Kristen Iskandrian

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Lauren Ambrose performs @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social’s “Quantum Voicemail." Enjoy an excerpt of her reading here, and then listen to the full story wherever you get your podcasts! bit.ly/4mGUqQw

some events are events & some events are sensual….this was right before I said “I love you” @tricialockwood.bsky.social
#smirnoff

quite a few homages to Thomas Bernhard these days….some may say…*too* many

Headshot of Julie Benko.

Headshot of Lauren Ambrose.

On this week's Selected Shorts episode, Better With You?, actors Julie Benko and Lauren Ambrose perform stories by Kim Fu and @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social. Take a listen wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/4mGUqQw

it's time for us as a nation to force Billy Joel to write another verse of We Didn't Start the Fire

"insane in retrospect but we're doing it" sums up @thankyoubooks.bsky.social very nicely 🧚

“Lily Allen” literature….does this have legs

every book is like, she was a young damaged pupil…..he was a man of letters, if not principles…..

can’t explain it but this book is like Ace Ventura, a movie I’ve never seen

and then RSVP for this

@thankyoubooks.bsky.social all the way tf locked in for @tricialockwood.bsky.social !!!!

Preorder here:

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panning for new TYB tee ideas, & just landed on this one, courtesy Nathanael West: “She works in a bookstore, but wait’ll you see her behind.”

had a dream movies came out in paperback

one minute you’re rippin cigs in your boyfriend’s Pathfinder, amped on Fugazi, the next you’re in a minivan and it’s

maybe I should say my “main” hesitation…if you don’t like this one, I have others

my only hesitation re autofiction is reserved for how it has trained readers to wonder if every novel is “true”

CHEERS to @tricialockwood.bsky.social (in convo w/ @kristeniskandrian.bsky.social) at @thankyoubooks.bsky.social, 3 months from today!!!! 🥂

yep need one

sure, yes, this was mostly a joke

or it's "The Milliner of Weimar"

😭😘

the Lester Bangs of the cereal aisle.....does this have legs

every book of historical fiction is like, deep on a boat, inside of a map, inscribed by an apothecarist, abandoned by a silent film star, lies the secret of the original Tome

will also accept Nuts McGillicuddy

the universal name for someone who's being insane is Crazy McNutts, I think we can all agree

market terms for when a book’s so good you know it’ll do numbers but also when a book’s so bad you know it’ll do numbers…same term with a different prefix maybe…

Where does voice come from? on language, foreignness, & eavesdropping

a short essay about being 1st gen & the nebulae of "voice"

why is every online writing class like "Dog-Eared: Writing Dogs (and Their Ears) To Get an Agent"

sometimes you have to let the ppl know that Stoner is not about a stoner and Sister Carrie is not about a nun

ah I see this year we get not one but two teen girl bathing suit categories: OnlyFans and Big Ruche