Vivian Lee

Sticker that says HALLOWEEN VOTER 2025 with a pigeon in a witch hat holding a pumpkin candy basket

Got it!

The reason why I have not voted yet is because I am waiting until tomorrow so I can get the Halloween "I Voted" sticker because I am a collector!!!

YES YES YES

If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I will make friends and enemies at the YMCA pool

Cover of LONELY CROWDS by Stephanie Wambugu with text below that says: Barnes & Noble Discover Prize Finalist. Background is a textured black (almost like static you see on TVs in the 90s) with a thin orange border.

Congrats to all the finalists but especially LONELY CROWDS!

www.barnesandnoble.com/b/books/awar...

Read my latest interview with Katie Raissian, over at @pw.org now!

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Netflix's algo says that "Because you watched Y Tu Mama Tambien" and then recommended...Squid Game

A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers.

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If you do in fact want Covid boosters for yourself or anyone, you can submit public comment to the FDA here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

Do you live in or near the Hudson Valley/NYC (or traveling-distance therefrom) and have a book coming out this fall? Do you want to read from it at a bookstore reading series? Hit me up if you do! (Will not be able to reply to every request, be forewarned)

“I always think I have an idea of what I’m looking for, and then something surprises me,” says literary agent Nicole Aragi (of @aragiauthors.bsky.social) in our latest issue. “It really comes down to what grabs me.” Read more of her interview, led by editor @vivianlee.bsky.social: at.pw.org/AEAragi

Book cover of ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE by Kristen Kish with text that says "THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"

Congratulations to Kristen Kish and the L,B team for making ACCIDENTALLY ON PURPOSE a New York Times Bestseller!

If you haven't picked up your copy yet, buy it now at your local bookstore! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/krist...

The Yukon Gold potato pizza at Five Points on Great Jones St. 😭😭😭

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin Lin shrewdly braids the history of gay marriage into an account of his relationship with his husband in this gorgeous follow-up ...

Our first star for Jeremy Atherton Lin and DEEP HOUSE, over at @publisherswkly.bsky.social, calling it "stylish, sexy, and deeply moving...blend[ing] beautiful prose and incisive social history to stunning effect."

www.publishersweekly.com/9780316545792

I'm still catching up with The Pitt and ofc, everyone admires how medically accurate this show is but why is no one talking about how Pittfest makes no sense? Middle of the workweek, during the day? Audience is ravers, suburban moms, Dead Head boomer hippies?

7 Books About Women and Food - Electric Literature How does what we eat, and who prepares it, shape life and literature?

I have new work up today, about women, food, and the stories we tell, in Electric Literature. Check it out here!

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Miyazaki screenshot with the caption "I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself."

Sending this to anyone I know who is using/posting the Ghibli-AI:

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

“I always tell writers to find their people and to build a community they trust.“ Read more from Vivian Lee, senior editor at Little, Brown, on how a writing community can sustain a writing life: at.pw.org/AERVivianLee

I'm in this week's @pw.org recommending...community!

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The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil—a green card holder whose wife is eight months pregnant—is a blatant assault on the First Amendment and a sign of advancing authoritarianism under Trump. He must be released now.

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Losing by one point in a friend’s Oscar pool to someone who used ChatGPT to win…May this person never know peace!!!!!

Waste Wars A globe-trotting work of relentless investigative reporting, this is the first major book to expose the catastrophic reality of the multi-billion-dollar glob...

The book is out tomorrow but you can still pre-order it today! www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...

Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increases

And lastly, @theguardian.com describes WASTE WARS as "searing": www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Why your recycling could end up on a billion-dollar black market In his brilliant new book, Waste Wars, Alexander Clapp investigates a thriving trade in Ghana – and the threats it poses to our security

The Telegraph gives it 4 stars, calling it "brilliant": www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fi...

Review | That plastic bag you just threw away may end up in Indonesia Alexander Clapp’s “Waste Wars” tells the story of how trash from wealthy countries began traveling across borders, aided by shadowy networks of waste traders.

A slew of reviews just came in for WASTE WARS by Alexander Clapp!

The first is from @washingtonpost.com, which calls Alex "a lively writer," which "deftly combines history and global economics with stories of real people and tangible details of modern life." www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Turkey said it would become a ‘zero waste’ nation. Instead, it became a dumping ground for Europe’s rubbish When China stopped receiving the world’s waste, Turkey became Europe’s recycling hotspot. The problem is, most plastics can’t be recycled. And what remains are toxic heaps of trash

Alex Clapp goes long in @theguardian.com today thanks to an edited excerpt of WASTE WARS:

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...