Andrew Zubiri

Oxford Dictionary Adds New Words, Including ‘Gigil’ for Extreme Cuteness The Oxford English Dictionary added 42 new words borrowed from other languages, including gigil, a Tagalog expression for witnessing something adorable.

Overwhelmed by Cuteness? There’s a Word for That. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/s...

has anyone encountered an "after (personal) essay" similar to an "after poem"? As much as possible I want to avoid mentioning the original text in my essay's body bec it will break the narrator's character.

found my name in libgen for a journal article I've totally forgotten abt. brb adding my h-index on my author website...

thanks for coming to our grubstreet class last night @gracelp.bsky.social! brought me some clarity and maybe i'm working on a hybrid thing after all!

Pretty big deal. @bookshop-org.bsky.social is selling ebooks now. You can now support indies while purchasing digital books.

bookshop.org/ebooks

Cover page of the book

Open page where the essay appears on page 43

my speculative climate essay was included in GrubStreet's' Our Planet Our Stories anthology 🙏🏽 You can read the full collection here: grubstreet.superhumane.net/pdfs/GrubStr...

are things any better here?🤞🏽

essays for my collection-in-progress (or whatever it is i’m writing) are in various stages of polish. took stock of them today and realized i just hit ~50,000 words🥹

My contribution to the #H1BVisa discourse is of course a lyric essay in the form of a list. If any lit mag out there is looking for something personal and timely, pls hmu! 🙏🏽 #h1b

Opinion | Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age There is something special about works I can read in full on a rainy Sunday afternoon or in the lamplight hours between supper and bedtime.

Short Books Are Perfect for Our Distracted Age www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/o...

GrubStreet | GrubStreet Presents "The Our Planet, Our Stories"… The nation's leading and largest center for creative writing for over 25 years, GrubStreet offers classes and events for writers from all stages and…

Pls read GrubStreet's anthology, Our Planet, Our Stories, where my speculative essay "Ten Years After Typhoon Haiyan, I Forgot to Tweet About the Disaster" is included. Thanks 🙏🏽
grubstreet.org/blog/grubstr...

big 'Uyyy, Pilipins!!' moment 🇵🇭

Oxford’s Word of the Year Is ‘Brain Rot’ A slang term for supposed mental damage done by overconsumption of trivial online content triumphed over a shortlist that also included “lore,” “demure” and “slop.”

“Brain rot” has been named 2024 Word of the Year by the Oxford University Press.

binge watched culinary class wars and i got so inspired i went to h-mart. now reheating my japchae ❤️

100 Notable Books of 2024 Here are the year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

Here are the 100 notable books from 2024 — including standout fiction, poetry and nonfiction, all chosen by the staff of The New York Times Book Review.

again, hello world 👋🏽

working with an editor is so weird. it's like i don't know you and you don't know me but we will work hard together to polish this little gem of words. and i think that's beautiful.

i'm floored and very excited to share VQR accepted my essay (with photos!) for their Winter 2023 issue.

Nobody:
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What's was yours? #iykyk

started watching Ozark on a whim this past weekend and now i can't stop 🧽

ICYMI, applications are OPEN for Rooted and Written, a fully-funded writers conference by and for writers of color in the Bay Area. Deadline: Oct. 16. Please apply and spread the word!! 🙏🏽🙏🏽

Nonfictioneers! YOUR DAY HAS ARRIVED! We are now open for essay collections, memoirs, and nonfiction-hybrid book manuscripts thru Dec 1! We love to see imaginative essays, autofictions, fictionalized memoirs, lyric essaying, formal and layout-based experimentation! Link to submit is in our tree ❤️

Front facing literary magazines on a display shelf

Front facing literary magazines on a display shelf

gasped when i saw a copy of Threepenny at Brookline Booksmith. flipped it over to check if this issue really has my name on the front cover 😂

Four books of shades of maroon arranged in four quadrants. Counterclockwise from upper left: Only A Voice by George Scialabba, Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia, A Fire in My Head by Ben Okri, and the unmarked bound book is The Writer as Migrant by Ha Jin.

The books I'm currently reading are matchy-matchy. 🍂 The unmarked cover is Ha Jin's The Writer as Migrant.

I can't attend because of the time difference that would make me attend sessions at midnight-early morning for several days, but maybe others would be interested