Susan Swan

I’m on the list and can’t wait to start reading the others!! @beaconpress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social

The fearless Tara Henley interviews me about vigilante sex, hating the opposite gender, secret Seventies diaries and more on her podcast Lean Out tarahenley.substack.com @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social

Hi everyone, I’m spending most of my time these days on Instagram. Check me out under biggestmodernwriter. Here’s an early holiday greeting with my cat Alice who doesn’t think much of photo sessions & thanks for your support.

@newyorktimeshaiku.bsky.social let America down today by relegating coverage of @nokingspls.bsky.social to page 22 of Sunday edition. WTF? Are they scared of Trump too?

This is absolute fantasy! And fantasy is where Trump seems to live these days. Dump Trump, America.

On Blondes Why we need to stop bleaching and/or dyeing our hair ... and should grow out our "spiritual antenna".

This smart natural blonde lays out being blonde no dummy her! ://open.substack.com/pub/thecassandracomplex/p/on-blondes?r=33gce

The US government has turned into a dictatorship. Canadians like me are watching in disbelief and horror. Can this be the America we knew and loved?

Thank you, Brian!

@b-hmn.bsky.social September 18 my husband Patrick Crean & I received Orders of Canada, his for editing, and me for my contribution to Canadian writing and cofounding the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Its motto says: they desire a better country @beaconpress.bsky.social @gayleking.bsky.social

Celebrated screen writer Susan Coyne is shopping around her TV pilot of my memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry @beaconpress.bsky.social @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @authorsguild.org

Reviews are getting harder & harder to get but here’s a link with no pay wall to a good one for Big Girls Don’t Cry reviewcanada.ca/magazine/202... @beaconpress.bsky.social

Reviews are harder & harder for authors to get especially in Canada but here’s a good one for Big Girls Don’t Cry from Toronto:https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/20 @beaconpress.bsky.social

Are they scared of Trump? Why don’t they do their job?

Pritzker is a hero. Hats off to his courage! From the true north strong and free! @jbpritzker.bsky.social

The Nineteenth Amendment Yesterday, I intended to write about the Nineteenth Amendment prohibiting states from denying women the right to vote because today is the anniversary of the amendment’s certification in 1920.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc... Honouring The Brave American Feminists today who fought for women over 100 years ago. White women got the vote in 1919. Black women had to wait 45 more years. 🙁 @beaconpress.bsky.social @msnbc.com @msmagazine.com

People are reading my memoir as far away as Kazakhstan. Here’s Joseph Hafner, York U’s Dean of libraries reading it out loud as part of a flash mob during an international conference. What crazy fun!

Thanks for the plug. I’m with Dutch critic Conny Steenman Marcusse (the one in the hat)who gave it a thumbs up. NB. We’re staying out of the sun!

It’s all healed. That was in January!

Americans love a conman? Look at P.T. Barnum. Everybody knew his exhibits like the Fiji Mermaid were a hoax, but the American public wanted to see if he could get away with it.

Before Trump, America’s great gift to the world was appreciating what made an individual unique no matter where they came from.

If a girl grows over 6’2 even today she will have a hard time. When I was Olivia McGahern’s age, growing taller than six feet was the red line for our gender scripts. See Olivia’s piece on being 6’4 www.cbc.ca/news/Canada/...

Short men have similar problems. Some opt for leg lengthening surgeries b/c they’re gaslit with names like “garden gnomes.” @harpercollinsca.bsky.social

Novelist Jane Smiley & I compare growing pains in her Lit Hub Q&A June 20 about my memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry @harpercollinsca.bsky.social @beaconpress.bsky.social share.google/KvrGe4qwLFXx...

Author Shelley Saywell interviewed me about my new memoir Big Girls Don’t Cry in historical Queenston where artists @sharonokun.bsky.social and Adam Markovic have transformed an old school into a cultural hub

Standing Tall: On the Value and Importance of Women Who Take Up Space Is our size a psychological influence in our lives like other markers such as race, class, cultural background and gender identity? In this conversation, six-foot-two author Jane Smiley (A Thousand…

Jane Smiley and @susan-swan.bsky.social‬ discuss the importance of women who take up space: “Being unusually tall makes you feel set apart because mostly everybody else sees someone with the same weight, height and coloring every day.”

Jane was six foot two at 14. I hit six foot two earlier, at 12.

The worst is happening!

What on earth? This isn’t how America works.

On the verge of losing your temper

Yes it can—if you don’t get mad. But I like your positive approach