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died I absolutely loved – was releasing a novel with fem...

I will not let the internet gaslight me into this that Half His Age is a good book. I read 10% of it and hated it so much, I wrote 3.5K words explaining why, in very exacting detail.
#BookSky
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Eliza Clark on True Crime, Female Rage, and Writing the Uncomfortable Truth Exploring how literature, media, and morality collide in stories that dare to empathise with the monstrous. In this episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with one of the most provocative and fearless v...

You guys asked and we delivered. ❤️‍🔥

This week on Sick Sad Lit I sit down with none other than Eliza Clark. We talk about the ethics of true crime, writing violent women, and why empathy for the monstrous matters.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Bora Chung on horror, revenge, and writing ghost stories for a broken world From Cursed Bunny to Midnight Timetable, a conversation about stories that turn rage into resistance. Some stories haunt you long after you close the book, and Midnight Timetable is one of them. In ...

In this week’s episode of Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with Bora Chung, the award-winning author of Cursed Bunny and Midnight Timetable, to talk about horror, revenge, and writing ghost stories for a broken world.

🎧Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

#BookSky

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Inside the Mind of Ottessa Moshfegh: Alienation, Obsession, and Writing the Unlikeable | Sick Sad Lit A conversation about writing outsiders, confronting taboos, and storytelling as liberation.

I still cannot even believe this happened in real life…

In this week’s Sick Sad Lit, I sit down with none other than THE Ottessa Moshfegh (😭) to talk about her writing process, Lapvona, and what it means to write the stories that scare you most.

🎧 Listen now: shows.acast.com/sicksadlit/e...

Mona Awad Returns to the Bunny-Verse: On Fairy Tales, Transformation, and the Power of Storytelling | Sick Sad Lit From Bunny to We Love You, Bunny: Exploring surrealism, satire, and the art of creation.

Hi Bunny 🐰💕Season 2 of Sick Sad Lit is here, and in our season premiere, I sat down with none other than Mona Awad, the fever-dream Bunny queen herself, to discuss her return to the Bunny-verse in We Love You, Bunny.

🎧 Out now wherever you get your podcasts.

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Tent for a Ahmed's family in Gaza - $1500 Goal Ahmed is just 27 years old, but he has already carried more loss and responsibility than most of us can imagine. At the very start of the genocide in Gaza, Ahmed was gravely injured while helping othe...

Ok great, now that I’ve got you, I’m running an urgent appeal to raise funds to help Ahmed buy a large enough tent to house all 8 of his family members who have been displaced in Gaza. Please donate if you can (even $5 helps!) and share. 🫶

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How I grew my #Bookstagram account from 0 to 26K followers in one year. 🧵

Tent for a Ahmed's family in Gaza - $1500 Goal Ahmed is just 27 years old, but he has already carried more loss and responsibility than most of us can imagine. At the very start of the genocide in Gaza, Ahmed was gravely injured while helping othe...

Hi friends, I am running an urgent appeal to raise funds for Ahmed's family to buy a 14-person family tent in Gaza. Any and all donations help, please support if you can and share as we need as much support as soon as possible to help this family! chuffed.org/project/1500...

The internet will NOT gaslight me into forgetting the vitriol and violent ideology that man dedicated his life to spreading. It's not an "opinion" or "free speech", it's called Stochastic terrorism.

#CharlieKirk

“Political violence has no place in this country!” Says country that just renamed the Department of Defence to the Department of War.

Tangible ways the book community can support Palestine If you're feeling sick and helpless at the never-ending stream of horrific images and videos coming out of Palestine right now, you're not alone. But if you want to actually do something about it but...

As readers and writers we already know the power of words, stories and visibility.

Here are some of the ways we can use that power to contribute to a global movement for justice. 📚🇵🇸

www.sicksadlit.com/tangible-way... #booksky #writersky

Leaving Substack Letting Nazis spout hatred on this platform is not my idea of free speech.

Hi team, I’m leaving Substack for greener (and less racist) pastures! You can find me at www.sicksadlit.com as usual and you can read about why I’ve made this decision below. 🖤

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Women in Translation: 14 books that will leave you in shambles Translated tales of rage, desire, dissociation, and descent.

Translated fiction just hits different. Here are some of my all-time faves to add to your TBR this August.
#BookSky

www.sicksadlit.com/p/women-in-t...

Octavia Butler was psychic when she wrote this. 💀 Parable of the Talents was published in 1998.

#BookSky

Mariana Enriquez on The Ghosts of Buenos Aires, Horror, History & Rebellion Sick Sad Lit · Episode

I cannot believe this is real life.

My absolute horror idol Mariana Enriquez came to my freaking HOUSE for a podcast interview. 🤯

She is such a fascinating person, we could easily have spoken all day long.

Listen to the episode below, it’s a banger. ❤️‍🔥

#BookSky

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Everything we read, watched, and revelled in during Sick Sad Lit: Season 1 A masterlist of every disturbing, dazzling, and darkly funny title mentioned on the Sick Sad Lit podcast.

The ultimate media list including every single book, film and movie mentioned during season 1 of the Sick Sad Lit podcast for your reading and watching pleasure. 🤍

#BookSky

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Emma Van Straaten on Writing Mixed Race Identity, Female Rage, and Obsession in ‘This Immaculate Body’ A conversation about fiction rooted in truth, the complexities of motherhood, and finding rhythm in the writing process.

Author Emma Van Straaten joins Sick Sad Lit to talk about her electric debut This Immaculate Body - a novel about obsession, identity, and what happens when an already unhinged girly gets the complete wrong end of the stick. 🙃

#BookSky

www.sicksadlit.com/p/emma-van-s...

Zohran Mamdani is proof of what happens when a leftist actually STAYS LEFT and stands on business instead of trying to appeal to the vague “centrist” voters.

Anna Dorn on Scent, Storytelling, and Writing Women Who Refuse to Behave Sick Sad Lit · Episode

Author Anna Dorn joins Sick Sad Lit to talk about her novel Perfume and Pain and why unlikable women are the most honest kind of character. 🖤

🎧 Listen now below or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Lucy Rose joined me on the Sick Sad Lit podcast to talk love, horror, autism and neurodivergence, and being blessed by Dakota Johnson’s book club. 🥩

🎧 Listen now via link in bio.

#booksky #autism #adhd

Lucy Rose on Folklore, Feminism, and Feeding the Hunger in The Lamb Sick Sad Lit · Episode

Lucy Rose joined me on the Sick Sad Lit podcast to talk love, horror, and being blessed by Dakota Johnson’s book club. 🥩

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

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#BookSky

Sarah Rose Etter on Magical Realism, Capitalism, and Writing Through Collapse Sick Sad Lit · Episode

📢 New podcast episode just dropped with none other than Sarah Rose Etter, author of Ripe and The Book of X.

We talk capitalism, collapse, and writing toward catharsis in an impossible world.

🎧 Full episode on Sick Sad Lit now.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin on Horror, Publishing, and Finding Power in the Grotesque Sick Sad Lit · Episode

I spoke with horror legend @scumbelievable.bsky.social about queer horror, writing taboo, surviving success, and the terrifying joy of making monsters. 🩸

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.

#queerlit #horrorfans #transwriters #sicksadlit

Welcome innnn 🖤

Preview of the Sick Sad Lit podcast season 1 episode 1 with the inimitable @chucktingle.bsky.social 💙📚

Available now wherever you get your podcasts! 🎧

I cannot believe this is real life.

My absolute horror fiction idol Mariana Enriquez came to my freaking HOUSE for a podcast interview. 🤯

She is so incredible and such a fascinating person. We could easily have spoken all day long.

I can’t wait to share the episode with you all. 💙📚

#BookSky

Sick Sad Lit Podcast · Jen Eastwood · Sick Sad Lit is a podcast for readers and writers who love digging into the dark, messy, and provocative corners of contemporary fiction, as well as exploring the emergence of...

I have been working on this project so hard for so long and I am so proud to finally launch the Sick Sad Lit podcast! 📚💙

First episode with Chuck Tingle is live now for all you fans of dark and unhinged fiction.

I hope you guys like it ✨

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Kris Jenner got a new face and it’s crazy because guess what she’s still gonna die one day.